Nina Simon @ninaksimon Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

FIGHTING FOR INCLUSION

photo by muckster on Flickr

WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO FIGHT FOR TO BE MORE INCLUSIVE?

$

$what happens in that building?

empowerment

social bridging

62,000

17,000 (2011)

62,000

62,00050,000

62,00050,000

2,500

BUT IT DIDN’T CHANGE WITHOUT A FIGHT.

"The museum has become alluring to many who never partook before. But, at the end of the day, it is always solid content and character that endures. That is not elite, that is just the way it is."

- member

“It doesn’t seem appropriate to me that we would focus on ‘empowering’ people. I don’t go to a museum to be empowered.”

- trustee, City Council member

“I'm closer to the stodgy traditional museum supporter than to the audiences you are currently trying to reach, but I strongly support your outreach and attempts to involve new communities. It is precisely because of that outreach that I finally became a museum member last year. There was no reason to do so before, since the museum was doing nothing. I still have little occasion to go to the museum, but I'm willing to support it as an important community resource.”

-new member

HOW TO FIGHT

HOW TO FIGHT

HOW TO FIGHTstart small

WHAT SMALL INVITATION YOU COULD MAKE TO BE MORE INCLUSIVE?

HOW TO FIGHTstart smallarm yourself

We can accomplish XX part of our mission by doing YY.

rururevolution.blogspot.com

WHAT WEAPON DO YOU HAVE AT YOUR DISPOSAL?

start smallarm yourselfmake space

HOW TO FIGHT

via Beck Tench

WHERE COULD YOU HAVE MORE IMPACT BY MAKING SPACE FOR OTHERS?

start smallarm yourselfmake spacestart within

HOW TO FIGHT

“You’re making being bilingual a criteria for all front-line positions? Whoa. You must lose a lot of good candidates because of that.”

"I used to work at the Science Center. If only the teens would act respectfully and pull up their pants, the rest of us would be just as pleased with the program.”

“But that’s not professional.”

“We’ve always done it that way.”

“Isn’t this just a marketing thing?”

WHAT’S YOUR FIGHT?OPINIONS/ @NINAKSIMON