During my tenure as Executive Director, Curator and the wearer of many hats, it was my focus to create an exciting venue that was both artistic and educational. It was a true labor of love, dedication and perseverance. Many articles were written about the venue and this is one caught my attention. The headline said it all!
“The Museum is to be commended for featuring contemporary artists, several of them local, but their work is purely hedonistic and, as such, unchallenging. Now that every sexual taboo has been broken, artists can no longer shock or provoke with exposed genitalia. They must say something new about sexuality.” – Susanne Forestry
What many didn’t realize was was accessing a vast archive of historical materials from The Exodus Trust, a 40 year reservoir of collecting and preserving all genres of the erotic imagination, as well as cultivating numerous contemporary materials from my recent worldwide travels to curate an array of dynamic exhibits and educational programming. I particularly enjoyed writing this, “The Museum seeks to bridge the gap between that which is commercial and often misidentified as pornographic, with that which is aesthetic, often identified as folk, pop, and fine art through a common visual language. In keeping with the legacy of the American Sexual Revolution, the Museum is dedicated to the belief that sexual pleasure and fun are natural aspects of the human experience, that such pleasure must be made available to all, and that our individual sexuality belongs to each of us.”
The premise of my dissertation and the activation of the museum was always to promote sex education through art.
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The Smithsonian of Smut, The Las Vegas Weekly
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