Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

This is an amazing April Fool’s idea from the Frederic Remington Art Museum : Their annual April Fool’s Day Ball invites users to contribute at normal event-pricing tiers (attendance, attendance + pre-party, attendance + after-party), but then not show up. Art Show and Silent Auction. Have a Gala Where No One Shows Up (April 1).

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Livestream some 60s music and entertainment. Music can always add a fun touch to any decade-themed event! How about creating a virtual auction event themed around a type of collectible, like sports memorabilia or music memorabilia? The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Throw in beer and pizza and music and it can be fun.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

It's my second week as the Executive Director at The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, CA, and boy is my everything tired. There's just too much involved in the first few months of taking over a struggling museum to realistically imagine that I can also make enough fun stuff happen to keep me satisfied.

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Everyaction

JULY 12, 2018

Located in the heart of the French Quarter, this acclaimed music venue was founded in 1961 to protect, preserve, and perpetuate traditional New Orleans Jazz. At Preservation Hall , catch nightly acoustic concerts celebrating the city's musical legacy with some of its finest performers. Voodoo Museum. The Spotted Cat Music Club.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2010

In addition to being the co-Founder of the Global Center, he is also the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. He is also the co-Founder of the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market. Before coming to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

NTEN Education Director, Ash Shepherd recommends connecting with folks you may have heard of or interacted with online, but never met in person. Sarah Janczak suggests a visit to Landmarks'' public art series at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) - a current highlight is Skyspace from James Turrell. Get cultured. Get outside.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

OdysseyWorks is a collective that makes immersive art experiences for one person at a time. OdysseyWorks' projects get to the heart of the fiercest debates in the arts today. Is it elitist to present art that may be dislocating or foreign? You have to generalize. But what if you only had an audience of one?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2014

By Scott Gilman : Louisville Cardinals, horse racing, nonprofits, music, movies, various rants. Tweets about #marketing, #nonprofit and #nptech,#arts and #museum best practices. — Frank Barry is the Director of Digital Marketing at Blackbaud and blogger at npNGAGE. Know Your Type. Find Scott On Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

Not only as a professional member, I served as a chapter president and on International Board of Directors for the past 4 years. One of them was the curator of the world largest archaeological museum, Grand Egyptian Museum. Founded in 1960, it has more than 30,000 members in over 240 chapters around the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition to being the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, he is the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. He is also the co-founder of the International Folk Art Market. That business really caught on, and it produced support for the museum. This was 7 years ago.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

These months are all about exploring the different ways we shape our identity (express ourselves), whether it be through our culture, the music we listen to, or the clothes we wear. stories story museum women international We are looking for original clothing designs, photographs, film, essays and more. How do you express yourself?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

is a new art form that re-uses commercial video-game environments to make animated films. Combining aspects of animation, game development, puppetry, graffiti, fan fiction, and improvisational theater into a moving image art form, machinima represents the latest frontier of digital popular culture. Check this out.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. My answer: neither.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions. Why should cultural and arts organizations care about Kickstarter? How would you fund it?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The chairs were cast-off art, reclaimed as art, available for people to take off the hooks and use. What kind of an art institution is this? That's what I found myself wondering again and again in the too-short hour I spent with the director of Temple Contemporary, Rob Blackson. They were there for artist talks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Participants may improve their painting abilities, try their hand at some knitting, or do whatever other sort of art they like without having to leave the comfort of their own home. Best yet, you could even offer some of the art produced in the class as auction items during your next fundraiser. 7) Shopping. 10) Hybrid concerts.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2011

What application could this have for: Visitation – Parks, zoos, museums, etc. In my mind, the possibilities are limitless – smart mail that allows you donate by phone, self-led tours or art exhibits, peer-to-peer donations made by bumping your phones together. Events – Galas, walk/run/ride-a-thons. Direct Mail.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Our inexhaustible assistant director, the web services librarian at a local university who is also spearheading the rebuild of our website and online catalog, managing our interns and keeping track of our paperwork and minutes, arrives with her husband, CUL’s podcast manager and an aspiring comedian who we refer to as The Castmaster.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

into the museum is the potential to encourage more positive in-museum interactions among strangers. I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content. I can just imagine the headline: CHILD MOLESTERS CALL ON ART, VICTIMS.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. Some museum pros have been puzzled by this. than by talking in suppositions.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? But for museum and art wonks, it could be. No, this is not a reality TV show.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

posted by Maureen O'Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum. I was able to participate thanks in part to professional development grants from Arizona Commission on the Arts and Sigma Alpha Iota. I also enjoyed a presentation by Alice Black, Deputy Director of the Design Museum in London.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

posted by Maureen O''Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum I recently had the opportunity to travel to Paris, France to attend the 5ème conférence de fundraising pour le secteur culturel (5th conference on fundraising for the cultural sector) put on by the Association Française des Fundraisers (French Association of Fundraisers).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

In addition to the summary, the music director is blogging about on how the story can combine with some music and acting and singing to become a finished piece. This isn't the first time a classical music organization has turned to social media and crowdsourcing. Here's Act 2. Anyone can contribute. Photo by Guillermo.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2007

This week, we consider Chapter 11 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum , "Function Follows Form: How mixed-used spaces in museums build community," but first, a short and relevant note about my writing process. And an art gallery. Museums are naturally tuned to some of these but not all. It's a laundromat. And a cafe.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Board fundraisers – Your nonprofit board of directors is the governing body of your organization. You can procure items that encourage residents to explore the city in a fun way, such as local restaurant gift certificates or tickets to museums or sports games. Art show – Are there any local artists in your area?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Well, that 80%, 60% of that money goes to large institutional organizations like hospitals and universities, and large cultural institutions, like museums, zoos, and libraries, and religious organizations. Or something you know about them that you maybe you just saw them at an art gallery or something like that.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2012

In the arts, this bears directly on the current debate around "art for art's sake" versus "art for community development." Not every arts organization is fundamentally focused on connecting with and engaging audiences. They want to be art monks, not customer-serving businesses. The beer supports the mission.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

I am a former development and marketing director. There are people doing art. But what works best, music, humor, entertainment, surprise, relatability. It’s focused on music and video effects. There’s differences in the duet feature on TikTok and music that’s available on TikTok.

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