Live Performances & Art Exhibits In Phoenix

Opening January 2026, Alwun House invites you into the kaleidoscopic worlds of John Chakravarty, a fine artist whose wacko watercolors and interactive wood cutouts defy convention.

Bordering on the surreal and psychedelic, Chakravarty’s paintings are portals—playful yet pointed—where each scene tells a story and dares the viewer to step inside. Rooted in the grit and energy of Phoenix’s punk rock and bar scene, his works reimagine iconic underground haunts through fantastical watercolor landscapes that are as whimsical as they are haunting.

Beneath their vibrant surfaces, Chakravarty’s narratives bend and twist sci-fi tropes to shed light on urgent realities—class divides and water scarcity in the desert Southwest—making the bizarre unexpectedly profound.

Rounding out the exhibit are interactive wood cutouts that invite you to reshape the narrative with your own hand, blurring the line between artist and audience.

This is more than an exhibition—it’s an invitation to lose yourself in strange, colorful worlds that reflect our own.

Opening Reception: May 15, 6-10pm

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-friday-with-a-kink-tickets-1980330502843?aff=oddtdtcreator

✨ First Friday with a Kink: A Naughty Valentine’s Market ✨

Get ready for a tantalizing night that’s equal parts playful, provocative, and irresistibly fun. This Valentine’s season, treat your sweetheart—or indulge yourself—at a one-of-a-kind kink-friendly pop-up art market, complete with live entertainment, DJs, and deliciously cheeky food.

Wander a vibrant marketplace featuring talented local artisans offering:
• Handcrafted adult toys, paddles, whips, and floggers
• Explicit and erotic art
• Unique jewelry and specialty accessories
Perfect for gifting, collecting, or discovering something deliciously new.

🔥 Entertainment & Experiences 🔥
• 🎶 DJ NobleNova sets the mood with sultry beats all night long
• 🎨 Live painting by Cass Lillith
• 🪢 Shibari demonstrations by Charli Ropes, showcasing the beauty and grace of rope art—plus handcrafted soft ropes available for purchase
• 🐾 Pup Lexxi Phoenix brings playful, tail-wagging antics to the midway
• 🖤 Madame C commands attention, cracking whips from above

🍴 Indulge Your Cravings 🍴
• Muff Waffles serving up penis- and pussy-shaped waffle delights
• Racks & Balls dishing out mouthwatering rib racks and sticky chicken balls
• Wickedly delicious brews, cocktails, and love potions from Voodoo Ranger

💋 Dress to Impress 💋
Come dressed for desire and join a community that celebrates love, art, and kink in all its playful forms.

This isn’t your typical Valentine’s outing—it’s bold, naughty, and unforgettable.
First Friday with a Kink may just be the naughtiest Valentine’s market in town. 21+

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1980520476058?aff=oddtdtcreator

A Secret Garden of Delights
Valentine’s Day Opening Night Gala

Step through the gates of Alwun House and into A Secret Garden of Delights, an unforgettable Valentine’s Day evening of allure, provocation, and artistic indulgence. Set amid the winding, moonlit gardens of Alwun House, our 43rd Annual Exotic Art Show invites you to revel in a night where passion and creativity intertwine in their most daring forms.

This immersive gala overflows with sultry performances, provocative spectacles, and exotic works by over 50 local and regional artists. From bold visual art to mesmerizing live acts, the evening celebrates love, desire, and fearless self-expression—while supporting our mission to champion the arts and nurture creativity within our community.

Headlining the night:
✨ Trey’s Treasures — delivering show-stopping burlesque drag that shocks, delights, and dazzles.
🐾 Pup Lexxi, the valley’s favorite tail-wagging tease, brings playful and kinky canine antics to the stage.
🪢 Charli Ropes, the state’s most celebrated rigger, presents an exquisitely choreographed and deeply romantic shibari performance unlike anything you’ve seen before.
🎧 DJ NobleNova fuels the Main Theatre with eclectic, electric beats, while a Jazz band sets a smooth, sultry tone in the Chill Lounge—accompanied by live rope and bondage demonstrations beside the iconic Penile Fire Pit.

Inside the gallery:
Wander through a lush collection of erotic and exotic art spanning multiple mediums. Witness a breathtaking Live Human Shibari Bouquet featuring model Cass Lillith and master rigger Charli Ropes. Downstairs, the underground art scene pulses as flamboyant body painter Brandon McGill creates a striking body-art masterpiece in real time.

Culinary temptations await:
Indulge in playful confections like cream-filled Penis Waffles and Pussy Waffles, dressed in decadent, saucy toppings. Savor the smoky allure of Coronado Smokehaus BBQ, serving gourmet meats and sandwiches designed to satisfy every craving.

Toast the night with champagne and specialty cocktails at the cash bar, including the indulgent Chocolate Orgasm.
Dress to impress—fetish wear and cosplay are highly encouraged.

✨ 21+ Only
🌧️ Rain or shine—the show goes on

This is not just an event—it’s a Valentine’s Day experience designed to seduce the senses and leave a lasting impression. Join us for a night that promises beauty, boldness, and unforgettable delight.

Reserved Tables available – Must be claimed by 8:00 PM.

Opening Phantasmagorical Spectacular: February 14, 7–12pm

Opening Valentine’s Day 2026 at Alwun House

This Valentine’s Day, Alwun House invites you to step into a gallery where seduction meets sophistication. For over four decades, the Exotic Art Show has been the country’s longest-running celebration of fine art that dares to explore the sensual, the surreal, and the taboo.

From elegantly suggestive to wickedly whimsical, each work on display is a masterful creation designed to ignite curiosity, stir the senses, and spark conversation. This is not pornography—it’s an intoxicating mix of high-caliber artistry and audacious imagination, crafted by adventurous artists who revel in pushing the envelope while honoring the discipline and beauty of fine art.

Paintings, sculpture, photography, mixed media—every piece chosen for this juried exhibit tempts the viewer to linger just a moment longer, to savor the craftsmanship and feel the thrill of the forbidden. Whether lushly romantic or deliciously scandalous, the works share one aim: to draw you beyond the ordinary.

And because passion loves competition, three artists will receive $1,000 Critics’ Choice Awards, with a $500 People’s Choice Award decided by the most important judge—you.

This Valentine’s season, indulge your curiosity. Be tempted. Be captivated. Come see what happens when art sheds its inhibitions.

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/erotic-poetry-music-festivus-tickets-1980522012654?aff=oddtdtcreator

Erotic Poetry & Music Festivus

On the Main Stage, a dazzling array of acts will take center stage, guided by the magnetic chemistry of Comedian/performer Jetuan Whedon and comedian/actor Matt Micheletti. Their charm and wit set the tone for a night where boundaries dissolve, and creativity reigns supreme.

In the serene ambiance of the West Garden Chill Lounge, Rosemarie Dombrowski, Phoenix’s first Poet Laureate, leads a showcase of the valley’s most eloquent poets, their words weaving tales of intimacy, beauty, and boldness under the open sky.

Don’t miss the 43nd Exotic Art Show, the nation’s longest-running exhibition of erotic and exotic art. From sultry and sensual to daring and playful, this extraordinary collection features the talents of local and regional artists who explore the vast spectrum of human passion through their creations.

Join us for a night of unrestrained artistry and celebration – where words, music, and imagery collide in a symphony of the bold and the beautiful. Let the 23rd EP&MF ignite your imagination and awaken your senses in ways you’ll never forget.

Show goes on rain or shine. 21+ No Refunds. Admission tickets will be available at the door for $15.

“Walking the Path” is an exhibition that confronts the complexities of the human psyche. Artist John Tuomisto-Bell transforms the gallery and gardens with monumental cast bronze sculptures and intimate drawings, each exploring the raw depths of the human condition.

Tuomisto-Bell reflects on intelligence, aggression, and violence—forces that have shaped humanity as both its greatest strengths and its most dangerous flaws. Through massive bronze figures and fragmented icons—a solitary figure, an isolated head, a fractured body—he invites us to witness these tensions in stark, visceral form.

Together, the sculptures and drawings chart an emotional terrain where beauty and brutality coexist, offering a profound meditation on what it means to be human, vulnerable, and bound to one another in a shared existence.

Opening Reception: March 13, 6-10pm

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm

Teena Maree is a hidden gem—an artist whose architectural training shapes not just her creations, but the spaces they inhabit. This exhibit unfolds as a spatial journey, guiding viewers through emotion-charged acrylic and mixed-media portraits of female faces, and into the intricate realm of her figurative sculptures—each one a fusion of the discarded and the divine.

With every stitch, scrap, and salvaged fragment, Maree weaves stories of identity, memory, beauty, trauma, and the unyielding resilience of the human spirit. Her work offers a tender postmortem of what we keep, what we hide, and what we ultimately become.

In her hands, the doll—a long-standing emblem of innocence and gendered perfection—emerges transformed. Beheaded, reconstructed, and adorned with ancestral relics and obscure artifacts from across the world, these totemic figures speak of fracture and repair, of the ways we dismantle and reassemble ourselves through life’s rawest passages.

Step inside her world, and you may just find yourself piecing together your own.

Opening Reception: April 17, 6-10pm

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm

“Nappy Roots, The Homecoming” is a bold and intimate visual journey into the beauty, complexity, and resilience of Black identity, told through the lens of hair, heritage, and healing. This series honors the ancestral crown, the coiled, kinked, and twisted strands that have carried both burden and brilliance across generations.

Myja Lark uses stylized silhouettes, symbolic textures, and vibrant contrasts, the work invites viewers to reconsider the narratives we’ve inherited about what is beautiful, what is worthy, and what is ours.

This is not just a celebration of Black hair, it’s a homecoming to self. To the softness we were told to suppress. To the roots we were encouraged to cut. To the stories we carry in every coil.

Each piece stands as a quiet revolution, a love letter to those who never stopped searching for home, in their bodies, in their histories, in their communities. “Nappy Roots, The Homecoming” does not ask for acceptance, it claims space.

Opening Reception: May 15, 6-10pm

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm