Pencils and paintbrushes rise when Kelly removes her robe and perches on a wooden platform one recent Sunday morning. Each artist in the small group at the Arts & Design Society of Fort Walton Beach ...

Blank canvases fill the intimate space of an art studio, which is focused on a wooden stage in the front of the room. Students are propped up in their seats waiting to begin class. Charles Coffman ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - A couple’s side hustle requires bravery. Jane Durden and Joseph Winstead are figure models. The two pose for art students. Sometimes, their work requires nudity. “The idea of ...

Hebron figure model Gil Salk will be posing for two museum events in the next few days. Both are open to the public for a moderate fee. On Sunday, June 19, the New Britain Museum of American Art will ...

A few minutes before today's advanced figure drawing class begins, students slowly file into a classroom at Ringling College of Art and Design. Like chefs preparing their stations, the students go ...

Organized labor isn't a radical idea these days, unless maybe you're in David Quammen's line of work. Quammen is a nude figure model who poses regularly for area art classes. And when the posing gets ...

As Holly Hanson was working on a gesture drawing of a nude model for her life drawing class, the model, who was standing on his tip-toes, started to shake violently. “We all wondered why he had chosen ...