Figure Drawing (F-B)

These drawing sessions are open to anyone interested in drawing from a live, nude figure model. A studio monitor guides the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided.

Special Notes

• Preregistration is required in order to control the amount of students. There will be no instruction during this class. Those attending should bring all necessary materials; easels, stools, and tables are available. You will draw from live, nude models during this class.
  
  Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
  
  Payments for this class are non-refundable and non-transferable. As a courtesy to people on the waitlist, and due to limited space availability- If you cannot attend the class, please contact the front desk at [email protected] or 804-353-0094 in order to drop the class, and allow someone from the waitlist to join.
  
  
  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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