Ideas Museum Participatory Photography 
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 22, 2012
At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, we take our interns seriously, give them real responsibility, creative challenges, and meaningful work opportunities. I'm particularly excited about two internships that relate to participatory exhibition design. First, there is the Participatory Exhibit Design Internship.
Museum 2.0
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. I've often been asked about examples of participatory practice in theater, dance, and classical music, and this report is a great starting point.
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Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 15, 2009
Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 13, 2013
Visitor-contributed photos surround a collection piece in Carnegie Museum of Art's Oh Snap! It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. The museum selected and is featuring 13 works recently added to our photography collection.
Museum 2.0
JULY 1, 2011
I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection.
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 7, 2017
I first read about Story House Belvédère on Jasper Visser’s excellent blog, The Museum of the Future. I visited Story House Belvédère as part of the new Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museum Projects I am involved in. City officials doubted the idea of an exhibition in the public space in a part of town they considered dangerous.
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.
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