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  • Colorado: State-funded sex-toy art upsets governor

    07/28/2005 9:48:51 AM PDT · by lainie · 45 replies · 831+ views
    9News via Denver Post ^ | 7/21/2005 | Paula Woodward and Nicole Vap
    Gov. Bill Owens is weighing in on the debate over an artist given a $5,000 state fellowship grant, after hearing about the works of art that depict sex toys on hooks. "Obviously, this is offensive and in extremely poor taste," said Owens, who couldn't view the piece himself but had it described to him by staffers. The governor is in New York for an awards ceremony for the University of Northern Colorado Business School. The artist, Tsehai Johnson of Denver, received the fellowship from the Colorado Council on the Arts in 2003. The work, originally titled "Twelve Dildos on Hooks"...