Censorship Forum Set for San Diego

A group of San Diego artists has scheduled a public forum--paid for under a National Endowment for the Arts grant issued to support a public education campaign dealing with censorship issues--for Sunday titled “Art: Framed, Censorship and the NEA, 1989.”

It will last from noon to 3 p.m. and be at the Installation Gallery, 930 E St., San Diego.

The program will include an appearance by Elizabeth Sisco, a San Diego artist who resigned from an NEA visual arts review panel last month to protest the endowment’s withdrawal of a grant--later reinstated--for an AIDS-related art show in New York City.

Sisco said the program was not intended to be directly provocative. But a press release announcing it said the NEA-funded program will address the question “Is art which dares to criticize too much art for the U.S. government to support?”