Description of Incident: The Betty Clark-Cannon Gallery accepted the exhibit. After its opening, the gallery's owner, Betty Clark-Cannon, suggested that the pieces were "sick" and "degrading to women," and insisted that the nude works be removed. The gallery's curator, Ken Foster, asked to wait for the gallery board to make a decision. The buiding manager removed the entire exhibit and placed it in a storage closet.

Results of Incident: A week later the board met and agreed to replace the "less controversial" pieces. The artists removed some of their works voluntarily in protest.

Description of Incident: Town hall employees complained and anonymously covered the nude works. Some complained that the nudes were inappropriate for the work place. These employees asked that the council enact a policy restricting nudes.

Results of Incident: The proposed restritions were ruled unconstitutional. The town's Board of Selectmen decided to install works on free standing walls that can be positioned so employees are not forced to view them.

Description of Incident: Angeli brought her film to Zoni Photographic Labs for development. A lab employee viewed the works and feared that if the photos were found to be pornographic, the lab would be held liable. Investigators arrived and insisted that they be notified when Angeli came to retrieve he photos. When she arrived the lab refused to return her prints and called the police.

Results of Incident: After a brief, physical, confrontation at the lab, Angeli was arrested for destruction of property and assault and battery; she served 30 days in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution. She was not charged with child pornography.

Description of Incident: "Exquisite Community" was assembled on the side of a university building for an arts festival, after recieving a permit. The director of planning and administrative services, Richard Gibson, ordered the paintings removed, hours after they were installed. Gibson claimed that they violated the University's policy prohibiting the attachent of materials to the outside of buildings. Police were called to remove the paintings.

Results of Incident: The artists have requested compensation for pieces damaged in the removal. The Iowa District Attorney is processing the request.

Description of Incident: The two-week exhibit and supporting panel discussion was planned to heighten awareness for alternative lifestyles at Peabody Elementary School. Before the exhibit's installation, Superintendent Mary Lou McGrath, received an anonymous letter requesting the exhibit's cancellation.

Results of Incident: The district's school committee held a public meeting to gather input from teachers, parents and other community members about issues surrounding the exhibit. The committee reaffirmed its decision to host the exhibit.

Description of Incident: Olschewski and his wife offered the gallery owner, Glenn Johnson, several pieces to display. Johnson accepted three pieces and hung them in his gallery. Johnson removed "Before Take-off" after receiving complaints from employees and customers. Three months later Olschewski was notified that his piece "spent more time in the back room than on display." The Olschewskis removed their pieces from the gallery.

Results of Incident: Evelyn Oschewski wrote the local paper describing the situation. Johnson defended his actions as his curatorial decision.

Description of Incident: After the necessary permits were obtained, the paintings were attached to an outside wall of a university building as the backdrop for a campus event promoting fine arts. However, the director of planning and administrative services, Richard Gibson, ordered the pieces removed, claiming that they violated the schools policy prohibiting the attachment of materials to the outside of university buildings. Police also suggested that people called to complain about the paintings. The police removed the paintings from the buildings.

Results of Incident: The artists have requested compensation for the panels damaged during removal. The Iowa State Attorney General's office is processing the request.

Description of Incident: One day after the exhibit's installation, a parent complained that the posters were too graphic for elementary school children and that the nudity in the depiction of holocaust victims was inappropriate.

Results of Incident: Stanley Brookes, the school's principal, ordered the removal of the exhibit. The exhibit went to another school.

Description of Incident: The school's art instructor, Richard Sharpe, chose Halko's drawing for an exhibit recognizing students for their academic achievements. Hours before the awards ceremony and exhibit were scheduled to begin, Assistant Principal, Donald Siffon, ordered Sharpe to remove Halko's drawing, suggesting that the nude image was inappropriate and potentially offensive to exhibit attendees. Siffon removed the work himself.

Results of Incident: Several students protested the piece's removal. Halko's parents threatened to call the police if the work was not returned. Principal William Roberts returned the piece and told Halko to remove it from school grounds. Halko contacted the ACLU, who advised the school to develop a policy to prevent such removals.

Description of Incident: The Artworks Gallery, Inc., invited Hallier to exhibit his sculpture in the lobby outside of the organization's gallery, which they share with an Army and Air Force recruiting center. Parents of enlistees requested that the recruiters cover or remove the sculpture. A senior military official contacted Judith Green, the executive director of the Artworks Gallery, and demanded that she remove the piece.

Results of Incident: Green and the Connecticut Sculptors' Guild director, Arnold Austad, insisted that the piece stay until the end of its exhibit. Since complaints continued, Green and Austad moved the sculpture to a basement cafe.

Description of Incident: Mesple displayed his drawing in the Berthoud Community Center, which is leased by the Berthoud Fire Protection District, at the request of the center director Elnora McCloughan. McCloughan assured Mesple that his drawings were appropriate for the exhibit. Shortly after the exhibit's installation, senior citizens complained to the fire chief that the drawing were inappropriate for children visiting the center. The fire chief viewed the images and ordered them removed.

Results of Incident: The fire protection district board began to develop a policy defining specific uses for district owned buildings.

Description of Incident: "Art Daze" is a one day event sponsored by the Willets Community Theater. The event coordinator, Connie Vodika, invited Jackson to exhibit her work. When the board's chairperson viewed Jackson's work she ordered it removed suggesting that it was inappropriate for the family oriented event.

Results of Incident: Jackson wrote a letter to the ACLU who advised the theater group to establish a review policy for future events.

Description of Incident: Eight of Cawley's works were hastily chosen to replace a student exhibit that was unexpectedly cancelled. During the installation of the work, university administrators informed Cawley that a cover and a sign explaining that the director of student life considered the penis on his sculpture inappropriate would accompany the sculpture. After a story on the covered piece appeared in the local paper, administrators moved the sculpture to a storage closet.

Results of Incident: President of University Programs, Brian Jackson, suggested that the work was removed only because it had not been reviewed by the selection committee prior to its installation, although several other works that had not been reviewed remaied on display. The sculpture remained locked in a closet for the remainder of the show.

Description of Incident: Meads' exhibit collaborated with the university's performance of John Ford's, "Tis Pity She's a Whore," because the works deal with social and religious taboos. The day before the exhibit's opening, several faculty members suggested that the pieces be removed because they may offend theater patrons and incite controversy.

Results of Incident: After several investigations and meetings between the dean of liberal arts and members of the theater department, the works were allowed to stay. However, fearing that his work could cost the theater and art departments future funding, Meads decided to remove his exhibit.

Description of Incident: New Orleans' officials attempted to ban glow sticks, vapour rub and pacifiers from use at rave parties because of their alleged association with drug use.

Results of Incident: The U.S. District Court ruled that legal items could not be prohibited because of their association with illegal activities. According to Judge Thomas Porteous, this violated the party-goers First Amendment rights.