Put your hands together for the SEAF 2025 Award Winners

Every year, the Seattle Erotic Art Festival is home to the most delectable variety of erotic art to grace a gallery, a screen, or the pages of an anthology. This year was no exception. Some pieces shone a little brighter, delighted and excited beyond what we anticipated. We would like to celebrate and recognize these works. Join us, please, in celebrating the SEAF 2025 Award Winners.

The Pan Eros Film Festival Logo, a stylized P made from black and white images of film and a reel.

Film

Our fourth annual Pan Eros Film Festival brought erotic Short Films from across the globe to the SIFF Center for five viewings over the festival weekend. There was also a continuous showing of the Silent Films in the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall throughout the festival.

Best in Show

Boobies by Emma Chevalier (France)

Best Silent Film

She and Her Good Vibrations by Olivia Griselda (Singapore)

Best Foreign Short

Birthday by Sharol Xiao (Japan)

Audience Choice for Short Films

Lusthouse by Neeraja Raj (South Korea)
Friend Crush by Alexandria Sherman (USA)
Thirstygirl by Alexandra Qin (USA)
OBJET #0001 by Petra Von Schatz (France)

Visual

The Visual Art Exhibition was delighted to display 248 works on walls and pedestals. We continue to be privileged to present the work of artists from all corners of the world and paths of life in the festival.

Foundation Awards for Visual Art

Head Games by Darron Copeland
Don’t Sweetheart Me by The Masked Marion

Jury’s Choice Awards

Caught in the Web by Dirty Archangel
Bella Fica by Evoë Thorne
Play Me Like a Melody by Mirrors of Melanin

SEAF 2025 Award Winners: A picture of the People's Choice voting kiosk, taken from above, during one of the days of SEAF 2024.

People’s Choice Awards

Festival guests this year cast 5,181 votes.

Land of Milk and Honey by Ayla Quellhorst
Marilyn Mantis Loves an Offering by Andy Lime and Rhiley Jane
Inferno’s Embrace by Clone Art Designs and phantomburned

Literary

This year, the Literary Anthology accepted 64 works from 45 authors. This year’s stories came to us from as close as our backyard in Seattle to as far away as Australia.

SEAF 2025 Award Winners: The cover of the 2025 Seattle Erotic Art Festival Literary Art Anthology

Foundation Awards for Literary Art

Earth|Worm by Gigi F.
Dad, Son, Bro by Jason Haaf
The Stonecutter’s Wife by Megan Landon

Editors’ Choice Award

Shavuot by Ben Robertson
Berries by Sophia Choto

It brings us so much joy to be able to celebrate these creatives and their works. To all our artists, we praise your vulnerability and bravery—you offer up so much of yourselves in your work and allow us to share it with the world. Guests and Art Activists, your attendance at SEAF makes it possible for us to continue to bring erotic art into the spotlight. Whether on our walls, a screen, or the pages in a book. The Seattle Erotic Art Festival exists to promote the enjoyment and sale of erotic art. You all make it possible.