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Seattle Erotic Art Festival was founded in 2002 by the Center for Sex Positive Culture

Center for Sex Positive Culture

The Center for Sex Positive Culture or CSPC is a non-profit, membership-based organization located in Seattle, Washington. It organizes events and provides space for several different sex-positive subcultures, notably BDSM, swinging, and polyamory groups. It caters to both heterosexual and LGBT...

. It is currently the flagship program of the nonprofit

Non-profit organization

Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

Foundation for Sex Positive Culture.

The Seattle Erotic Art Festival supports a vibrant creative community, promotes freedom of expression, and fosters sex-positive culture

Sex-positive movement

The sex-positive movement is an ideology which promotes and embraces open sexuality with few limits. Sex positivity is "an attitude towards human sexuality that regards all consensual sexual activities as fundamentally healthy and pleasurable, and encourages sexual pleasure and experimentation...

through public celebration of the arts.

An annual weekend-long event, the Festival showcases work of erotic nature in diverse media including painting

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

Photography

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

Sculpture

Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

Literature

Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

, and interactive installations. A wide range of performance art

Performance art

In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...

is also represented, including burlesque

American burlesque

American Burlesque is a genre of variety show. Derived from elements of Victorian burlesque, music hall and minstrel shows, burlesque shows in America became popular in the 1860s and evolved to feature ribald comedy and female striptease...

, ballroom dance

Ballroom dance

Ballroom dance refers to a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world. Because of its performance and entertainment aspects, ballroom dance is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television....

, circus arts, and live music

Live Music

Live Music is a reggaeton company owned by DJ Giann.-Artists:* Jowell & Randy* Tony Lenta* Watussi* De La Ghetto* Guelo Star* Galante "El Emperador"-Producers:*DJ Blass*Dexter*Mr. Greenz*DJ Giann*Los Hitmen*Dirty Joe*ALX...

.

The Festival also features an expansive store selling original works, prints, oddities, collectibles and related merchandise from contributing artists.

Subject Matter

Art in the Festival is intended to celebrate the entire gamut of erotic expression, including surrealist imagery

Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....

, gender politics, homoeroticism

Homoeroticism

Homoeroticism refers to the erotic attraction between members of the same sex, either male–male or female–female , most especially as it is depicted or manifested in the visual arts and literature. It can also be found in performative forms; from theatre to the theatricality of uniformed movements...

, and BDSM

BDSM

BDSM is an erotic preference and a form of sexual expression involving the consensual use of restraint, intense sensory stimulation, and fantasy power role-play. The compound acronym BDSM is derived from the terms bondage and discipline , dominance and submission , and sadism and masochism...

, among many others.

Current festival year: Seattle Erotic Art Festival 2011

The 2011 Seattle Erotic Art Festival took place Thursday, May 19 through Sunday May 22 at the Fremont Studios located in Fremont, Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...

. The theme for the 2011 event was "Red light district

Red Light District

Red Light District may refer to:* Red-light district - a neighborhood where prostitution is common* The Red Light District - the title of the 2004 album by rapper Ludacris* Red Light District Video - a pornography studio based in Los Angeles, California...

" and was expected to draw thousands of patrons.

2011 Exhibition Winners

2011 was the first year that two artists placed in both the Jury Awards and the Viewer's Choice.

Jury Winners

Assaf Ziv, Pool 8
David Peterman, Common Thread
Michael Lynn, Perhaps

Viewer’s Choice

David Peterman, Common Thread
Michael Lynn, Perhaps
Jim Wilkinson, Naked Truth (Installation)

Seattle Erotic Art Festival 2010

The 2010 Seattle Erotic Art Festival occurred April 30 through May 2, 2010 at the Seattle Center

Seattle Center

Seattle Center is a park and arts and entertainment center in Seattle, Washington. The campus is the site used in 1962 by the Century 21 Exposition. It is located just north of Belltown in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood.-Attractions:...

Exhibition Hall in Seattle, Washington.

In 2010 the Festival opened the Cabinet of Curiosities, showcasing visual, performance and literary art, interactive installations, film, after parties, workshops, and a museum-quality Festival Store.

Creative inspiration was drawn from 17th century Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

, when the wealthy and the well-traveled collected beautiful, grotesque and obscure things into encyclopedic collections known as "cabinets of curiosities

Cabinet of curiosities

A cabinet of curiosities was an encyclopedic collection in Renaissance Europe of types of objects whose categorical boundaries were yet to be defined. They were also known by various names such as Cabinet of Wonder, and in German Kunstkammer or Wunderkammer...

."

In the Festival’s erotic interpretation, the cabinet held a fantastical celebration of the arts.

Visual Art

The Festival showcased a world-class visual art exhibition. Festival jurors and curator

Curator

A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...

s selected a variety of art from over 1,600 entries submitted by more than 400 artists. “We’re excited to present a comprehensive collection of international art, diverse in medium, sexual proclivities, body type, age

Age

Age may refer to:* Age , an aspect of mathematical model theory* Age , an international peer-reviewed journal operated by Springer.* The Age, a daily newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia* Agé, a god* Åge, a given name...

, ethnicity, and gender

Gender

Gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity...

,” says Festival Director Anna Hurwitz.

Performance

The 2010 Festival included an original theatrical production

Theatrical production

A theatrical production is any theatre stage play, musical, comedy or drama produced from a written book or script. These works are protected by common law or statuary copyright unless in the public domain....

entitled Cabaret de Curiosités, written and directed by award-winning NYC-based director Roger Benington. This piece was produced in collaboration with locally and nationally recognized performance artists, including an original score composed by John Woods from The Wet Spots.

Interactive Installations

The Festival offered its first grant to artists to create interactive art

Interactive art

Interactive art is a form of installation-based art that involves the spectator in a way that allows the art to achieve its purpose. Some installations achieve this by letting the observer or visitor "walk" in, on, and around them; Some others ask the artist to become part of the artwork.Works of...

installations. Audience members were invited to help artist Nancy Peach complete a massive canvas; to write and receive love letter

Love letter

A love letter is a romantic way to express feelings of love in written form. Delivered by hand, by mail or romantically left in a secret location, the letter may be anything from a short and simple message of love to a lengthy explanation of feelings...

s in a special bedroom designed by award-winning artist Ellen Forney

Ellen Forney

Ellen Forney is a cartoonist and teacher based in Seattle, Washington, whose work has been published by Fantagraphics Books and The Stranger , among other publications. Her most recent collection is called Lust...

and Jacob Peter Fennell; to lounge on luxurious metalwork beds and to engage the art in many other ways.

Literary Art

Returning for its second year, the Literary Art Showcase presented jury-selected poems, short stories

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

and plays

Play (theatre)

A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference whether their plays were performed...

in intimate readings. The Festival spotlighted Naked Girls Reading on Friday and Saturday nights.

More information about the Festival is available at www.SeattleErotic.org.

2010 Artists

The eighth annual Festival was bigger than ever before, drawing together locally and nationally acclaimed artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

s to celebrate the diverse forms of eroticism

Eroticism

Eroticism is generally understood to refer to a state of sexual arousal or anticipation of such – an insistent sexual impulse, desire, or pattern of thoughts, as well as a philosophical contemplation concerning the aesthetics of sexual desire, sensuality and romantic love...

and human sexual expression. All media are represented - including film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

for the first time.

The jurors for the 2010 year were Jen Graves, Daniel Carrillo, Dianne Elliott and Sharon Arnold, with guest curator Chris Crites.

2010 Juried Artists

2010 Guest Curator Invited Artists

2010 Festival Invited Artists

Miguel Edwards
Allan Teger
AXEL
Carolyn Weltman
Clarissa Callesen
Arch
David Steinberg
Panthere Productions
kenji signani
Hans van der Kamp
Jason Stauffer
Jeff Hengst
laTeeFah wriGht
Lucas Witte-Vermeulen
Michael Manning
Michael Rosen
Michele Serchuk
R.O. Bumpass Digital/Photo Artist
felony jones
Sam Cobb
S.M. Shifflett
Zuleika Gonzalez-Tiernan

2010 Installation Art

"Breast Lounge" by Atom Kahn and Rachel Life

"Behind Closed Doors" by Cyra Hobson and Colleen Mathis

"Erotic Hand Washing" by Lisa Cantu

"Films" by Three Dollar Bill

"Love Note" by Ellen Forney and Jacob Peter Fennell

"Paintings" by Nancy Peach

"Photo Booth" by the Foundation for Sex Positive Culture

"Sagado Shrine" by Clarissa Callesen

"Skin Art" by Kim Mears

"The Beds" by mastermind Kevin MacDonald, Antonio Knoy, Rita Martello, Hazel Strathmann, John Wooten, Miguel Edwards, and Thadd Grossi

2010 Performers

Allegra Searle-LeBel
Brian Kooser
Dirty Martini
Elizabeth Rose
Fuchsia FoXXX
Inga Ingenue
Jean du Jour
Kaleb Hagan-Kerr
Miss Indigo Blue
Paris Original
Paula the Swedish Housewife
Queen Shmooquan
Sydni Deveraux
The Luminous Pariah
The Shanghai Pearl
Waxie Moon

2009 Artists

The seventh annual Festival drew together a comprehensive collection of international contemporary fine art that celebrated the wide diversity of human sexual expression and the incredible creativity with which artists approach the subject of erotica. All media were represented: painting, photography, sculpture, assemblage, prints, installation, mixed media and more. Artists were selected by a panel of jurors or invited to exhibit by Festival curators.

Marita Holdaway (owner Benham Gallery), Jena Scott (director artReSource Gallery) and Jerry Slipman (owner Pacini Lubel Gallery), graciously served as the 2009 Festival jury. Artist and writer Sharon Arnold served as Guest Curator. They selected work based on quality of execution, originality of subject and depth of emotion from more than 2,000 pieces submitted by hundreds of artists worldwide."

2009 Juried Artists

2009 Curator Invited Artists

Nola Avienne
Gretchen Bennett
Miriam Berger
Rachel Budde
Daniel A. Carrillo
Laura Castellanos
Diem Chau
Chris Crites
Billy Davis
Jessica Dodge
Ellen Forney
Troy Gua
Robert Hardgrave
Sean Michael Hurley
Derrick Jefferies
Draga Jovanovic
Rich Lehl
Tim Marsden
Jennifer McNeely
Ryan Molenkamp
Emily Pothast
Wendy Small
Kimberly Trowbridge
Joey Veltkamp
Ken Weaver
Sara Zin
Jennifer Zwick

2009 Festival Invited Artists

Big Al
Rock Cox
Jessica Dougherty
Erin Frost
Rik Garrett
Mike Graves
Susan Heidi
Roderick Macdonald
Michael Manning
Krysztof Nemeth
Ron Reeder
Michael Rosen
John Santerineross
Michele Serchuk
Kenji Signani
Pet Silvia
David Steinberg
Eric Theriault
Mark Vercammen
Visioluxus
Carolyn Weltman
Deborah Alma Wheeler

2009 Installation Art

Visions of Food and Form, by La Figa (Tiberio Simone and Matt Freedman), La Figa Project

Bindings, by Twisted Monk, TwistedMonk.com

Rhonda, Joelle, Silver, by Tightbound, TieMeUpTom.com

I remember your smell, by Sophia Stark, LMT

Bed of Nails Media Installation, by Maxx Lexington & Associates

Suspended Animation, by Suspended Animation, Suspended Animation Crew

Door 41, by Anonymous

Sit-Crawl-Lie: A Study in Black and White, by Coralee Lynn Rose

2009 Performer History

Performers featured in Seattle Erotic Art Festival have included:

2009 DJ History

The Festival includes a high-energy late night afterparty, with music performances directed by Michael Holden. Featured DJs included:

Coral
Danger Muffin
Jen Woolfe
Kristina Childs
Michael Holden
Michael Manahan
Riz Rollins

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