Workshop Presenters
Scott Church, Featured Photographer
Scott Church is a world renowned, internationally published, award winning fine art erotic portrait photographer. His work has been featured in Playboy Magazine, Playboy.com, Maxim.com, Skin Too Magazine, Gothic Beauty Magazine, Secret Magazine and Fine Art PHOTO Magazine, along with many others. He has published six books of photography and given workshops in London, Dallas, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Seattle and Las Vegas.
His day to day work is, by choice, with regular people, not professional models. He loves finding everyone's beauty, no matter the subject, and he shows his clients the utmost devotion and respect everyday. He still chooses to base his studio in the same small town he grew up in, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and keeps his prices low to allow everyone to enjoy what he does.
Scott truly loves photographing people, and making them feel as perfect and beautiful as he possibly can. His work speaks for itself. Be sure to click on his daily journal, which chronicles the past five years of his day to day work.
Lady Ellen of Le Femme Finishing School
Lady Ellen is the owner of Le Femme Finishing School in New Jersey. She has presented at transgender conferences and support groups in NJ, NY, PA, VA and GA.
Lady Ellen views each client as a friend and sees them as a whole person, body, mind and spirit, with male and female traits. She provides clients with a holistic cross-dressing experience, allowing them to explore all aspects of their female side through education, friendship, mentoring, and counseling. She strives to assist each individual with more than simply the outward appearance.
Lee Allure
Miss Lee is the owner of Lee Allure's Hypnotic Files, offering free and pay hypnotic files. She has been going to NEST, the world's largest tickling convention, held annually in Philadelphia, since 1997, and has been organizing it since 2007.
A sadistic top who loves overload, whether pleasure or pain, Lee finds the capacity of the body & mind to do/take almost anything, absolutely sexy.
Bethany Swank
Bethany Swank has always loved dance. She started taking Belly Dance and Art of Exotic classes at Goddess Hour Dance Studio many years ago. After years of hard work, dedication and many workshops around the U.S she now teaches Belly Dance and Art of Exotic Dance classes at Goddess Hour. When Bethany is not shimmying or shaking it, she is a full time student at University at Buffalo studying Geography with a concentration in Mapping Science. She is also the founder of the Pretty Kitty's Burlesque Troupe, who will be performing at the festival.
Bombshell Belly Dance Company
Bringing together the ancient art of belly dance with a modern flair, this belly dance company puts on a show like none other. Sword balancing, candle dancing and luscious movements bring this exotic show into a class of its own.
Jennifer Dovidio
Jennifer started her career with her love of music. She began by writting and recording songs, touring throughout western NY with her country band Justified, and has been featured on 92.5 WBEE's Upstate on Stage throughout the years. Jennifer has been on local dance teams, coached cheerleadding, and taught children at a local dance studio. Graduating from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2008, she received her Multidisciplinary degree focused on Management for the Arts and Marketing.
Jennifer has trained with the 2010 US Pole Dance Champion Alethea Austin, Australian Pole Star Amber Ray, the 2011 American Pole Fitness Champion Phoenix Kazree, and the WORLD CHAMPION Felix Cane!
She is now the owner and head instructor of the upscale and sassy X-Polse Pole Dance Studio located at Artisanworks. The studio is an amazing playground for ladies to giggle, laugh and just have fun!
Brett
Brett has many years of experience with rope bondage, and has developed a highly recommended class in rope bondage for beginners. He is also known for his chainmaille creations and fetish photography. Brett will be designing and tying a wardrobe of clothing from rope, which we'll be showing off on our Live Statues. He will also be demonstrating rope bondage and teaching Rope Bondage 101 for Beginners. www.chainmailledesigns.com
Otter
Otter has been drawing and sketching as long as he can remember. Given the chance to take on the Doodles workshop, he didn't hesitate for a second!
Tom
Tom has many years of experience in the BDSM lifestyle and is the Education Coordinator for the Syracuse Ds Society. He enjoys showing others the ins and outs of various impact toys, and is the creator/owner of ET Whips.
Emme Edmunds
Emme Edmunds is a Midwife and Nurse Practitioner
with a focus on reproductive & sexual health. She has long experience with consensual power exchange
and an academic research background in Sociology of Health & Sex Education.
Emme is just returning from a research trip to India and lives in Ithaca New York. Sometimes in the evening, she can be heard singing blues in a band or dressed in drag singing torch songs... She is the proud mom of a 22 year old man who loves and respects women and looks great in a dress.
Scott Grove
Scott Grove is a dedicated self-taught craftsman who uses a broad media mix including exotic figured woods, gemstones, precious metal and other materials. For over thirty years he has developed unconventional methods in his approach to furniture making, and is known for layers of artistic expression.
Scott maintains a full time studio in downtown Rochester where he produces commission work, speculative furniture, and limited edition pieces. He is a contributing writer and has been published in a number of magazines; he also lectures nationally on product design and marketing art furniture. A graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in environmental design and minor in sculpture, Scott also studied at RIT's School for American Crafts. As a member of The Furniture Society, his work is a part of the permanent collection of the Hunter Museum of American Craft in Knoxville and is seen nationally in galleries and featured exhibitions as well in top craft and furniture shows across the United States.
Dennis Lemons
Sun Kissed Castings is a lifecasting studio located in Northeast PA, just outside of Dalton. Dennis Lemons creates works of art by making molds from the human body and creating exquisite sculptures. This process is also called "bodycasting" and can be used to create a sculpture of any area of the body.
He can create a full torso casting, a face casting, a casting of a pregnant women’s abdomen, a sculpture of a newborn child’s hand or foot, one of different generations holding hands or two lovers holding hands. Larger and more complex sculptures are also possible. Because of the collaborative process and the resulting intimate detail, lifecasting is an art form that can provoke deep sentiment and emotion.
Dennis is a certified member of the Association of Lifecaster International.