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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

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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 at ASTC: Come Tour the Best Tech Museum in LA!

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The ASTC (the Association of Science and Technology Centers) annual meeting is coming up in LA (home of my childhood), and Museum 2.0 Created by artists David and Diana Wilson, it is an homage to the curiosity cabinet of yore, a place where the grotesque, the imaginary, and the unfamiliar intermingle. will be there!

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How Do You Inspire Visitors to Take Action After They Leave?

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This month, we opened a new exhibition at the MAH, Lost Childhoods: Voices of Santa Cruz County Foster Youth and Foster Youth Museum (brief video clip from opening night here ). Then, we worked with one of the commissioned exhibition artists, Melody Overstreet, to create an artwork that weaves all these little things into one tapestry.

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Competition in the Gallery

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They received over 4,000 submissions from all 50 states, which were judged by a panel of seven—including museum staff and outside artists. Some of these artists, regardless of the status of their submission, continued contributing to the site for a year. They advertised the competition on the web, and only accepted online entries.

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