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Voting on Art and its Surprising Consequences

Museum 2.0

Let's look at the statistics from three big participatory projects that wrapped up recently. ArtPrize , the grandaddy of visitor voting, just completed its fourth year in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Brooklyn Museum just finished the public stage of GO , a "community-curated open studio project." 1,708 artists participated.

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What's Your Vision?

Museum 2.0

Last week, I attended a workshop on Creating a Vision of Greatness at ZingTrain , the training arm of Zingerman's Deli, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was even more useful to learn how participatory writing visions can be. A SIMPLE WAY TO TRY IT This week, we experimented with visioning at my museum in an all-staff meeting.

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