Climate Activist Gets 60 Days in Prison for Damaging Degas Sculpture

Joanna Smith, 54, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced Friday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington for defacing “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,” a wax sculpture created by Edgar Degas that was completed in 1881.

In addition to her prison time, the judge ordered Smith to serve two years of supervised release, 150 hours of community service, and she must pay for the damage to the exhibit.