Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. What started as a fun personal project for her will hopefully become part of our permanent history gallery--a space we are trying to make more interactive over the coming years. The magic isn't by design.

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Platform Open Museum Participatory 41

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

As one African-American artist on a prominent museum board told me, "I felt even more tokenized than if I had been part of some kind of Artists'' Council or African-American Council." So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3.

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Community Story Museum Map 39

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. They talked about community building.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. The event involved over fifty artists throughout the building helping visitors make their own paper, write poems, stitch books, etc.

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Activities Active Activism Participatory 50

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We invited local artists and community groups to perform. We experimented with everything--hours, front desk staffing structure, community programs. and we've tried to internalize a mindset of perpetual beta and modular support for community collaboration. We scrounged for free couches. But we got it going anyway.

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Museum Artist Remix Professional 47

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. Consult with an attorney if you plan to do this.

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Donor Sponsor Accessibility Music 343

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

There hasn’t been a history of collaboration between the museum and the film center and we wanted the chance to partner more deeply, and build a platform where we could continue to do so. We invited a cross-section of artists, filmmakers, and advertisers to join us for a think tank. So what did you do next?

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Story Interview Museum Audio 53

Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

And their unique structure and bottom-up approach offers some instructive lessons for museums that want to really embrace visitors and members as co-creators of the institutional experience. That people will key into their love of art or science or history online, then show up at the museum, get a "taste of community," and just want more?

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Museum North Carolina San Francisco Structure 24

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year!

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Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 68

Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year!

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Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 46

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. This kind of engagement ladder provides a structured framework for participation without overly constraining how people get involved.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

At large, I am proud of the countless hours of cross-departmental and community collaborations that will inspire me forever, hand-in-hand with colleagues who have invested their best efforts on behalf of the people we are committed to serving. The entire system and structure of this country has been built on racism. I am hopeful.

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Museum Detroit Arts Leadership 22

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Last month, I heard a talk by author Jonathan Salem Baskin about his soon to be published book, “ Histories of Social Media.&# The book looks at social media concepts and ideas, asks is this really new? The technology tools certainly are, but history provides a context for every behavioral quality of new media.

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

We've been friends since we were seven, so we already had a very long collaborative history. Louis is a traditional artist and I was in the journalism field. Jonah: I started Free Range with a friend of mine, Louis Fox, when we were 22 years old. We also do some much more traditional kind of activism stuff.

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Storytelling Causes Interview Free 40