Date/Time
Date(s) - 29th Nov 2024 - 1st Dec 2024
11:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location
Hotel Indigo Downtown Los Angeles

Categories

• Foundation Events

YOU CAN BOOK A STAY AT THE HOTEL

GET TICKETS IN ADVANCE FOR A DISCOUNT

VALET PARKING AVAILABLE AT THE HOTEL INDIGO. VARIOUS PUBLIC PARKING LOTS AVAILABLE NEARBY

Festival hours:
Friday 29th November: 11a-8p
Saturday 30th November: 10a-6p
Sunday 1st December: 11a-6p

SCHEDULE:

Friday 29th November
10:00-11:00a: Ropedweb at 25: A Retrospective
11:30a -1:00p: Rope Bondage Demo with Knot Your Daddy
1:00-1:30p: Opening Remarks and Honor Guard Tribute
1:30-1:45p: Sunset Boulevard Mural Unveiling
2:00-3:00p: Sticky Pages: Inside Stroke Magazine
4:00-5:00p: William E. Jones: I Didn’t See It Coming Reading and Discussion

Saturday 30th November
10:00-11:00a: Life Drawing Session with Miguel Angel Reyes
11:30a -1:00p: House of Leather Sneak Peek and Panel Discussion
1:30-3:30p: Flogging Demo with Dave Watt
4:00-5:00p: Shibari Performance by Oat Montien

Sunday 1st December
10:00-11:00a: Scene Dynamics: Some Nuts and Bolts to Chew and Screw by Guy Baldwin
11:00a-1:00p: TOM’s Legacy Council Brunch (Separate ticketing)
1:00-2:00p: Dian Hanson: Taschen and the Legacy of Tom of Finland Discussion
2:00-3:30p: Presentation Followed by Keynote Address from Paul Mpagi Sepuya: From the Studio
4:00-5:00p: Linda Simpson’s The Drag Explosion
5:00-5:45p: ToFF Awards Ceremony and Thank-Yous

In celebration of its 40th anniversary year, Tom of Finland Foundation is presenting the Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival 2024 – Art Speaks Through Us, supported by Diesel. The Festival in Los Angeles will run concurrently with CLAW’s LA Leather Thanksgiving for the first time.

The world’s largest erotic art fair, the Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival will take over Hotel Indigo in Downtown Los Angeles over Thanksgiving weekend with CLAW. A socially-friendly setting for artists, galleries, collectors and vendors to socialize as well as buy and sell works of art, the Festival will be open to the public Friday through Sunday.

Programming for this year’s Festival in Los Angeles is more expansive and a few highlights include the screening of select scenes from the feature-length documentary House of Leather followed by a panel discussion with past Foundation Artists-in-Residence such as filmmaker Jamison Rockmore, and moderated by Foundation Creative Director Richard Villani; Linda Simpson’s Drag Explosion, a unique narrated tour through some of the thousands of photos that she has taken that serve as a visual document of the entire history of drag becoming an art form that is now celebrated by the mainstream, moderated by Rick Herron, and a keynote address by African-American photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya, who will present an overview of his distinctive studio-based photographic practice that has been featured in exhibitions like SFMoMA and Whitney Biennial (2019), with opening remarks by Foundation President & Cofounder Durk Dehner and Foundation CEO Edward Cella.

VIEW THE PROGRAM

No cash will be accepted at the Festival.

The 2024 Diesel x Tom of Finland Foundation Pride collaboration is a multi-faceted project that includes a capsule collection and a series of global events, marking four decades of preserving and promoting the iconic legacy of Tom of Finland. Through its support of the 2024 Pride series of events and exhibitions Diesel acknowledges the profound social and cultural impact Tom’s Foundation has made in providing a unique, open space for freedom and love within the LGBTQ+ community of artists.

“We’ve had a close relationship with Tom of Finland Foundation for many years, and they are
one of the beneficiaries of CLAW,” said CLAW President Bob Miller. “We’re thrilled to be able to
bring these two great events together in the same place. For the attendees – it’s a lot to be
thankful for.”
A special room rate at the Hotel Indigo is available to attendees of both CLAW and the Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival.

Tom of Finland Art & Culture Fair 2024

Los Angeles, 29th November-1st December, FRIDAY 11a-8p, SATURDAY 10a-6p, SUNDAY 11a-6p. he Festival will run concurrently with CLAW’s LA Leather Thanksgiving for the first time. Attendees may book a room in the host hotel at special rates.