Cumberland Lifer's

A model post.

Here's a post dedicated to the exellent and hardworking models we've been lucky to get, and lifers...and models...might be interested in this item. Joseph Dunn, one of our members who missed the last session but nevertheless managed to forge a path to the Waverly Hotel to join us for our after-class-calmer-downers, brought to our attention a strike currently raging in the heartland of figurative art. You can read a newspaper article about it here.

Here's a quick summary:

Only 50 of the 300 models at Italy's art institutions, both male and female, have contracts for full time work, the remainder are hired by the hour. They are currently paid 25 Euros an hour and are on strike for better pay and conditions. The item ends with an art critic saying that, despite the cold and poor pay there will always be people willing to do the work for the chance to be immortalized in great art.

We'd better stop using newsprint and that brown craft paper if we're going to do any immortalizing...