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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

Museum 2.0

But every once in awhile, something extraordinary comes up, something that isn't emergent or evolving or encouraging but something that explodes into your life like a comet knocking on your door. He is an authoritative artist of the social web with a slew of accolades and a suite of diverse projects under his belt.

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Art, Social Change & Young Women Bloggers

Have Fun - Do Good

Last Sunday each of us wrote a post to answer the question, “Who is your favorite artist (visual, dancer, performer, writer or musician) and why?” Institute for Social Ecology : "A ten-day program for artists, performers, activists, and media makers who wish to create and examine socially engaged art and media projects."

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Steal these 42 Creative Pinterest Ideas for Nonprofits

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Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. In exhibits and galleries where photography is permitted, of course!) Use those visual stories to show what the sacrifice troops make means in real-life terms and why your work supporting the veterans community is so important. Some of them are beautiful.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. Artist Blogs. s Blog about?

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Quick Hit: My Work with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

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But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection. OK, so we made up the last couple of those prohibitions. That doesn't entail a big, expensive redesign.

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What's Your Leisure Identity? Does it Bring You Into Museums?

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John contextualizes this argument within a larger discussion about leisure and American life. I saw every part of our vacation through the lens of the book, and my climbing partner (a highly active and artistic guy) and I spent a lot of time analyzing the choices we did and didn't make and how they reflected our expressions of identity.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

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We saw that these artists were using the wall, then telling us about it on Flickr. That’s why we’re not in Second Life. #1, We look at the equation and say maybe Second Life isn’t the right fit for us. Maybe the Tech will have that with your new project in Second Life. Were they really using it as a post-visit resource?

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