Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. FoodWhat's staff and teens have taught me a lot about what it really means to be relevant to people who are often overlooked or ignored. FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice.

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Teen Arts Classroom Student 25

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

Also, the importance of telling your own story with your own voice. I have a background in community arts, using the arts to creatively think about the spaces and people around us. All of the feedback that we got was that they wanted to see long-term investment for young people around the arts.

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Baltimore Student Arts Lecture 40

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. We see it as a long-term investment for the museum.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard History 51

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content. Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners. Let's look at these one by one.

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Virtual Museum North Carolina Flickr 20