Arizona artist receiving death threats over controversial anti-Trump billboard
Source: raw story
19 Mar 2017 at 09:40 ET
The artist behind an Arizona billboard attacking President Donald Trump claims she is now the subject of death threats after news and photos of her creation went national.
According to AzCentral, artist Karen Fiorito knew she would get a strong reaction for her work which went up of Friday and depicts Trump accompanied by mushroom clouds and stylized Nazi swastikas combined with dollar signs. On the reverse side, the billboard displays the word Unity with five hands spelling out the word in sign language.
While Fiorita expected flack she didnt anticipate the flood of threats against not only herself but her family.
Ive been called a communist, a Satan worshiper, Fiorita explained. Ive been told Im a very, very sick person. Im not sure what that means. I havent been answering the phone. My husband has because hes not afraid to talk to anyone, but he told me he received a couple death threats this morning.
He said, They were coming to get us with their boys.
Fiorito explained that she was commissioned by a local art gallery to create the artwork that was blown up to billboard size and displayed in downtown Phoenix during an art festival........................
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/arizona-artist-receiving-death-threats-over-controversial-anti-trump-billboard/
This AZ story has a few other pieces of her work. I do hope nothing happens to her.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2017/03/18/anti-trump-billboard-artist-receives-death-threats/99349252/
A billboard sign depicting President Donald Trump's face next to explosions and dollar signs created with typography imitating Nazi swastikas went up in downtown Phoenix on March 17, 2017. (Photo: Johana Restrepo/The Republic)
Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)First, we're talking crazy ass conservative confederates.
Second, it's Aryanzona.
riversedge
(70,344 posts)talking about you or your post).
Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)Folks are calling David K. Johnston's home because of the tax thing.
These hardcore Trumpeters are fucking nuts and we both know it.
marybourg
(12,639 posts)Why don't you come and pay us a visit and see the diverse faces of the Southwest. (Try to come this month before it get really hot )
Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)I think you know I wasn't speaking of every person in the state
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)I love the billboard, and think it'd be great to plaster it everywhere in solidarity.
It's a powerful image.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)So Trump himself has been calling her? It wouldn't surprise me.
That's exactly what I thought when I read that part.
lastlib
(23,316 posts)dalton99a
(81,635 posts)ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)I bet you're right
Won't take long, either
Augiedog
(2,548 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Arizona. I hear such horrible things about Arizona anymore. I don't think I would ever venture into Arizona these days. The US has so many pockets of horrible hatred! I knew some people that left parts of Michigan, they said where they had lived was so filled with hatred they feared for their lives. And this ass in the WH just fuels it all. What a horrible place the DICK is turning the US into.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)nazis on DU when something they plan horrifies me, but doing THAT to everyone unfortunate enough to have to pass it is rather hateful in itself. Nuclear explosions yes, swastikas no.
Of course hateful nutcases would over-react to it in their own special ways, and I suspect the artist expected it. Let her take the new fame this has brought her and deal with it.
kimbutgar
(21,219 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,357 posts)Her and her husband must be prepared to stand their ground.
Free speech, except when it disagrees with the fascists
radhika
(1,008 posts)Her work can be seen at Saatchi Online, and is available for purchase. We can't protect her vs the crazies, but we can sure help with her livelihood. I like the work I ordered, and it was within budget.
Artist need us, and we need them. Made a personal decision last year to look for ways to support the actual creator, whenever possible.
https://www.saatchiart.com/kfiorito
BootinUp
(47,200 posts)But can't take it. They are morally and mentally bankrupt.