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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. It's inherent in what we do.
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The Teen Party. As the artist replays what just happened and slows it down for the brush or the pen, so too we need to be open to surprises, rewind and play them back in slow motion until we get the nugget of meaning. Are we paying attention? When he was fourteen, my step-son asked me to drive him to a party with friends across town.
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It takes a special kind of cook, artist, or scientist to want to support the contributions of novices. When I worked with teens on media pieces for an exhibit on black holes, they always wanted to know where their media projects would be featured in the exhibition and what the specific criteria were for success.
We''ve seen surprising and powerful results--visitors from different backgrounds getting to know each other, homeless people and museum volunteers working together, artists from different worlds building new collaborative projects.
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Performances just for teens. We are by no means the hippest First Friday destination in Santa Cruz, and sometimes, after a long evening at the museum, I'll head out to a gallery and look longingly at the young, cool artist crowd gathered within. Late night mixers at museums for young adults.
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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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