ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

posted by Christopher Haines Artistic Director & Co-Founder, iTheatre Collaborative. At the plenary panel discussion, a woman from the audience, an arts teacher, asked, plaintively, “Why do we have to justify the arts in school? Her question stayed with me for a long time. As artists, we can be very insecure about our work.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

Always think about your branding, goals, and target audience ahead of the actual creative procedure. Here are some questions that you should consider before embarking on your redesigning journey. This will make your audience more likely to attend the event. How will fundraising flyers benefit your organization?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

Instead, I'd like to see us asking broader questions about process, like: How do different people arbitrate the value of a piece of art, a historical artifact, or a piece of scientific evidence? Bob Dylan, the third most represented artist on the Rolling Stone list, doesn't even place in Billboard's top one hundred.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

My first remote job was to work with a virtual team to manage an online network for artists, called Artswire. This includes orientating participants to the agenda, introductions and a check-in or icebreaker, questions or activities used to help people ease people into a meeting or learning situation. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Call or email funders with any questions about their interests and your eligibility. It’s not about chasing the money, but rather about enhancing your offerings to better serve, broaden, or diversify your audience. You can access this data from year to year, so you can better determine where adjustments should be made. Senior citizens?

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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. Let people ask questions, share their experiences, or get involved.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

Influencers – We grabbed session leaders, keynote speakers, bloggers, and social media influencers to extend our message across to their audiences. Hanson led a 12-hour telethon that featured over 40+ artists. Media – The campaign featured compelling video footage of the disaster and testimonies from Japanese attendees.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

If you’ve never hired a professional videographer before, there are some important questions to consider and things to look for in order to find the right fit. The scenes might not be in order and might look more artistic. A virtual audience will not have to sit through poor video quality or connectivity issues.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

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. If an artist can come into a museum and smash stuff, what does that tell visitors? He smashes a sculpture of an animal.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Crowdfunding campaigns bring causes to the attention of wide audiences who find it a convenient way to make donations, typically of modest amounts. Questions about the implications for existing Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) and for possible DAF regulation in the future as crowdfunding companies reconfigure their giving platforms as DAFs.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

Here's what happened: In 2010, amidst severe financial woes and declining audiences, the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA (MOCA), hired Jeffrey Deitch, a NYC gallery owner, to be their new director. The first wave of critique focused on the very valid question of why Schimmel was fired in this manner. These are reasonable questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? I feel strongly that to keep audiences engaged, they have to be moving. Incorporating Movement Into Icebreakers and Small Group Exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

No matter where I’m speaking or teaching workshops, the same questions come up … How much time does it take to do social media effectively? Three Models. Who in our organization is going to do the work? How are ever going to find the time to do social media? Social media does take time even if you are efficient.

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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. All of these questions and barriers are worth grappling with and debating among cultural practitioners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I begin with the instructional goals and finding out as much as possible about the audience. Audience Research. My job was the network weaver.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. It is framed as a kind of study guide; pop-outs provide questions that tease out opportunities and tensions in the narrative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

In his question to create the storage battery, he conducted 10,000 experiments before arriving at a method that worked. Participants had to answer these questions: -What were the objectives, audience, and how did integrate with your marketing or audience development plan? What were some tactics that you tried?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

I don’t always get a chance to sit in the audience and simply listen at conferences where I am keynoting because I’m also preparing my talk, but Peter’s keynote was after mine on the following day so I have a rare opportunity to immerse without being distracted because I was going to be speaking soon. Was it anticipated?

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

If you’ve never hired a professional videographer before, there are some important questions to consider and things to look for in order to find the right fit. The scenes might not be in order and might look more artistic. A virtual audience will not have to sit through poor video quality or connectivity issues.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The main audiences for memberships are value members, who think of it as a good deal, lifelong learners, who want to come to as many programs and exhibits as possible, and donors, who support the museum. This week, an interview with Brooklyn Museum 1stfans managers Will Cary (membership) and Shelley Bernstein (technology) and artist An Xiao.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

We’re willing to bet $1 that there’s at least one you haven’t thought of — and if that one is #34, we have some questions for you…. Email system like Mailchimp or Emma to message a larger audience and collect attendee information. Bonus points if the artist does an entire custom flash related to your cause. Polish for a Purpose.

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Achieve

AUGUST 5, 2022

This guide will help you consider all the important questions you need to answer and follow the right steps to start off on the right foot: Determine your goals. Here are some questions that you should answer as part of the goal-setting process: How much money do we want to raise? Leverage your brand. distinct brand identity.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

At a recent talk in Chicago, an audience member asked a question. While there are many ways for museums to reach new audiences, when it comes to specialized knowledge, it's often a question of reaching the niche who care deeply about German watches from 1822 or the evolutionary shift in raccoon striping over time.

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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

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.

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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. Patrons clap between movements.

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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. Imagine if a theater or jazz club was only open during the day, and what conclusions one might draw about audience type and preferences based on that decision. He's right.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

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? Alas, for designers then, "the imagined audience" is both blessing and curse.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

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). He is an authoritative artist of the social web with a slew of accolades and a suite of diverse projects under his belt.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

are well versed in new ideas for audience engagement and committed to opening up their institutions to increase public access. Can collections access be a way to entice new audiences? I stirred up a debate by raising the question “why not allow access?” Followers of Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

I used to think these were easy questions to answer. At the museum of art and history where I work, we are grappling with the question of how to help people enjoy themselves while keeping the art and artifacts safe. Focus on family audiences. Engagement with local artists. What if you WANT them to touch certain things?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

After our last Nonprofits Live event on gaming, our social media team received many questions and requests — many of you in the TechSoup community are excited about the future of creating games for nonprofit causes! Game Audiences. Think about your intended audience first when creating a social impact game. Design Process.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They were there for artist talks. Temple Contemporary’s mission is to creatively re-imagine the social function of art through questions of local relevance and international significance. They live their mission, working in questions and projects rather than exhibitions and programs. The community drives the question.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. The Walker is also a place where everyone is committed to supporting artists and new work, so every time we bring in an artist, staff are enthusiastic about the idea of coming together to create something. It's inherent in what we do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

About a year ago, I came across David Sibbet’s book, “ Visual Meetings ” I have known of his work for years, but always thought graphic recording was for “real artists who can draw.’ Rachel, a virtuoso technologist and artist, used a drawing tablet and Sketchbook pro.

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