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|year=2016
|year=2016
|region=North America
|region=North America
|artist=Nicole Touchet,
|artist=Andrea Gonzalez and Meghan Callahan-Scarcella,
|subject=Nudity
|subject=Nudity, Political/Economic/Social Opinion
|confronting_bodies=Property One, Inc.
|confronting_bodies=Susan E. Wagner High School
|medium=Painting
|medium=Mixed Media, Public Art, Photography
|date_of_action=March 2016
|date_of_action=May 2016
|location=Lafayette, LA
|location=Susan E. Wagner High School, Staten Island, NY
|description_of_content=Nicole Touchet launched Galerie Touchet in downtown Lafayette, Louisiana to showcase the work of emerging local artists, including herself. For the annual March ArtWalk, Touchet mounted a solo exhibition of her own paintings: large-scale nude self-portraits.
|description_of_content=For a student exhibition in the lobby of Susan E. Wagner High School in Staten Island, Meghan Callahan-Scarcella and Andrea Gonzalez, classmates and best friends, collaborated on a photo-collage project to address sexual consent and rape culture. Callahan-Scarcella shot a photograph of the bare back of Gonzalez, and they superimposed texts such as "No Means No," "You Don't Own Me," "My Body, My Rules," and so on.
|description_of_incident=After the show opened, Touchet received an email from Property One, Inc., the building management company, demanding that she remove her work: “You have to take down the nude pictures you have in your gallery. Part of the agreement to rent you the space was to not display nude pictures.” Instead of removing her work, Touchet covered the nudes up with cut-out newspaper bikinis, then posted a sign on the front window: “Censored by Management.
|description_of_incident=The photo-collage was removed from the exhibition due to its depiction of Gonzalez's bare back. Students and parents alike were outraged by the artwork's removal. (May 11): NCAC sent a letter of protest to the school's principal.
|description_of_result=The artists and small businesses of Lafayette rallied around the cause of freedom of expression with a city-wide Nude ArtWalk and 'Free the Nipple' campaign. Touchet closed her gallery once the lease was up and moved to New Orleans.
|description_of_result=To protest the censorship, students circulated a petition at school, and then an online petition was created. At first, the administration justified removal of the work with the bizarre claim that it was a violation of the school's dress code. Later, in a meeting with Student Government, Principal Giordano explained that the age of the model in the photograph (Gonzalez is 15) was his reason for removing it, despite the fact the image is patently non-obscene and non-pornographic. Callahan-Scarcella and Gonzalez later agreed to re-shoot the photograph with Gonzalez wearing a t-shirt, using the same messages. The revised work was returned to the exhibition.
|image=Touchet3.jpg
|image=050716statenislandconsent.jpg
|source=https://www.instagram.com/p/BDlwilBly-v/?taken-by=nicolbeth
|source=http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/05/susan_wagner_students_react_to.html
}}
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[http://theind.com/article-22967-Lafayette-artist-ordered-to-cover-nudes.html Lafayette artist ordered to cover nudes, by Walter Pierce, April 1, 2016]
[http://ncac.org/letters/staten-island-high-school-art-students-told-to-clothe-their-anti-rape-artwork Staten Island High School Art Students Told to Clothe their Anti-Rape Artwork, MAY 9, 2016]
 
[http://ncac.org/blog/shameless-in-lafayette-nude-artwalk NCAC Statement: The Human Body is Not an Object of Shame: The National Coalition Against Censorship Salutes Nude ArtWalk]
 
[http://ncac.org/blog/free-the-nipple-nude-paintings-raise-temperatures Free the Nipple: Nude Paintings Raise Temperatures in Lafayette]





Revision as of 15:46, 27 March 2017

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Artist: Andrea Gonzalez and Meghan Callahan-Scarcella

Year: 2016

Date of Action: May 2016

Region: North America

Location: Susan E. Wagner High School, Staten Island, NY

Subject: Nudity, Political/Economic/Social Opinion

Medium: Mixed Media, Public Art, Photography

Confronting Bodies: Susan E. Wagner High School

Description of Artwork: For a student exhibition in the lobby of Susan E. Wagner High School in Staten Island, Meghan Callahan-Scarcella and Andrea Gonzalez, classmates and best friends, collaborated on a photo-collage project to address sexual consent and rape culture. Callahan-Scarcella shot a photograph of the bare back of Gonzalez, and they superimposed texts such as "No Means No," "You Don't Own Me," "My Body, My Rules," and so on.

The Incident: The photo-collage was removed from the exhibition due to its depiction of Gonzalez's bare back. Students and parents alike were outraged by the artwork's removal. (May 11): NCAC sent a letter of protest to the school's principal.

Results of Incident: To protest the censorship, students circulated a petition at school, and then an online petition was created. At first, the administration justified removal of the work with the bizarre claim that it was a violation of the school's dress code. Later, in a meeting with Student Government, Principal Giordano explained that the age of the model in the photograph (Gonzalez is 15) was his reason for removing it, despite the fact the image is patently non-obscene and non-pornographic. Callahan-Scarcella and Gonzalez later agreed to re-shoot the photograph with Gonzalez wearing a t-shirt, using the same messages. The revised work was returned to the exhibition.

Source:
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/05/susan_wagner_students_react_to.html



Staten Island High School Art Students Told to Clothe their Anti-Rape Artwork, MAY 9, 2016
















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