Untying A Knot: A Model For Making Community Murals
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CHALL CHALLENGES LLENGES FOR THE ARTIST
Living as a temporary visitor in the tough places in the world has serious challenges. Being unprepared can result in an artist's failure to complete a project or prompt her to quit a scene altogether. Confidence, goodwill, and intelligence are necessary tools for entering a cross-cultural arts project, but they need to be supplemented with training, preparation, and local help in order to sustain someone in the challenges listed here.
Living Conditions Everyone has latent expectations that the accommodations they encounter will be similar or interpretable through their prior life experience. While basic lessons of fairness and safety should be retained during travel, other familiarities of lifestyle will probably be absent. Life eked out of difficult circumstances cannot afford what some would define as optimal arrangements. Mobile art facilitators should be prepared for coed housing,
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