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. We are unapologetic about focusing local.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

She is a fabulous and thoughtful artist. It's a little living room in a lobby area that invites people to lounge on comfortable chairs, leaf through magazines and books related to art and Santa Cruz history, and generally hang out. But Lisa questioned this. You can learn more about her work here. People love petting zoos.".

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AUGUST 23, 2024

If your work is focused on a single state or region, consider segmenting your audience by county or city and tailoring your message to focus on local cultural events in their immediate area. One simple way to begin is by sending your donors a short, one-question survey. What is your donor’s giving history?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

After our last Nonprofits Live event on gaming, our social media team received many questions and requests — many of you in the TechSoup community are excited about the future of creating games for nonprofit causes! Determine the technology platform after designing for audience, context, and impact goals. (MB). How to Design.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

Now, a year later, I've seen the beginnings of how that question has borne out at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) , as well as hearing from folks around the museum industry about the interplay of exhibitions and events at their own institutions. And so, in this post, a few findings, and more questions.

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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. You'll burrow down rabbit holes of gorgeous videos, cerebral reading lists, and provocative artist talks. I can identify artworks by famous artists. I can tell a local story from 1849. Too personal?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I like to ask myself this question periodically, challenging myself to find substantive ways for visitors to contribute to our museum. A local engineer, Greg McPheeters, brought his tandem-bike powered recycled couch to our Trash to Treasure festival last Friday night. How do community members make your institution better?

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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. Many of us are familiar with local businesses sponsoring local sports teams. Do you have something similar to offer possibly through a partnership with a local art collective or other nonprofit?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The ideal candidate has a good grasp of our local artistic assets in Santa Cruz County, a knack for participatory placemaking, and enthusiasm about putting on a show. But in the case of Abbott Square (the plaza in question), we''re building something new. multiple times per week. It''s literally a project in concrete.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

I''d just met a local researcher and I thought she''d be a great person to talk to about it. We recruited folks and designed software that texted them five times a day for thirty days, asking one question, "Rate your mood 1 (low) to 10 (high)." Beck will be checking in to respond to your comments and questions here.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

MSI did three things that most organizations don't or can't do when they set up a video contest: They got a TON of local, national, and international press. Nothing warms my heart like seeing outtakes of a guy trying to scale the walls of MSI, or a man spinning a yarn about his family's long history sleeping in museums.

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AUGUST 30, 2024

Grants come in many forms, from large federal funds aimed at helping national organizations push for systemic change to smaller local grants focused on community projects. Government Grants Government grants come from, you guessed it, government entities at the national, state, and local levels.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

There hasn’t been a history of collaboration between the museum and the film center and we wanted the chance to partner more deeply, and build a platform where we could continue to do so. We invited a cross-section of artists, filmmakers, and advertisers to join us for a think tank. Why did you choose this format instead of video?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

That's a more complicated question. It's a question of HOW we decide, not just WHO makes the decision. Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. She surveyed existing local programs. It's pretty simple.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. There’s a chat box and a questions box. If you use the questions box, it might be a little bit easier to call out your question, but we’d love to hear from you.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year!

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood, and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. Participants observe a conversation on a select topic amongst an expert panel.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. A wall on which people can write answers to the question: "What's the craziest thing you've done for love?"

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

the question of how cultural objects are defined and valued and 2. Environmentalists, the Museum of Natural History at CU, they all responded very enthusiastically to this. And that will probably happen when the kind of artistic production that uses new media will become predominant in the museums. That’s a great way to put it.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

It is hard to describe the gratification of seeing families meaningfully engaging with the Asian interactives we prepared with many advisors that included local members of the Asian communities. The label did not address that the artist sexually abused her, gave her syphilis, and colonized her home. Thank you, DIA, for everything.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Summertime concerts at the history museum? Even if you consider some of these counting strategies to be egregious, the basic question is still relevant: who counts? Probe too deeply and the question gets absurd. The more important question is not WHO counts but WHAT counts. That''s a huge question. Louis count it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

This week's Ask Britt question, sent in by a reader, is, "How can I combine the creative arts with social impact? Great question! Examples of socially rousing photography permeate our history: Vietnam, Rwanda, 9-11’s Ground Zero. Title your email, "Ask Britt: your question topic."

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

When we look at environmental challenges, we can't avoid the question of women's role within designing the solutions. The level of joy and celebration was unforgettable because of what we were making happen, and the history we were making each day that we were there. Women are disproportionately affected by environmental toxins.

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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 so my question is, why are we keeping them away? Imagine an art museum that allowed patrons to bang on the exhibits the way you can in a science center. Why aren't we developing our audiences?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

The idea is now that we're getting stronger and more flexible, more conscious, more patient, and more aware, we need to take those very qualities that we're learning in the yoga room, and begin to truly apply them in our families, in our local community, and into our global family as well. SC: It's a big question.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2007

Now I work at a history-focused museum with a similar mentality; as a for-profit insititution, we operate more like other guest service businesses (theme parks, restaurants) than collecting institutions. Ignore the big guys and focus on community-based or local art. It's excellent, and it's funded by Orcon. How do I know that?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

So they'll each tell you a little about that, and we'll have time for questions and answers at the end. Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists. First of all, who identifies with the word "activism"? Can I just see?

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