Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

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. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do. What is your favorite Traveling Postcards success story?

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

In some ways, we do a good job engaging people who reflect our whole County. If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. Let’s start with empowerment.

Build 20

Build Community Museum Artist 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

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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Museum Participatory Resource Place 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

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." We wanted to end up with a group that reflects the diversity of our County across many strata: age, class, gender, ethnicity, geography, and profession.

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Community Story Museum Map 39

NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

The struggle for the jury was to find how the simple gameplay reflects the game’s goal of empowering women to believe that they are capable of solving hard problems through teamwork and leadership. The empowerment of girls in third world countries is a topic many corporate sponsors are looking to endorse. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Game Change Classroom Machinima 81