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

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The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. 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. Follow up with them later.

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Want to Work at the MAH? Now's Your Chance.

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We are now hiring two full-time positions: Exhibitions Catalyst , to animate our exhibitions in partnership with artists, community organizations, and residents Marketing and Communications Catalyst , to spread the word and connect our community on social media and in the press Both these people have important roles to play in the future of the MAH.

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Guest Post: Restoration Artwork

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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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Why We Moved the Abbott Square Opening - A Mistake, a Tough Call, & a Pivot: Introducing Abbott Square, Bonus Post

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We lined up press. We had 2,000 t-shirts to give away, 850 balls to drop, and over a hundred artists, accordionists, salsa dancers, taiko drummers, and bubble ladies ready to go. It felt like we needed to lock in a date so we could book collaborators, schedule staff, market the activities, and plan everything.

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

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It was started in 2003 and is run by Mark Allen and a collective of artists, many of whom have also been applying their talents by performing "interventions" at formal art institutions including LACMA, the Hammer Museum, and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Elsewhere Collaborative (Greensboro, NC). PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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Traveling Couches and other Emergent Surprises Courtesy of an Open Platform

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We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. Community members, artists, and organizations increasingly see our museum as a place where they can advance their own goals, and so they approach us. Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see.

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Memo from the Revolution: Six Things I've Learned from our Institutional Transformation

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When we work with diverse collaborators, from opera singers and ukelele players to knitters and graffiti artists, we catalyze new partnerships and relationships that make our community stronger and more cohesive. You want to have an artist collective sleepover at the museum? We believe in fearless experimentation. Sounds great.

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