art or community outreach?

Croce suggests that Bill T Jones’s “Still/Here” is not art but community outreach. “In those years, art and art appreciation were unquestioned good things to support, and “community outreach” had its own program.” And “People for whom art is too fine, too high, too educational, too complicated may find themselves turning with relief to the new tribe of victim artists parading their wounds. They don’t care whether it’s an art form.” If that was so, the piece in question could be compared to Philadelphia’s Mural Arts program or prison theater. Both take the form of art but serve a different purpose, therefore the question to ask is what is the purpose the work? Community outreach programs have a specific purpose to rehab or provide therapy for the makers. Although the work in question may serve this purpose, it seems to be more than this.