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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

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What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? The Tools Artists Need Geeks To Create Join us to discuss the digital tools being used and abused by theatre makers, dancers, musicians, crafters, wordsmiths, cinematographers, photographers, painters, and other multimedia artists. What’s new?

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Getting in on the Act: New Report on Participatory Arts Engagement

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Why is a photography contest an example of "crowd sourcing" wheres a community drawing contest is an example of "audience-as-artist"? What's the relationship between the goals of participation and the techniques employed?

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Art in New York

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It was designed by a New York artist named Cindy Workman. Here are the details : art… Artist Cindy Workman has a new show called “Les Demoiselles&# that features arresting, composite images of women fashioned from disparate sources including magazines, online images, even sewing pattern envelopes. We love our See3 logo.

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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

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There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). Beck talks about this in the context of learning to play music as a young artist. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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Approach Social Media Like Thomas Edison

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Opera San Jose gave a presentation on its #operaplot hashtag contest where participants has to tweet the plots of operas in 140 characters. The Joe Goode Dance Company spoke about the challenges of getting an artistic director to Tweet. One of the things they discovered is that their audience wants to hear from the artists.

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Guest Post: A Tale of Two University Museums

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The Sitings contest invites students to propose an installation and the two proposals that win each year are awarded grants and displayed in the Museum. Display techniques: It’s risky to set up an art museum in the curio-cabinet style of the Nature Lab. Faculty shows tempt students into the Museum to see the work of their professors.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

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Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. As a designer, I wanted to present participation as "value-neutral," or, as I wrote, another technique "for the cultural professional''s toolbox."