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Rethinking Community Advisory Boards: the Story of C3

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As one African-American artist on a prominent museum board told me, "I felt even more tokenized than if I had been part of some kind of Artists'' Council or African-American Council." So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

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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. They talked about community building.

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Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

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And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. Interestingly--for good and ill--this transformative funding program coincided with a national funding crisis in the arts in the UK. This made the work more urgent, fragile.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

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They invest in women across the Americas by funding community initiatives and fostering collaborations to create social change. The mission of the Kentucky Foundation for Women is to promote positive social change by supporting varied feminist expression in the arts. Areas served: Native organizations only. Mary’s Pence.

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2021 Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Kindful

They invest in women across the Americas by funding community initiatives and fostering collaborations to create social change. The mission of the Kentucky Foundation for Women is to promote positive social change by supporting varied feminist expression in the arts. Areas served: Native organizations only. Mary’s Pence.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

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Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. Develop collaborations and programs, keeping in mind what you have learned. Once we've identified assets and needs, we seek out collaborators and project ideas. It's pretty simple.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

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Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. Empowerment? But that''s just our institution--not everyone''s.