Columbus Dispatch

Is Columbus too puritanical for nude models? Should nude art class return? | Letters

I'm disappointed with the Recreation and Parks Department’s recent decision to end nude modeling in art courses offered at the Priscilla R. Tyson Cultural Arts Center. I took four sections of anatomy ...
The Advocate

LSU students bare it all as nude art models: 'It’s a very brave thing to be able to do.'

For many, attending school naked is nothing more than a titillating nightmare (or fantasy), but some students at LSU really do show it all before their classmates. They’re the nude art models in the ...
Sarasota Magazine

At Ringling College, Figure Models Play an Integral Role in Teaching Art Students

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 ...
Hyperallergic

From Poseurs to Pros: Artists and Their Models

Art students posing their model, photographer unknown. John Storrs papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. (all images courtesy the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art) The model ...