These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz...

Close your eyes and imagine your organization's "community." Is it a mist of good feeling? A fellowship of uncertainty? Does...

"The arts are future-making." I wrote this down when Deborah Cullinan said it at a meeting of arts leaders about a year ago....

Everyone always says that the best part of conferences happen off the official schedule. Hallway conversations. One-on-one meetings. Late n...

Last week, Ian David Moss and I both blogged about the process of developing a theory of change for the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & His...

This is the first in a two-part series about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History’s new theory of change. This week, Ian David Moss ...

Imagine the most community-based science center possible. Imagine it in a poor, immigrant farmworker community. It exists. It thrives. In ...

Think back to the last time you crossed a line. Did you feel brave? Deviant? Proud? Ashamed? In art institutions, we typically treat th...

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I wrote The Participatory Museum for two reaso...

For the past two years, I've been working on a project to activate the concrete space adjacent to our museum as a vibrant, community p...