{"id":477,"date":"2009-04-27T04:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/04\/seattle_erotic_arts_festival\/"},"modified":"2009-04-27T04:00:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T11:00:31","slug":"seattle_erotic_arts_festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/04\/seattle_erotic_arts_festival.html","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Erotic Art Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/seaerotic2009-5559.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/seaerotic2009-5559.html','popup','width=286,height=400,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/seaerotic2009-thumb-150x209-5559.jpg\" alt=\"seaerotic2009.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" width=\"150\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div>(Image left, Deborah Alma Wheeler. Click to enlarge.)<\/div>\n<div>Opens May 1. Web site <a href=\"http:\/\/seattleerotic.org\/site2\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Artist\/curator Sharon Arnold put together a good local list, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattleerotic.org\/site2\/index.php?page=2009-guest-curator-invited\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine a better image for the festival than Wheeler&#8217;s partially unzipped carrying case carried into erotica by metaphoric implication. <\/p>\n<p>Every year this festival gets better. Even in the beginning, when the art wasn&#8217;t worth noting, the audiences certainly were. (Stories <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/visualart\/220158_sexart15.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/visualart\/307993_erotic17.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joeyveltkamp.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/2009-seattle-erotic-art-festival.html\">Joey Veltkamp<\/a> is in this year&#8217;s lineup with a lovely painting from a series celebrating the 1970s:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/joeykiss-5562.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/joeykiss-5562.html','popup','width=400,height=308,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/joeykiss-thumb-300x231-5562.jpg\" alt=\"joeykiss.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.briangrossfineart.com\/artists\/rarneson\/index.html\">Robert Arneson<\/a> isn&#8217;t, but I hope somebody celebrates self-love in his honor. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/RobertArensoncontekiss-5565.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/RobertArensoncontekiss-5565.html','popup','width=500,height=342,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/RobertArensoncontekiss-thumb-300x205-5565.jpg\" alt=\"RobertArensoncontekiss.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Image left, Deborah Alma Wheeler. Click to enlarge.) Opens May 1. Web site here. Artist\/curator Sharon Arnold put together a good local list, here. I can&#8217;t imagine a better image for the festival than Wheeler&#8217;s partially unzipped carrying case carried into erotica by metaphoric implication. Every year this festival gets better. Even in the beginning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}