A pride flag display prompts conversation, backlash at Salem Art Association

As Jessica Rehfield-Griffith sewed flags together in the annex at the Salem Art Association, the Salem artist hoped the colorful array would start conversations.

Rehfield-Griffith spent the month of September as artist-in-residence creating a massive flag sewed from a dozen different pride flags representing their own identities — bisexual, gender fluid and Jewish, among others — alongside their wife’s. The work is now on display alongside photos from the couple’s July wedding in Manzanita as…