November 7, 2011
BGSU FIRELANDS – Artistic Expression or Obscenity?
Posted by Alissa Widman under Discussions | Tags: art, BGSU, Firelands, First Amendment, Little Gallery, Miller v. California, obscene, Supreme Court |[8] Comments
1. SITUATION Bowling Green State University’s Firelands campus made national news a few years ago concerning an instance of artistic censorship. James Parlin, a University student, constructed a sculpture called “The Middle School Science Teacher Makes a Decision He’ll Live to Regret” that was placed in Firelands’ Little Gallery. The sculpture depicted a female middle […]
