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Celebrate, Educate, and Fundraise: Planning Winning AAPI Heritage Month Events

The Modern Nonprofit

Embarking on Your AAPI Heritage Month Journey Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, celebrated every May in the United States, provides an important opportunity to honor the history, culture, and achievements of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Honor requests to share cultural performances or demonstrations.

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Quick Hit: My Work with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

Museum 2.0

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. Instead, she plans to bring a variety of working artists, one at a time -- "somebody painting, or shaping a surfboard, or sculpting" -- as a kind of live demonstration of art as it is being created. That doesn't entail a big, expensive redesign.

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Designing Interactives for Adults: Put Down the Dayglow

Museum 2.0

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? Major research studies by the NEA and others demonstrate that adults well into their 60s are highly motivated to participate actively with cultural experiences.

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Improving Family Exhibitions by Co-Creating with Children

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Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. an exhibition produced with schoolchildren at the Wallace Collection in London, is a lovely example of co-creation that demonstrates the multiple benefits of inviting audience members to act as partners in arts organizations.

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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. Our programming isn't for target audiences.

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Guest Post: Radical Collaboration - Tools for Partnering with Community Members

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The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. When planning programs or events, we involve a combination of these groups to share and bridge audiences, bringing big, diverse crowds to new artists and ideas. Can't wait to hear what you think.

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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

Museum 2.0

If museums get involved in these online-offline partnerships, we can bring new audiences through our doors, familiarize them with museum-going in a comfortable way, and reap the benefits of their online musings about their real-life experiences. But these events have benefits both in terms of audience development and word-of-mouth marketing.

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