After announcing that she would create a separate arts organization under her control, Mayor Muriel Bowser changed the locks on the storage area that houses the commission’s prized art collection, preventing staff from accessing it.
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Will Washington DC’s Art Commission Fall Victim to a Fight Between the Mayor and City Council?
When an ambitious roadmap for transforming Washington DC into an arts mecca was unveiled last month, it should have been a political coup; instead, it may have triggered a political collapse.
DC Commission Reverses Course After Attempt to Censor Artists
The mayor’s office rescinded the controversial amendment, and grantees have received a letter explaining it as an “over-correction” just moments after the censorship push made national headlines.
Artists Accuse DC Arts Commission of Censoring Free Speech for Grant Money
The Commission recently told its grantees that it could terminate any funding interpreted as “lewd, lascivious, vulgar, overtly political, and/or excessively violent.” The ACLU may sue on First Amendment grounds if the language is not repealed.