Qgiv

MAY 1, 2023

Learn more about the origins of the heritage month, ways you can celebrate in your own life, and nonprofits you can support to make a difference in AAPI communities. Read books written by AAPI authors and visit a museum to learn about significant figures in the AAPI community and their contributions. Donate to support their work here.

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Awareness Causes United States History 52

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Earlier this month, the Detroit Institute of Arts was "saved" by a voter-approved property tax (called a "millage") in its three surrounding counties. Residents in the three counties that pay the millage will receive special benefits : free admission to the museum and expanded educational programming.

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Detroit Arts Public Support 49

Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. A grant from the Campion Foundation provided 7,000 books at cost to advocacy groups. Environmental Impact. Contributors presented across the U.S.,

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Arts Alaska North America Photography 36

Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. A grant from the Campion Foundation provided 7,000 books at cost to advocacy groups. Environmental Impact. Contributors presented across the U.S.,

Arts 36

Arts Alaska North America Photography 36

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

We also work with animal shelters and animal-related causes, as well as with the arts, whether it’s museums, education, or other types of art institutions. They came to us a few years ago to help bring new life into the event because the traditional way of reaching people through media partnerships was falling flat.

Florida 52

Florida Social Media Technique Indianapolis 52

Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2014

What if we used art to activate space in a different way? I''ve been reflecting a lot recently on our museum''s work on " social bridging "--bringing people together across cultural, ethnic, geographic, generational, and socio-economic differences--and how to take it outside. But bonding is easy. Bridging is hard. Bonding is crowded.

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Design Community Museum Hype 47

Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Not because of the unusually big grants, but because most of them are members of our TechSoup family. A panel of community advisors reviewed the submissions, and chose 25 finalists – all of whom won significant grants. TechSoup Members Among the Top 10 Finalists ($250,000 to $500,000 Grant Winners). 500,000 Grant Winners.

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San Francisco Award Google Challenge 61

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2015

I spent last week holed up in a cabin, working on my forthcoming book, The Art of Relevance. The book is a deep account of repatriation of spiritual objects from museums to native people, written by museum people and Blackfoot people together. Museums believed it held the bundles legally, purchased through documented sales.

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Museum National Story Difference 20

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

From supporting arts and sciences to public health and community investment, foundations have been instrumental grantmakers in public life for decades. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia. " Check Your Donation Eligibility.

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Foundation Los Angeles San Francisco Wikipedia 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Many of them, like the lightbulb , the phonograph , and the motion picture camera , were brilliant creations that have a huge influence on our everyday life. On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. Conclusion.

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Social Media Media San Jose Social 99

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Do you consider yourself an "activist" for your organization, avocation, or art form? Sure, I admire cultural organizations that have a strong mission to change education or diversify access or transform the role of art in everyday life, but I'm an insider. Why AREN'T we asking visitors to join the fight for arts education?

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Product Build Museum Arts 51

NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2014

Years ago, I helped start a Young Arts Circle for a nationally recognized museum and art gallery. These events included a “buy it before they’re famous” event where group members could obtain affordable local art. We’ve also organized tours of other local museums where they could meet other fellow art aficionados.

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Donor Sponsor NPO Arts 64

Connection Cafe

MAY 6, 2015

Glancing through it in your car in the parking lot before entering the event, you notice a name you don’t know well (the attendee from the previous scenario) and read that your staff has noted that they are new to town, but had uncovered in a google search that they were a major donor to the arts organizations of their previous town.

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Research Donor Museum Arts 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2008

Start an exploratory project to open a small, probably struggling, museum? Forget your grand dreams and try to weave awesome strangeness into your regular museum job? It involves an exotic museum bedfellow, the suburban real estate developer. At the time, I was Master Teacher of Modern and Contemporary Art at the museum.

Museum 20

Museum Denver Arts Lecture 20

NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2014

Years ago, I helped start a Young Arts Circle for a nationally recognized museum and art gallery. These events included a “buy it before they’re famous” event where group members could obtain affordable local art. We’ve also organized tours of other local museums where they could meet other fellow art aficionados.

Donor 54

Donor Sponsor NPO Arts 54

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. To be eligible for the prize, your exhibit must be on the theme of "Art, Film, Music & Technology." I don't see Second Life as the meat of this project.

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Museum Virtual Tech Second Life 20

Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

Productions in 2006 to produce dramatic, engaging, life-changing documentaries, films and media in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. of art, activism, and academic inquiry on the politically charged. Santa Cruz, the British Museum, Apple, Google, Adobe, and numerous other. Windy founded D.V.A. His forthcoming.

Storytelling 67

Storytelling Collaboration Video Thailand 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Susan Tenby is the community manager at TechSoup responsible for their Second Life efforts. is the author of the popular Museum 2.0 Blog that covers how museums are using social media. Rebecca Krause Hardie overs the arts sector and use of social media. Maddie Grant. Holly Ross. Rachel Weidinger. Nina Simon.

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Technology Companies Netsquared Social Media 75

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. The Museum 2.0 In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

Productions in 2006 to produce dramatic, engaging, life-changing documentaries, films and media in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. David is a cross-disciplinary mediamaker, working at the intersection of art, activism and academic inquiry on the politically charged questions surrounding globalization and social justice.

Collaboration 44

Collaboration Storytelling Video Thailand 44

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Exhibit labels in science centers ask more questions than any other kinds of museums, and yet the questions are often awful--teacherly, overly rhetorical, and totally meaningless. asked by a cop or mother, garners the full attention of asker and askee alike, museum questions like "what is nanotechnology?," Download our slides here.

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Reflection Research Question Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2018

I'm cranking away on a grant proposal, when suddenly, a classical rendition of "All the Single Ladies" wafts up the stairs. It invites visitors to make the museum better. When visitors share their brilliance, it brings the museum to life. This is the participatory museum, played out loud. someone asks.

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Participatory Museum Sound Homeless 37

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

One lives a double life as a soul music collector and DJ. Why This Matters (to the Public, and hopefully, to You) A public library can grant you access to all kinds of knowledge, but where do you go to add to that knowledge base and stake your claim as an expert? You go online, and that’s why physical culture is at risk.

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Chicago Library Public Culture 48

Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

If they give all of their money to the arts and education and we’re in human services and we have no connection to them, even though they are a well-known name, we might know what they look like, we might’ve had a passing conversation with them at one point, they’re still a fundraising unicorn. Great place to reach out.

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Causes Chad Support Donor 115

Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Andrea has been a leader in the museum technology field. The Detroit Institute of Arts has been a precious anchor where many of us have created memories that helped define who we are today. This field is varied, and each voice adds to our collective understanding of the situation.

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Museum Detroit Arts Leadership 22

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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Museum Los Angeles Arts Children 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This year, the American Association of Museums annual conference was in Los Angeles (my hometown). I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. He started with museums as a "place to go"--to see things, consume experiences. In this case, a heck of a lot.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

This post was written by my colleague Nora Grant, Community Programs Coordinator at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Pop Up” has become an international buzz term to describe ephemeral, experimental projects--from pop up restaurants to pop up boutiques--but a “Pop Up Museum” is still somewhat mystifying.

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Museum Grant Lesson History 49

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2007

It's an opportunity to see how something is made, to un-take-for-granted the way it works. I was reminded of this pleasure last night, when I came home to a group of Second Life builders working in our living room. So give me a painting in an art museum with a video of the artist creating that painting right next to it.

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Site Second Life Artist Captivate 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

For a long time, I’ve admired their ambitious work, from exhibitions on complex topics like network science to integration of contemporary art into their galleries to incredible dedication to advancing the careers of diverse youth in Queens. But we are watching a boy ruin his own life, in real time.

Help 45

Help Museum eBook Project 45

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Many of them had almost nothing by way of material resources, but they had imagination, and if you have imagination, you can, it turns out, light the dark with all kinds of creative arts. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. They are making progress.

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Photography Interview Zimbabwe Change 40

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

This week, I've had multiple conversations with colleagues in the arts, symphonies, and urban planning about the fear professionals have about "losing control" when opening up new opportunities for people to participate. Other person: "But doesn't that erode museums' authority?" If the museum isn't in control, how can it thrive?

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Authoring Share Museum YouTube 44