A climate activist who defaced an exhibit last year at the National Gallery of Art in Washington will spend 60 days in prison.
Joanna Smith, 54, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced on Friday, according to a Justice Department news release.
On April 27, Smith and a fellow protester smeared red and black paint on the case of a 142-year-old wax sculpture by Edgar Degas titled “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen.”
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Timothy Martin of North Carolina, who was arrested along with Smith, is scheduled to go to trial on Aug. 26, according to NPR.
Smith pleaded guilty in December to one count of causing injury to a National Gallery of Art exhibit.
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