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Adventures in Participatory Audience Engagement at the Henry Art Gallery

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In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki.

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Is it OK to Smash That? The Complications of Living Art Museums

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His project, Is It Necessary? blends sculpture, repetition, and ritual performance in a political statement about the genocide of animals in factory farms. It is not acceptable to walk into a museum and destroy another artist''s work of art. But art museums are coming back from the dead. This is not a crime. Absolutely.

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12 Ways We Made our Santa Cruz Collects Exhibition Participatory

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In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. We had some money.

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Lead or Follow: Arts Administrators Hash it Out

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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? Here are three of my favorites.

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Three Exhibition-Related Opportunities in 2013

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We're looking for an Exhibitions Manager to join our team here at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. This is a highly collaborative role, and we are looking for the perfect blend of strong design skills with a generous enthusiasm for amateur and professional co-creation. Come to Camp.

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Think Like a (Real Estate) Developer: Introducing Abbott Square, Part 9

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This is the ninth in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. Building the Abbott Square project taught me a whole new mindset: that of the real estate developer. We develop the projects. We develop the ideas.

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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

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On 8.16.08, the Museum of Art and History (Santa Cruz, CA) hosted FreelanceCamp, a free unconference that brought 150 designers and techies from the south bay area together to talk shop. Projects participatory museum. Other person: Nope. Me: Me neither. Heck, it doesn't even attract the museum exhibit designers.

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