Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

Museum of Contemporary Art. Learning Labs are a chance for individuals attending MCON 2015 in-person at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago discuss ideas and get practical advice from experts across many industries. In each of these five Learning Labs, participants will gather for an interactive time of teaching and discussion.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more. Auction an Artistic Experience Auctions are popular fundraising events that all kinds of nonprofits use to engage and connect with their supporters. Teaching art by hosting online courses has become a viable option, one that your nonprofit shouldn’t ignore!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching. If you think about what a museum curator does, it is very similar. ” that I will be presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits. One of the best ways to learn is the study, observe, or interview the experts.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It started as a handout for a session that Stacey and I are doing at the California Association of Museums, and then I realized it was so darn useful that it was worth sharing with all of you. The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Can you adapt the training for donors as a group teaching session? Sometimes a nonprofit has access to world-class chefs, celebrities, artists, or architects or well-known lawmakers.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 17, 2015

People from across the country will gather at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to experience MCON in person and over 20,000 people will stream the event online. In each of these five Learning Labs, participants will gather for an interactive time of teaching and discussion. Either way, you’ll be sure to be inspired.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. We were lucky enough to have a fabulous space for the workshop in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and an expert in using social. I said yes.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Virtual education is a great tool and can be used to teach a wide range of skills. Just ensure that you’re able to secure an expert to teach who’s comfortable speaking on camera and familiar with the hardware and software necessary to make it happen. 5) Online classes. 10) Hybrid concerts. 13) Scavenger hunts.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2015

The "love locks" are not a project with an institutional or artistic director. The other participants teach you how to play. We often say at our museum that "make and share is better than make and take." And so, one of the most successful, accidental, and fraught participatory projects of the past decade comes to an end.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

And to end this month of positivity, I thought we could all think about all the amazing things are jobs teach us. The artist was masterful not only in her technical skill but also in her way with people. But, the world you see and react to is as good as you can make it. As I sat there, two colleagues came by.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

How, he asked, could a large museum that serves hundreds of thousands of people per year foster the same sense of personal connection and community that a small one can achieve? I think small museums are generally better than large ones at fostering local communities of visitors and members.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2011

In 1990, educator and cultural critic Neil Postman described a museum as "an answer to a fundamental question: what does it mean to be a human being?" Without an explicit "I" voice, the museum's perspective on humanity is oblique to say the least. Welcome to Pine Point is not a museum project. It tells layered personal stories.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

You can procure items that encourage residents to explore the city in a fun way, such as local restaurant gift certificates or tickets to museums or sports games. Depending on your budget, you may be able to get a popular artist, but you can also reach out to local musicians. Art show – Are there any local artists in your area?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Interactive artist, Jonathan Harris is an amazing story teller. " Recently, overcoming a freak October snowstorm in Washington DC, I went to the National Museum of the American Indian , and then to the National Museum of American History. And maybe that can teach us something about ourselves.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last week, I finally watched The Art of the Steal , an arresting documentary on the controversy around the evolution of the Barnes Foundation from a suburban educational art facility to a major urban art museum (to open in May 2012). Unlike most art collections, Barnes' art was neither exclusively private nor a public museum.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Right at the end of that period, I also was teaching. And second, I was exhausted from having continued to do consulting and teaching at the same time. In order to get a book published, I was told I had to have a museum exhibit. Fortunately, the Field Museum in Chicago mounted an exhibit of the photographs for In Her Hands.

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