Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

"The arts are future-making." I wrote this down when Deborah Cullinan said it at a meeting of arts leaders about a year ago. Deborah''s vision for the arts leading the way to stronger future inspired me. But I couldn''t fully imagine how a museum or an arts center could embody it. A fitness trail for urban life.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. We encouraged teams to think like artists, not researchers. Every active research method is an intervention. How do you measure that?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

For the past two years, I''ve been working on a project to activate the concrete space adjacent to our museum as a vibrant, community plaza. We are hiring a temporary contract curator to activate the plaza this summer with 25+ cultural events. creative placemaking design Museum of Art and History programs public space'

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

Last Sunday each of us wrote a post to answer the question, “Who is your favorite artist (visual, dancer, performer, writer or musician) and why?” Our programming is woven across disciplines at California College of the Arts and serves the diverse populations of the San Francisco Bay Area." art activism social change

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. Young, old, poor, rich, conservative, liberal, urban, rural, black, white, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, preps, goths, rappers, artists, hippies, yuppies… you name it.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. Please share yours in the comments. Different activities need different levels of materials to appear "open for business." Artists work incredibly hard to produce their work. We throw those away.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Schools and other arts organizations are rising to the challenge. Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. What should be our role(s)? University law schools are hosting seminars on Ferguson. inclusion'

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

For example, for the Brooklyn Museum's recent exhibition on women and pop art, Seductive Subversion , curatorial intern Rebecca Shaykin was assigned to improve (and write) Wikipedia articles on the 25 artists profiled in the show. It doesn't live on "your" page, open only for user comments and site-driven advertising.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

She is a fabulous and thoughtful artist. It's a little living room in a lobby area that invites people to lounge on comfortable chairs, leaf through magazines and books related to art and Santa Cruz history, and generally hang out. The area that houses the Creativity Lounge also shows art. You can learn more about her work here.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In particular, we want exhibition collaborators--artists, researchers, historians, collectors--to understand our goals and how we intend to steer the exhibition development process. We see our visitors as partners in actively interpreting and exploring exhibition content.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

Over the past two years, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has undergone a significant transformation of program, audience, and resources. Our revolution is predicated on three big ideas: Art and history are something you do, not just something you learn about. You want to have an artist collective sleepover at the museum?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. We exist for people who live in Santa Cruz County.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2011

Two recent events have got me thinking about pranks and unauthorized activities in museums. So here's the question: what's the right response to this kind of activity? When assessing these kinds of unauthorized activities, here are the three things I'd consider: What's the quality of the project?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history. They advocated for the power of online research and learning: There is a huge appetite for knowledge about art that is not being met.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

March 2-6, four women arts activists ( Cris Williamson , Vicki Randle , Alix Olson and Pamela Means) will travel to New Orleans to collaborate with four local women musicians ( Asia Rainey , GaBrilla Ballard , Sunni Patterson , and Charmaine Neville ). women musician New Orleans art activism

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2017

This is the eleventh in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. We had 2,000 t-shirts to give away, 850 balls to drop, and over a hundred artists, accordionists, salsa dancers, taiko drummers, and bubble ladies ready to go.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? The common museum knowledge on this issue is that adults are timid, that we have lost some of the wonder, impulsiveness, and active creativity of childhood days.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see. We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. Riding the art couch through downtown Santa Cruz with two visitors and a dog while blasting the Jackson 5 was one of the highlights of my year.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. Think about the tire-swing at the park, the basketball court made from old sneaker rubber, the community garden using the snow from an organic office paper shredder as insulation, the kids art project made from old bottle caps, etc. Just use your beard!".

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. The gallery staff wanted half-term activities as part of their learning program and they invited me to lead these through what evolved into a residency format.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

” How is this influx of new people influencing Austin’s Arts & Cultural community? Austin is full of brilliant artists, scientists, musicians, performers, educators and organizations doing incredible work. Comment on ideas you’ve put into play at your museum, or other ideas you’ve seen and liked.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Using the right virtual events software and also with a little hardware, you can recreate many of your favorite fundraising activities over a livestream to give an experience that’s as close to the real thing as possible while also providing plenty of new and unique benefits. A Gala is a well-known charity fundraising event.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question. In Your Face ).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Lumin at Detroit Institute of Art Now on to the interactives…I’ve been thinking a great deal about the function of interactives in museums. This activity went with an artist’s work where she told of immigration stories. In this case, I find the most interesting ones to be made by artists.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2016

A few months ago, the MAH board and staff started discussing whether and how to create a formal policy for advocacy activities. We partner with thousands of artists and organizations, providing staff support and engagement in their work. We incubate a youth art and social change program.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

I don't know - and I hope you'll share your thoughts in the comments. As Peter wrote: If someone enjoys Arts Event A because it’s social, informal, energetic, fun, and hip, why should we expect her to also enjoy Arts Event B if B is individual, formal, quiet, serious, and traditional (at least in its presentation, if not artistically)?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? Who interprets the interests of the community and decides on the relevant themes and activities for the year? But there was no such program focused on the arts.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

This week, an interview with Brooklyn Museum 1stfans managers Will Cary (membership) and Shelley Bernstein (technology) and artist An Xiao. Then read on, and please share your thoughts in the comments. So you weren't targeting "Brooklyn artists" or some other demographic group. How are you selecting and rewarding these artists?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

We ran with it and have since generated data about decision-making, cooperation, competition and negotiation for scientists (and also some artists) to play with. He''ll be able to watch how certain activities evolve into coordination and what kinds of histories the people who most easily coordinate have in common.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

What happens when you combine reality TV tactics with a traditional art collection? This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. But I also found myself wondering if this imagined set of interpretations for the art was any more compelling or useful than any other imagined set of interpretations. It's not self-important.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums. The Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

If not, please share a comment and let's talk online. Our Story I came to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago. As one visitor recently commented, "the MAH has become 'our' museum, a reflection of us and a place where we can appreciate art, share it with each other, learn and make new connections."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 These young students submitted illustrated storybooks to a student art exhibit at the SLHC last year. We regularly feature artwork by local residents, whether they are students or professional artists/craftsman. Facebook discussion board here.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? But for museum and art wonks, it could be.

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