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Celebrate, Educate, and Fundraise: Planning Winning AAPI Heritage Month Events

The Modern Nonprofit

It can pay tribute to heritage while also emphasizing the universal human ideals of justice, family, culture, or community. Curate an exhibit of paintings, photographs, sculptures or crafts by AAPI artists. Artists, writers, and cultural leaders. Others may prefer moderated discussions or interviews.

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Four Unusual Professional Development Events in 2013

Museum 2.0

Barry is asking the universe to send him names of "unheralded arts sector leaders" to be considered for an all-star dinner party in 2013. We're working with participatory online artist Ze Frank on an exhibition at the MAH this winter that features the missions, creations, and explorations of his current web series, A Show.

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Joint Statement from Museum Bloggers and Colleagues on Ferguson and Related Events

Museum 2.0

University law schools are hosting seminars on Ferguson. Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.”

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s

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Don't Join the Conversation if You Aren't Ready to Listen

Museum 2.0

Here’s what happened: an art critic named Jerry Saltz posted an incendiary note on Facebook about the very low representation of women artists on the 4th and 5th floors (painting and sculpture) of MoMA. We have been following your lively discussion with great interest, as this has also been a topic of ongoing dialogue at MoMA.

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Foot in the Door: A Powerful Participatory Exhibit

Museum 2.0

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. The rules are clear: anyone who lives in Minnesota and considers her/himself an artist can contribute one piece. And we need this discussion to happen if we want to promote innovation.

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

Part 1: It's What You Want In 2002, I was finishing a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at WPI, a hands-on, technical university in Worcester, Massachusetts. I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. But internship after internship didn't live up to those expectations.

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