Observations that were brought up about the reading as I read Grant H. Kester's article. On page.8, Kester brings up the point that when a community artist collaborates with a community that they to a degree give up some of their own creative autonomy over the project. This is important because an artist coming from outside the community may see the community in a different light than what the community see's themselves. An outside artist has the ability to create work that may define how people see the community so it should have input from the community itself.

In the subject II: MALLEABLE SUBJECTS AND MORAL PEDAGOGY. Kester begins to portray conservatives in a way that seems that they despise and attack arts as it contributes to values of lazy American's who do not make an adequate living and will rely on welfare. "It is not coincidental that the two primary areas of conservative attack, at least until the recent assault on the "gay agenda," have been welfare and arts funding." - Kester. While it is apparent that conservative priorities do not focus on the arts. It comes across that Kester has not made support in communities that make up conservatives.

In the piece "Soul Shadows" derived from young inmates to create a ""scared straight" experience for so-called "Youth at Risk...", I believe that this project focused too much on creating a piece that truly spoke to this community rather that it placed its focus on the community to allow the experience be created from them. This seemed to have been going in the direction to replicate a specific idea.

"The artist becomes a channel or medium for the congealed residues of both their own and other people's experiences of social oppression." on page 25. This is a very agreeable statement made about the power of the artist. The artist coming into a community can give a voice to those of the oppressed and incite the community on the importance of issues. They even how the power to change the way people think.