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. They talked about community building.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

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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Story Community Museum Map 39

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

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.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Areas served: Native organizations only. Mary’s Pence. Areas served: Kentucky.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 83

Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Areas served: Native organizations only. Mary’s Pence. Areas served: Kentucky.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 104

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

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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Teen Museum Voice Arts 20

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

It's a model to show other people how to work together in community, how to collaborate ideas, how to create a vision, and then how to work towards that vision coming more from a truth and love aspect, than from fear and attachment. My history is one of sexual molestation. For example, we put together the 2008 Seva Challenge.

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