ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Musical Instrument Museum. This pairing speaks directly to my passion for the arts – my day job is as manager for individual giving at the Musical Instrument Museum , and I serve on several music-related boards, as well as perform as a flutist and singer. Promoting internship opportunities at MIM to ASA students and alumni.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more. Auction an Artistic Experience Auctions are popular fundraising events that all kinds of nonprofits use to engage and connect with their supporters. This may be some of your lead performers, popular visual artists, or directors. Don’t be discouraged.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Make sure to advertise your artists and makers on your social media platforms leading up to the opening of your shop with photos and videos. Virtual tours for museums. Your local museums may not be open for admission, but that doesn’t mean you can’t explore all they have to offer. Student art show. Gaming fundraiser.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution. Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators. It is great to feel more of a part of the museum!" "All

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Studies of how arts participation affects student test scores. The study was extensive and methodologically robust, and the results are making the rounds of museum and art publications and blogs. But what is the value of a study that tells us that museum visits make a difference? She needed money.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Technology students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. This was a great way for the students to contribute to their community. artist's influences and the exhibit, in the artist's own words. For example, YBCA's audiences loved having access to artists' own unfiltered words. The Dallas Museum.

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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

MAY 8, 2013

Like a lot of organizations, my museum struggles with two conflicting goals: The museum should be for everyone in our community. At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we''re approaching this challenge through a different lens: social bridging. Museum of Art and History programs social bridging'

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On October 20, a young woman named Kate will move into Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and live there for a month. This post is not about the Month at the Museum concept or implementation. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications. That will come later.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Parker, a Seneca Indian who worked as the director of the Museum of Arts and Science in Rochester, N.Y. There are plenty of museums and museum exhibits dedicated to telling American Indian history and helping people better understand Indigenous culture. The earliest efforts were led in the early 1900s by Dr. Arthur C.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

When you count attendance to your museum, do you include: people who eat in the cafe? It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Summertime concerts at the history museum? Outdoor movies at the art museum? If a kid gets dragged to a museum with their parents, do they count?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It started as a handout for a session that Stacey and I are doing at the California Association of Museums, and then I realized it was so darn useful that it was worth sharing with all of you. The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. When I first started exploring the site, I assumed it was mostly a place for charismatic hipsters and a few star artists with enough social media savvy and clever video production capabilities to produce enticing pitches. The museum's page is much simpler.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum. to support programs and exhibits.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pin your students science fair projects. Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19. To pull this off well you'll want to print up some effective signage to orient people to what Pinterest is about and how the museum is using it. Just use your beard!".

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

To date, Pencils of Promise has built nearly 600 schools worldwide, and over 130K students are currently enrolled in those schools. For example, Pencils of Promise will be hosting, for the first time in two years, its PoP Gala on October 20 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

Last Friday, I witnessed something beautiful at my museum. At the adjacent table, my colleague Stacey Garcia was meeting with a local artist, Kyle Lane-McKinley, to talk about an upcoming project. I've been documenting lots of small bridging incidents at our museum over the past few months. Kyle had brought his baby with him.

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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. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. The Love Lounge I LOVE.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We've gotten a little more organized at The Museum of Art & History , and we've now released opportunities for summer internships. These are unpaid part-time and full-time opportunities to help design public programs, develop new uses for the museum, perform visitor research, and pursue unusual projects.

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

Are there artists or other influencers who might be interested in partnering with your organization to support you through NFTs? Look for streamers in your community—your office, student groups, or Twitch meetups. What types of content might have value? Twitch and Tiltify: What are they? Recruitment. Find streamers where they are.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Way better than that video at Museum X where the director drones on about the new initiatives of the year. This article sparked some interesting discussion online with colleagues from natural history museums, which deal with damage and touching very differently than art institutions do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

Then once they visit have such a great experience that they want to stay connected with the museum through social channels. Sree describes it as a start up inside of a big institution. He also gets asked how they justify the investment. He notes, ”Technology is not new at the museum.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2011

A museum holds a free program in a semi-public space. Last weekend, my museum did a little pilot of a new program, Downward Draw. We held a free yoga class in the plaza outside the museum and invited artists to come and draw/paint the yoga-doers in motion. Ready for a math problem? How many people participated?

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

This is an amazing April Fool’s idea from the Frederic Remington Art Museum : Their annual April Fool’s Day Ball invites users to contribute at normal event-pricing tiers (attendance, attendance + pre-party, attendance + after-party), but then not show up. Offer to highlight the winners on your social channels. The Michael J. Themed Bake-off.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. But museum folks, no matter how much we want to collaborate, don't move quickly. A month ago, I invited you to join this project. Now, a month tired-er, I still want to invite you.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

In April, I gave 13 UW graduate students a simple challenge: make an exhibit that gets strangers to talk to each other. Last month, student Nicole Robert wrote about the concept for Advice: Give it, Get it, Flip it, Fuck it. The exhibit experienced low traffic overall in an odd area of the UW student center.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2007

there may be some great opportunities for collaboration for museums, too. They are committed to making this technology accessible (and free!) They are committed to making this technology accessible (and free!) to educators permanently. Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2019

Museums, like all professional fields, are spaces policed by unwritten norms and regulated by our credentialing systems. For example, many museums focus on issues like ticket prices or transportation as a way to remove access barriers. Basically, when our staff is unhappy or overworked, it’s hard for them to make the visitor happy.

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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. I've been getting a taste of what I'm missing by devouring Diane Ragsdale's terrific series of blog posts about the course she is teaching on Approaching Beauty for business students at UW-Madison.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

I figured I'd share my link lists of resources with you, as well as with the students. If you show your MP3 player loaded with the current SFMOMA podcast at the Museum box office, you get $2 off admission. Besides, it is a lot greener for me to post the links for them than to give them printed handouts!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Others are artistic projects—Jonathon Coulton’s popular Thing a Week (he writes a song each week), Scott McCloud's " Morning Improv " comics. How can museums learn from it? Which leads me to feel that an artist can only feel comfortable exposing his/her process if either a. Where do museums fit in?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Musemio Musemio uses immersive technology and has partnerships with paid customers, such as the Crisis Charity and the Royal Museums of Greenwich. Voices of Ukraine’ ‘Voices of Ukraine’ presents multilingual readings of Ukrainian poetry and drama by artists and performers affected by the Russian invasion.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

Pop quiz: How much does it cost to go a museum? How much for a student? Museums can range from free to about $30 for admission. It’s often confusing to wade through the choices: do I want the underwater pony show or the artist-led splatter tour? So why can’t museums do it? How much for a family?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

For the past two years, I''ve been working on a project to activate the concrete space adjacent to our museum as a vibrant, community plaza. 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. multiple times per week.

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