Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

I was with two close friends who work in social service organizations focusing on homelessness and criminal justice respectively. This may sound obvious, but the rhetoric about cultural organizations working in the social sphere often ignores our inherent differences. We all work for nonprofits.

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Arts Work Museum Homeless 51

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

Yesterday, I had lunch with Monica Martinez, the ED of Homeless Services for Santa Cruz county. I was amazed not only by her energy and intelligence but by her simple, transformative goal: to end homelessness. Monica is trying to reposition her organization as a social justice organization working on solutions to end homelessness.

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Advocacy Public Service Homeless 44

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I realize that I may sound like a college freshman who just discovered Psych 101, but heck. As we start the process at our museum of updating our permanent history gallery, one of our specific goals is to increase intergroup understanding in our community. This blog is about shared learning, and I went to engineering school.

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Measure Arts People Museum 47

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2018

Sometimes it's a homeless person. A personal history. It's not their job to present their abilities to us. This is the magic a piano in the lobby makes. We've now had a piano in the MAH lobby for several months. About once each week, a visitor walks in and blows everyone away. Sometimes a lover's duet. A creative talent.

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Participatory Museum Sound Homeless 37

EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa.

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Story Angola Sierra Leone Artist 133

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And from everything I can tell, I’ve had a peek at the presentation, you all are in for a treat. So, obviously, going to be a really great presenter for you. Typically, if you’re starting a pilot program and you do not have your own history of success. So, Marie, thank you so, so much for doing this. Is it specific?

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Report Measure Process Impact 82

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

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. interracial marriage, keeping a family together while homeless) and others are more immediate (i.e.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51