In the early 1990s, I developed an exhibit for the Downey Museum of Art in Downey, Calif. called "Contemporary Visions of the Virgen de Guadalupe." Artists from California, Tejas and Mexico City participated in the show. We did receive slides of some work which I (a former Catholic) deemed offensive to the Catholic population and we didn't accept it. One was a slide of a mural of La Virgen on the floor. Exhibit viewers were encouraged to walk on La Virgen to get to see an item pasted on the wall. This was a copy cat work similiar to the Flag issue years ago. I wrote and produced a brochure which discussed the work and reasons why some workds were included and others not. The key issue here was "sensitivity" to the Catholic population. There were some playful pieces which depicted La Virgen including a more controversial piece, a silkscreen print featuring the Virgen on the back of a Lesbian by San Francisco Chicano artist Ester Hernandez, but no one complained about the show in general. It was a success and it helped the museum open some doors for support from the Latino community. Miguel Juarez