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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

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." ~ Caroline Lovell, Founder, Traveling Postcards Traveling Postcards facilitates the creation of handmade art postcards that are hand delivered all over the world to bringing awareness and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence, or repression. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers. They are artists whose experience deserves a home in our institution alongside painters, photographers, and sculptors.

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

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

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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. It gets easier to hear their voices in our heads when we make a decision. Not your voice.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

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The other thing is that a lot of inner cities are part of empowerment zones or enterprise zones where companies that are at a certain scale and profitable can benefit from tax credits, both from the payroll side, if you hire from the inner city, but also if you locate in the enterprise zones. They're artists so they think big.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

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. Thibault encouraged the group to think creatively when it comes to working together to construct lasting relationships.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

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. Thibault encouraged the group to think creatively when it comes to working together to construct lasting relationships.