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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Mission: Porter’s Call is a place where artists can find counsel, support, and encouragement, specifically attuned to their unique profession. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens. Their goal is to cut teen suicide rates in half by 2028. Impacting: Mental health. Porter’s Call.

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Meet 15 companies that are turning ads and marketing into cultural moments

Fast Company Tech

Every brand is seemingly into collaborations, but Liquid Death comes at its unpredictable iterations from a comedy angle. Liquid Death For giving the brand collab new life In a scene straight from the 90s, two girls fawn over a heartthrob in a teen magazine. But there is a difference between engaging with culture and chasing it.

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Sustaining Innovation Part 3: Interview With Sarah Schultz of the Walker Art Center

Museum 2.0

In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. That said, the fact that we work with contemporary artists can also create a lot of stress in our institutional systems.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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Living the Dream SMP

The Verge

A high school student and artist, Ollie spends much of his free time making fan art about his favorite Minecraft streamers. The Dream SMP narrative isn’t fan service; it’s “collaborative storytelling”. It’s collaborative storytelling in it’s best form.”. Bolting awake, he checked his messages. DREAM SHOUTED YOU OUT! ”.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

It was started in 2003 and is run by Mark Allen and a collective of artists, many of whom have also been applying their talents by performing "interventions" at formal art institutions including LACMA, the Hammer Museum, and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Elsewhere Collaborative (Greensboro, NC). PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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Equity in Arts Funding: We're Not There Yet. We're Not Even Close.

Museum 2.0

There's the barrier of artistic quality--funders, trustees, or staff members who argue that work by non-canonical artists is not up to the standards of the institution. Reading the report, I kept thinking of Rick Lowe, the artist and community activist behind Project Row Houses in Houston.

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