Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Auctioneers have to capture the audience’s attention with eye-catching items that spark bidding wars. This guide is a great place to start to generate ideas for items and packages that will captivate your audience at your next auction event. For example, you could create a bundle with art, history, and science museum passes.

Artist 72

Artist Classes Arts Local 72

The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Moreover, it provides a platform to address issues affecting the Hispanic community, enriches cultural competencies for the organization, fosters stronger relations with Latino clients or partners, and boosts the organization’s visibility among diverse audiences. This could range from financial literacy workshops to mentoring programs.

Celebrate 59

Celebrate Voice Artist America 59

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Every day for the past two months, a man has entered the largest gallery in my museum. The man is artist Rocky Lewycky , whose work is part of a group show of visual artists who have won a prestigious regional fellowship. It also complicates the question of what is acceptable in a museum. This is not a crime. Definitely.

Museum 50

Museum Arts Artist Participatory 50

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists. I never saw comparable adjectives used in the European art labels at the museum.

Museum 55

Museum St. Louis Arts Artist 55

Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

A year ago, I wrote a post speculating about whether events (institutionally-produced programs) might be a primary driver for people to attend museums, with exhibitions being secondary. Many museums, big and small, thrive on events. At our museum, about 68% of casual visitors (non-school tours) attended through events this year.

Museum 53

Museum Arts Dallas History 53

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Said person goes on read every absurd word aloud, fighting with the book, pleading to stop reading the book, casting asides to the audience that he is NOT actually a robot monkey even though the book says he is. They recall other artistic work that breaks fourth walls--classically in theater, and more recently in new media projects. (For

Press 46

Press Children Museum Artist 46

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

An exhibiting artist approached me recently at an evening event at the museum. But it's a question that many museums seem to address inadequately. It's interesting to me that so many museums debate admission fees but don't get comparably riled up about open hours. he said, "I have some feedback for you. He's right.

Museum 55

Museum Open Artist Audience 55

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We ended up with a gallery in the museum instead. That is more curated.

Museum 43

Museum Story Project Design 43

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

Museum 49

Museum Program Participatory Community 49

Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

Museum 45

Museum Participatory Artist History 45

Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

But not enough people care about it anymore, and the museum is fading into disrepair. The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. Many people would look at the world''s oldest mechanized silk mill and say that the core content of the museum is silk. What do you do?

Museum 53

Museum Product Participatory Community 53

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Where do museums fit in? Here is our statement.

Museum 52

Museum Blogger Cleveland Missouri 52

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When I started this blog in 2006, I made a multi-media introduction to the concept of "museum 2.0" Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information. The museum gets better the more people use it.

Museum 47

Museum Artist Remix Professional 47

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Last Friday night, my museum hosted a fabulous (in my biased opinion) event called Race Through Time. Race Through Time was designed specifically for this audience of 30 and 40-somethings looking for fun social events with a Santa Cruz bent. I've written before about the " parallel vs. pipeline " approach to new audience development.

Audience 52

Audience Develop Museum History 52

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

at the Brooklyn Museum, where you could track how people of various levels of art expertise rated crowd-contributed photographs. I've been thinking about this as I prep some interactive prototypes for the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum, a Seattle-based museum of pop culture. There was Click!

Audience 38

Audience Music Artist Museum 38

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. But what about all the other people who love your museum? Want to know how the Brooklyn Museum is answering this question?

Museum 24

Museum Audience Program Artist 24

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." He was mandated to turn the ship around financially and to expand the reach of the museum in the community. The discussion then shifted to the overall direction of the museum.

Artist 52

Artist Museum Arts Director 52

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

Museum 45

Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

We want to cultivate a more diverse audience, especially younger people, and we want to do it authentically." But our traditional audience doesn't come for that, and we have to find a way to do this without making them uncomfortable." "Hm." Audience development is not an exercise in concentric circles. Fabulous!" "But

Audience 40

Audience Museum Oakland Participatory 40

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

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? I asked the team for tips on how they implemented Thinkery21 – check it out: Pick topics that excite your audience.

Audience 20

Audience Austin Test Portland 20

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

At a recent talk in Chicago, an audience member asked a question. His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. The people who want that content may not be in the same city as the museum nor even aware of the museum's holdings. This is museum digitization 101. but people aren't coming.

Wikipedia 54

Wikipedia Content Museum Artist 54

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Only 10% of arts foundation funding goes to minority-led organizations, and worse, the higher a foundation's funding in the arts, the less likely their money goes to support organizations serving low-income or underrepresented audiences. He got to see the museum process from the inside.

Arts 52

Arts Fund Artist Houston 52

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. The DuSable.

Arts 63

Arts Omaha Organization Artist 63

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

North Carolina Museum of History 1988.39.4 I’m always amazed when my colleagues tell me that the biggest barrier they face to “opening up” the content at their museums is from registrars—the people who care for collection objects. Followers of Museum 2.0 Can collections access be a way to entice new audiences?

Accessibility 44

Accessibility Open Museum North Carolina 44

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. Given TCG''s multi-year Audience (R)evolution initiative, I took the opportunity to write a new talk about what revolution has looked like at our small museum in Santa Cruz. More audience. More money. You just get bigger.

Museum 55

Museum Learning History Arts 55

CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

If your audience is one that responds more positively to social media, then you might want to try a social media sharing blitz. Hosting a live-stream fundraiser is an excellent way to attract, nurture, and convert your audience over the course of a day. Have your lead artist jump on and run the class on Zoom. Live-Streaming.

Ideas 98

Ideas Online Fundraising Charity 98

Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

Margaret shared these thoughts about "museums for use" on her blog , and I asked her to adapt a version for the Museum 2.0 Should a museum be a destination or a place for everyday use? During my time at RISD studying industrial design, I developed relationships with two museums on campus: the Museum of Art and the Nature Lab.

Museum 37

Museum Rhode Island University Student 37

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image.

Game 140

Game Culture Museum Change 140

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Last month, MAH curator Susan Hillhouse and I sat down and wrote an exhibition philosophy for our museum. In particular, we want exhibition collaborators--artists, researchers, historians, collectors--to understand our goals and how we intend to steer the exhibition development process.

Museum 38

Museum Artist Participatory History 38

Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

How do you help visitors know what they can and cannot do in your museum? Most museums have this figured out: they have signs, they have guards, they have cases over the objects. And this works pretty well in science museums, where designers talk about "hardening" exhibits to withstand the more aggressive touchers among us.

Museum 49

Museum Denver Artist Milwaukee 49

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection.

Museum 31

Museum History Arts Work 31

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2019

And, yet, our audiences remain largely unchanged. Museums, like all professional fields, are spaces policed by unwritten norms and regulated by our credentialing systems. For example, many museums focus on issues like ticket prices or transportation as a way to remove access barriers. Whole departments are focused on this work.

Accessibility 30

Accessibility Museum Classes Stats 30

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.

Arts 45

Arts Museum Artist Tucson 45

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. Jada is passionate about supporting the future of African-American heritage institutions and working to diversify the museum field as a whole.

Arts 48

Arts Question North Carolina Museum 48

Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

This is an amazing April Fool’s idea from the Frederic Remington Art Museum : Their annual April Fool’s Day Ball invites users to contribute at normal event-pricing tiers (attendance, attendance + pre-party, attendance + after-party), but then not show up. Offer to highlight the winners on your social channels. The Michael J.

Ideas 98

Ideas Fundraising Fun Kentucky 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community. Participants had to answer these questions: -What were the objectives, audience, and how did integrate with your marketing or audience development plan?

Social Media 99

Social Media Media San Jose Social 99

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.

Game 40

Game Artist Museum Participatory 40