Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). Because of the increased workload I expect in the months to come, as well as the likely possibility that we will start a Museum of Art & History blog, I'm lowering my Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2013

This week, the Santa Cruz Weekly's cover story is about my museum (the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ) and the work we have done to make it a more participatory, community-centered place over the past two years.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals. ” For nonprofits, this shows the value of thoroughly researching your donors’ demographics, history, and motivations before crafting appeals. Personal stories, donor benefits, time sensitivity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Click here to listen to a very brief interview Over the weekend, I attended the Technology in the Arts Conference in Pittsburgh where artist and activist Faith Ringgold was one of the keynote speakers. " I had a chance to do a quick video interview with her about her thoughts on women artists. Could you write a story?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2014

While many of their examples came from history and natural science, one of my favorite examples is from art. Many artists work with assistants and reproducing processes. They conducted a simple experiment: People read a story about a painting called "Dawn" created by an artist. There were different versions of the story.

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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." So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

For example, you can start your prompt with “Write a heartfelt story for an 8-yr old about…” or “Provide a never-heard-before solution for boomers about…” Add personality : Don’t be afraid to give the AI an attitude or tone.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2007

MTV And CGI's 'Giving' Event: A Call To Action - News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News: "Young people have more power to make a change than any other time in history,' he said, citing technological advances such as the Web. The theme was echoed throughout the night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Where her first film was a contemporary account of the Civil War in Guatemala, particularly the story of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Rigoberta Menchu, Granito is an effort to capture the history of the war through recollections and archival exploration. But that is only the jumping off point for the inquiry.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

She is a lifelong artist, and was a therapist working in psychiatric hospitals before she made the leap into advertising (long story). Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good Buy art from artists. One of the most fun ways to do good is to buy art and hand crafts directly from artists and artisans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

When I think of story telling, I think of books. Stories surround us on the radio, in newspapers, in our music boxes, in short web videos and on large screens in movie theatres. I am a documentary filmmaker and video journalist, and I think of my work as a form of story telling and documenting. Our stories come from our heart.

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JUNE 29, 2021

The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. Do you have any local artists in your area or artistic, passionate supporters in your donor base? Plus, you’ll provide artists with some much needed recognition. BONUS – See this idea in action! Art-themed Auction.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

They tell histories of white male conquest. They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists. When non-white stories are told, they are always flagged as such--an exhibition of Islamist scientific inventions or women pioneers or African-American artists.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Gabriela Mistral. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. Roxane Gay.

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JULY 13, 2012

Museum visitors can use the in-app camera to photograph individual works of art which the app recognizes to serve up information about the piece, comments from past visitors, and for some works, audio orientations from the artist. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum. Historic St.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer! We were asked to listen to a PPT presentation that shared the history, mission, goals, challenges and opportunities. But, there was a twist – we were asked to do critical or active listening. What is Human Centered Design?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

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. It's a story written from the vantage point of a few months or years from now. That's the story a vision tells.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. We exist for people who live in Santa Cruz County.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Over the past seven years, this exploration has been undertaken by a staff of artists and more than 35 creators each year participating in our residency program.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. The result was an 800 page book of narratives, pictures, stories, and much more that will now be part of the library’s collection. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Elaine Charnov – The NY Public Library. Syed Salahuddin – Babycastles.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The scenes might not be in order and might look more artistic. And if you want to record your event or webinar live and share it as a Live Story or Reel on Instagram , you may need more than one person. . Be sure to check past reviews and work history. There are a number of videography styles to choose from.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2015

I have an unusual education for the director of an art & history museum: a degree in electrical engineering. You'll burrow down rabbit holes of gorgeous videos, cerebral reading lists, and provocative artist talks. I can identify artworks by famous artists. I can tell a local story from 1849. Too personal?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. Artists work incredibly hard to produce their work. And the crayon drawings on the fridge door in an exhibition of award-winning local artists? People will talk about what they are writing or making.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2015

I hope this synopsis might inspire you to read their full incredible story. This story starts in 1960s, though of course, the story of the Blackfoot people and their dealings with museums started way before that. How do institutions build deep relationships with community partners? Who is there alive who can do that?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

It has an incredible story. The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. Imagine a historic site. It is losing funding, attention, and relevance.

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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. We''ve also been expanding paid opportunities for local artists.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. Short story: we learned a lot. Two years ago, our team at the MAH embarked on our most challenging co-creation project ever. We wrote a toolkit about our process.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The ideal candidate has a good grasp of our local artistic assets in Santa Cruz County, a knack for participatory placemaking, and enthusiasm about putting on a show. Lovely story, but when you are laying concrete, it is really, really hard to wait for the shoes before building the paths. multiple times per week.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2017

This is the eleventh in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. We had 2,000 t-shirts to give away, 850 balls to drop, and over a hundred artists, accordionists, salsa dancers, taiko drummers, and bubble ladies ready to go.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Rather than operating in a bubble of “art people” or “history people,” we strive to connect ALL people in our county. Artists and activists exhibiting their work. Artists and activists exhibiting their work. Homeless adults and history buffs improving a historic cemetery. Learn about the ones you can affect.

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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. They are frequently about real people's stories. For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Psst, also consider entering the Muse Awards come 2020, but that's a story for another day) @artlust doing a charming job hosting us at #museawards #AAM2019 ! Tate Exchange in London, for example, had a wonderful moment a couple summers ago where people could embroider their immigration stories on a patch to add to a collective wall.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County.

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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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