Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

Layne is also a keynote speaker; engaging audiences about the importance of breaking down barriers and the power of finding your voice. Jude, Make A Wish, American Cancer Society, and The Museum of African American History. She is a veteran touring artist, songwriter, live sound engineer and music publisher.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2020

It’s for this reason that I’ve found the Native community a particularly vital voice in this difficult period—after all, resistance and resilience are intrinsic elements of indigenous history and contemporary identity. Both pages have quickly amassed tens of thousands of followers and, curiously, few spammers and trolls.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

What role does design play in TWLOHA’s history and present-day work? That could include darker shirts that feel more in tune with heavy metal artists. I enjoy working on shirts and hoodies, but it’s always fun to stretch those creative muscles and figure out ways to carry our message and voice into other kinds of products.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2011

Without an explicit "I" voice, the museum's perspective on humanity is oblique to say the least. Welcome to Pine Point is a kind of virtual museum exhibition about the town, told from the perspective of Michael Simons, an artist who grew up in the nearby town of Yellowknife and visited Pine Point as a boy.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

This can also be a good place to add your brand voice or donor personas to describe who you are talking to. These histories can be built on but there is a risk they begin to drift from the original prompt and even forget key elements. Start from scratch : some interfaces like ChatGPT allow for long threaded chats.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

To make ends meet, artists would sometimes team up as a studio — helping each other come up with ideas, chipping in when someone was in danger of missing a deadline, teaching each other tips and tricks. And by quoting an outside validator, you add an extra voice of authority to support your own message.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 18, 2017

This month, we opened a new exhibition at the MAH, Lost Childhoods: Voices of Santa Cruz County Foster Youth and Foster Youth Museum (brief video clip from opening night here ). it uses art, history, artifacts, and storytelling to illuminate a big human story and an urgent social issue.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As we look to hire BIPOC designers and amplify their voices, we also have to examine our industry definition of what “good” design is and start building a completely new system—by everyone, for everyone. . When we take a look at design history, we quickly start to see how whiteness relates to the rule setters and power holders. .

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

North Carolina Museum of History 1988.39.4 In this courageous guest post, Adrienne Berney, a Collections Care Trainer who works primarily with history museums, gives us an insider’s guide to these issues. Experts advise museums against accepting restricted donations, and they are rare in history museums.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

” For nonprofits, this shows the value of thoroughly researching your donors’ demographics, history, and motivations before crafting appeals. A relatable human voice connects. The ads were hailed as beautiful, artistic, and innovative. Donors want to feel they are fueling breakthroughs.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2018

The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History keeps growing and experimenting in our quest to build a stronger, more connected community. The OFBYFOR ALL Communications Catalyst will be the online host and voice of the growing global OFBYFOR ALL movement. Both these people will lead innovative work to build community locally and globally.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2015

and his voice getting lost in the waves. We wanted to reflect this diversity of identities by inviting all kinds of artists and artworks into the gallery. The exhibition includes artwork about the ocean by over 250 artists of all backgrounds and abilities, grouped into ten poetic metaphors for the ocean.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

Over the past two years, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has undergone a significant transformation of program, audience, and resources. Our revolution is predicated on three big ideas: Art and history are something you do, not just something you learn about. You want to have an artist collective sleepover at the museum?

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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 exist for people who live in Santa Cruz County.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Our archeology did not aim to uncover the hidden voice of my grandmother, but instead to begin an ongoing practice of recreation.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. And pop culture icons, from basketball players to rock stars , are making highly visible commentary with their clothes and voices. Where do museums fit in? It has held programs related to Ferguson since August and is planning more for 2015.

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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. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. A DIY wedding!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). Beck talks about this in the context of learning to play music as a young artist. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

I found many parallels between the history and development of the design museum and of the MIM. Several attendees in the session voiced impassioned concern that businesses not overstep their bounds in terms of influencing the artistic product, a concern I have not heard here in the US.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

I found many parallels between the history and development of the design museum and of the MIM. Several attendees in the session voiced impassioned concern that businesses not overstep their bounds in terms of influencing the artistic product, a concern I have not heard here in the US.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Each week, I’ve been ceding the blog to others as a chance to hear many voices share their thoughts about our field, where we are, and where we are going. This field is varied, and each voice adds to our collective understanding of the situation. For this week, I’m re-posting Andrea Montiel de Shuman’s Medium post with permission.

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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. There is a strong community of Oaxacan artists, dancers, and musicians in Live Oak. It gets easier to hear their voices in our heads when we make a decision. Not your voice.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

It incorporates work by local artists, old and new construction, and is completely gorgeous. and then recounted some related fact or history. This brought other voices into the tour, but more importantly, it modeled a potential interaction that we could have. It was clear that Vi isn't just someone who talks about history.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

From the perspective of our work, it really means that the more we amplify different voices, the more we are doing our job. Joan of the Stockyards", by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Lear DeBessonet, the founder and Artistic Director of Stillpoint Productions.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

It requires trading a certain history for an uncertain future--a nerve-wracking prospect no matter the situation. The result is an institution that is impressively committed to audience voices, diversity, and participation--not just in one program, but in the label text, the exhibits, and the overall visitor experience.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. You can be an expert and have a strong voice--a voice visitors want to hear--without being the only voice in the room.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2007

They are committed to making this technology accessible (and free!)

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Gabriela Mistral. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. Dorothy Arzner.

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Everyaction

JUNE 26, 2018

This month, our EveryAction hero is Jewish Voice for Peace. How did Jewish Voice for Peace get started? Jewish Voice for Peace has been around for 20 years, We’re a national organization with over 70 chapters and 15,000 members across the country. We also have an artists council, an academic council, and a student program.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Curate content from underrepresented voices Do you work in a field that works for the rights of a marginalized or underrepresented community? Amplify their voices on your platform. Borrow like an artist Steal content from your other platforms and see what similar organizations are doing to engage their audience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

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. AD: I definitely have had very similar experiences to Melinda in terms of my professional history. This is a history in the making. From that point, my path shifted.

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Whole Whale

MAY 1, 2024

Curate content from underrepresented voices Do you work in a field that works for the rights of a marginalized or underrepresented community? Amplify their voices on your platform. Borrow like an artist Steal content from your other platforms and see what similar organizations are doing to engage their audience.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment. Their use of the web to connect independent artists all over the world was striking and very surprising. being as transparent as possible about the selection and production process.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

So the direct voice got straight-jacketed into a frame of museum methods that did not exactly fit. When no one voice is regarded as authoritative or objective, how does the story get told? Most significantly, the story the museum finally chose to tell was not Jacki's story, which was one of history, not material culture.

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