Pop-Up Museum [n]: a short-term institution existing in a temporary space.  a way to catalyze conversations among diverse people, medi...

An exhibiting artist approached me recently at an evening event at the museum. "Hey!," he said, "I have some feedback for y...

When I started at The Museum of Art & History (MAH) in May, one of my priorities was redesigning our website. I didn't want to d...

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for aud...

It's November, and that means we start looking around nervously at our fabulous fall semester interns and worrying about all the light t...

At my grocery store, if you bring your own shopping bag, they give you tokens that you can use to donate money to local nonprofits. As I dro...

We’ve been doing a little experiment at our museum with labels. The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum recently loaned us some fabulous surfboards th...

This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social ...

I'm working on a keynote address for next week's Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums conference in Baltimore. The speech is in memor...

It's a Saturday night when I get the email. "Sharon D. Payne," member of the incredibly popular Santa Cruz roller derby team, ...