Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change. The majority of foundation funding for the arts goes to large, established organizations that present work that is based in the European canon for a primarily white, upper-income audience.

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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

to plan a monthlong peer-to-peer fundraising campaign: February = Black History Month, American Heart Month, Oral Hygiene Awareness Month, Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, Eating Disorder Awareness Month. 15th : World Art Day — #WorldArtDay. Consider the various awareness months that are observed in the U.S.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2011

Jen Louden, Savor and Serve: How I Have Fun, Do Good After reading my friend Keri Smith's book The Guerilla Art Kit , my 16-year-old daughter Lillian decided it would be delish to write little-bitty love notes and plaster them all over our tiny town. She's just started a one year experiment in savoring and serving the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. - Leonie Allan, Goddess Guidebook Buy art from artists. My main takeaway from their rainbow of stories is that there are *so* many ways to have fun and do good.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

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. Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres. Second, teens today are incredibly aware of "stranger danger."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

million to the winning ideas across six categories, including: Health, Arts & Culture, Food & Shelter, The Planet, Neighborhoods and Education. Anyone can apply for a grant and the public decides who wins. Each month, Pepsi will award grants up to $1.3

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I don’t remember why I was perched on a table in art class, but I do remember the drama of leaping between this bully and his victim. When I was a young teen, for example, my twin sister and a girlfriend would pass around a football during lunch hour. Without hesitating, I knew I had the power to stop the harassment.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. In painted wood and styrofoam, it was a masterful and whimsical refusal to answer that pesky question of whether games can be art.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2014

So this is where that leaves us : fewer people (at least teens) are reading for pleasure, and we can assume (like adults) that they are seeking information and stimulus elsewhere, probably through a mobile device. Writing for Mobile. We know that visual messaging is effective in digital formats.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Maybe think about activities you could support that would offer parents a place for their kids to go and learn, like a movie series, art classes, or a small-scale concert. As kids become teens, encourage them to volunteer with your organization. Could your teen volunteers help run the kids programs? I often say it is in my DNA.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2009

If you use the advanced search option on VolunteerMatch.com , you can find volunteer opportunities that are good for kids and/or teens. Encourage them to create "mail art" and decorate the paper and envelopes. Here are a few ideas: 1. Volunteer with them. Write letters to your government officials (federal, state and local) together.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. And it ended with this: No wonder it [MOMA] ends up showing shallow, label-dependent art rather than work that offers deeper, more contradictory encounters. The review was harsh.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 26, 2011

Analisa Xavier implemented Native American Connections ' first ever teen after-school programs. Michael Soto traveled to every corner of Arizona to facilitate a comprehensive arts education program he designed. This year alone, Joseph Perez created an entire collaborative program that uses hip hop to teach students about life.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. Want some waffles with your art? Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

This post is even more relevant today to the broader conversation about audience diversity in the arts than when it was published three years ago. Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Many YES teens don''t come in with confidence about their own abilities. blog posts from the past.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we''re approaching this challenge through a different lens: social bridging. Family Art Workshops" suffer from anemic participation whereas multi-generational festivals are overrun with families. Museum of Art and History programs social bridging' And rarely the twain shall meet.

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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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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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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Hundreds of unique, hand-made art postcards, containing words of compassion and solidarity are hand delivered to individuals and communities all over the world, bringing connection, hope, visibility and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence or repression. Each card is a piece of art in my mind.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

A group in their late teens/early 20s were wandering through the museumwide exhibition on love. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking. I don't know what formed the bridge between the artists and the teens in this circumstance. Kyle had brought his baby with him.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

YMCA of Greater Seattle's Kirkland Teen program was one of our test sites. It serves an estimated 84,000 children and teens, so we hoped that this lab would be a serious test of a MultiPoint Server lab's resilience. The Kirkland Teen program in Bellevue, Washington is run by Emily Smith who is their Youth Development Director.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. When I look back at some recent projects that I''m most excited about (like this teen program ), I realize that I had very little to do with their conception or execution. institutional change Museum of Art and History'

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2012

Teen Outreach Pregnancy Services. Most often, private operating foundations are organizations that operate museums, theaters, or arts centers, although any other charitable activity conducted directly by the foundation can qualify. " —Laura Pedersen. Executive Director. Often, its funding is in the form of an endowment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

He gives you the inside story about the work of art. This shot is from a program for teens that the met sponsors, #metteens. You will see photos of Met art works as well as art in other museums. Visibility. His photo and commentary and use the hash tags facilitates visibility and connection to this audience target.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Emily Troutman has just launched a new online art/journalism project with a social conscious. Twitter Demographics: Last month, we learned that Teens Don't Tweet. Global Voices Bloggers Mentor Others. I think it is really cool that Tharum, a Cambodian Blogger, is mentoring a Danish blogger launching a climate change blog!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

I will always remember when Robin Dowden of the Walker Art Center told me that she knew their teen website was working because she thought it was ugly and impossible to navigate. Instead, I hear this phrase used to defend traditional formats and content in the face of change. We think it''s important. Here''s why.". visitors'

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2013

We are hiring for a School Programs Coordinator to wrangle the 3,500+ students and their teachers who come to the museum every year for a tour and hands-on experience in our art and history exhibitions. Museum of Art and History Quick Hits professional development' How will this affect our school programs and our work with teachers?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2005

Last weekend I went to a great house party/fundraiser for Art in Action camp , a 10-day cultural boot camp for budding teen activists. Urban Sprouts, Art in Action and Streetside Stories (where I worked for 6 years) are great programs, but they can only serve so many young people. education youth activism art

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

The top 100 included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, health care, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. .

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 27, 2014

It may make more sense for arts and cultural organizations to register as a #BCorp versus a 501(c)(3). This generation of philanthropic teens love to learn from their peers and their own discovery. That 19 page annual report PDF isn’t going to stand out amongst the extreme amount of content accessible to them at their finger tips.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. It’s a thrilling challenge to the traditional form of art museum exhibit design, and better yet, visitors like it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

She grew her program so it now serves 700 people of varying abilities and allows them to express themselves through the art. The "extraordinary" thing Terri has done to change the world is the successful implementation of a mentoring program called Stand and Deliver for teens in the challenged community of Lawrence, MA.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 27, 2014

Technology''s Emerging, Enthusiastic Leaders | NTEN : his is where the iUrban Teen program comes in. We do this by introducing teens to Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Art (STEM Arts) related careers. We work to get teens inspired to pursue the knowledge required to bring their ideas to life.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

I have a background in community arts, using the arts to creatively think about the spaces and people around us. This includes visual arts, sculpture, paintings, murals, as well as better designed buildings, parks, and shared spaces and projects to foster relationships and understanding.

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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. Their event reached 111% of its fundraising goal, and the folks at Snow City Arts got to share their passion for art with their supporters.

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