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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Folsom Street Fair's new Erotic Art Gallery


For the updated 2008 information, please go to: Erotic Artists - Call for Open Competition - Folsom Street Fair


Working in conjunction with leaders in the erotic arts community, the Board of Directors of Folsom Street Events is pleased to welcome a new area to Folsom Street Fair. This is the first year that up-and-coming and struggling new artists will be featured in a special area at the Fair, located just off Folsom Street on Eleventh Street between Folsom and Harrison Streets.

A small group of six erotic artists has been picked to work with the organization to create and
build the promising area. The promoters will waive all fees for space and to cover the additional costs of booth structures for the artists. The artists only need to supply tables, chairs, and display materials.

“I believe that the erotic is a part of who we all are. Suppressed by society in general, it is up to the artists to confront, shock, titillate and
inspire humanity. Sensual, hot, passionate and extreme, erotica, lust, desire and SEX must be put back where it belongs – in our everyday lives. Folsom Street Fair is an important part of that expression,” says erotic artist Axel.

Erotic Artists Scheduled to display their works include
Rob Clarke, Illustration, New York
John Ferrie, Illustration, Vancouver

Justin Hall, Illustration, San Francisco

Shilo McCabe, Photography, Oakland

Axel Moeller, Illustration, Seattle

Mike Woolson, Photography, San Francisco


According to Andy Copper, Board President, "We realize that our rising booth costs have been slowly shutting out the struggling artists. So, the inauguration of a dedicated erotic arts area is one way of returning to our grassroots and promoting greater cultural and artistic diversity at the Fair.”


“There is so much talent in our community,” says Demetri Moshoyannis, Executive Director. “We feel it should be shown and celebrated, regardless of one’s ability to pay. Hopefully, the area will grow and become a more competitive process in future years. We are all very excited about this development!"


About Folsom Street Events


Folsom Street Events is a 501(c)3 non-profit agency that produces four annual fetish events: Bay of Pigs, Up Your Alley, Magnitude and Folsom Street Fair. The mission of Folsom Street Events is to create volunteer-driven leather events that provide the adult alternative lifestyle community with safe venues for self-expression while emphasizing freedom, fun, frolic and fetish and raising funds to benefit local charities. In 2006, Folsom Street Events marked
the last Folsom Street Fair with nearly 400,000 attendees and $301,512 donated to charity.

1 comments:

EL ARTE EROTICO EN LA PREHISTORIA - PREHISTORY EROTIC ART said...

Daniel Verdejo - Barcelona España





PREHISTORIC - EROTIC ART:

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http://www.arterupestre-c.com



As we can see through different images, they had sexual intercourse with animals, homosexual relations and more than two people at the same time.



http://www.arterupestre-c.com/1000.htm

Venus - Venuses

http://www.arterupestre-c.com/1000ven.htm



There is o ne sculpture that is emblematic, found in 1908, after lots of research and different epochs being affirmed as the real o nes about this sculpture, now they believe it was done around 24,000-22,000 BC.



It shows a woman with a large stomach that overhangs but does not hide her pubic area. A roll of fat extends around her middle, joining with large but rather flat buttocks, there's no face and seems that at this place there is a hat or even hair rolled up o n the head.



Her genital area would appear to have been deliberately emphasized with the labia of the vulva carefully detailed and made clearly visible, perhaps unnaturally so, and as if she had no pubic hair. This, combined with her large breasts and the roundness of her stomach, suggests that the "subject" of the sculpture is female procreativity and nurture and the piece has long been identified as some sort of fertility idol.



The fact that numerous examples like that of a female figure. All generally exhibiting the same essential characteristics - large stomachs and breasts, featureless faces, minuscule or missing feet - have been found over a broad geographical area ranging from France to Siberia. That suggests that some system of shared understanding and perception of a particular type of woman existed during the Paleolithic.

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