America’s Most Captivating Couples 2009, Part II
San Francisco, California
Annie, 54, artist, author, educator
Beth, 48, artist, professor
Annie and Beth are an artist couple committed to doing projects that explore, generate, and celebrate love. “We utilize visual art, installation, theater pieces, interventions, live-art, exhibitions, lectures, printed matter and activism,” says Annie. “Each year we orchestrate one or more interactive performance art weddings in collaboration with various national and international communities, then display the ephemera in art galleries.” Their projects incorporate the colors and themes of the chakras, a structure inspired by Linda M. Montano’s 14 Years of Living Art. “Our current project, The Love Art Laboratory, grew out of our response to the violence of war, the anti-gay marriage movement, and our prevailing culture of cynicism. We hope the Love Art Laboratory will help make the world a more fun, sexy, tolerant, love-filled place.”
We rounded up so many gorgeous couples we couldn’t fit them all in one issue. That said, we’re happy to have the cuteness continue.
Kristi & Corinn
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Kristi Schoenrock, 30, health policy specialist
Corinn Sagsveen, 32, student
Humor keeps this self-styled “odd couple” together; that and a mutual interest in documentaries and scrabble. Kristi and Corinn met in the park during Pride weekend in 2005. They fell for each other at a rooftop party later that night. No one in their respective circles thought their Pride hook-up would last, but almost four years later they are looking to buy a house together. Corinn describes the key to success in their relationship as a willingness to let go of their personal egos and accept one another entirely as they are. “I think the secret is respecting each other’s differences and not trying to change each other,” says Corinn.
