Like many performing arts organizations, OTSL realized that it suffered from “leaky bucket” syndrome: As older audience members dropped away, not enough young ones were stepping up to take up the slack, leading to a net loss in patrons. Those losses meant less earned income and more empty seats and could endanger the company’s future. READ MORE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch … [Read more...]

Our entire strategy at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is rooted in community participation. We invite diverse locals to share their creative and cultural talents with our greater community at the museum. Printmakers leading workshops. Teens advocating for all-gender bathrooms. Volunteers restoring a historic cemetery. Sculptors building giant metal fish with kids. You … [Read more...]

Nina Simon: "I find that the more I live with that question of how others can make something better, the more naturally it infuses all kinds of work at our museum. Developing new staff policies. Prototyping all gender bathrooms. Creating an event or exhibit. All of these activities involve ongoing collaboration and co-creation with people beyond the staff member(s) … [Read more...]