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Forum One Wins 12 Communicator Awards

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Organized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) , this year’s 27th annual awards includes over 6,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. Excellence – Website for Art. The Frist Art Museum. Without further ado: the winners!

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

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I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits.

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Public Service, Advocacy, and Institutional Transformation

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I'm trying to reposition our museum as a cultural hub supporting creative and intellectual community growth. I know my museum is very far from these goals--we're still just laying the groundwork to be able to provide consistent cultural services to the community. Does this sound like director-ish bloviating to you, or is it useful?

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Opening Up Museums: My TEDxSantaCruz Talk

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I'm just home from a whirlwind of speaking engagements--Oslo, Denver, Charlotte, Roanoke. We can change that by embracing participatory culture and opening up to the active, social ways that people engage with art, history, science, and ideas today. The theme of TEDxSantaCruz was "Open."

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Six Museum-Related Blogs You Might Not Know About That Are Really Good

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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. Thinking about Exhibits. Poesy-Praxis.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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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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Dangerous/Ridiculous: Reflections on AAM

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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.