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Four Unusual Professional Development Events in 2013

Museum 2.0

This one was cooked up by Barry Hessenius, former director of the California Arts Council and public art blogger extraordinaire. We're working with participatory online artist Ze Frank on an exhibition at the MAH this winter that features the missions, creations, and explorations of his current web series, A Show.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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In California. I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. We''ve focused on farmworker communities--there are so many kids in these communities throughout California. It thrives. In a Community Science Workshop.

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Making Meaningful Connections: Inspiring New Report from Irvine and Helicon

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Our work to transform the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History into a participatory and community-centered place has been heavily supported by the James Irvine Foundation. On the other hand, the Irvine Foundation makes grants specifically in California. I''ve learned a lot from Irvine Foundation staff and partners directly.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. It is our turn to make history. General / #NI16 / @netimpact.

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

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Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Are the Arts Habit-Forming?

Museum 2.0

Museums and other venues are offering special programs for teens, for hipsters, for people who want a more active or spiritual or participatory experience. Sometimes these innovations are woven into the institutional core programming, as at the redesigned, highly interactive Oakland Museum of California.

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