Community engagement is a long-term process, often exceeding the life of the tangible art that is created. Our challenge is to find ways to maintain the relationship to the communities we enter. Shifting the focus of our goals and desired outcomes from the art to the people, from the product to the process. The subtle shifts of in the behaviors, minds and hearts of collaborators in community-engaged art making (to me) is the real outcome of our work. Supporting that growth through art (by any means necessary) is our ultimate challenge.
