Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

Does that sound like a fun and rewarding casual activity to you? It takes a special kind of cook, artist, or scientist to want to support the contributions of novices. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.” But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.”

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Race Through Time was designed specifically for this audience of 30 and 40-somethings looking for fun social events with a Santa Cruz bent. But we also saw something else: parents and teenagers, grandparents and grandkids, elderly couples, out for a fun scavenger hunt evening. Performances just for teens.

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Audience Develop Museum History 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

Does that sound like a fun and rewarding casual activity to you? It takes a special kind of cook, artist, or scientist to want to support the contributions of novices. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.” But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.”

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2005

Teens as Good Samaritans The November/December issue of Psychology Today has a brief article called, "The Making of a Good Samaritan", about the benefits of community service requirements in schools. The CD features music and spoken word by Bay Area artists such as Aya de Leon and Michael Franti.

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Hurricane Haiti Music Children 40

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

We experimented with many different forms of visitor participation throughout the building, trying to balance social and individual, text-based and artistic, cerebral and silly. It is a personality test (based on real science) in which you can determine your own love style by answering a series of questions, teen magazine-style.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Finally, many art museums do fabulous, highly participatory projects that are led by participatory artists who work specifically in the realm of dialogue or active social participation. Ironically, art museums often present the most radical participatory experiences for visitors--but only when led by an artist, not by internal staff members.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

American Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis is considered the first woman of Native American and African descent to achieve international fame as a sculptor at a time when artists of color were hardly celebrated and slavery was still legal. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art.

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