Alwun Foundation board president Dana Johnson.
Robrt L. Pela
How times change. Exotic Art Shows in the years since have included a triptych depicting a labial piercing and the hanging of a painting of male body parts, complete with fine brush strokes for hundreds of dark pubic hairs.
Johnson and Alwun House founder Kim Moody are working to continue these fine traditions this year amid a global pandemic that’s limiting the ways artists and audiences can safely gather for exhibits and performances.
They started by reducing the crowd size, reconfiguring the event footprint, and splitting the performance times. Instead of 400 people for a single show, they’ll have fewer than 100 people at each of two shows on February 13, all seated at tables for two or four patrons in Alwun s outdoor courtyard.