“Capture the balance of this pose,” Heddi Siebel says as she walks around the room. “Get the back, get the weight.” Students stand around the model, Callista Womick, in a semicircle, facing easels ...

We know D.C. Get our free newsletter to stay in the know. The evening could have been racier. “One of Mathew’s original names for the event was ‘stroke and poke,’ but we thought we should reign it in ...

College sophomore Java Tunson draws on an easel. Models are frequently employed by the Fine Arts Department for human figure drawing classes, and are required to sit silently at the front of ...

Instructor Darren Kerr talks to Sabina Grogan about the proportions of the human face during a life drawing class at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto. Photo by Magali Gauthier. On a recent evening ...

Nineteen-year-old Elizabeth Sandridge had never seen a nude male body before. And having someone walk into one of her art classes, disrobe and stand naked before some 20 students wasn't quite the way ...

Nude male models and wine. That was all it took to sell three of the GuideLive ladies on attending a press junket for The Artful Bachelorette. You read that right. Nude male models and wine. The press ...

Baylor University, a Baptist school known for prohibiting on-campus dancing and censuring female students who posed for Playboy magazine, has decided to offer a nude figure drawing class for the first ...

Nineteen-year-old Elizabeth Sandridge had never seen a nude male body before. And having someone walk into one of her art classes, disrobe and stand naked before some 20 students wasn't quite the way ...