Studio Art Life Model
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Job overview
Museum of Fine Arts Boston is hiring a Studio Art Life Model. The Studio Art Life Model supports the MFA’s Studio Art Classes Program by posing for select adult classes, including life drawing, life painting, portrait drawing, and portrait painting. This role helps students develop their craft, perceptual and hand skills, understanding of anatomy and proportion, and connection to artistic production history.
Key focus areas include Pose for studio art classes, such as life drawing, life painting, portrait drawing, portrait painting, Provide a full range of body gestures and poses, from quick gestures to long, sustained poses, and Re-establish posed positions for long-term modeling sessions.
Successful candidates bring Physical Ability for Full Range Poses and Punctuality. Important skills include Provide Full Range Of Body Gestures And Poses, Re-Establish Posed Positions, Demonstrate Flexibility And Animation Of Human Form, Punctuality, and Flexibility In Meeting Scheduling Demands.
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Full job description
Reporting to the Senior Manager of Studio Art Classes, the Studio Art Life Model poses for select adult classes of the MFA’s Studio Art Classes Program. Life Models support the delivery of curricula, providing students with an opportunity to develop their craft in a professional, controlled environment. Through working with Life Models, students increase their perceptual and hand skills, develop a deeper understanding of anatomy and proportion, and connect to histories of artistic production.
Essential Functions:
Pose for studio art classes, such as life drawing, life painting, portrait drawing, portrait painting. Model poses include nude, costume, and street clothing.
Must have previous life modeling experience.
Be physically able to provide a full range of body gestures and poses, from quick gestures to long, sustained poses as required by the instructor.
Be able to re-establish posed positions for long-term modeling sessions
Demonstrate the flexibility and animation of the human form.
Punctuality and flexibility in meeting scheduling demands.
WAGE:
On-Call hourly
$30 per hour
The MFA is an equal opportunity employer. The community and audience we serve is diverse, and we wish to foster that diversity in our workplace. Toward that end, the MFA does not discriminate against individuals in hiring, employment or promotion on the basis of race, religion, color, sex/gender, gender identity and gender expression, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, handicap or disability, veteran or military status, political belief, pregnancy, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.
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