Description: "Private Eyes: Amateur Works from The Kinsey Institute Collection" explores the unique characteristics of homemade erotic artifacts.

"Private Eyes: Amateur Works from The Kinsey Institute Collection" explores the unique characteristics of homemade erotic artifacts. These one-of-a-kind items include drawings, paintings, carved figures, handmade cards, scrapbooks, fabric crafts, and altered coins from The Kinsey Institute’s permanent collection of art. These “artworks”, spanning the naively playful to the transgressive, were intended for private consumption and created with specific individuals in mind, unlike mass-produced, commercially distributed pornography. To date, these materials have received scant scholarly or sociological attention, and The Kinsey Institute is displaying the majority of these items for the first time.

Private Eyes will be on view in The Kinsey Institute Gallery from January 22 through April 2, 2010. This event is free and open to the public. The Kinsey Institute Gallery is open 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm weekdays or by appointment during the Instutitute working hours. Admission is free. Visitors should be 18 years of age or older, unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.