Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Here are 3 arts and cultural organizations that have given crowd fundraising a go for compelling causes: National Air & Space Museum. Denver Zoo. These organizations based their campaign on a specific cause that would appeal to a mass audience. Are there works of art you want to restore?

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Arts Wisconsin Los Angeles Denver 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat.

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Culture Alternative St. Louis Los Angeles 49

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." LA MOCA has indeed been front page news, especially in the art world. It's amazing to see papers like the LA Times cover the debate about the future of an art museum deeply.

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Artist Museum Arts Director 52

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

I'm trying to reposition our museum as a cultural hub supporting creative and intellectual community growth. But how many institutions are really aggressively transforming their work away from service to a narrow band of audiences to community-wide advocacy work? Does this sound like director-ish bloviating to you, or is it useful?

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Advocacy Public Service Homeless 44

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Asking Audiences. For a year now, Peter Linett and his friends at Slover-Linett Strategies have been blogging thoughtfully about connecting with arts audiences in new ways. While this blog started by focusing on audience research, topics include subjectivity, participation, innovation, and culture shifts.

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Museum Netherlands Denver Arts 46

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Museum Program Participatory Community 49

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Our curator writes labels about licking the art. And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution. Merilee Mostov and the Columbus Museum of Art. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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Reflection Columbus Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2008

In Denver there's another way. Billed as "part art museum, part public forum," The Lab at Belmar is a contemporary art space in a suburban Denver development. At the time, I was Master Teacher of Modern and Contemporary Art at the museum. It involves an exotic museum bedfellow, the suburban real estate developer.

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Museum Denver Arts Lecture 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

open to anyone (minimize cultural bias). Each of these exercises takes about five minutes, assuming you have access to a group of people who in some way approximate your target audience (colleagues, friends, visitors). The most reliable question I'm using works in art museums. questions that induce grappling.

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Technique Question Design Develop 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2010

Last week, I took in the new Galileo science show at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. He wrapped physical comedy, silly jokes, audience participation, and water balloons into a highly entertaining fifteen minutes. I can’t imagine seeing a show like this in any other cultural context. It also drove me nuts.

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Demonstration Museum Children Denver 32

Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

Here's my current list of useful characteristics: questions that trigger an immediate response questions that induce grappling questions that motivate authentic expression questions that draw from personal experience, not abstraction open to anyone (minimize cultural bias) speculative (what if? instead of what is?) That's why I asked.

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Technique Design Question Develop 52

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

The article suggests that museums have previously served one community--"traditional" museum patrons who are white and elderly--and must now be relevant to several other communities that are diverse in cultural, educational, and socio-economic backgrounds. The Denver Community Museum was an entire institution in a little storefront.

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Community Museum San Diego San Francisco 22

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Innovation Festival aligns a community of innovators and agitators, bringing to life the future of business and culture with a mix of playfulness and sophistication, captivating keynotes, hands-on workshops, and intimate site visits at the most dynamic studios, startups, and centers of creativity in New York City. 11/10/2016. Nov 11 - 14.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

With technology improving, virtual and hybrid events rising in popularity, and new event ideas coming to fruition, it can be hard to determine the best fundraising event that aligns with your audience, goals, and overall mission. Audience members can even continue to give as the show is happening with text fundraising!

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Ideas Fundraising Virtual Fun 59

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Redemption Merger: Similar Vision, Differing Models & Audiences. New City Merger: Similar Vision, Models & Audiences. Day Twelve was a brand new church plant of about 30 people that met in a historic home in the heart of downtown, which it converted into an art gallery. I think we did it too quick. Like this article?

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Phoenix San Francisco Model Nonprofit 68

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I was talking this week with Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project (an alternative arts space in LA), about different models for community engagement in cultural institutions. For example, consider two independent arts organizations in Los Angeles -- Machine Project and The Public School.

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Voice Los Angeles Denver Museum 42