Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. FoodWhat's staff and teens have taught me a lot about what it really means to be relevant to people who are often overlooked or ignored. FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice.

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Teen Arts Classroom Student 25

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

But to be effective, nonprofit leaders also must excel at using their personal brands and voices in service of their organizations’ missions and strategies on Instagram and other social media channels. This shot is from a program for teens that the met sponsors, #metteens. Visibility. Specialization. Campbell above.

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Personal Create Photography Museum 50

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

Also, the importance of telling your own story with your own voice. Education as a tool to extend one’s understanding, build on shared and individual experiences, and think critically about the world. I have a background in community arts, using the arts to creatively think about the spaces and people around us.

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Baltimore Student Arts Lecture 40

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. We start with the community and build to projects. Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum.

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Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. And it ended with this: No wonder it [MOMA] ends up showing shallow, label-dependent art rather than work that offers deeper, more contradictory encounters. The review was harsh.

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Arts Museum Artist Audio 30

Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

In the article, David discussed ways that several large art museums are working to attract major donors and board members in their 30s and 40s. He is the son of Bonnie Pitman , an extraordinary museum leader and educator who has served as director of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Bay Area Discovery Museum, and as a board member for AAM.

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Museum Generation Interview Donor 54

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

At the tiny science center, I got to do everything from leading programs to building exhibits to managing volunteers to cleaning snot off of plexiglass. At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. There is lots of room for new voices online.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52