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May Cause Awareness: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

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Read books written by AAPI authors and visit a museum to learn about significant figures in the AAPI community and their contributions. Exploring Asian and Pacific art is also a great way to delve into AAPI history. You can even visit virtual museums or look up educational resources online. Donate to support their work here.

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Teenagers, Space-Makers, and Scaling Up to Change the World

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This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Seeking Clarity about the Complementary Nature of Social Work and the Arts

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When we talk about museums or cultural institutions as vehicles of social and civic change, what does that really mean? Last week I had a conversation that changed my perspective on this question. And we each have specific interests in increasing access, connection, and empowerment of marginalized people.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

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Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Photo by Trav Williams.

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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

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How do you build a movement for institutional change? We see OF/BY/FOR ALL as an adaptable playbook for community change. We plan to fuel a distributed Change Network of organizations growing OF/BY/FOR ALL together. Change Network organizations will make specific pledges to become of, by, and for new communities.

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Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

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They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. The result, Our Museum , is an extraordinary funding program with a focus on community participation. didn't mince words.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

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This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" I feel lucky to be a small part of that change. Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA.