Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross

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David Steinberg has given us a great view of Seattle's Erotic Art Festival, one of the most progressive cities I've visited. The DVD of me lecturing with slides of my art was filmed in Seattle where the food is fabulous and the people are very aware, they think "green" and keep a clean city. Yeah. I could do some some real nice sex art in the near future as soon as our website gets settled (to the right is a piece from my art collection to debut on the site later in June). I told Carlin this week in Phoenix that I could see me sitting at my drawing board in my nineties creating some visually hot shit!!! Oops, there I go with my potty mouth again. Creating some hot images:

It's a sad truth, and something hard for me as an erotically patriotic San Franciscan to admit, but the most significant and exciting fine art erotic event in the U.S., year after year, takes place not in San Francisco but in Seattle, home of the Seattle Erotic Art Festival (SEAF). SEAF just had its seventh annual erotic fine art exhibit and celebration, April 30-May 3, proudly proclaimed to the public at the 30,000-square-foot Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, once home to the World's Fair.

It was SEAF's most impressive and inspiring exhibition of erotic art to date -- 320 photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, and mixed media presentations. Collectively it was a varied, impressive, inspiring smorgasbord of sex-related art, ranging from subtle to graphic, from literal to impressionist, from sensual to sexual, from fierce to tender, from beautiful to painful, from deeply emotional to flamboyantly goofy. Most significantly, the general quality of the material being shown was refreshingly high, potentially of interest to art lovers everywhere, not just those attracted by the erotic and sexual subject matter.... (more)