Challenges, Complexities, and Limitations
While engaging in social activist art within the community, there will be issues such as the following:
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Short-term, easily fundable community engagement programming due to financial sustainability issues.
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Recognition and access barriers from the institutional gatekeeping of the arts and education.
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Possible cultural misappropriations when outside practitioners do not adequately understand the community.
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Challenges in documentation and assessment from the community's need for privacy versus the need for scholarship exposure.
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Tokenism and instrumentalization risk when Diversity Initiatives from Institutions create Community Partnerships without an authentic transfer of decision-making.

