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Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

Museum 2.0

And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. That honesty shines through in the report's clear language, specific tips, and frequent bite-sized notes of "things to watch out for" when working to become a participatory organization.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. I feel that art is able to translate beyond language, and communicate a much larger vision of personal connection.

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Rethinking Community Advisory Boards: the Story of C3

Museum 2.0

As one African-American artist on a prominent museum board told me, "I felt even more tokenized than if I had been part of some kind of Artists'' Council or African-American Council." Our topics are broad, including Creative Spaces, Youth Empowerment, and Economic Opportunity.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing. There is a strong community of Oaxacan artists, dancers, and musicians in Live Oak. She surveyed existing local programs. But there was no such program focused on the arts.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

It was wonderful to again be immersed in French culture and language. Several attendees in the session voiced impassioned concern that businesses not overstep their bounds in terms of influencing the artistic product, a concern I have not heard here in the US.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

It was wonderful to again be immersed in French culture and language. Several attendees in the session voiced impassioned concern that businesses not overstep their bounds in terms of influencing the artistic product, a concern I have not heard here in the US.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. BB: What advice do you have for artists who want to use their art for social change? One is that women can apply for grants by writing a letter, one page, in their own language, in their own handwriting.