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Table of Contents National Campaign for Freedom of Expression Director's Comment Appendix I: What To Do If it Happens to You Appendix III: Sample Documents
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DIRECTOR'S COMMENT This document represents the work of many individuals who have been involved with the Freedom of Expression struggle much longer than NCFE's humble beginnings in 1990. We realize in releasing this manual we are carrying forward the work that others have done before us. It is our hope that the value to be found in the practical use of this manual will be shared by artists, arts organizations, gallery owners, museum curators, free expression organizations, and the general public. We dedicate this publication to those who continue the struggle in artistic free expression circles, to those whose hearts remain in the free expression struggle and finally, to those who struggle quietly and courageously in their own communities. The visual artist at work in his or her studio or living room carries forth a vision. The dancer who choreographs a dance piece that challenges and moves the audience and the performance artist who looks into his or her own experience and finds a channel for that experience on a stage or in a private space do as well. These artists will often walk down a lonely or muddled path. We want this manual to remind those individuals or organizations who continue to impose their divisive morality on the individual artist, dance troupe, or theater group as a challenge to our democratic ideals of free expression that our visions will carry forth regardless of the barriers placed in our paths. Artists have been targeted as the first to face censorship or eradication in revolutions throughout world history. The artist survives because the vision survives. Gary D. Schwartz |
