On February 17, 2020, Figure On Diversity was hired to provide programming at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Frank Hatch Free Day. The open-drawing event, which featured four clothed models who were alums of the workshop series, was attended by 500 people over five hours. This event was held in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition Boston's Apollo, which brought together drawings and paintings made of the Black and Queer model Thomas E. McKeller by renowned American painter John Singer Sargent.
The video above is a record of Figure On Diversity's drawing session.
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Figure On Diversity Spotlights Excluded Identities in the Art Community
Brenna Sheets for The Independent Florida Alligator's The Avenue. June 3, 2021
Figure On Diversity, a figure drawing workshop series devoted to breaking down the boundaries of body exclusivity in the arts, will have its first Gainesville event on Sunday.
Outdated Artistic Norms Get BustEd with Figure On Diversity
Joey Phoenix for Creative North Shore. March 29, 2021
Recently, Figure On Diversity joined up with a UK-based figure drawing organization, Fat Life Drawing, for FOLD, an Online Figure Drawing event featuring three diverse models from Georgia, Massachusetts, and Ohio. In the three hour Zoom session, the figure models posed for more than 165 accounts ranging across international borders from San Franciscoto Berlin.
This Organization Is Trying To Diversify Boston's Figure Modeling World
Ariana Lee for WBUR's The ARTery. July 26, 2019
In a classroom in the basement of Lesley University, seven models are holding dramatic poses. Some stand with outstretched arms while others recline on the floor with twisted torsos. After 30 seconds, a facilitator calls out, “Time!” The room fills with movement as everyone finds a new stance.
