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 ...

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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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... FORT COLLINS, Colo.—Makenna Caballer wakes up, puts on makeup, chooses an outfit and makes her way to the Visual Arts Building on Colorado State University’s ...

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 ...

Visitors to a recent art show at Dixie State University were greeted with a disclaimer. “Parents may choose to preview this exhibit before their children enter. Thank you.” Obviously a message like ...

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 ...

A row has broken out after a life-drawing class in north London was told its nude models should wear clothes following complaints. Organisers of the daytime class have accused “puritanical” Hampstead ...

“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 ...