Drawn.ca posts a mind-blowing news piece of an art teacher suspended for recommending life drawing art classes to his more advanced students.
In his discussions with students Mr. Panse mentioned several options for advancing their figure drawing skills; the local community college, a nearby frame shop that sponsors art classes, and the prestigious New York Academy of Art.
I would expect this from an ironic near-naked state like Florida or some freakishly religious midwest state, but no, it’s NY.
Art Renewal Center has an interesting breakdown of the situation:
He is not being accused of recommending that these students attend these classes without parental permission or without proper supervision and chaperones.
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Nobody is accusing him of forcing anyone to go to these sessions and indeed, neither the four students who attended the sessions last summer nor their parents have any complaints at all about the experience.
I pity the board that made this decision. It seems like a knee jerk reaction that will result in their faces being covered with egg-shelled gesso.
2 thoughts on “Apparently, You’re Nude And Very Naughty.”
puritans are irresistibly sexy. nothing gets me hot and bothered more than the thought of batraping some squealing, miserable, repressed, sexless mouthbreather who fears nudity. darn them right to heck for tempting me with their base, carnal, reactionary moralising.
Of all the ridiculous shit…
I went to Catholic H.S., and we regularly had nude models come in for the Advanced drawing class (a total of 3, 2 women, 1 man). Of course, the rest of the school were convinced we were all anarchist nihlists, so nothing we did really fazed them.
You’re right DR, this will end badly for the school board.