Interested in learning more about our Performance Art team? We are happy to introduce them!
Courtnee Papastathis
Performance Art Director
Courtnee Papastathis is pleased to celebrate her third year as a director for the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, previously serving as Director of Aerial Performance in 2008 and Performance Director in 2013. She is the co-founder of Vita Arts, a nonprofit organization which she creatively directed from 2009-2013; has performed in such Seattle venues as ACT theater, Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, and The Pink Door; and created The Obsidian Show, presented by Little Red Studio in 2009. Courtnee’s approach to Performance Direction for the Foundation for Sex-Positive Culture is to create an organic flow that enhances the ambient quality of Foundation and Festival events by bringing a sense of intimacy and relation to her performance offerings and the methods of their presentation.
Jesse Belle-Jones
Performance Art Curator
Jesse Belle-Jones, “The Modern Sexual Intellectual,” is pleased to have been involved in performances at the Seattle Erotic Art Festival for the last six years. She is a co-producer/proprietress and principal performer with Sinner Saint Burlesque, co-producer of the Seattle chapter of Naked Girls Reading, and is currently serving her second year of tenure on the board of directors for the Foundation for Sex Positive Culture.