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. Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.)

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Well-planned events enable nonprofits, community groups, businesses and government agencies to showcase AAPI arts, food, performances, and more. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. Consider featuring traditional music, dance, theater, or martial arts groups from the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. This accomplished a few things: I didn’t have to trash my plans and revert to a traditional lecture. I made it participatory so participants helped move the furniture.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. We had some money.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I''m glad to see coverage about art museums involving visitors in exhibitions. But that business model requires experienced staff who know how to empower people, facilitate meaningful participation, respond to community issues and interests, and ignite learning. The metaphor for traditional art museums is the temple. Sanctified.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act, a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more? Here are three of my favorites.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Want to experience art in a populist, energized, industrial/urban setting? Artprize , now in its second year, is a city-wide art festival with a $250,000 top prize to be awarded to the work that receives the most public votes. It was the best experience I've ever had talking and learning about art. Want to talk about it?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. Reassert the "forum"?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

George is a stranger I met last week at SFMOMA’s new show, The Art of Participation:1950 to Now. The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. Here are two pictures. The first one is me. DO message clearly.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Today, we want to introduce you to Leah Horn , Director of Marketing and Communications at the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF). WESTAF''s mission is to strengthen the financial, organizational, and policy infrastructure of the arts in the West. Plus, my track facilitators were great!)

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Unconference sessions , featuring topics as diverse as "playing an ARG" (with real labyrinth adventures ), "engaging visitors who were dragged to the museum," and "measuring and defining success in participatory projects." Facilitator bits. You did great.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. This project wove together many different participatory threads. The facilitation was as chaotic and fragile as a spiderweb. Short story: we learned a lot.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

"The arts are future-making." I wrote this down when Deborah Cullinan said it at a meeting of arts leaders about a year ago. Deborah''s vision for the arts leading the way to stronger future inspired me. Deborah''s vision for the arts leading the way to stronger future inspired me. The arts ARE future-making.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. Photography, video, audio, text, origami, mail art.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. If for instance, you tagged a tweet about your Foundation's performing arts program with #arts, your tweet would be amongst tweets about all kinds of topics in the art world - even tweets about Paula Abdul leaving American Idol.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. Riding the art couch through downtown Santa Cruz with two visitors and a dog while blasting the Jackson 5 was one of the highlights of my year. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Resource List Early Use of Backchannels Tara Hunt, Backchannel=Blogosphere Marc Cantor, Spell My Name Correctly Liz Lawley, Backchannel Modes Liz Lawley, Confessions of a Backchannel Queen Clay Shirky, Snarkiness on Parade NY Times, In the Lecture Hall, A Geek Chorus Dannah Boyd, Bridging Diverse Groups Backchannel in Learning and Education Vicky Davis, (..)

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They were “preaching the museum gospel” in NYC via alternative tours at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. We interacted with the art and with each other through dynamic photo challenges, kinesthetic activities, and conversations. I imagine that there are a lot more presumed barriers to break down at an art museum than a science museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet. I remember her community of clocks project -- she facilitated content creation from schools around the world on the theme of clocks. Meet Susan Silverman.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

The kind of strategic planning processes that I lead are inclusive and participatory which means that the group is consulted, the vision of the group, the energy, we kind of tap into the energy, vision, knowledge, experience of the people who will be doing the work in order to make plans. Where are we not putting our energy? ” Okay.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Facilitated/Unfacilitated Blend When we started this course, I really pushed the students to think about ways to induce unfacilitated interactions among strangers. I love facilitated experiences, but I worry that they aren't scalable to every visitor. They were roped to very specific locations and activities. Not so for the post-its.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

A sustained and intentional effort to facilitate interactions between people and ideas (including objects)” Many people offered time-machine like definitions like Nicole Balsdon, who said museums are “Time machine to take things and ideas from the past and today to today tomorrow and beyond!” A museum is a workplace. They most certainly are.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Third places facilitate engagement among patrons, whereas museums and libraries deliver services to patrons. Third places are more participatory and offer fewer basic amenities than most cultural institutions provide. Museums are explicitly about something, and third places are about nothing in particular. On the other hand.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking? Facilitators have many superpowers, and like superheroes, many of those powers may be invisible to others.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. This relationship bit helped me think about how different kinds of folks will be involved with a highly participatory, community-co-created project in the long-term.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

A person is randomly designated as the facilitator for a 15 minute discussion on each of the topics in the envelope. Where do our eyes go to in art? How can we take eyes off of the TV and put them on art; how do we make the art as attractive as TV? At each table there will be an envelope with questions inside.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own. Use the authority of the museum to facilitate exchange of phone numbers between strangers?"

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I still get fidgety listening to the podcast, but now I see it as an artifact of a supremely conducted participatory project rather the sole product of the process. And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers. They really cared about me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. The art of advising communities of practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers. The Art of Good Closers. Facilitation Methods and Techniques. Learning Styles.

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