Parma censors by Melissa Jay Craig, 1986
This was ex-Clevelander and current Chicago pulp sculptress Melissa Jay Craig’s postcard comment on my being censored by Tri-C West on Parents’ Day 1986.
She’s comparing the censors’ brain size to mine.
A Plain Dealer article on it mentioned:
A rapid-fire sequence of events culminated in what one observer described as “the best happening I’ve seen in years” at the opening that night. Many people who were present didn’t know what was going on in the confusion; reports vastly differed.
According to both Smith and gallery co-director David Vargo , Smith agreed to the removal of the disputed works but insisted on a notification of censorship in their place. When these were removed by a school official, Smith said he wrote “censored” in the blanks on the wall with a ball point pen.
Here’s the rest of the article . . . agentofchaos.com/review1986.html.