Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. We created a teen arts council, invested in staff, and invested in programming.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

Depending on your cause and audience, you can plan your next fundraiser on a holiday and incorporate the theme into your call-to-action. 15th : World Art Day — #WorldArtDay. Schedule your fundraiser on a Holiday. What’s sweeter than a Valentine’s Day fundraiser? Or greener than rallying your supporters on St.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

During the ensuing discussion, one woman asked, "Which audiences are least interested in social participation in museums?" I immediately flashed to my work with art museums and staff members' concerns that older, traditional audiences will shy away from social engagement in the galleries. They like to do and touch and make.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. 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. Want some waffles with your art? Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

We''re more successful when we target particular communities or audiences and design experiences for them. In the past, I''ve subscribed to the theory that an organization should target many different groups and types of people to serve a constellation of specific audiences across diverse affinities, needs, and interests.

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The Verge

MARCH 19, 2021

A high school student and artist, Ollie spends much of his free time making fan art about his favorite Minecraft streamers. So when Ollie saw Dream tell his followers to check out the art on his account, Ollie burst into tears. Bolting awake, he checked his messages. OLLIE, DREAM JUST GAVE YOU A SHOUTOUT ON TWITTER!”.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 6, 2024

Here’s a breakdown of school fundraising needs, challenges, and winning strategies for every level: Elementary Schools: Building a Strong Foundation Needs : Technology, playground equipment, arts programs. Challenges: Shifting interests, pre-teen independence. Challenges: Short attention spans, parental involvement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Distinctiveness: It is expressed in a unique way and clearly defined, so their audience can quickly grasp what they stand for. Relevant: It meets the target audiences needs. The audience is obviously Met donors and visitors as well as professional colleagues. He gives you the inside story about the work of art.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

But that doesn''t mean we know what visitors/audiences/humans need. In my experience, the "needs" of audiences often look suspiciously like the "wants" of the people speaking. I don''t hear this phrase accompanied by evidence-based articulation of "needs" of audiences. Some organizations need to focus on 3rd graders. visitors'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

Later, when were chatting with a small group of people in the lobby, we noticed a group of teens walking by looking a little sad. Everything Is In Service of the Art: The met has over 70 staff members on its digital team. Artists have been using the right tool at the right time to make art. They go where the audience is.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I was talking this week with Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project (an alternative arts space in LA), about different models for community engagement in cultural institutions. For example, consider two independent arts organizations in Los Angeles -- Machine Project and The Public School.

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Qgiv

MAY 13, 2021

For older kids and teens that benefit from your youth organization, a video game tournament is a great opportunity for them to show off their skills while raising funds for your organization. A fundraising event that features live entertainment is great for attracting a captive audience. You can find out more about their event, here.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2016

This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance in advance of its release. The Art of Relevance has a central metaphor that relevance is a key that unlocks the door to meaningful experiences (which live in a room). To get into this chapter, imagine that your institution/program/art is a room.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. Make sure the game is targeted to the right audiences. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The audience is bursting with other investors capable of bringing significant additional resources to fuel your expansion. Eight Valley social entrepreneurs will present their "pitch" live to a panel of experts and the audience at ASU SkySong. Center Teen Addiction Anonymous Unlimited Potential I hope to see you at the presentation!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. I''ve struggled with some of the "celebrity" aspects of having a big audience. I''ve never taken a break from blogging before.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. The group was mostly young (teens to thirties) and nerd-diverse: a little bit punk, a little bit hacker, a little bit craft grrl. Or that visitors form a spontaneous "laugh circle" on the floor. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. I learned to appreciate the audience reach of a big institution while vastly preferring the diversity of work and lack of bureaucracy of a small one.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

The curatorial team or a multidisciplinary team who have the audience in mind when decisions are made about the best way to connect visitors to the collection?" Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. My answer: neither.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2019

It’s not just major brands that have to cater to modern consumers – museums and nonprofits also need to anticipate the needs of an increasingly mobile-oriented audience. Read more about retaining members: 7 Ways for Arts & Cultural Organizations to Retain Members. Increasingly Eco-Conscious Audiences.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Find out how you can leverage one of the fastest growing social media platforms to reach a huge new audience. Instagram is a unique visual content sharing social media platform with a fast-growing audience. Who is Instagram’s audience? As is widely known, Instagram’s audience is a younger demographic.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

So I felt lucky last week to learn not only about an innovative arts exhibition employing geocaching, but to discover that its exhibit developer, Seth! Sounds like there might be some overlap with your museum audience? explains: The city of Bellevue, Washington holds a public art sculpture exhibition every couple of years.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Let’s walk through a selection of unique nonprofit websites that not only incorporate these elements but go above and beyond to impress visitors and inspire donations: Interlochen Center for the Arts. Top Nonprofit Website: Interlochen Center for the Arts. North Shore Animal League. Mustard Seed Communities. Gooley Hemophilia Center.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

If museums get involved in these online-offline partnerships, we can bring new audiences through our doors, familiarize them with museum-going in a comfortable way, and reap the benefits of their online musings about their real-life experiences. But these events have benefits both in terms of audience development and word-of-mouth marketing.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

For those who haven't attended, the Museums and the Web conference brings an international audience from art, history, cultural, and science museums together to talk about new ways to engage with their audiences via the web. The Walker Art Center is turning its teen website over to the teens.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

There is the Art Gallery of Ontario's portrait exhibition In Your Face , for which the museum solicited and displayed thousands of visitor-created self-portraits. If only 1% of our audience wants to participate as creators (a generous estimate by Web 2.0 Let's examine each of these questions, and the related projects, more closely.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Others create traveling exhibits that send their content to other institutions and audiences. You should be able to articulate your goal, whether it is reaching a particular niche audience or a designated level of participation. Others conduct distance learning programs across the nation.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

This seems a little ungenerous to museums; while institutions may bestow more love upon wealthy, elderly donors than the general visiting public, museums have actively courted mass audiences for years. We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

In terms of consulting I this myspace is the solution for teen or preteen work-forces to get a jump start in the financial world. 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? We all know how bad the economy is and this can solve a few problems but lets not forget that with every good thing comes 2 bad thing.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

In terms of consulting I this myspace is the solution for teen or preteen work-forces to get a jump start in the financial world. 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? We all know how bad the economy is and this can solve a few problems but lets not forget that with every good thing comes 2 bad thing.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

If you feel that your audience needs monitoring or social support, position the talkback stations in open settings. There was a wonderful example at the Ontario Science Center in their Hot Zone area, which features several voting and commenting kiosks popular with teens.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

Our entire strategy at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is rooted in community participation. Teens advocating for all-gender bathrooms. They can attend first as audience members or spectators, checking out the space and getting comfortable. Printmakers leading workshops. Volunteers restoring a historic cemetery.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

We had four different funders come and serve and answer a whole set of questions and then open it up for audience questions. Maybe it’s one of the teens that participate in the Girls and Boys Club after-school program, or maybe it’s an adult that has truly benefited from some of the healthcare services you provide.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

We started with a brief presentation of the basics of each project, and then spent about an hour responding to questions from the audience, using illustrative images and documents to support the discussion. conference audiences are ready to work (and play). At professional conferences, we tend to spend most of our time analyzing.

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