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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. While there was evidence of plenty of community engagement work across museums and galleries, most of it was funded project by project. As this video points out, critics make you swear.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

Have Fun - Do Good

You're working with companies that are already here, but do you ever do anything to convince people that they should be here in the first place? Macy's was great, and I think the corporate sector taught me a lot of great skills. They're artists so they think big. What are the benefits for a company to be in the inner city?

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

The conference took place November 26 & 27 (yes, Thanksgiving!) 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

The conference took place November 26 & 27 (yes, Thanksgiving!) 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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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

Have Fun - Do Good

There was nothing in place to help get these people into the place where they could best be of service in an organized way. We put together a week-long curriculum to really help people do just that: find their purpose and then give them the skills. It just felt like my efforts would fall flat. It was so fun.

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

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"[T]hose of us who take pictures, even for our own personal trips, and share those pictures with friends, because we have that skill, also have an obligation to help people understand each other more completely. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

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In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now. Kind of like what brought you here, what skills and things like that? So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist.

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