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NCAC Art Archive
NCAC promotes and defends the First Amendment values of freedom of thought, inquiry and expression in the Arts through a variety of initiatives. To learn more, explore the reports below or see the Arts Advocacy program.
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Incidents
» 5/01/08 School Principal Removes Student Mural » 3/10/08 Iraqi American Artist Censored » 12/21/07 Lubbock City Officials Letter » 12/21/07 Lubbock City Officials Appologize » 12/19/07 Lubbock City Officials Ban Drawings » 12/05/07 ACLU Files Suit » 12/01/07 Student Cartoons Censored » 12/01/07 Montrose High School Principal Letter » 11/01/07 Public Trash Can Project » 8/01/07 Filmmakers Photographers and Free Speech Advocates Object to Pending New York City » 7/19/07 Art Removed from Courthouse Entrance » 7/06/07 Video Installation Pulled from Display Upon Request by Corporate Sponsor » 7/06/07 Letter to TRAF Festival Director » 6/06/07 Sculpture Restored After Uproar in Michigan » 5/17/07 Tennessee Arts Commission Censors Video Exhibition » 4/06/07 Connecticut Community Center Restores Censored Artwork » 4/05/07 Artwork Removed From State Capitol Building in Austin » 4/04/07 Prominent Playwrights and Free Speech Groups Oppose Censorship of Student Play About Iraq » 3/20/07 ACLU Files Suit » 3/06/07 Art Removed From Show At Community Center » 3/05/07 Art Institute Pulls Student Magazine from Circulation » 2/23/07 NCAC Statement on Footprints Portrait of a Brooklyn Neighborhood at the Brooklyn Central Public Library » 2/23/07 Community Standards vs Free Expression » 1/23/07 Community Standards vs Free Expression » 11/20/06 Tennessee Museum Nixes Fried Flag Installation » 10/15/06 Graphic Novels Face Library Challenge » 9/22/06 Michigan Legislature and Governor Fail to Stand Up for Free Speech » 7/05/06 Nude Public Sculpture » 5/09/06 Brandeis Removes Palestinian Art » 5/08/06 Brooklyn College MFA Show Shut Down » 4/21/06 Acclaimed Japanese Art Book Pulled from Libraries » 3/14/06 Colorado Symposium on Censorship and the Arts April 7-8 2006 » 3/14/06 Colorado Symposium on Censorship and the Arts April 7-8 » 3/03/06 New York Theater Workshop's Self-Censorship » 2/21/06 Paintings with Religious References Removed from Exhibit » 9/13/05 Letter to Lower Manhattan Development Corporation » 3/16/05 Gayla Lemke Hope Stones Returned to Installation » 3/02/05 NCAC Protests Removal of Gayla Lemke Hope Stones » 2/25/05 Exhibition Cancelled then Approved » 1/11/05 Police Forced Artist to Cover Classical Image of Nude Eve » 1/11/05 No Nudes Allowed in Texas » 1/06/05 Letter to NYC Parks Dept About New Public Art Program Rules » 12/20/04 Bush Monkeys by Chris Savido Cancels Exhibition » 8/23/04 Open Letter to Dean of FineArts at ASU » 8/23/04 Open Letter to Dean of Fine Arts at ASU » 8/23/04 AZ State Univ Balances Exhibition by Removing Art » 8/16/04 Letter Protesting Denver International Airport Censorship » 8/16/04 Groups Protest Denver International Airport Censorship » 8/10/04 Nat'l Tom Forsythe Food Chain Barbie Photos » 8/10/04 Nat'l Tom Forsythe Food Chain Barbie » 6/29/04 Steve Kurtz Indictment » 6/22/04 Steve Kurtz Article by Bruce Jackson » 6/17/04 Continuing Investigation of Steve Kurtz » 2/11/04 laxarticle LAX Art Spurs Flap Over What Is Proper » 2/11/04 LAX Art Spurs Flap Over What Is Proper » 11/20/03 Superimposer Removed » 11/20/03 Letter About Censored Political Art in Fairfield CA » 10/09/03 Free Speech Groups Protest Nevada County Art Censorship » 10/01/03 Nevada County Art Show Cancelled Because of Nudes » 4/24/03 NCAC Protests Censorship of Student Art at the University of Central Oklahoma » 4/22/03 NCAC Letter Protesting Removal of Student Artwork at the University of Central Oklahoma » 3/05/03 Arts Advocacy » 3/05/03 Letter to Postmaster John Viola to Restore the Hype Park Artist of the Month Program » 3/01/03 Touring of Play Cancelled » 9/23/02 Making Art After September 11th » 3/21/02 NCAC Letter to the TN Arts Commission » 2/06/02 Statues Covered with Drapes » 1/07/02 Nat'l Catholic League Objects to Traditional Figurines in Art Installation » 1/02/02 Nat'l Some Questions Raised By The Latest National Endowment for the Arts Grant Making Decisions » 11/03/01 Letter to Postmaster John Viola to Restore the Hype Park Artist of the Month Program » 11/03/01 Fatgirl Painting Removed » 10/11/01 Free Speech Groups - Artists Protest Removal of Exhibit by LA and Watts Tower Arts Center » 9/27/01 Bryn Athyn Pa - Where Artists Censor Art » 9/27/01 Male Nude Proves Too Realistic for California Art League » 9/06/01 NCAC Letter to the Albany Times Union About the Vagina Monologues » 8/03/01 Joy Crane's Chastity Belt Circa 2001 in South Dakota » 8/03/01 Los Angeles International Airport Controversy Over Public Art » 7/24/01 Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi Under Attack in Indiana » 7/13/01 Censored Gay Pride Exhibit at the Loussac Library in Anchorage Alaska Reinstalled » 6/13/01 Mayor Removes Pride Exhibit » 5/30/01 Mice and Men Cancelled » 5/25/01 Alma Lopez's Our Lady Update » 4/13/01 Alma Lopez's Our Lady » 3/21/01 Censorship of Curatorial Discretion » 3/21/01 NCAC Slams TN Arts Commission's No Nudes Policy » 3/21/01 Censorship not Curatorial Discretion » 8/01/00 Butterfly Painting Removed from Art Show » 9/30/99 Groups Applaud Brooklyn Museum of Art » 3/15/99 Nat'l NCAC and Other Natl Groups Oppose Censorship of Children's Book by the NEA » 1/01/99 Giuliani Decency
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