THE JUDGES
For the five people who would judge the contest entries, the Foundation wanted experts from as many different aspects of erotic art as possible. To everyone's delight, all five of the first choices agreed to give their opinions. They were:

DR. ANGELIKA MUTHESIUS, Head editor of Benedikt Taschen Verlag, the German art book publishers,
RIP COLT, Photographer and artist,
RICHARD MARSHALL, Curator of the Whitney Museum,
LOUIS MADRIPILIAS, Art director for Liberation Publications (Advocate, etc.)
Sadly, the fifth original judge, DR. SAMUEL STEWART (AKA Phil Andros), died on New Year's Day, 1994, before receiving his judge's portfolio. We were fortunate that HUDSON, proprietor of Feature, an art gallery in New York's SoHo district, and an outstanding representative of yet another aspect of erotica, squeezed us into his schedule at the last minute.

The methods used to grade and evaluate the 127 works of art submitted to the contest were similar to the Olympics judging system, with each judge rating each piece on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the highest, but then their scores were added together, giving a highest possible score of 50. No individual work acheived a 50, but many came close.

All 127 works in three catagories were in the running to be GRAND PRIZE WINNER, the piece with the highest combined judges' scores. KEVIN H. JEHEBER won that honor with the above pencil drawing. Its offbeat composition, excellent rendering, and even its sly reference to all those hand-draped female nudes of past centuries helped to gain JEHEBER (who entered three works in three different media) the First Place Prize. He and his work were honored on stage at Tom's Bar 3, held on Tom's birthday, May 8, 1994, where he received a framed citation plus a $250.00 grant from the Foundation and (later) the commission to create the poster advertising Tom's Bar 4.

Taken from:
EMERGING EROTIC ARTISTS -
Homoerotic Art from the First Tom of Finland Foundation Emerging Erotic Artist Contest 1993
Edited by F. Valentine Hooven III