“It would be a completely different experience,” Keimig said of a figure-drawing class absent a living model and the opportunity to see, up close, the anatomy of a human being.

The class focuses on the structure of human anatomy, proportion, body mass and modes of depiction, said art professor Joe Forkan.

One of the oldest forms of art and anatomical appreciation is preserved and celebrated through the nude modeling program in the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia.

The class is open to anyone 18 years of age or older and features a nude model. After starting his creative career in ceramics, Patten says he fell in love with the art of figure drawing after ...

An hour into my first class as a nude art model, the instructor told me to get into a pose I could hold for 20 minutes. I was on a platform in the ...