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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Since then, Stacey has become an indispensable member of our staff, leading our community programs and inspiring us to think in new ways about how we can build social capital in our community. There were times when coordinating a fire art festival while researching social capital theory made me want to burn my computer.

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From Community Arts To Community of Online Learners: Janet Salmons, Ph.D

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I met Janet Salmons many years ago while I working on various arts and technology projects in New York State for the New York Foundation for the Arts. I started in the Cornell University Center for Theatre Arts , where I founded and directed two programs: Cornell Theatre Outreach and the Community-Based Arts Project.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

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participants in offsite outreach programs? Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. Outdoor movies at the art museum? That means daytime visitors, event participants, school tours, and outreach program participants. volunteers? This summer, the St.