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The Event-Driven Museum, One Year Later

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Now, a year later, I've seen the beginnings of how that question has borne out at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) , as well as hearing from folks around the museum industry about the interplay of exhibitions and events at their own institutions. And so, in this post, a few findings, and more questions.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Museum programs can be designed to further bond similar groups together such as families and friends in family workshops such as the Dallas Museum of Art’s First Tuesdays. Sometimes that results in an artist-led cascading collaborative sculpture of 475 visitor-made scrap metal fish.

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

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Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged.

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