Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The program is an experimental playground that bridges artists, students, chefs, comedians, hairdressers, bartenders, dancers, wrestlers and even tattoo artists to produce a community-led event. Sometimes that results in an artist-led cascading collaborative sculpture of 475 visitor-made scrap metal fish.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2009

In this guest post, Bruce Wyman, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, shares his process for developing interactive technologies to extend familiar experiences in art museums. You may remember the Denver Art Museum from this post about their newest (highly interactive) exhibit space, Side Trip.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

The conference showcased many fabulous projects-- Flux Foundation , Open Field , Shine a Light , Create Denver --that support substantive co-creation experiences for artists and amateurs alike. The conversation about community engagement at AAM has evolved, and this year, it had a distinctly social practice/art bent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

We decided to follow our artists and engage the audience on this issues. We're going to give out 10 $25K grants - one game in particular - University of Denver students created a game called Squeezed. We go to WOW server and get a group together. Engage in some practices that overcome differences. Activism has evolved beyond sit-ins.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment. Their use of the web to connect independent artists all over the world was striking and very surprising. being as transparent as possible about the selection and production process.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

For some institutions, like the MCA Denver, attendance is seen as a very poor measure of impact. But for almost all museums (even MCA Denver), attendance is correlated with impact in some way. But does attendance demonstrate mission fulfillment? Unless your mission is "to engage X number of people," probably not.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm on the road this week, with speaking gigs in Oslo, Denver, Charlotte, and Roanoke (join the NAMP livestream on Sunday at 9:25am PT here ). Smartphone images didn't read well given the limitations of screen size and the legibility of the artists' writings and drawings.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Find out what this type of fundraising event looks like in action with the Junior Achievement Metro Denver Virtual Trivia Bowl. Depending on your budget, you may be able to get a popular artist, but you can also reach out to local musicians. Art show – Are there any local artists in your area? Recreational Fundraising Ideas.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Both churches also had an emphasis on serving the downtown artist community. In December, Craig will be graduating with a degree in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from ASU and will be attending the University of Colorado Denver's Business School in the spring. Poiema was a 5-year-old church with an average weekly attendance of 70.

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