The Festival also features an expansive store which sells original works, prints, oddities, collectibles and related merchandise from contributing artists.[2]
History
The first Seattle Erotic Art Festival was held in 2003.[3] The inaugural show was hosted by the Pan Eros Foundation (formerly the Foundation for Sex Positive Culture) at the town hall in the Capitol Hill neighborhood and saw over 1000 attendees.[4]
The Festival was hosted at a variety for locations over its first few years, including Fremont Studios[5] before finding a more permanent location at the Seattle Center Exhibition hall, where it's been held since 2008.[6]
Content
Past festivals have included original theatrical productions,[7]interactive art installations[8] and visual erotic art.[9]
Each year, festival visitors and a selected jury vote for Viewer's Choice and Jury Awards, respectively.[10]
Controversies
In 2007, Festival organizers were turned down by "a dozen" regional publishers who refused to print their program before finding a local printer who would take the job.[11]
