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====Date: [[:Category:1985 - 1995|1985 - 1995]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]====

====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|{location3}]]====

====Subject: [[:Category:Nudity|Nudity]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]====

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'''Artist:''' Maxine Henderson

'''Confronting Bodies:''' Laurie Crowder, an assistant superintendent for Murfreesboro City Schools; City Officials

'''Dates of Action:''' October 1995

'''Location:''' City Hall rotunda, Murfreesboro, Tennessee

'''Description of Artwork:''' This oil painting depicts a seated nude woman with crossed arms and legs; one of her breasts is partially exposed.

'''The Incident:''' After viewing the painting, Laurie Crowder submitted a sexual harassment complaint to the city Legal Department.  She claimed that City Hall was her workplace, and the painting made it a hostile environment.  City officials therefore removed the painting

'''Results of Incident:''' Henderson filed a suit against the city for violating her First Amendment rights. On March 27, 1997, a U.S. district judge ruled in favor of Henderson, noting the fact that it was a public space.  The city's art policy was changed to give the city manager, who enforces harassment policies, final say over rotunda displays.

'''Source:''' The Tennessean, 3.1.96, Time Magazine, 3.23.98, NCAC

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