{"id":18447,"date":"2021-11-24T14:35:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T15:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/?p=18447"},"modified":"2021-11-24T16:17:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T16:17:35","slug":"beth-stephens-and-annie-sprinkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/beth-stephens-and-annie-sprinkle\/","title":{"rendered":"Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12067 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BethAnnie_D8A7841_edit.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BethAnnie_D8A7841_edit-1.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BethAnnie_D8A7841_edit-2.jpeg 682w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BethAnnie_D8A7841_edit-3.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BethAnnie_D8A7841_edit-4.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BethAnnie_D8A7841_edit-5.jpeg 280w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BethAnnie_D8A7841_edit-6.jpeg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sprinklestephens.ucsc.edu\/\">Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle<\/a> have been creating multi-media art projects about love, sex, and queerness together for 20 years. Annie was a sex worker from 1973 to 1995, and morphed into a feminist performance artist and sex educator. Beth was a sculptor and installation artist and became a University art professor. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">She\u2019s taught at University of California Santa Cruz for 27 years. These days the duo make environmental films through an ecosexual gaze, they produce symposiums, do theater and performance artivism.\u00a0Their Ecosex Manifesto launched the Ecosex Movement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">They are making a new film about fire for which they got a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021. <\/span><span class=\"\">A new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/assuming-the-ecosexual-position\"><i class=\"\">Assuming the Ecosexual Position\u2014the Earth as Lover<\/i> (University of Minnesota Press)<\/a> chronicles their epic love story and art\/life adventures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/237241085?h=2292b1dbab\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle have been creating multi-media art projects about love, sex, and queerness together for 20 years. Annie was a sex worker from 1973 to 1995, and morphed into a feminist performance artist and sex educator. Beth was a sculptor and installation artist and became a University art professor. 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