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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: Part Ex-Con, Part Farmer, Part Queen

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FoodWhat's staff and teens have taught me a lot about what it really means to be relevant to people who are often overlooked or ignored. FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice. Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students. He works with kids who rarely show up to school.

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Temple Contemporary and the Puzzle of Sharing Powerful Processes

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Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders. Some students folding clothes. They live their mission, working in questions and projects rather than exhibitions and programs. Empty pegboards.

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Come Work With Us at MAH as School Programs Coordinator

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But this job is really important to the future of our museum, and I’m hoping that you or someone you know might be a great fit for it. We are hiring for a School Programs Coordinator to wrangle the 3,500+ students and their teachers who come to the museum every year for a tour and hands-on experience in our art and history exhibitions.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

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Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. with sharpies.

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What's a Virtual Visitor Worth?

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Every museum has a number for its operating cost per visitor. Most museums don't strategically set this number--too many operating costs are fixed by building needs--but they can use it to assess how expensive each visitor interaction is and evaluate the efficacy of programs. So where do online initiatives fit in?

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