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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

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I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County.

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On Saying Yes

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Payne," member of the incredibly popular Santa Cruz roller derby team, wants to pitch a partnership with our museum. Yes to partnerships with the Second Harvest Food Bank and the Homeless Service Center. It's a Saturday night when I get the email. Yes to the heirloom seed library that now graces our lobby. What will we harden into?

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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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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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

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There are lots of things visitors can’t do in museums. But what about the things that museum professionals can’t (or feel they can’t) do? This week at the ASTC conference, Kathy McLean, Tom Rockwell, Eric Siegel and I presented a session called “You Can’t Do That in Museums!” And so my question is, why are we keeping them away?

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