Monumental Resistance: Stonewall, (24 hours standing at Stonewall), still image from timelapse video, 2018 (1) In the past year and a half, the federal government’s efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ cultural expression have been unmistakeable, yet the blueprint for these censorship pressures has long been fomenting in states like Florida and Texas, where where challenges to [...]
In March of 2023 Michelle Hartney’s collaborative mixed media installation work titled Unplanned Parenthood was met with censorship in Idaho. In March 2025, calls for censoring the work nearly succeeded again in Illinois. Hartney met with ACAP Director Elizabeth Larison and shared more about the project, and why she believes some audiences are afraid of its powerful message. He [...]
Danielle SeeWalker, Buffalo Run, 2023. Mural commissioned for the Brown International Academy in Denver, CO. Arts & Culture Advocacy Program: A couple of months ago, news outlets reported on the cancellation of your artist residency with Art in Public Places in Vail, Colorado. How did the residency first come about? Danielle SeeWalker: In January of this year I [...]
