BELFAST, Maine (WABI) - From prehistoric Venus figurines to Michelangelo’s David, artists have tried to capture the natural beauty of the human form for thousands of years. In Belfast, a weekly class ...

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 ...

A life drawing class at the Boston Figurative Art Center (photo by Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Aaron Bogan, a professional art model and illustrator originally from New ...

I took off my robe and tossed it on the floor, and all eyes were fixed on me. No, this isn’t some Penthouse fantasy, but the start of a nude drawing class. I’ve had the opportunity to attend them both ...

Good morning. They're among the “blue-collar workers of the arts,” one figure-drawing model told Hyperallergic Staff Writer Isa Farfan, describing long days of holding difficult poses that are a feat ...

‘If we all saw each other naked in more casual settings, it wouldn’t be such a big deal anyway,’ says one retiree, who’s been drawing at the Boston Figurative Art Center for a decade WATCH: Posing ...

We were all freshmen, mostly, in the life-drawing class. First-year art majors. How curious, thinking about it now—that the art department hired other college students as models. It’s impossible that ...

Don Branagan takes great pride in his calendar and his busy schedule. As a full-time art model, he likes to book gigs as early as possible. But when COVID-19 hit, Don’s calendar suddenly dried up.