Annie Sprinkle
- Artist/Author/Producer: Annie Sprinkle
- Confronting Bodies: Rev. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association
- Dates of action: 1991
- Location: Baltimore, MD and New York City
- Description of the Art Work
- Annie Sprinkle's performance art and video screenings.
- Description of incident
- The American Family Association's Rev. Donald Wildmon sought to link the
controversial performances to the NEA even though the performances were
entirely paid for privately. Wildmon's challenges employed a complicated
and distorted tracing of NEA funding for facilities in which Sprinkle
appeared. The AFA cited Sprinkle performances as examples of NEA funding
to help support anti-Christian bigotry and pornography in Baltimore's
Maryland Art Place (MAP) and New York's The Kitchen art space. MAP had
received $10,000 from the NEA, but all funding for the show came from
ticket sales, while neither The Kitchen nor Sprinkle have ever received
NEA funding.
- Results of incident
- The American Family Association continues reaching for new tactics of
censorship.
Source: Artistic Freedom Under Attack 1992
