Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

While touring the island, listening to my pleasant audio guide chattering away on my headphones, I learned of a constituent empowerment campaign from long ago. His scathing editorials demanded that America step up and provide a home for such a beautiful work of art. We also went out to Liberty Island to see the Statue of Liberty.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

Art and Media. The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities. The goal of these case studies is to raise awareness of the impact these nonprofits are making in South Africa. Children and Education.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. Let’s start with empowerment.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

I was able to participate thanks in part to professional development grants from Arizona Commission on the Arts and Sigma Alpha Iota. I found many parallels between the history and development of the design museum and of the MIM. I also enjoyed a presentation by Alice Black, Deputy Director of the Design Museum in London.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

I was able to participate thanks in part to professional development grants from Arizona Commission on the Arts and Sigma Alpha Iota. I found many parallels between the history and development of the design museum and of the MIM. I also enjoyed a presentation by Alice Black, Deputy Director of the Design Museum in London. Get another!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

Let's say your organization has a mission to increase X (art, healthy kids, clean water, community cohesiveness, etc.). On the other hand, in onstage mode, we could present more highly visible opportunities for people to be empowered and connected through art and history.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. Our topics are broad, including Creative Spaces, Youth Empowerment, and Economic Opportunity. Youth Advisory vs.) as opposed to an intercultural approach.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. I''ve gotten more comfortable and more confident with the idea of the museum as political body that advocates for empowerment and social bridging. Empowerment? When we really live our mission, that''s where it takes us.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing. That's a more complicated question.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Paul Orselli made a thoughtful and challenging comment, saying: many data visualization art pieces, albeit elegant, seem to be inherently "push" technologies. Name Voyager is a site that allows people to explore names through American history in an interesting way, whereas Nymbler provides an outcome-driven service.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Areas served: New York City. Kentucky Foundation For Women.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Areas served: New York City. Kentucky Foundation For Women.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The First Wave includes 6 museums, 5 performing arts organizations, 3 public libraries, 3 parks, and 3 community centers. We selected a First Wave that reflects diversity of geography, size, and sector, so we can see who this works best for and why. Half are led by people of color or indigenous people.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

This post was written by my colleague Nora Grant, Community Programs Coordinator at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. There are many different models, including The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History , The New York Met , SF Mobile Museum , and even a Pop Up Prison Museum.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

We visited the prison camp, the Killing Fields, and explored the dark history of Cambodia because it's impossible to truly be empathic to the circumstance, as it is today, unless you understand how the culture and its people got to be in this position. My history is one of sexual molestation. We brought in survivors of the genocide.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Today's Big Vision Podcast transcript is from an interview with arts activist, Alli Chagi-Starr. We'll be taking with arts activist Alli Chagi-Starr, the Cultural Arts Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights ' Reclaim the Future Program. You can hear the orginal podcast on Gcast , Odeo or iTunes.

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