Artist Sues Town for Canceling Residency Over Her Views on Gaza War

[Hume]

The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado has sued the town of Vail on behalf of a Native American artist, claiming it violated her First Amendment rights when it abruptly canceled an artist residency she had been offered after she posted to social media a painting about her views on the war in Gaza.

The painting depicted a woman wearing a Palestinian kaffiyeh and a feather, and it was entitled “G Is for Genocide.” In March, the artist, Danielle SeeWalker, shared a photo of it on Instagram with the caption, “Some days, I have overwhelming grief + guilt for walking around privileged while people in Gaza are suffering for no reason.”

Artist Sues Town for Canceling Residency Over Her Views on Gaza War

The American Civil Liberties Union has sued Vail, Colo., on behalf of a Native American artist who painted a work entitled “G Is for Genocide.”

www.nytimes.com

 

[Hawkeye10]

The Constitution is over....please do learn this far....stupid hurts in this particular universe.

 

[Hume]

The Constitution is over....please do learn this far....stupid hurts in this particular universe.

get off drugs and alcohol. Nothing you write makes sense.

 

[Hawkeye10]

get off drugs and alcohol. Nothing you write makes sense.

If you are telling the truth, which is not likely, then you are a Prince of the Modern Morons.

Either way I have no sympathy for you.....for what is coming....you were well warned.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado has sued the town of Vail on behalf of a Native American artist, claiming it violated her First Amendment rights when it abruptly canceled an artist residency she had been offered after she posted to social media a painting about her views on the war in Gaza.

The painting depicted a woman wearing a Palestinian kaffiyeh and a feather, and it was entitled “G Is for Genocide.” In March, the artist, Danielle SeeWalker, shared a photo of it on Instagram with the caption, “Some days, I have overwhelming grief + guilt for walking around privileged while people in Gaza are suffering for no reason.”

Artist Sues Town for Canceling Residency Over Her Views on Gaza War

The American Civil Liberties Union has sued Vail, Colo., on behalf of a Native American artist who painted a work entitled “G Is for Genocide.”

www.nytimes.com

She's full of shit. The city was paying her to create art for them. If the city doesn't like the art she creates, they can cancel the contract. She doesn't get to make whatever she wants if that's not in her contract.

 

[Hume]

She's full of shit. The city was paying her to create art for them. If the city doesn't like the art she creates, they can cancel the contract. She doesn't get to make whatever she wants if that's not in her contract.

"Two month later, town officials told SeeWalker, 41, that her residency through Vail’s Art in Public Places program, which was scheduled to last 10 days in June while she completed a mural in the town, had been terminated because the painting had angered some in the local Jewish community, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court last week.

 

[Hume]

The fallout from SeeWalker’s painting is the latest in a string of incidents involving criticism of Israel that have roiled the art world, raising questions over freedom of speech among artists, writers, museum employees, actors and others who oppose Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza.

Artist Sues Town for Canceling Residency Over Her Views on Gaza War

The American Civil Liberties Union has sued Vail, Colo., on behalf of a Native American artist who painted a work entitled “G Is for Genocide.”

www.nytimes.com

 

[T. A. Gardner]

The fallout from SeeWalker’s painting is the latest in a string of incidents involving criticism of Israel that have roiled the art world, raising questions over freedom of speech among artists, writers, museum employees, actors and others who oppose Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza.

Artist Sues Town for Canceling Residency Over Her Views on Gaza War

The American Civil Liberties Union has sued Vail, Colo., on behalf of a Native American artist who painted a work entitled “G Is for Genocide.”

www.nytimes.com

No, you don't have the freedom to say whatever the hell you want on your employer's dime or time. Try this one. An employee decides to get swastikas tattooed on their forehead and arms where they're visible at work. Does the employer have a right to make them cover them up, or even possibly fire them for it?

 

[serendipity]

You won't be hearing anymore from him again on this subject.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

"Two month later, town officials told SeeWalker, 41, that her residency through Vail’s Art in Public Places program, which was scheduled to last 10 days in June while she completed a mural in the town, had been terminated because the painting had angered some in the local Jewish community, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court last week.

She painted the mural on the public's and city's dime. If they don't like what she produced, they can fire her. Which part of this don't you get? If she painted a lewd, pornographic mural, the city could fire her for that. We can't have that on public display... This is no different. Your mural is considered racist by social standards. We can't have that on display in our city...

Her political opinions are not paid for by the city. There are limits to speech and they are more limited when you are being paid by someone else and they say 'no' to them.

 

[volsrock1]

The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado has sued the town of Vail on behalf of a Native American artist, claiming it violated her First Amendment rights when it abruptly canceled an artist residency she had been offered after she posted to social media a painting about her views on the war in Gaza.

The painting depicted a woman wearing a Palestinian kaffiyeh and a feather, and it was entitled “G Is for Genocide.” In March, the artist, Danielle SeeWalker, shared a photo of it on Instagram with the caption, “Some days, I have overwhelming grief + guilt for walking around privileged while people in Gaza are suffering for no reason.”

Artist Sues Town for Canceling Residency Over Her Views on Gaza War

The American Civil Liberties Union has sued Vail, Colo., on behalf of a Native American artist who painted a work entitled “G Is for Genocide.”

www.nytimes.com

I guess if she had painted a Swastika they city should have said...that's great

 

[Earl]

She painted the mural on the public's and city's dime. If they don't like what she produced, they can fire her. Which part of this don't you get? If she painted a lewd, pornographic mural, the city could fire her for that. We can't have that on public display... This is no different. Your mural is considered racist by social standards. We can't have that on display in our city...

Her political opinions are not paid for by the city. There are limits to speech and they are more limited when you are being paid by someone else and they say 'no' to them.

Indeed.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado has sued the town of Vail on behalf of a Native American artist, claiming it violated her First Amendment rights when it abruptly canceled an artist residency she had been offered after she posted to social media a painting about her views on the war in Gaza.

The painting depicted a woman wearing a Palestinian kaffiyeh and a feather, and it was entitled “G Is for Genocide.” In March, the artist, Danielle SeeWalker, shared a photo of it on Instagram with the caption, “Some days, I have overwhelming grief + guilt for walking around privileged while people in Gaza are suffering for no reason.”

Artist Sues Town for Canceling Residency Over Her Views on Gaza War

The American Civil Liberties Union has sued Vail, Colo., on behalf of a Native American artist who painted a work entitled “G Is for Genocide.”

www.nytimes.com

They are suffering because they've backed terrorism against Israel for several decades now. They only want a ceasefire, not a peace treaty since they won't let go of the genocide of Jews with their "From the River to the Sea" maxim.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

I wonder...

I she refused to bake a gay marriage wedding cake...