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|location=Nashville, Tennessee | |location=Nashville, Tennessee | ||
|description_of_content=Four of the artist's videos were banned, including one video of partially clad women passing fruit back and forth with their bodies. | |description_of_content=Four of the artist's videos were banned, including one video of partially clad women passing fruit back and forth with their bodies. | ||
|description_of_incident=After winning the 2006 Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in Media, Rehm was invited to display her work in TAC's gallery. Soon after the videos were sent to be displayed in the exhibit, which was to be called ''New Works'', they were rejected because one video contained partial nudity and the others were "too suggestive." While she was invited to submit some of her older work, the artist, suspecting that | |description_of_incident=After winning the 2006 Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in Media, Rehm was invited to display her work in TAC's gallery. Soon after the videos were sent to be displayed in the exhibit, which was to be called ''New Works'', they were rejected because one video contained partial nudity and the others were "too suggestive." While she was invited to submit some of her older work, the artist, suspecting that they would also be "too suggestive," declined. | ||
|description_of_result=In response to the NCAC's letter of complaint, Tennessee State Attorney General's office sent a letter in reply which stated that the nudity and suggestiveness were not the reasons for rejecting the artworks. Furthermore, the NCAC was informed that the TAC gallery no longer held a no nudity policy. | |description_of_result=In response to the NCAC's letter of complaint, Tennessee State Attorney General's office sent a letter in reply which stated that the nudity and suggestiveness were not the reasons for rejecting the artworks. Furthermore, the NCAC was informed that the TAC gallery no longer held a no nudity policy. | ||
|source=http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/silenced-sexuality/Content?oid=1194706 | |source=http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/silenced-sexuality/Content?oid=1194706 | ||
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