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Celebrate, Educate, and Fundraise: Planning Winning AAPI Heritage Month Events

The Modern Nonprofit

AAPI Cuisines Around the World – Highlight the diversity of AAPI food cultures with cooking demos, food samples, or restaurant partnerships. Curate an exhibit of paintings, photographs, sculptures or crafts by AAPI artists. Artists, writers, and cultural leaders. Displaying AAPI visual arts is another engaging activity.

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

Museum 2.0

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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Decade of Nimblers: A celebration of our staff

Nimble AMS

Not only do they generally take you off-grid, but they give you the opportunity to do a little sampling of everything. Our customers are the most amazing and collaborative people I have ever worked with. Fun fact about Dave. I love going on cruises (seven so far and one upcoming). What is your favorite thing about Nimble AMS?

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Guest Post: Weaving Community Collaborations into Permanent Installations at the Denver Art Museum

Museum 2.0

The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. Community artists gave their honest feedback, and we crafted a display based on these discussions and their contributions.

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Morgan Sully believes We Operate Better Together

Amy Sample Ward

How do artists, entrepreneurs and other ‘creatives’ support themselves doing the work they do? Tags: community socialchange storytelling collaboration europe friend fundraising trip uk. I want to learn and ’share back’ as much as possible so that other groups doing similar things can do it together. Share the campaign on Facebook.

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Art Brings People Together: Measuring the Power of Social Bridging

Museum 2.0

I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. While this would be difficult to do in a museum en masse, it could certainly be done with a small representative sample of visitors. Implicit Associations test.

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Put Down the Clipboard:Visitor Feedback as Participatory Activity

Museum 2.0

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. We got more feedback.