Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

A few weeks ago, the MAH Director of Community Programs, Stacey Garcia, came to me with an idea. 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. full description here , photos from the event here ).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

These are unpaid part-time and full-time opportunities to help design public programs, develop new uses for the museum, perform visitor research, and pursue unusual projects. Our internships have generally gotten more structured. But I would be remiss if I did not say that the community programs internships are all rocking.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

Sarah has worked at the Walker since 1992 and is currently the Director of Education and Community Programs. 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. Can you give me an example?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Yes, we have the standard ways--volunteer programs, board service, and community partnerships--but I strongly believe that if we are doing our jobs right, every visitor who walks through our doors should be able to make a meaningful impact. Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One way to create a major donor program or donor perks system is to replicate one from another organization. If you are using another nonprofit’s program as an inspiration, there is no need to do so. Mention the donor in emails year-round relating to the program they supported. Name a program after them. Get creative.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

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. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. This week, an interview with Brooklyn Museum 1stfans managers Will Cary (membership) and Shelley Bernstein (technology) and artist An Xiao.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Creating a sustainable engagement platform within your existing structure takes time, creativity and dedication. To a certain extent, the question of what you want to change should really be question number 1, every time you set out to create a movement or a program or an intervention.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

DARPA’s Future Markets Applied to Prediction ( FutureMAP ) program tested whether prediction markets could help identify strategic intelligence. Crowd-funding New Ideas: Funding platforms for artists, musicians, and inventors: Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. " Tags: Influence Collaboration Communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I’ve been facilitating design labs for nonprofits and foundations, and continue to be excited about them because it is a way to generate feedback and ideas that can improve a strategy or program in service of the participants being served. In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. I knew I didn’t want to do something temporary—a program that would last a year or two and then go away. So what did you do next? The website for the stories is beautiful.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. The gallery staff wanted half-term activities as part of their learning program and they invited me to lead these through what evolved into a residency format.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. My first reaction was skepticism. Why are they doing this?

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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. Most hackerspaces have very transparent legal structures and operate on a consensus model. This isn't just a geek thing.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

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. In Denmark and Amsterdam, I experienced radical dialogue programs like Human Library , but also a strict formalism as to what happens in galleries.

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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. In Denmark and Amsterdam, I experienced radical dialogue programs like Human Library , but also a strict formalism as to what happens in galleries.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them. However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration. It's also standard practice in community arts programs. It's easier to talk about interactivity by asking, "what can I do here?"

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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. The 2022 Seat the Table program examined “The Triumphs and Challenges of Black Education.”

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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. The 2022 Seat the Table program examined “The Triumphs and Challenges of Black Education.”

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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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 7, 2006

We run our own voter registration programs, and partner with a lot of organizations and campaigns, helping them do outreach. We also work with groups like Oxfam and their Make Trade Fair Campaign , Doctors without Borders , the ACLU , Global Exchange and this summer will be collaborating with Witness , Greenpeace , the NRDC and others.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2007

Several were created or conceived by a single person, often an artist/non-museum professional. Yes, an individual can bring clarity of vision to any project that might otherwise be sullied by the ups and downs of collaboration and compromise. Exhibit designers' jobs are to develop exhibitions on topics.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day. I guess I got involved in coworking originally because I was working out of cafes and wanted a more collaborative, productive environment to go to and work around other people in. We're lucky to have that here in the Bay Area.

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