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Guest Post: The Denver Community Museum

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This post was written by Jaime Kopke , the founder/director of the Denver Community Museum , a pop-up community-generated institution that ran from Oct 2008-April 2009. The Denver Community Museum (DCM) was a grassroots operation in almost every sense. This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact.

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End of Year Smatterings and Inspirations

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In that spirit, I offer a few things that have excited me in recent weeks: The MCA Denver Holiday Video is out, and it is very, very good. Way better than that video at Museum X where the director drones on about the new initiatives of the year.

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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. Design to Invite Active Participation Participatory design can be one of the most effective vehicles for developing relationships, building social capital and engaging with community members in museum programs. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Dangerous/Ridiculous: Reflections on AAM

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This was a topic I was never interested in before I became a director. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise. Now I think it's really critical to all of us advancing the field and making our institutions viable.

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Lead or Follow: Arts Administrators Hash it Out

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Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural." Here are three of my favorites.

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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. Nonprofit Leadership Alliance / Denver, CO / $525. 12/13/2016.

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Guest Post: Using Participation to Solve a Design Problem at the Carnegie Museum of Art

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I'm on the road this week, with speaking gigs in Oslo, Denver, Charlotte, and Roanoke (join the NAMP livestream on Sunday at 9:25am PT here ). In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry.

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