Please consider signing our petition to protect OG Slick's Three Slick Pigs at the Street Legacy: SoCal Style Masters exhibition at California Center for the Arts, Escondido. This is a censorship issue marked by personal preference over the freedom of artistic expression. The issue threatens to remove this artwork from the exhibition. Help us keep it up. 

• What Happened:

An artwork at the Street Legacy: SoCal Style Masters exhibition has been brought to the attention of the public via an article in an Escondido-Advocate-Times. The article considers artist OG Slick's contribution called Three Slick Pigs, a painted fiberglass sculpture in front of a vandalized photo by Zane Meyer. 

The artwork is satire, intended to raise dialogue around excessive police force in the country. It questions the legitimacy and sacred value of American civil rights, especially when violated by the officials who pledge to guard them. This artwork does not suggest all government officials are corrupt, but rather asks us to be in regular dialogue over the ways in which all branches of government are susceptible to corruption. 

Please read up on the CCAE announcement regarding their position on this situation. Please also read the Escondido-Advocate-Times article for yourself.

• The Context, Taken from the CCAE Instagram: 

"Over the past week, questions about one installation featured in California Center for the Arts, Escondido’s new Street Legacy: SoCal Style Masters exhibit have surfaced.

Our Board of Trustees is considering the public’s comments as well as the curators’ and artist’s perspectives; an official statement on CCAE’s position and expected next steps will be released this week. 

As part of this consideration, the Board leadership met recently to explore recommendations. Chair Sara Matta shared one such recommendation with the Escondido Times-Advocate on Sunday, June 26, 2022. 

However, her comments did not reflect an official Board action, which will be forthcoming. 

CCAE is an independent, not-for-profit foundation. As such, the City of Escondido does not review, approve, or in any way inform the artistic choices that CCAE makes. 

In addition, CCAE employees are employed by the foundation, not the City."

Thank you!