Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

artist's influences and the exhibit, in the artist's own words. For example, YBCA's audiences loved having access to artists' own unfiltered words. Museum of African American History's mobile web app likewise runs on most mobile devices with a web browser. Photo: 1 hr photo. The DuSable.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. For an added competitive level of fun, have each attendee send a cute photo of their pet. Do you have any local artists in your area or artistic, passionate supporters in your donor base? BONUS – See this idea in action!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. Photo and Bio. If you represent an educational or social justice charity, maybe giveaway specialty decks of cards featuring important people from history. It is seen as wasteful overhead.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 8, 2012

The first letters came with small gifts memorializing certain people in history not known for being very nice, but other than that, they were not altogether bizarre (other than the checks… with no address, and envelopes, with no address, and I don’t think they ever had a post mark, come to think of it). I think you get the picture.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

At the museum of art and history where I work, we are grappling with the question of how to help people enjoy themselves while keeping the art and artifacts safe. In the history gallery, we have some blended props and artifacts, and it's rarely clear what is and is not ok to touch. Engagement with local artists.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. The event involved over fifty artists throughout the building helping visitors make their own paper, write poems, stitch books, etc.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

INTERNSHIPS If you want to join us in Santa Cruz for more professional learning, consider an internship at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We''ve been working for two years to redevelop our History Gallery to be a more dynamic, diverse, engaging space. Video/Photo. Most internships run from late June - late August.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2015

Visitors in front of the African Elephant Diorama at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC photo) This guest post was written by Karen Wise, Vice President, Education and Exhibits at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. “I History exhibits with hundreds of objects and no coherent story.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

One of our research volunteers, Sangye Hawke, blew me away when she posted a photo on Facebook of the board game she's developing about the restoration work we're doing at historic Evergreen Cemetery. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

There hasn’t been a history of collaboration between the museum and the film center and we wanted the chance to partner more deeply, and build a platform where we could continue to do so. Your recording booth asks participants for audio stories plus photos of themselves with their objects. Photos are fun.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

You can also see a ton of photos on Instagram , and I highly recommend the Confessional Tent videos for sheer silliness (more on those below). Or they might have chosen to make up a fictitious narrative around history artifacts. Museum of Art and History risk design professional development' Thanks for all the memories.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

History Museums OPPORTUNITIES - History museums are in many ways the best-suited for visitor participation. As cultural anthropology has swung away from a vision of authoritative history and toward the embrace of multiple perspectives, there is potential for those stories to come from all over the place, including visitors themselves.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

The lead photo on this post is from a project I saw when I visited last spring. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. History and science museums. Handing out paper hearts on Valentine's Day so visitors could put them in front of favorite paintings.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

We ran with it and have since generated data about decision-making, cooperation, competition and negotiation for scientists (and also some artists) to play with. He''ll be able to watch how certain activities evolve into coordination and what kinds of histories the people who most easily coordinate have in common.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Women Center Stage has launched women artists' work like Iris Bahr, who wrote and performed " Dai " at the festival, and is now performing her piece on Culture Project's main stage, and Staceyann Chin , who did a workshop of, "Border/Clash" as part of the Women Center Stage festival, and went on to produce fuller productions of the piece.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I have a long history with the arts community in New York. See the photos here. I had the pleasure of sharing the podium with Susan Chun who spoke about the Steve project. Since we shared my laptop, she kindly gave me permission to upload her slides). As Phil Morris noted in his blo g, it feels like home to be with this crowd.).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2011

They planned to paint the outline of Santa Cruz County, print out photos of a series of important landmarks or icons throughout the county, and then paint those items onto the map. These are both busy people, and while they are very artistic, neither is a crack drawer. Two weeks ago, two of my staff members came to me with a problem.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2007

A quick browse reveals people who are using VoiceThread to: document collaborative student projects create artistic digital storybooks run bizarre and wonderful love advice call-in shows layer family photo collections with oral histories and commentaries And you could easily use it to: create how-to or "making of" presentations on any museum content (..)

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The ice cream social is also part of our nation’s history—the first occurred in the White House in 1802 during Thomas Jefferson’s presidency. Photo Contest Photo costs are incredibly diverse. Tap your network to see what kinds of artists and craftspeople are out there and are available to teach.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

To make ends meet, artists would sometimes team up as a studio — helping each other come up with ideas, chipping in when someone was in danger of missing a deadline, teaching each other tips and tricks. Photo courtesy of US Forest Service This photo was taken just yesterday.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2011

Welcome to Pine Point is a kind of virtual museum exhibition about the town, told from the perspective of Michael Simons, an artist who grew up in the nearby town of Yellowknife and visited Pine Point as a boy. It is, in short, the best multimedia history project I've ever seen, and I wish more museums were pursuing projects like it.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. The Butterfly House manager shares photos on Flickr. A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.) Some are conceptual (i.e. making a special gift).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

” The Failure Bow (Click for Photo for More Information). For example, you might show a photo of a celebrity or sing a song lyric or reference some other (funny) comp. I have an in-depth blog post about that coming up, but I wanted to touch on a theme that came up: “Fail early and often. c) What went wrong? (d)

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Photos matter. As of Febuary 2011 however, they have added a feature that goes a step beyond: streetview history. Interactive artist, Jonathan Harris is an amazing story teller. " The more significant the event or location, the more photos, tweets, status updates, blog entries we create about it. Typeface sizes matter.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Ask the audience Crowdsource your content: Have users post their own photos to Instagram using a hashtag you create, and repost the best submissions. Make everyone on your team a photographer Equip your team to take photos and videos at on-the-ground events whenever possible. Was there a recent news story related to dogs in your field?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Examples of socially rousing photography permeate our history: Vietnam, Rwanda, 9-11’s Ground Zero. Our web site serves as an international resource for anyone interested in the healing potential of art, especially environmentalists, social activists, artists, art professionals, health care practitioners, and those challenged by illness.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Summertime concerts at the history museum? Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Louis count it. There''s quite a range. Those count. Outdoor movies at the art museum?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

The level of joy and celebration was unforgettable because of what we were making happen, and the history we were making each day that we were there. AD: I definitely have had very similar experiences to Melinda in terms of my professional history. This is a history in the making. How about you, Amira? This is a tradition.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

The year in photos: Time to be bold. Be part of our heroic history. 10 photos that inspired us this year. Deadline for InterAction’s14th Annual Photo Contest is January 15. Why I’m taking action for Zunar, a fellow artist. Procrastinators Unite. Match increased: Offer ends tonight. Coming to a close.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I put each woman's photo at the beginning of when she talks to mark each section. Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists. Oh yeah, and I do some talking in the beginning, too (: The panel was about 50 minutes.

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