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NCAC Urges New York State School District to Allow Students with Differing Views to Display Art on Controversial Issues

By |February 24th, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , |

NCAC is urging Eastport-South Manor Central School District in Manorville, New York, to allow students of differing views to display art on school grounds.

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NCAC Objects to Removal of Student’s LGBTQ Artwork in Georgia School | Updated

By |February 1st, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , |

School officials in Athens, Georgia, removed student artwork celebrating gay rights and compared displaying a rainbow flag to displaying a swastika in the classroom.

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New Jersey School Censors Student’s Black Lives Matter Poster in African American Culture Display | Updated

By |November 19th, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , |

A student’s Black Lives Matter poster was censored at Hillsborough Middle School in New Jersey because of apparent disagreement with the political views it expressed.

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NCAC Criticizes Brooklyn School’s Censorship of Student Mural | UPDATED

By |November 15th, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: , , , |

The principal at the elementary school in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood removed a mural created by several fifth graders because of apparent discomfort with some of its content.

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Northampton Arts Council Wrong to Cancel Biennial Over Criticism from Indigenous Artist

By |November 1st, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: |

The Northampton Arts Council cancelled its 2021 biennial exhibition days before it was to open following criticism from an Indigenous artist about a particular work and the overall selection process.

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Artists, Curators and Advocates Condemn Florida Mayor’s Political Censorship of Coral Gables Public Art Show

By |September 22nd, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: , , |

In July 2021, echoing the rhetoric of the 1950s McCarthy era and in flagrant disregard of fundamental constitutional principles, Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago urged the city’s commissioners to condition city funding for Illuminate Coral Gables, a public art show, on the exclusion of two of the participating artists because of their purported political views. As artists, arts professionals and free speech organizations we are deeply troubled by demands to censor a public art show so as to penalize political viewpoints.

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