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Which New Audiences? A Great Washington Post Article and its Implications about Age, Income, and Race

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The Washington Post covered the MAH's transformation as part of an article about museums engaging new audiences. Audiences of all backgrounds found ways to connect with museums as it presented exhibitions with the help of foster youth, migrant farmers, roller-derby girls, mushroom hunters, surfers and incarcerated artists, among others.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Collaborative programs with diverse groups bring in a variety of visitors causing new audiences to interact and connect. The value of participatory experiences is epitomized in FIGMENT , a free, creative, participatory, non-profit, community art event.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

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Our programming isn't for target audiences. We're struggling with this right now when it comes to family audiences. As we developed new 3rd Friday community festivals , we were careful to design them as intergenerational experiences. I'm proud of the bridging work that we do. But it is so, so delicate.

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