Clothed Portrait Figure Drawing (D)

Participants will draw portraits from a live, clothed figure model. Session starts with a warm up of short poses, then moves into a few longer sessions. A studio monitor will guide the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided. open to anyone interested in drawing portraits from a live, clothed figure model.

Special Notes

• Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
   
   
   
   
  On-site courses do not come with studio access outside of class time. Paid open studio access is available through our Studio Access Program. Please visit visarts.org for more information.
   
  Instructor speaks Spanish, but the class is held in English.

About the Instructor

Salis Dembling

Salis was raised in New York City and Massachusetts and spent formative years in L.A. and South America. She's mixed/Black and the daughter of Black Historian Sterling Stuckey and granddaughter of poet Elma Stuckey She studied drawing and sculpture at Columbia University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree. She studied painting and illustration at The School of Visual Arts and in the studio of portrait painter John Murray, both in New York as well. She completed the professional four year atelier painting program and teacher training program at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia. As well as being a visual artist she is a musician/composer. She co-founded art and activism collectives and a radical community center called Better than Television.

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