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Is it OK to Smash That? The Complications of Living Art Museums

Museum 2.0

The man is artist Rocky Lewycky , whose work is part of a group show of visual artists who have won a prestigious regional fellowship. His project, Is It Necessary? blends sculpture, repetition, and ritual performance in a political statement about the genocide of animals in factory farms. This is not a crime.

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Think Like a (Real Estate) Developer: Introducing Abbott Square, Part 9

Museum 2.0

Working with creative people taught me to think like an artist: observe, explore, dive in, look out. Building the Abbott Square project taught me a whole new mindset: that of the real estate developer. OUTSIDE IN Before the Abbott Square project, I approached planning from an internally-driven perspective. We develop the ideas.

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Lead or Follow: Arts Administrators Hash it Out

Museum 2.0

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?

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The 5 Best Social Impact Games of 2010

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5 Macon Money Macon Money is an innovative project that aimed to unite social, racial, cultural, gender, and economic gaps - all while boosting the local economy! Jeff has been a DJ, music producer, graphic designer, illustrator and consultant to independent artists and small business owners. Everyone wins!

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Using Social Bridging to Be "For Everyone" in a New Way

Museum 2.0

What started as a series of experiments and happy accidents is now embedded in how we develop and evaluate projects. I don''t have the answer to how we can incorporate bridging across the various ways we work with intact and blended communities. This leads to good bonding, but very little bridging.

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Building Community Bridges: A "So What" Behind Social Participation

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At the adjacent table, my colleague Stacey Garcia was meeting with a local artist, Kyle Lane-McKinley, to talk about an upcoming project. I don't know what formed the bridge between the artists and the teens in this circumstance. On the third floor, they sat down in our creativity lounge and started making collages.

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Advice: An Exhibition about Talking to Strangers

Museum 2.0

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation. But the exhibit team did something novel.

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