Charlotte Murphy, Roberto Bedoya, Holly Block, Pat Murphy, Joe Matuzak, Sylvia Orozco, Rudy Gugliemo, Cee Scott Brown, Fred Wilson, Marilyn Arsem, Jeff Gates, Julyen Norman, Betty Napolitan, Keith Antar Mason, Jon Winet, Penny Boyer, Victoria Reis, Agnes Gund, Inverna Lockpez, Alec Baldwin, Eric Bogosian, Bob Buck, Chuck Close, Mary Hays, Arthur Levitt, Donald Moffett, Christopher Reeve, Barbara Tate, Steve Tennen, Danny Tisdale, Kathleen Turner, Randi Trinka, Jocelyn Levi Straus, Donald Hall, Renny Pritikin, Martha Wilson, Ben Cameron, Eleanor Moncure, Wallace Tashima, Tom Otterness, John Frohnmayer, David Baker, Sally Brayley Bliss, Nina Brock, Robert Garfias, Roy Goodman, Peter Hero, Marta Istomin, Bob Johnson, Ardis Krainik, Wendy Luers, Roger Mandle, Louise McClure, Arthur Mitchell, Catherine Yi-yu Cho Woo, William Strickland Jr., Vanessa Redgrave, Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes, Tim Miller, Jock Sturges, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Ossie Davis, Steven Haft, David Henry Hwang, Marcia Tucker, Kurt Vonnegut, Larry Prater, Donald Wildmon, Franklin Murphy, Milton Rhodes, Sarah Foote Cohen, James Fitzpatrick, Martha Buskirk, Grace Markman, Eileen Myles, D.B. Finnegan, Daniel Martinez, Rachel Rosenthal, Paul Basista, Marty Russo, Louis Sullivan, Marlene McCarty, Peter Goldmark, Stephanie French, Pat Califia, Jan Lyon, Barry Douglas, Shannon Kennedy, J.C. Collins, David Stein, Thor Stockman, Sadie Benning, Thomas Harris Jr., Robert Kinney, Donald Kinney, Carol Leigh, Meena Nanji, Ernie Larsen, Chris Finan, Romano Mazzoli, Dan Walworth, Patrick Moore, Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, Bob Holman, Ishmael Houston Jones, Jennifer Montgomery, Tim Dlugos, Barbara Kruger, Robbie McCauley, Frank Moore, Michael Smith, Johanna Went, Paul Zaloom, Peggy Ayers, Young K.,

Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Modern Art, INTAR Gallery, The Creative Coalition, Association of Hispanic Arts, ArtsConnection, Henry Street Settlement, People for the American Way, Gran Fury, Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), Franklin Furnace, Highways, Creative Time, New Langton Arts, ACLU Foundation, ACLU Arts Censorship Project, National Campaign for Freedom of Expression, Movement Research, Cuban Museum of Arts and Culture, Dallas Film Classification Board, Photographic Resource Center Boston, PHE Inc., American Council for the Arts, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, WHAM! (Women's Health Action and Mobilization), Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, National Association for Women, Graphic Artists Guild, Artists United for Universal Health Care, American Arts Alliance, American Symphony Orchestra League, OPERA America, Dance/USA, International Society of Performing Arts Administrators, National Association of Performing Arts Managers and Agents, Western Alliance of Arts Administrators, North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance, Columbia Artist Management Inc., International Creative Management Inc., Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus, BUREAU, ACT UP, National Leather Association, Activists for Safe Sex (ASS), Media Coalition, Alliance for the Arts, Art Matters Inc., New York Community Trust, Rockefeller Foundation, Philip Morris Companies Inc., Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Booth Ferris Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie Samuels Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, LaMaMa, British American Arts Association (BAAA), Artists Space, Judson Memorial Church, Wigstock, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Economic Development Corporation of New York City,

The Art Studio Inc, DiverseWorks, Jump-Start San Antonio, Tulsa Artists Coalition, Tulsa Photography Collective, Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe, Real Art Ways, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Danforth Gallery, Maryland Art Place, Dance Place, Mobius, the Space, Visual Studies Workshop, The Forum Gallery at Jamestown Community College, The Fabric Workshop, Space One Eleven, Florida Center for Contemporary Art, Loft Theatre, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Arlington Arts Center, Arts Center Gallery, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Acme Art Company, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Painted Bride Art Center, ArtSpace Inc, Rosenberg Gallery,

Arts Forward Fund, Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest International Artists Program, International Projects Initiative, Travel Grants Pilot Program, United States/Japan Artist Exchange Fellowships, British American Arts Association Fellowships, Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, Drawing in Situ, Inventory,

NEA 4 v. National Endowment for the Arts, City of Chattanooga v. Singer Entertainment, Singer Entertainment v. City of Raleigh, Laverty v. Town of Norwood, Monk v. Hudson Valley Community College, State v. Zabower, State v. Davidson, Joplin Enterprises v. Allen, Redgrave v. The Shubert Organization, National Treasury Employees Union v. United States, Nelson v. Streeter, Luke Records v. Navarro, Thomas Otterness Sculpture v. Los Angeles Federal Courthouse, Cuban Museum of Arts and Culture v. City of Miami, PHE Inc. v. Department of Justice, Dr. Larry Prater v. Oklahoma City, Rust v. Sullivan,

NEA reauthorization, federal arts funding, arts advocacy, free expression, censorship, decency standard, NEA 4, peer panel process, Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990, moral rights, artists' rights, S/M censorship, leather community, sadomasochism in the arts, pornography legislation, Pornography Victims Compensation Act, universal health care, artists' health insurance, H.R. 1300, Russo Universal Health Care Plan, O and P visa, immigration law, international artists, breast cancer advocacy, women's health, reproductive rights, abortion rights, AIDS and the arts, postal censorship, VAO grants, arts funding crisis, congressional testimony, Defend the Field, grant denial, First Amendment, homoerotic art, gay and lesbian civil rights, LGBTQ arts, independent video, video art, Kennedy/Simpson Bill,

1992 Arts Advocacy Day, Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy, 8th NAAO Conference Austin, March for Women's Lives, Brooklyn Museum NEA Hearing October 1991, SM/Leather Arts/Censorship Briefing ACLU Washington,

Defend the Field, Drawing Fine Lines, National Council on the Arts Nixes Two VAO Grants, NAAO Personnel Policy and Explanation of Benefits, NEA Demands Additional Documentation of Solo Theater Artist Applicants, Creative Time on Guard, ACLU Foundation Arts Censorship Project Update, The Spread of Rust, WHAM! Breast Cancer Advocacy A Call to the Arts Community, Lick Bush Write-In Myles for President, Private Pleasures/Public Funds, Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund Grant Awards Announced, Aliens Progress on O and P Visa Issues, Arts Forward Fund, Solana Selected for Artists Space, NAAO Directory Tickler, Statement for the National Endowment for the Arts, Statement for the NEA Meeting on SM/Leather and Censorship in the Arts,

New York, Washington, Houston, Los Angeles, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Tampa, Birmingham, Austin, Santa Monica, Raleigh, Arlington, Rochester, Sheboygan, Portland, Hartford, Wilmington, Amherst, Alameda, Milwaukee, San Diego, Beaumont, San Antonio, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Santa Fe, Kansas City, Columbus, Richmond, Flint, Phoenix, Brooklyn

Penny Boyer, Charlotte Murphy, Roberto Bedoya, Holly Block, Pat Murphy, Joe Matuzak, Sylvia Orozco, Rudy Gugliemo, Marilyn Arsem, Jeff Gates, Julyen Norman, Betty Napolitan, Fred Wilson, Keith Antar Mason, Jon Winet, Victoria Reis, Jennifer Wood, Rebecca Haskins, Galen Nelson, Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes, Tim Miller, David Wojnarowicz, Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, John Frohnmayer, Jesse Helms, Dana Rohrabacher, Donald Wildmon, Pat Robertson, Nan Goldin, Annie Sprinkle, Bella Lewitzky, Dennis Barrie, Christina Orr-Cahall, Alvin Felzenberg, Karen Gantt, Harvey Gantt, Mel Chin, Rose DiNapoli, Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, Jock Sturges, Joseph Semien, Joseph Papp, Julianne Davis, Hans Haacke, Yo-Yo Ma, Jessica Tandy, Ruby Dee, Jane Curtin, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Phil Crane, Paul Henry, Orrin Hatch, Pat Williams, Lynn Cheney, Stuart Davis, Meyer Shapiro, Le Ann Wilchusky, William Proxmire, Jacob Javits, Roger Stevens, August Heckscher, Lloyd Goodrich, Rowland Evans, Robert Novak, Todd Haynes, Sally Mann, Madonna, Erica Jong, Bill T. Jones, Arnie Zane, Rick Bolton, Paul Cadmus, John Lindsay, Leonard Bernstein, Elizabeth Sisco, JoEllen Allen, Andrew Card, Stuart Sununu, Arthur Goldberg, Lenny Bruce,

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), American Family Association (AFA), National Campaign for Freedom of Expression, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Artists Space New York, Southern Exposure, The Kitchen New York, Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), MEXIC-ARTE Museum, Art in General, Beacon Street Gallery and Theatre, Mobius, ArtFBI, Hallwalls, Los Angeles Institute for Contemporary Art (LAICA), Guerilla Girls, Guerilla Art Action Group (GAAC), ACT UP, Art Workers Coalition, Citizens for Community Values, Photographic Resource Center Boston, Survival Research Laboratories, Maryland Art Place, New School for Social Research, Citizens Environmental Coalition Houston, Heritage Foundation, Taxpayers for Accountability for Government (TAG), Association of American Cultures (TAAC), Artists for Nuclear Disarmament, Gay Men's Health Crisis Center, Photo League, Mattachine Society, American Academy of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Art Project (FAP), Federal Music Project (FMP), Federal Theater Project (FTP), Federal Writers Project (FWP), House Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities (HUAC), National Institute of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Federation of American Painters and Sculptors, Artists League of America, Artists Union, Ford Foundation, Recording Industry Association of America, New York Shakespeare Festival, Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts, National Black Arts Festival, Artpark, Circle Repertory Company,

Chronology, NEA reauthorization, federal arts funding, arts funding history, censorship, obscenity, decency standard, Helms Amendment, NEA 4, peer panel process, anti-obscenity pledge, loyalty oath, free expression, First Amendment, arts advocacy, Religious Right, anti-gay legislation, gay and lesbian civil rights, AIDS and the arts, Day Without Art, Arts Emergency Day, Arts Day USA, arts activism, government and art, public funding of the arts, cultural policy, Congressional hearings, FBI surveillance, communist accusations, flag desecration, obscenity law, arts censorship timeline, Multi-Site Collaborations Program, Organizational Assistance Program for Artists Organizations, Beyond Survival New Artsspaces II, New Artsspaces III, NAAO membership, NAAO Directory, Organizing Artists,

Washington, New York, Houston, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Lewiston, Malibu, Richmond, Baltimore, Normal, Newark,

6th NAAO Conference Minneapolis, 7th NAAO Conference Washington, 5th NAAO Conference LACE Los Angeles, Shape of Things to Come conference, Beyond Survival New Artsspaces II conference, New Artsspaces III conference, Cultural Diversity Conference DiverseWorks Houston, Arts Advocacy Day, National Rally for Freedom of Expression, Capitol Hill summit,

Piss Christ, Robert Mapplethorpe The Perfect Moment, Witnesses Against Our Vanishing, Tongues of Flame, We Keep Our Victims Ready,

Bella Lewitzky v. John Frohnmayer, Roth v. United States, Jacobellis v. Ohio, Miller v. California, Rust v. Sullivan,

Chronology compiled by Penny Boyer, NAAO Membership Information, NAAO Membership Application