TheArt Institute of Virginia Beach is seeking applications for part-timelife-drawing models.

The primary purpose of the lifedrawing model is to provide students with the opportunity to practice, learn,and improve their perceptive skills and quality of artistic expression throughobservational drawing techniques and analysis of the human form. Life drawingmodels will be required to pose undraped, draped, and/or in costume.

PLEASE NOTE:CURRENT STUDENTS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO APPLY.

Candidates should be able to pose forvarying lengths of time. Quick gesture drawings as well as longer poses forsustained drawing exercises will be required. Poses are both nude and seminudeand include both female and male models.

Candidates should possess stronginterpersonal skills, ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing,and the ability to work effectively both independently and as a part of a team.Candidates should be able to create suitable, interesting and sustained posed,draped and undraped, as directed by a course instructor. Poses will vary inlength from 30 seconds up to 20 minutes intervals over a four hour period.Figure modal may be asked to provide creative costuming and props forappropriate in class assignments.

A high school education or equivalentis required.

Ability to arrive on time asscheduled.

Ability to pose draped and undraped.

Ability to work flexible schedule,work assigned schedule and arrive on time.

Ability to create and hold a varietyof interesting poses, without movement, for varied durations.

Ability to demonstrate awareness andconfidence of own body in space and around.

Knowledge of figure modelingtechniques.