Artwork with Confederate Flag Removed from Exhibit
OAKWOOD, Ga. - A college president says she ordered an instructor's painting removed from a faculty art exhibit amid controversy about the piece, which features a Confederate flag.
The Athens Banner-Herald reports that the flag is superimposed on images that include a hanged black man and a hooded Ku Klux Klansman.
Gainesville State College President Martha Nesbitt said in a news release that she had to consider the impact on the health and reputation of the institution.
Athens artist Stan Bermudez, who created the piece, says the painting was ordered to be removed Jan. 25. He said that was two weeks after it went on display in the faculty art show, which ends Friday.
Bermudez told the newspaper the painting represents some of the feelings he associates with the Confederate flag.
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