This week, I'm celebrating three years on the job as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History . This sprin...

This week, a kitchen sink of inspiring bits. Museums, Politics, and Power is a new blog that lives up to its name. It presents global p...

Rebecca sat down next to me at breakfast and asked, "How was the hike yesterday?"   I replied, "Good. It was more of a wal...

Exhibit labels. Promotional text. Grant proposals. For many arts/museum professionals, writing text in 100-word chunks is a daily activity...

In December of 2012, the rock musician Beck released his latest album, Song Reader . Song Reader didn't come as a CD, or an LP, or a...

Last week's New York Times special section on museums featured a lead article by David Gelles on Wooing a New Generation of Museum Pat...

Here are a few of the hashtags I've seen applied to photographs of museum objects on Instagram lately: #heytherebigfella #biggysmall...

You know those research studies that make you want to immediately change your practice in some way? I recently read The BERI report on bil...

Let's say you create a station where visitors contribute content. You want their stories, their feedback, their colorful drawings of...

Dreaming of a summer filled with learning, community engagement, and sea lions? Time to stop dreaming and start doing. This is the last ...