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Faith Ringgold: 30 Years of Art-Making and Activism and Video Clip on Women Artists

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click here to listen to a very brief interview Over the weekend, I attended the Technology in the Arts Conference in Pittsburgh where artist and activist Faith Ringgold was one of the keynote speakers. According to Benjamin Stokes, co-founder of Game sfor Change, the NSF has funded several game projects aimed at girls.

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Quickie Links: Surveys, Transcripts, and a Strange Bedfellow

Museum 2.0

Ideum, the company that brought you ExhibitFiles (with ASTC), is conducting a survey on museums' needs in support of an NSF grant proposal (Open Exhibits) to build open source templates for simple interactive exhibits (timelines, digital collections, news kiosks). Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out professional development.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

Museum 2.0

There was a need recognized and that need was that exhibits and exhibitions were being redesigned over and over again without that sense of history. How did this come to be an ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers) project? Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , Why is that?

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