Tens of thousands of years ago an aspiring artist picked up a piece of charcoal and drew an image of another early human being on the rocky wall of a cave. Across the millennia that followed people ...

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 ...

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 ...

One by one, five artists file into a small studio space on the second floor of a multitenant building at 707 N. Cedar St. on the edge of Kendall Yards. Each carries their preferred art medium: ...

The workers who pose for artists at historic organizations like the Art Students League say they are overworked and underpaid in a field that rarely values them. The East London group sees their life ...