Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

” How is this influx of new people influencing Austin’s Arts & Cultural community? The event is definitely a hit, and Thinkery has enjoyed increased revenue, an expanded audience, and an increase in their supporter base. How can you explore doing something similar at your museum?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Engaging Audiences at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. artist's influences and the exhibit, in the artist's own words. For example, YBCA's audiences loved having access to artists' own unfiltered words. They found that audiences wanted more education on using the particular app.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

Negotiated agency" strikes me as a really useful framework in which to talk about visitor/audience participation in the arts. Negotiation" implies a respectful relationship between institution (or artist) and user. Sometimes the negotiation can be exploited for artistic means. The museum invites art-making in the elevator.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

But this month, it's as if there was a subliminal email sent to a crew of bloggers in the arts suggesting a salon about audience diversity, and how/why to move in that direction. Diane Ragsdale responds with some thoughts on how funders could influence these issues, whether they should, and how organizations might respond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Many of them, like the lightbulb , the phonograph , and the motion picture camera , were brilliant creations that have a huge influence on our everyday life. Participants had to answer these questions: -What were the objectives, audience, and how did integrate with your marketing or audience development plan?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more? Here are three of my favorites.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Over the past seven years, this exploration has been undertaken by a staff of artists and more than 35 creators each year participating in our residency program.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When you find a bar with your favorite song on the jukebox, or a museum room that feels like your grandmother's living room, you suddenly feel a strong affinity and are able to see yourself reflected in the space. It may be great for a natural refuge to remain hidden, but that sounds like a disaster for a restaurant or museum.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2010

Imagine asking audience members to participate in your work. There are five female dancers, but there are also three audience members pulled up during the show to perform and to become metaphoric kisaeng. The audience participation was essential, not incidental, to the piece. Women from the audience were dressed up in costumes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. Artist Blogs.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009. In my experience, museum professionals aren’t big reality TV viewers.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 17, 2015

People from across the country will gather at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to experience MCON in person and over 20,000 people will stream the event online. Media is one of the content industries we’re specifically highlighting this year, and these individuals truly represent “the power of influence.”

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

I've learned so much from my dad about making art, putting on a great show, inviting audience participation , and navigating celebrity. When writing The Art of Relevance , I knew I wanted to share a bit of his story and the ways artists negotiate the relevance of their own work. The Beastie Boys name-checked them as influences.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more. Auction an Artistic Experience Auctions are popular fundraising events that all kinds of nonprofits use to engage and connect with their supporters. This may be some of your lead performers, popular visual artists, or directors. Don’t be discouraged.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

In museums, attention to the visitor--her desires, his preferences--has grown over the last few decades. Ze Frank recently posed this question to several designers, filmmakers, and artists here , asking: When you make things with an audience in mind, do you have internal representations of that audience to help guide you in the process?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. We were lucky enough to have a fabulous space for the workshop in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. ArtsLab SF View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I said yes.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

Like many people who've worked in science centers and interactive experience museums, I've always been perplexed by the fact that hands-on workshop audiences top out around age 14. They are more than just workshop spaces--they are member institutions, like museums. Isn't this one of our dreams for museums?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The quest for relevance begins with knowing your audience. Ultimately, any approach to answering these questions is limited at some point by the size of the audience involved. When you are dealing with an audience of hundreds or thousands of people, you have to make assumptions. But what if you only had an audience of one?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2015

The "love locks" are not a project with an institutional or artistic director. We often say at our museum that "make and share is better than make and take." It reminds me of that moment in a wedding when the officiant turns to the audience and says "all of you are here to bear witness to this commitment." Nor are they historic.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One worked closely with the AARP Livability Index team to meet the needs of its audiences with an easier-to-use website and accessible data that informs consumer and policy decisions nationwide. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

American Jazz Museum Platinum – Cultural Websites Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room, and Gem Theater.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Their annual report, the State of Babies Yearbook , frames rigorous research, unbiased analyses, and clear communications to influence decision-makers positioned to improve public policies and interventions in support of children and families. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One helped the AARP Livability Index meet the needs of its audiences with an easier-to-use website and accessible data that informs consumer and policy decisions nationwide. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. Tags: guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences. This Pop Up Library just returned from a folk music festival.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The interview includes stories about some of his projects, and a delving into questions about what makes viral content compelling, how to draw people into an uncomfortable environment, and ways that art--or museum content--can become more pervasive by being hidden in the corners of life. What do you think has made you successful?

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

They provide direct access to an international audience of investors—and potential new donors. Are there artists or other influencers who might be interested in partnering with your organization to support you through NFTs? Admittedly, NFTs could just be a flash in the pan. What types of content might have value?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. Who are some of your influences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

For instance, the San Francisco Museum of Art has 34,678 items in its collection. To share its entire collection with art lovers, the museum created the “Send Me” bot allows anyone to send a simple text message and receive a picture of a piece of art matching the idea, words, or phrase texted. Is it complex or simple?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

posted by Maureen O'Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum. As the development director at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM), which celebrates the music of every country in the world, my team has a platform to fundraise internationally. O’Brien graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin?Madison,

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

posted by Maureen O''Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum I recently had the opportunity to travel to Paris, France to attend the 5ème conférence de fundraising pour le secteur culturel (5th conference on fundraising for the cultural sector) put on by the Association Française des Fundraisers (French Association of Fundraisers).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2011

In 1990, educator and cultural critic Neil Postman described a museum as "an answer to a fundamental question: what does it mean to be a human being?" Without an explicit "I" voice, the museum's perspective on humanity is oblique to say the least. Welcome to Pine Point is not a museum project. It tells layered personal stories.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. This week, I read a fabulous essay that made me feel a new kinship with the past in the quest to advocate for active audience engagement.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2008

No, these are neither the words of a self-important curator nor a well-spoken museum director. the crowd-curated photo exhibition now open at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It is a substantive research contribution by the museum to the social technology field at large. Things like this are far and few between.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I’ve long been interested in the intersection between maker culture and museums. It’s worth mentioning that the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit also hosted a Maker Faire at their facility this year. After the tour, the group came back to NYSCI and we had a brainstorm… let’s just do it in the museum. Why at NYSCI?

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