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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

Classic live auction item ideas When you think of a live auction, there are probably several classic items that come to mind. Concert tickets Buying concert tickets has become like a competitive sport, as passionate fans flood ticket platforms to see their favorite artist live.

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MuseumCamp 2014: Experiments in Social Impact Assessment

Museum 2.0

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. We encouraged teams to think like artists, not researchers. How do you measure that? To be speculative. To be playful. To be creative.

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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

Media Cause

We read articles mapping out the “perfect face” according to the Greek ratio of Phi but we never question why Greek history is the arbiter of truth in many cases when much of Greek philosophy was stolen from Egypt. When we take a look at design history, we quickly start to see how whiteness relates to the rule setters and power holders. .

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Art Brings People Together: Measuring the Power of Social Bridging

Museum 2.0

We have witnessed and experienced incredible moments of transformation: homeless people and history buffs working together on historic restoration, graffiti artists and knitters collaborating on new artistic projects, visitors from different backgrounds making collages, or sculptures, or dance performances together.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

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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What's Your Vision?

Museum 2.0

A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future." A vision is a detailed history of the future. This is a detailed history from the future. WHAT IS A VISION? A vision is not a solution to a problem.

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. Tags: guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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