The Nude Maja has a new home.

After being removed from a classroom at the Schuylkill Campus, the controversial Goya painting has been relocated to the Student/Community Activity Center. Now that it's in its new home, there have been no complaints, said Wayne Lammie, Schuylkill Campus executive officer.

The painting was removed from the classroom last semester after Nancy Stumhofer, an English instructor, claimed the piece created an uncomfortable environment in which to teach.

"It was never our intention to censor it," Lammie said, adding that it was inappropriate to display the painting in a classroom.

"I felt uncomfortable and unprofessional standing in front of it," Stumhofer added. Student comments and glances made her feel uncomfortable, she said, and it became hard for her to teach and women to learn.

Stumhofer denied that her objection to the painting was a moral one.

"I don't find it objectionable as art at all," she said.

Stumhofer called the new location a nice place for a little gallery. She will also serve on a committee to purchase more paintings for the campus.

But Ken Foster, director of the Center for Performing Arts, found it hard to identify with Stumhofer.

"It is difficult for me to understand how a work of art can create an uncomfortable classroom climate," he said.

Foster said there are two "anatomically correct" statues in front of his office in Eisenhower Auditorium that do not offend him at all.

But he added that he would want to be sensitive to the instructor's concerns. Foster said he finds it "too bad" that the painting had to removed.

Stumhofer acknowledged that the painting is a reproduction, but complained that "people discuss it as the original."

Stumhofer will teach a class in women's studies next semester, and she plans to teach about women in art, she said.

The removal of the painting gained international attention in Newsweek magazine and garnered an inquiry from the television program "Entertainment Tonight." The story was also covered in The Independent, a newspaper published in England.