"We're not going to hang pictures of our students nude"

[ckeaton]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 10:42am

A Colorado Springs School gets real nervous about artistic expression. What do you think?

Newspaper Article

[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 10:57am

ridiculous.......and this is the part that really bothers me

Meanwhile, Eichengreen’s research workbook, which contained the original photographs, was confiscated and given to the school’s on-site police officer, who passed them to the Police Department’s sex-crimes unit. Aside from the privacy issues involving the subject, it is illegal to bring pornography onto school grounds.

It's ART, not porn......

[ckeaton]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 11:05am

I'm assuming that the subject was of age, due to the fact that it doesn't mention problems along those lines, but it seems like a gross overreaction, none the less.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 11:49am

It's Colorado Springs. If the administration hadn't kicked up a fuss, you can bet Focus on the Family would have. What with them and Marilyn Musgrave, I kinda hate living in Colorado sometimes...

[Craig]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 12:17pm

Not that I agree with the school's decision, but the artist is better off having had this controversy and the publicity. Had she just shown the work in the school, her audience would have been a great deal smaller. In truth, they only helped her increase her "reach"

[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 12:18pm

very true Craig.....