Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We’re not going to change or redefine what the system looks like, we want to TEACH YOU what it is and how you can be part of it. We read articles mapping out the “perfect face” according to the Greek ratio of Phi but we never question why Greek history is the arbiter of truth in many cases when much of Greek philosophy was stolen from Egypt.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2015

I have an unusual education for the director of an art & history museum: a degree in electrical engineering. Diane calls it "Beauty Class," but it really seems to be about aesthetic valuing: identifying beauty in its many forms, and developing a personal aesthetic sensibility. I can identify artworks by famous artists.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History For years we have been producing digital media to fulfill our mission of educating the public about science and history.

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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. This is an epic moment in the history of education, who wouldn’t want to be part of it? the way the best museums do.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

CON: can make people feel like second-class board members instead of equal leaders in the organization. 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." I struggle with both these options.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2012

This article sparked some interesting discussion online with colleagues from natural history museums, which deal with damage and touching very differently than art institutions do. We're working at my museum on a strategic approach to our educational outreach with K12 classes and students.

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Candid

MAY 29, 2024

As a DEI researcher, I both welcome and worry about this change. Coined by law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, the term refers to the fact that combinations—or intersections—of social identities such as race, class, and gender result in different experiences and treatment. What is intersectionality?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). Beck talks about this in the context of learning to play music as a young artist. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. If you represent an educational or social justice charity, maybe giveaway specialty decks of cards featuring important people from history. It is seen as wasteful overhead. These exist already!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

(Disclaimer: I'm on the honorary committee because 13 years ago I worked on an online artist network with the New York Foundation for the Arts and CAMT was the partner.) Many of us started off as artists and then ended up managing arts organizations. s also addressed in a marketing class. Was that your progression?

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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. Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. QUESTIONS ABOUT RESISTANCE TO CHANGE 5. The first thing you have to tackle is fear of change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2013

There are more than enough people in the field who are enthused about active participation, and recent reports like the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy's Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change have sparked field-wide conversations about how philanthropy might more equitably support institutions that serve marginalized communities.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students. So earlier I mentioned maybe a parent who took English as a second language classes or maybe they got their GED or they took those computer literacy programs. ” So provide context.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

We tested five versions of the prompt sheets--some with instructions focused to the subject of the exhibition (artists' takes on nature), others with more open-ended instructions designed to encourage a broader range of responses. Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators. She did it anyway.)

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

For the last three years, I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with the Smithsonian Latino Center as part of the Educators Advisory Council, in preparation for the forthcoming Molina Galleries , which will focus on celebrating the contributions of Latinos in the History of America. Swarupa Anila, and Ken Morris. I am hopeful.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

This is not to say that science centers are more censored than art or history museums—every kind of museum has its own hang-ups. And while narrative-based museums have long dispensed with the concept that museums present a neutral point of view, science centers still feel that their trustworthiness rests on their objectivity.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. the dark auditorium and mandated etiquette) and the growing gap between the societal position of the artist and the arts patron effective quieted the audience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

We were starting to build small circles within the local communities that are all doing really magnificent work in order to create change. CCF's intention is to help this evolving culture by helping to create the next generation of doctors, lawyers, scientists, artists and poets. My history is one of sexual molestation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

In April I organized a panel for the Stanford Women's Leadership Conference called "Solutionary Women: How Can I Create Change?" That's kind of what I have found, is as I've progressed writing and doing my podcast, it kind of changes. Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? Who identifies as an activist?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Welcome to the Big Vision Podcast where we talk with individuals and organizations that are creating positive change. In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now.

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