Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

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. They don''t just invite participation by opening the doors. It''s serious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The concept of openness. offers personal insights in opening up to new ideas and letting go of information, hierarchy and "proprietary" thinking. According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. What started as a fun personal project for her will hopefully become part of our permanent history gallery--a space we are trying to make more interactive over the coming years. It happens because people see an opening where there wasn't one before.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Two years ago, our team at the MAH embarked on our most challenging co-creation project ever. We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. This project wove together many different participatory threads.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

This is the last of the guest posts offered during this fall season, and it dovetails with last week''s post about opening up collections access nicely. In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Let's look at the statistics from three big participatory projects that wrapped up recently. This citywide festival showcased work by 1,517 artists competing for a $200,000 top cash prize awarded by public vote. The Brooklyn Museum just finished the public stage of GO , a "community-curated open studio project."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The creative process of making films is opening up and the outreach efforts to spark social change through documentary media are becoming much more dynamic and collaborative. With a project like Granito, the film is only the beginning and serves as an invitation for everyone to share their story.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

The more open, the more agency. Negotiation" implies a respectful relationship between institution (or artist) and user. Sometimes the negotiation can be exploited for artistic means. The theater is dark and the artist breaks the fourth wall and asks for conversation. Both games have rules. Patrons clap between movements.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The DAM is one of several large art museums that is embracing making in a big way—first, through their event-based programming and open art studios tied to temporary exhibitions, and now, through a 1,200 square foot studio in which visitors can do art projects tied to the permanent collection. They’re tagging with yarn.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2013

We have five open positions in Community Programs and one in Exhibitions. These are unpaid, part-time internships in which you will make a significant contribution to our work, and at the same time, learn a heck of a lot about participatory design and community engagement. Participatory Performing Artist-in-Residence program.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

Film festival openings. I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. This one is wide open. Board committee meetings. Historical landmark ceremonies. Please help us.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. As the museum's website puts it, "this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process."

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

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. Different activities need different levels of materials to appear "open for business." It's just fun.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. The result was a true experiment in designing the future--right here, right now--with artists and planners and civic leaders at the helm together. In San Francisco, sidewalks account for 80% of all open space.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2017

Working with creative people taught me to think like an artist: observe, explore, dive in, look out. Building the Abbott Square project taught me a whole new mindset: that of the real estate developer. OUTSIDE IN Before the Abbott Square project, I approached planning from an internally-driven perspective. We develop the ideas.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I am just starting to dive into the science of intergroup relations (psychology-speak for social bridging), and I greatly appreciate these individuals who are working to popularize and open up what could otherwise be esoteric research. inclusion Museum of Art and History research social bridging Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

Sarah and some of her colleagues in visitor services feel disconnected from the work that happens "upstairs" in the office and in our creative project development. People use it to share surprises in the archives, inspiring meetings with artists, dead birds in the lobby, and free food in the fridge. This problem is nothing new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. s Blog about?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Over the past seven years, this exploration has been undertaken by a staff of artists and more than 35 creators each year participating in our residency program.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

It was terrific to have a packed room and a long, open conversation (we split the session into half presenting, half audience discussion) about these issues. The lead photo on this post is from a project I saw when I visited last spring. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise. I host dating games. for the galleries.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

For the past two years, I''ve been working on a project to activate the concrete space adjacent to our museum as a vibrant, community plaza. The ideal candidate has a good grasp of our local artistic assets in Santa Cruz County, a knack for participatory placemaking, and enthusiasm about putting on a show.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This post provides an overview of the project, what makes it stand out, and some analysis of the strategic implications. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2012

I found the article to be a clear starting point for thinking in a fresh way about how our museum can best intersect with schools and artists (and students, in our participatory setting) to develop strong programs. EMCArts put out a brief report from their recent study on how arts organizations deal with conflict around new ideas.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. I''m open to any questions you want to share in the comments. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? And the projects themselves are brilliant.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They were there for artist talks. They were there for project brainstorming. It encourages process-driven performances and art projects. It opens up new conversations about the work of art in our communities. They live their mission, working in questions and projects rather than exhibitions and programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project. To get people in the mindset for brainstorming, I lead them through a couple of improvisation exercises that teach acceptance and openness to new ideas.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It’s not unusual for us to meet with an environmental activist, a balloon artist, a farmer, and the Mayor of Santa Cruz all in one day. C3 topics have ranged from exhibition development, community needs, outreach programs, our Loyalty Lab project, and family programs. Large and small (or no) followings. Follow up with them later.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! This spanned all the projects. learning to enter open, personal relationships with participants. This was particularly true for Click!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

How did this project start? And so, we started a major research project--the first one we've done that focuses on membership. In some cases, the artist is not comfortable, or there are insurance and liability issues. For example, "social" CYO members will get four tickets to our summer opening reception.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. I also told her if I couldn't work on this project, I'd likely move to the West Coast within six months.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

On the opening day someone wrote ‘About time we had a curator’ in the comments book and I was gutted – I thought the idea had failed. They enjoyed being part of the project and reporting the chart each week – it made a great local story. Projects participatory museum.

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