Monthly posts on experiments with people & museums
This blog is written by Maria Mortati and was developed to share work and insights around experimental museum projects.
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Minimalist Art and a Pizza
“Minimalists hated animals”. Who knew? In this short, artist Michael O’Malley developed a brilliant vehicle for teaching art involving foreigners, fabrication and a field via the Walker Arts Center’s Open Field program. If you can […]
The Oakland Museum is Having Fun
I hope, anyway. Taking yet another interesting turn on visitor and museum, the OMCA brings us a delightful project for pondering and playing: Nothing Happens for Long is a collaborative short film project by Jonn […]
Artists as Exhibit Developers?
In the past, I’ve written about Artists as Public Programmers at museums and why/how they excel. Now I’m looking to take that to the next level and find ways to bring in the innate expertise […]
What Ails Us: Collaborative Spaces Aiming to Solve
As you well know, there has been a movement afoot in a variety of areas that suggests the bringing together of the greater good (artists, engineers, scientists, and the like) can help solve some of […]
Mark Allen made my day: AGAIN
He forwarded this post to me from the SFMOMA Open Space blog: “Manitoba Museum of Finds Art: Interview with Alberta Mayo“. The Mantioba Museum Finds Art was a museum within a museum project at the […]
Open for Engagement in 2012: want to collaborate?
“Open Engagement is an international conference that sets out to explore various perspectives on art and social practice and expand the dialogue around socially engaged art making. The Open Engagement conference is an initiative of […]
Yup, that’s what it was designed to do
The first review is in for the Children’s Creativity Museum via the SF Examiner: “Along with the name, the $250,000 redesign includes what may become a new favorite for the museum’s youngest visitors, the Imagination […]
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