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Which New Audiences? A Great Washington Post Article and its Implications about Age, Income, and Race

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She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests. The impact was dramatic. Within three years, attendance tripled.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

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That something may be a place, an identity, an interest, a worldview. 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. Museums are great places for bonding.

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