New Pathways | Charlotte Update
The first quarter of 2019 brought exciting progress to the 10 organizations participating in New Pathways | Charlotte. Retreat The … Continue reading
New Pathways | Charlotte Update
The first quarter of 2019 brought exciting progress to the 10 organizations participating in New Pathways | Charlotte. Retreat The … Continue reading
New Pathways | Charlotte Enters Phase Two
Having completed a workshop series on the roots of innovation, the participating organizations in New Pathways | Charlotte are about to enter the … Continue reading
More than a Great Date: Sustaining Innovation at the Alutiiq Museum
In February 2017, we profiled the efforts of Alaska’s Alutiiq Museum as it worked to reach beyond its core group … Continue reading
The Alutiiq Museum: Becoming a Center for Living Culture
Both a museum and an archaeological repository, the Alutiiq Museum designed and tested three experiments in interactive programming to reach a new audience that they believed was curious about Alutiiq culture, but not currently visiting the Museum.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum: Epiphanies and Contradictions in the Art of Slowing Down
An in-depth case study about The Porch Project, an experimental community engagement project on “radical slowness” by the Chicago-based Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.
Lessons from the Field: Case Study on Latino New South
An in-depth case study documenting the successes of Latino New South, a collaborative innovation between Levine Museum of New South, the Atlanta History Center, and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. These three organizations entered EmcArts Innovation Lab for Museums with the intention of making their programs and institutions more resonant with, and responsive to, the fast-growing Latino communities in their respective cities.
What Happens When Preservation and Innovation Collide?
The National Trust for Historic Preservation reflects on their journey through the Innovation Lab for Museums.
Rebuilding Our Building
What happens when you inhabit “the best new building since the Cold War” and it isn’t working at its highest capacity?
Silo-Busting: Transforming the Rake into the Flower
What if you could re-invent a museum and create an organizational chart from scratch on a blank sheet of paper?
A Math Teacher and an Accountant Walk into an Arts Center
Two unlikely art heads are members of YBCA’s game-changing, all access art program YBCA:You. Hear how Lawrence Li, an accountant, came to identify as a street performer and how Henri Ducharme began using art to help his students make sense of numbers.
Artist-led Ecosystem Interventions
McColl Center for Visual Art’s community engagement model highlights the value of artist-led ecosystem interventions that foster inter-generational relationships, create stronger communities and elevate the value of artists as catalysts for change.
From Expert to Collaborator
Moving from the traditional stance of ‘the expert with important stories to tell’ to ‘building stories with community’ requires an openness and humility that is often not easy for museums.
Shhh!
Do you want to develop sustainable relationships with new audiences? Do you want to build community? Shhh! Be quiet and listen.
Museum as Platform
Using a major exhibition, a museum can activate the community to provide a collective platform for: dialogue, diverse interpretation, and wide-ranging authentic arts experiences with broader audiences.
Three Museums Selected for Round 3 of the Innovation Lab
Welcome to the Hull-House Museum, the Museum of International Folk Art, and the Oakland Museum of California.