sgEngage

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Susan Neyman, US Marshals Museum Resurrect Events Planned Givers Can’t Forget “We reinstated a beloved event, the 1892 Society Luncheon, which brings together planned giving donors and prospects for an afternoon of a delightful lunch, a brief history of the Society, a presentation about current projects and future plans, and questions and answers.”—

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. How do you truly involve the general public and ask them to engage , online with art? In essence, it is visible storage for the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Marc van Bree and I were chatting about some of the collaborative arts marketing strategies that some arts organizations have experimented with on Twitter. Since there have been a few examples, I asked Marc if would write a post looking at some of these. How did you get 340 museums to participate? What was the objective?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. Arts organizations are not alone in this. The question. was created. Who responded?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Americans for the Arts :: @ Americans4Arts. National Museum of American History :: @ AMHistoryMuseum. Trevor Project :: @ TrevorProject. American Heart Association :: @ American_Heart. American Red Cross :: @ RedCross. American Rivers :: @ AmericanRivers. American Solar Energy Society :: @ ASES_Solar. Ashoka :: @ Ashoka.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Museums and cultural organizations, like the family of Smithsonian institutions and others we’re fortunate to work with at Forum One, have a wealth of opportunities when it comes to digital engagement. Consider all the ways that museums engage online. We help museums create these campaigns.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

Dear Museum 2.0 As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). I am closing down my consulting business at the end of April, but the Museum 2.0 Here are a few things that make the MAH an exciting museum to me: It's small.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Customizability and Flexibility: The Art Behind Gesso Gesso is named after the primer artists used to prepare a canvas for painting. Just as gesso in the art world creates a foundation for creativity, Forum One’s Gesso is designed to be a flexible framework that can be built upon and customized. starter kit.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

This week we’ve found apps from museums. Mobile apps are an interesting way for museums to advance their educational missions beyond people’s expectations. ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. iOS/Android: ArtClix enhances uses mobile to enhance the museum experience. Frogloop has you covered.

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sgEngage

JULY 22, 2024

The last few years have been exceptionally hard for arts and cultural nonprofits. Just as organizations started to see patrons coming back to museums, live performances, and art classes, this year saw state governments from Florida to California severely reduce financial support for arts and cultural organizations.

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Forum One

MARCH 30, 2023

Forum One’s recent design work with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) Simmons Talks series was a dream come true: an opportunity to put passion behind a design that I believe in and honor the work of others who inspire me. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Every day for the past two months, a man has entered the largest gallery in my museum. His project, Is It Necessary? It also complicates the question of what is acceptable in a museum. If an artist can come into a museum and smash stuff, what does that tell visitors? But art museums are coming back from the dead.

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Big Duck

JUNE 3, 2024

Related Content BrandsBlue EngineBuilding a brand for change CampaignsParent Project Muscular DystrophyEngaging the community to raise funds BrandsKeys to ChangeCreating clarity about vital community services BrandsThe Newark Museum of Art Attracting visitors with an updated vision and brand BrandsKeshetBuilding a brand for a thriving organization

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2013

A recent $14 million renovation places a renewed emphasis on technology to improve relationships with the Britannia Mine Museum's visitors and donors. million redevelopment project completed in 2010, the Britannia Mine Museum is undergoing tremendous growth. With a recent $14.7 Out-Word, LLC. read more'

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2011

I have a confession to make: I've never cared much about museums on the Web. When smart people talk about digital museums and virtual experiences, I nod and compartmentalize it as someone else's bailiwick. Walkerart.org is not about the Walker Art Center. It is the Walker Art Center, in digital form. Probably not.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture. Ford Foundation.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The majority” of its tours will be migrated to Google’s separate Arts & Culture app, letting users view them via web or mobile device. As Arts & Culture will offer many of the Expeditions tours, we’ll no longer support the Expeditions app.”. You can even view some Arts & Culture content in Cardboard.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. You just need to show proof of membership. Photo and Bio.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Do you have an idea for a world-changing project that could bloom with some seed money? The new Pollination Project is giving $1,000 seed grants to individual changemakers, every day, 365 days a year.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Find the Future was the overarching theme of the projects. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2011

This is the casual attendance data from my first full month as the Executive Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz. This graph is making me change the way I think about what our museum is for and how we should market it. First Fridays are raucous and fabulous events. Events have an urgency to them.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

This year, Alan invited me to present a webinar for participants in the Marcus Institute Digital Education for the Arts on how Networked Nonprofits use Facebook. Before the session, I spent some time reviewing Museum Facebook Pages – luckily the MIDEA project has them organized into this handy list. I struck out.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One "One of the things I love about working at Google is that you can come up with an idea one day and the next day start getting to work to make it a reality.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

This month, we're thinking about the way we do work in museums. As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. Sharing articles that work is a great reason to stay on Museum Twitter by the way. Exposure to all sectors of museum work is important.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

Two weeks ago, Roberto Bedoya asked several arts bloggers, including me, to write a post reflecting on Whiteness and its implications for the arts. I am in no way an expert in issues related to racial and ethnic representation in the arts. I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

project will focus on apps for arts organizations, with a practical. We'll share some interesting apps developed for arts. Discovering Public Art with Public Art Omaha. engage with public art? engage with public art? The really cool thing is how Public Art Omaha did it: their public art.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The firms Isla Intersections project in South Los Angeles closed a nearby street (a rarity in car-focused L.A.) The projects ground floor retail, reserved for local businesses, is designed to further activate the area. Some of the projects will also add new community buildings, and all are aiming for net zero energy use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I met James Leventhal via Twitter and we ended up working together on a project. Recently, James wrote about some interesting ways museums are using Twitter for offline/online engagement. The San Francisco Bay Area has seen some extraordinary museum openings over the past several years.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We ended up with a gallery in the museum instead.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

” Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: Prioritizing Collaboration and Sustainable Funding Arts and Culture Alpine County (ACAC), a local arts agency, has obtained small grants from the Alpine County Board of Supervisors and Live Healthy, an organization under the Alpine County umbrella.

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The Verge

MARCH 12, 2021

This is the crown jewel, the most valuable piece of art for this generation. Its first project involved building those 20 original Beeple works into a digital museum, then effectively selling shares of that museum as digital tokens so that a multitude of buyers can have a stake in these works. want to do it at Art Basel?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

On October 24th, 2020, an art trafficker in Darnah, Libya posted a series of unusual ads. If it looked like it belonged in a museum, that’s because it did. Photo courtesy of Athar Project. This is critical evidence for repatriation efforts and war crimes,” says Katie Paul, co-director of the Athar Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

She uses the word “curate&# which makes me imagine nonprofits as museum curators. Museum curators have expertise in a particular area of art, they know the ecosystem around the art – the artists, the patrons, other collectors, and other museum curators interested in that art form.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Niio , a Tel Aviv-based digital art platform featuring work ranging from contemporary artists and galleries through to NFTs, announced today it has closed $15 million Series A funding in the wake of a strategic partnership with Samsung Displays, announced last week. The NFT market is just getting started, but where is it headed?

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2022

The scan is of Rembrandt van Rijn’s 1642 masterpiece The Night Watch , a roughly 12 by 14 foot painting which is currently the focus of a massive research and restoration project called “Operation Night Watch.”. The museum notes that it’s four times sharper than the last scan that was put out by the museum, which was only 44.8

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