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Guest Post: Restoration Artwork

Museum 2.0

In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it. Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence.

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Designing for Nonprofits: Our Commentary + Experience

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We develop our skills by seeking, absorbing, questioning, adapting, and experimenting, oftentimes bringing diverse influences together to create something that’s unique for our clients’ needs, but with connections to other relevant spaces. (Just wanted to see if you were paying attention.). Creative-problem solving on a small budget.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects?

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Spend Summer in Santa Cruz - or Just a Weekend - Exploring Community Engagement at the MAH

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This summer, we''re offering some amazing museum internships, as well as MuseumCamp : a weekend-long professional development experience that is part retreat, part conference, part summer camp. We''re offering internships this summer in: Participatory Exhibition Design. We''ve also been expanding paid opportunities for local artists.

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Guest Post: Radical Collaboration - Tools for Partnering with Community Members

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It’s not unusual for us to meet with an environmental activist, a balloon artist, a farmer, and the Mayor of Santa Cruz all in one day. C3 topics have ranged from exhibition development, community needs, outreach programs, our Loyalty Lab project, and family programs. Large and small (or no) followings.

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

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On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. There are many ways for creative amateurs to be involved in exhibit development.

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Don't Join the Conversation if You Aren't Ready to Listen

Museum 2.0

Here’s what happened: an art critic named Jerry Saltz posted an incendiary note on Facebook about the very low representation of women artists on the 4th and 5th floors (painting and sculpture) of MoMA. When those spaces are factored in, there are more than 250 works by female artists on view now. Let’s start there.