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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Stacey Marie Garcia came to the MAH first as a graduate intern in the summer of 2011. There were times when coordinating a fire art festival while researching social capital theory made me want to burn my computer. I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. We exist for people who live in Santa Cruz County.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

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? Why do we count participants in an art activity for families at a community center but not members of the Rotary Club to whom I give a presentation about the museum? Louis count it.

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[VIDEO] How to Tap Into Gen Y & Z Donors

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So with millennials, you’re going to see that millennials tend to support organizations that are focused on issues of human international development, child development, and victims of crime and abuse. So wildlife conservation, they’re also interested in arts and culture, humanities and [inaudible 00:27:21].

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