Art display using nooses hanging from ceiling taken down after complaints

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Upset employees at a Rock Hill manufacturing plant contacted Channel 9 about an art display that had brightly colored nooses hanging from the ceiling.

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Arts students from Winthrop University displayed their work using tape at Coroplast, which makes the tape. A display of nooses was one of the projects put up in the lobby Monday morning.  Several black employees complained that it was racial in nature and were offended.

Coroplast removed the display in about 10 minutes. The artist, Winthrop student Georgia Howard said her project was about suicide and to encourage people to check on friends who may be having suicidal thoughts. The display was not racial at all, Howard said.

"That's what happens with art sometimes,” Howard said. “You interpret it your own way and sometimes it hurts people, but that was not the intention here."

Coroplast said it will review art projects before they're put displayed in the future. The company said it's a big supporter of the arts and allowed students to display their work once before in 2017.

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