Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you’re any type of arts organization , you can expand to online offerings at accessible price points. You can take art to the schools or bring students to your art. I came up with an idea to mesh my love of weekend crafts fairs and artist open studio visits with my day job. You can host accessible, off-site clinics.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change. The majority of foundation funding for the arts goes to large, established organizations that present work that is based in the European canon for a primarily white, upper-income audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Handwriting is quickly becoming a lost art form. Not only does a hand-written thank you note make a strong impression upon the receiver, but it also makes you a better social media manager because it’s a practice in creative arts – and as all we know, the best social media managers are creative artists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. It was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Grants for the Arts, and the Koret Foundation. Joe Goode Twitter Presentation.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Adults had as much fun as the children. But hard to sell when the space was packed to the gills with hordes of families and a madhouse of children trying to play at each exhibit. If you’re a museum, arts, or culture organization, you may be in this same dilemma. Admirable goal. It’s understanding donor motivations.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

There are craftspeople selling their designs on individual sites, artists putting out weird and wonderful constructions, and larger companies providing funny, snide, or positively frightening masks. If you’re a true comic book nerd, or just admire upcycle art, you may want to consider something from the collection of artist Gabriel Dishaw.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. Young, old, poor, rich, conservative, liberal, urban, rural, black, white, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, preps, goths, rappers, artists, hippies, yuppies… you name it. Music and arts organizations, probably.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2021

Kotaku also spotted that Adriel Wallick, a programmer at Innersloth, also shared a comic about the theft of art online. The not-so-subtle hints at copying and art theft here come after small creators have accused Epic of stealing their work in the past. We didn't patent the Among Us mechanics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

After graduating with a BFA in drama & music from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ellen spent ten years bringing joy to audiences nightly as one of only ten lead performers in the longest running musical revue in the world—San Francisco’s “Beach Blanket Babylon.” 32) Fred Northup, Jr.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2015

"Creativity is not just for artists. One of the daily practices we were encouraged to foster during the program was art-as-meditation , to do something creative each day (e.g. I was pretty regular with my art-as-meditation practice while I was in school and for a little while afterwards, and then it fell away.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

If so, be sure to stock lots of inexpensive and fun items for children. Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum collaborated with German toy manufacturer Playmobil to create a line of toys replicating art from the collection. Work with a local artist to create artworks inspired by your collection. Do lots of families visit your museum?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

However, there is nothing more powerful than having parents of children who has benefited from a program make calls to donors thanking them for their donations and sharing the impact your programs have had on their children. Customized artwork Collaborate with local artists to create custom artwork inspired by your cause.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition. Reassert the "forum"?

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Creating Cultures and Practices for Racial Equity: A Toolbox for Advancing Racial Equity for Arts and Cultural Organizations , by Race Forward This toolkit aims to help artists, arts advocates, culture bearers, and cultural workers to imagine, plan, and implement racial equity strategies in their organizations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2015

I'm thrilled to say that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Cary Creative Center , or "C3," an organization working to save materials from the landfill by turning them into beautiful art. Betsy Dassau, C3's founder and executive director, believes in the power of art.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Nestled in a forest of high-rise apartment buildings, this small museum connects children and families with contemporary art. Like the New Children's Museum in San Diego, Hello Museum creates building-wide interactive exhibitions with artists, on themes like nature and #NoWar. It's about them connecting with each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2005

It is a snow day and with two young children at home, we need something to do after the snow man is finished and we have painted in the snow. Great - artist books for kids - we made a book out of a paper bag. The primary author of the site is Dr. Craig Roland , Associate Professor of Art Education, at the University of Florida.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

Different artists use the plants in different ways, but everyone I spoke to was pretty clear that the plants are not actually directly making music. Joe Patitucci, the CEO of Data Garden, the company that produces PlantWave, is a musician and artist himself. I wanted to extend my research about [using] everyday sound,” he says.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Hundreds of unique, hand-made art postcards, containing words of compassion and solidarity are hand delivered to individuals and communities all over the world, bringing connection, hope, visibility and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence or repression. Each card is a piece of art in my mind.

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OpenAI

JULY 14, 2022

As part of our DALL·E 2 research preview, more than 3,000 artists from more than 118 countries have incorporated DALL·E into their creative workflows. That's a community effort — it's come from the past few months of me talking to other DALL·E artists on Twitter / Discord / DM. Lens types.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

It’s all part of a clever marketing campaign to promote a new song by the musical artist Emily Jeffri. When other users expressed doubt or confusion about the movie, Zepotha truthers insisted that their parents had shown them the movie as children. “I If you don’t remember Zepotha, you’re not alone. Zepotha never existed.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

I grew up professionally in the science and children's museum field, where touching is guaranteed and floor staff spend more time helping visitors learn and ensuring their personal safety than they do protecting the objects. Art, however, does not come to museums pre-hardened. The level of touching, especially of art, has increased.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. My focus is on how children learn science. In painted wood and styrofoam, it was a masterful and whimsical refusal to answer that pesky question of whether games can be art. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

Now, a year later, I've seen the beginnings of how that question has borne out at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) , as well as hearing from folks around the museum industry about the interplay of exhibitions and events at their own institutions. And so, in this post, a few findings, and more questions.

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Candid

OCTOBER 1, 2021

September 28, 2021 The LEGO Foundation has announced a $150 million commitment in support of children and families across the world affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. September 29, 2021 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced its 2021 class of MacArthur Fellows.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Make sure to advertise your artists and makers on your social media platforms leading up to the opening of your shop with photos and videos. Student art show. Give your artistic students the opportunity to show off their skills by hosting a virtual art show. Virtual craft fair. Virtual tours for museums. Design challenge.

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OpenAI

JULY 20, 2022

Join DALL·E 2 waitlist DALL·E , the AI system that creates realistic images and art from a description in natural language, is now available in beta. Subsidized access for qualifying artists We hope to make DALL·E as accessible as possible.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

Two weeks ago, Roberto Bedoya asked several arts bloggers, including me, to write a post reflecting on Whiteness and its implications for the arts. I am in no way an expert in issues related to racial and ethnic representation in the arts. They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Melissa Schilling , writer and photographer for Project Hope Art. The success of Project Hope Art's blog has come from understanding what their audience wants and how to move them to action. Project Hope Art engages its supporters to raise funds to help children affected by the earthquake that devastated Haiti.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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See3

JUNE 3, 2009

GATC mission “is to bridge cultures in conflict through the arts and to create innovative arts-education programs around the world.&#. The artists had never been introduced to one another before, and together they performed with a band comprising musicians from nine different nationalities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

" Over the years, I taught many workshops for arts educators on how to integrate the web into the curriculum, although not as much recently since I have two small children. Note to self: Time to rethink the old 1998-99 version of " Zen and the Art of Internet Searching " to incorporate tags/blogs).

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you’re supporting the arts , you could expand online offerings at accessible price points. You could take art to the schools. I came up with an idea to mesh my love of weekend crafts fairs and artist open studio visits with my day job. I needed to assign someone to make calls to supplement the art with other items.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2024

What sets this apart is the collaboration of 100 artists from diverse countries, orchestrated by the Playing For Change Foundation. Playing For Change aims to provide arts education to marginalized youth in 17 countries. The organization believes in the transformative power of music as a tool for social change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

Although he's only been there a few years he's helped to create all kinds of cool things like the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market --the largest international folk art market in the United States. Each attending cooperative might represent, for example, 600 artists back home in Bangladesh.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

It’s also a time for gifts and new clothes, making this a great chance to raise funds or donations of new clothing, especially for children. Fox Foundation’s, Team Fox young professionals have made these events into a fine art. Art Show and Silent Auction. Pass the Plate at Passover (varies; usually late March/late April).

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

This year, Forum One took home one platinum, four gold, and six silver awards in the categories of cultural, non-profit, science, health, and school/university websites, as well as digital branded content, arts and culture virtual experiences, and family and kids apps and software.

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