‘Art that is life’ exhibit
showing in Spokane
SPOKANE (AP) — A butcher knife takes the place of a
palette knife when artist ]ane Orleman paints her childhood
abuse in brilliant colors,
A little girl tightens the noose on a man labeled "damned
daddy" with a knife in his bleeding chest. There's a man with
an erect penis straddling a girl on the floor, her doll nearby.
A naked woman, chest-deep in water, reaches fora rope.
"Tl»i$ is art that is life," said Orleman. 51. of Ellensburg.
“It looks like the sort of work that people could get in an
uproar over. They are offended, but they are offended that this
happens."
Orleman's "Smiling on the Outside" exhibit will be on dis
play at the Chase Gallery at Spokane City Hall from Wednes
day through Nov. 5.
The Spokane Arts Commission does not recommend the
exhibit for young children because of its intense and violent
imagery. Screens will be placed around the display at the
artist's request.
The commission anticipates a strong public response to the
display, so it has taken the precaution of explaining the exhib
it to the city's department heads and showing them slides in
advance.
"This is something we have to acknowledge as part of our
community and part of our lives," said Shirley Cannon, direc
tor of the Spokane Sexual Assault Center.
"1 think that it’s very provocative art and will evoke feelings
from people that reading about sexual abuse will not."
Volunteers from the Spokane Child Abuse Network will be
available during tours to answer questions about child abuse
and incest.
Orleman said she first remembers being molested at age 3.
When she got older, she was beaten or sexually assaulted
almost daily, Orleman said.
"Through the art, I've been very out front with this. This
hit me that the reason this can continue is we keep it a secret.
I have nothing to lose." Orleman said.
“If people think badly of me because of something that hap
pened to me 40 years ago. so what?"
City passes anti-panhandling laws
SEATTLE (AP) — A scries of ordinances to curb
panhandling and other unruly street behavior will
help restore civility to the city's downtown, the
architect of the laws said.
The ordinances, passed Monday by the City
Council against a backdrop of hisses and cattails,
are aimed at the city's homeless They prohibit,
among other things, public drinking, urinating and
defecating, and lying or sitting on sidewalks.
Mayor Norm Rice is expected to sign the ordi
nances. and they would go into effect 30 days after
that.
"I'm pleased." said City Attorney Mark Sidran,
who wrote the proposals. He said the council's
action "makes an important statement about
restoring civility to the streets."
"We need to address the kind of problem behav
ior that makes our downtown streets unsafe and
unsanitary." council member Margaret Pagelor
said.
"It's time to step forward and make Seattle a bet
ter plate for everyone to live — both rich and poor,
both housed and unhoused."
Her comments were met by a cacophony of deri
sive snorting from the audience, many of them
homeless advocates.
The council passed an ordinance criminalizing
repeated instances of drinking, urinating or defe
cating in public. A first offense remains a civil vio
lation. subiect to a citation like a parking violation.
A police study showed those penalties have been
largely ignored.
The new ordinance would make second and
subsequent violations misdemeanors, with maxi
mum penalties of a $1,000 fine, 90 days in jail and
a year's probation.
The vote was 7-J, with council member Jane
Noland opposed.
The council unanimously passed an ordinance
prohibiting sitting or lying on city sidewalks. Vio
lation would be a civil infraction subject to a $50
fine or community service.
The council also unanimously passed a new def
inition of aggressive panhandling that strength
The vote was a political slam
dunk.*
— Ken Cole,
spokesman homeless coalition
ens the enforceability of the current low
Aggressive panhandling remains a misdemeanor
with o maximum penally of 90 days in jail and a
SI.(MM) fine. It is defined ns "Ixtgging in an intimi
dating manner in such n way as to w^ire a reason
able person."
The council rejected an amendment that would
have delayed enforcement of the public urination
low for six months, to allow the city to install pub
lic toilets.
"No one on this council or sitting in this room
wants people urinating or defecating in public,"
Nolond said in support of the amendment. "We are
a civilized community. However, it does seem like
we’ve gotten the cart before the horse. Before we
criminalize going to the bathroom, we have to have
toilets in place for people to use "
"I'm embarrassed that we've waited two months
to pass these ordinances." Pageler replied, com
paring Seattle's downtown streets to those in Third
World counties.
"I'm not willing, like some council members,
to wait until tailgating season is over for the bene
fit of a few football players to pass this.”
Homeless advocates blasted the ordinances.
"The vote was a political slam dunk," Ken Cole,
spokesman for the Seattle/King County Coalition
for the Homeless, said in a news conference after
the council action. "The backlash against the poor
and homeless has officially begun."
"These ordinances make me a criminal twice,"
said |o Jo Herrera, who said he was homeless.
"If I'm in an alley I'm a criminal, and if I urinate
in an alley I'm a criminal. Why don't you put bath
rooms in before you make me a criminal?” he
asked.
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