Wednesday, May 27, 2015

What I Didn't Learn in School: Diane Ragsdale's Crash Course on Beauty and Aesthetic Values

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I have an unusual education for the director of an art & history museum: a degree in electrical engineering. Engineering taught me to be...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Setting Your Mission Free in the Wild

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Where are you most able to execute your mission: inside your facility, or outside of it? There are a lot of reasons we focus on work ins...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Familiarity Breeds Love…and a Desire for Things to Stay the Same: Guest Post by Karen Wise

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Visitors in front of the African Elephant Diorama at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC photo) This guest post...
Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Museum 2.0 Flashback: Threshold Fear

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This week, I was on the radio  talking museum inclusion (with Michelle Obama!) and committed the cardinal sin: defining a term using the t...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Building Community: Who / How / Why

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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...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

How Do You Define "Community?"

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Close your eyes and imagine your organization's "community." Is it a mist of good feeling? A fellowship of uncertainty? Does...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

A City and an Art Center Design the Future: Reflections on the Market Street Prototyping Festival

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"The arts are future-making." I wrote this down when Deborah Cullinan said it at a meeting of arts leaders about a year ago....
Wednesday, April 08, 2015

Hack Your Hellos: the Unofficial Way to Meet Someone New at AAM This Year

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Everyone always says that the best part of conferences happen off the official schedule. Hallway conversations. One-on-one meetings. Late n...
Wednesday, April 01, 2015

MAH Theory of Change, Part 2: A Multimedia Walkthrough for Your Feedback

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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...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Developing a Theory of Change, Part 1: A Logical Process

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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 ...