Lily Hamilton - An Ethics of Engagement - Week 5 Assignment

• Highlight 3 insights that your reading has helped bring to the surface. Use specific text evidence to link your insights.
• One insight is when Downey spoke about doing art with no purpose. 
• Another thing, related the first, was when the author was talking about making art when it is detrimental to another human being a group of people is equally, and in my opinion more, terrible as making art that has no purpose. 
• The last is when Downey mentioned people not being given credit for their participation in art; like the boys in the photograph from Ghana.
•  If you could ask the author 3 questions,  what questions might those be?
• What are some possible solutions to stop exploitation of artistic collaborators? 
• Is compensation always financial; does compensation come in any form other than material goods and money? 
• How would you suggest to educate artists about how to be more mindful when collaborating?
• What applications might this work have to your understanding of an ethical approach to community-engaged arts?
• A point that Downey hits over and over again throughout the piece, is that all collaborative art must be consensual. So I think that always making sure everyone involved in an artistic process is comfortable and happy with the way things are being handled is the first step in that. 
• Consider the work we have been exploring this semester thus far.  Choose one artist or project that resonated with you. What ethical considerations were in place on this project?
• I think that The Roof is on Fire is an interesting piece to look at regarding this reading. I think that because the creators had the students/performers in a kind of writer role it created an environment where the students had a lot of power. They weren't censored or told to say certain things they just got to talk about what they cared about.