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Sustaining Innovation Part 3: Interview With Sarah Schultz of the Walker Art Center

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In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. That said, the fact that we work with contemporary artists can also create a lot of stress in our institutional systems.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

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Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. I''m open to any questions you want to share in the comments. In the meantime, here are some. Naming fears, too.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

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This list is by no means exhaustive: please add your favorites (especially non-American ones) in the comments. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. Elsewhere Collaborative (Greensboro, NC). Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

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One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? Develop collaborations and programs, keeping in mind what you have learned. Once we've identified assets and needs, we seek out collaborators and project ideas.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon -- Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

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Allowing visitors to select their favorite exhibits in a gallery or comment on the content of the labels isn’t seen as valuable a participatory learning experience as producing their own content. You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Temple Contemporary and the Puzzle of Sharing Powerful Processes

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They were there for artist talks. Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders. Leave the process to the collaborators and give the product to the audience. I don't have the answers.

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Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

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Allowing visitors to select their favorite exhibits in a gallery or comment on the content of the labels isn’t seen as valuable a participatory learning experience as producing their own content. You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. This is a problem for two reasons.