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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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The program is an experimental playground that bridges artists, students, chefs, comedians, hairdressers, bartenders, dancers, wrestlers and even tattoo artists to produce a community-led event. Sometimes that results in an artist-led cascading collaborative sculpture of 475 visitor-made scrap metal fish.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

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We have partnered with the county-wide community assessment project to learn more about the demographics, interests, and needs of local residents. For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. Focusing local helps us define our community by identity.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

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These sparks grew into sustained lifelong learning for at least 400 people, who got involved in local technology hobbyist projects, who pursued careers in science and technology, and helped us facilitate learning experiences as volunteers at the museum.