Art Journal invited the artist Ernesto Pujol to discuss artists' residencies, which have been the subject of several articles over the past year.

There is a growing national trend to invite visual artists to participate in what I call open-process museum-based residencies. The challenging educational goals of many of these new residencies are to translate contemporary art for mainstream audiences, which often perceive it as a hermetic language, and to engage people of color from previously untapped working-class communities and recent immigrant populations.

http://www.questia.com/library/1P3-82450622/the-artist-as-educator-challenges-in-museum-based