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Is it OK to Smash That? The Complications of Living Art Museums

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The man is artist Rocky Lewycky , whose work is part of a group show of visual artists who have won a prestigious regional fellowship. His project, Is It Necessary? If an artist can come into a museum and smash stuff, what does that tell visitors? He takes a crowbar out of a Swiss Army backpack. This is not a crime.

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New Approach, Historic Mission: Remaking a Factory Museum via Community Co-Production

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In the fall of 2013, they launched Re:Make , an ambitious project to redevelop the museum, live, on the floor, with a mix of staff, guest artists, and community members. And perhaps most ambitiously, they see it as a community-based project. Many projects have more energy in the making than in the completion.

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Fifteen Random Things I've Learned about Design for Participation This Year

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We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. Artists work incredibly hard to produce their work. This isn't even participatory.

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Feelings and Participation

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Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. 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 ! In this case, I find the most interesting ones to be made by artists.

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Four Unusual Professional Development Events in 2013

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Three of them are being hosted at my museum , and one at a mystery location. In July of 2013, the MAH will host our first You Can't Do That in Museums Camp (or better name to be suggested by you), inviting 80 creative people to collaborate on an experimental exhibition. The Arts Dinner-vention Project - date TBD.

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A City and an Art Center Design the Future: Reflections on the Market Street Prototyping Festival

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The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (which she directs) teamed up with the San Francisco Planning Department and the Knight Foundation to host the Market Street Prototyping Festival. Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. A fitness trail for urban life.

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Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

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In this post, she writes about Experimonth, an intriguing set of crowd-sourced projects that connect scientists with research participants in surprising ways. The project blew away our expectations. In fact, we''ll be hosting Frenemy, Freeloader, and Do You Know What I Know You Know? Experimonth started out as play.

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