s c r i t c h s c r a t c h s c r i t c h How can I make sense and meaning out of qualitative fieldwork and community art? Can I make work that is congrent with the pressures of the academy?What about stuff that is accessible???Texts for audiences beyond the ivory tower??? What about real social change?WHat about policy?What about art? What about others?????????????? Ahem... Acti vism, Ar t, and Public Scholarship Therearesom eissu esthatIreallycareabou t.Id on’twanttoleavethem behind whenIgotowork.OurJusticesystem is broken T h e r e a r e 1.5m i lli o nc h i ld r e nw i t h a p a r e n ti np r i s o n I m i s sm y ki d s Can I combine activism, scholarship and artmaking in a way that, “Contribute(s) to the public good and yield(s) artifacts of public and intellectual value” (Ellison &Eatman, 2008)? ScholarBy Rachel Marie Crane Williams and or and or