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. One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice.

Teen 25

Teen Arts Classroom Student 25

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Hundreds of unique, hand-made art postcards, containing words of compassion and solidarity are hand delivered to individuals and communities all over the world, bringing connection, hope, visibility and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence or repression. Each card is a piece of art in my mind.

Costa Rica 60

Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

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 use a simple "honeycomb" diagram (image) to do these four steps. But there was no such program focused on the arts. That's a more complicated question. It's pretty simple.

Teen 20

Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. Frontiers may have better success if it were made specifically for those in migration policy work or the arts community.

Game 81

Game Change Classroom Machinima 81