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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Mission: Porter’s Call is a place where artists can find counsel, support, and encouragement, specifically attuned to their unique profession. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens. Their goal is to cut teen suicide rates in half by 2028. Impacting: Mental health.

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Authenticity and Demystifying the Artistic Process: Walker Art Center Blogs - Part 2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, for a museum that is presenting contemporary art -- anything that helps us demystify the artistic process and better understand the art is, in my opinion, a good thing. This is a place to honestly show people what happens at an. The biggest challenge is to get people to contribute a few hours a. week to writing. institution.

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Cinematic Insights: The Art of Movie Analytics

Tableau

Kristin Adderson December 19, 2023 - 7:38pm Zach Bowders Tableau Visionary and Tableau Ambassador, Business Intelligence Specialist Zach Bowders, MBA is a data analyst, artist, and host of the Data+Love Podcast. Movies hold a unique place in culture. When I was a kid we owned two movies, and both starred Dan Aakryod. Stick with me.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. There are a lot of places online where people can meet up, have game jams, etc. We want to focus on experiences and the experience of culture is an interaction, that’s why these places need to be live.

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Sustaining Innovation Part 3: Interview With Sarah Schultz of the Walker Art Center

Museum 2.0

Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. The Walker is also a place where everyone is committed to supporting artists and new work, so every time we bring in an artist, staff are enthusiastic about the idea of coming together to create something. That's how we build trust.

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Providence Public Library: “A Most Democratic Insitution”

DipJar

Are there any more wonderful places? Providence Public Library’s annual Creative Fellowship Program invites a local artist to create a work of art based on an item or items in the collection and is focused on a different medium and theme each year. Ah, public libraries!

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat. One of my favorite places for a long time now. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students.

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