Filling a gap in our thriving arts

community, Art of Modeling provides: 

• Fine Arts Model Booking Services 

• Fine Arts Model Training Workshops

• Monthly Figure Drawing Marathons 

• Monthly Costumed Figure Drawing 

• Weekly Drop-in Figure Drawing 

• Weekly Plein Air Figure Drawing

• Daily Virtual Figure Drawing Offered

• Instructed Drawing Classes

• Private Group Figure Drawing Gatherings

• Corporate Team Building Figure Drawing Experiences

• Annual Jamaica Figure Drawing Retreat-NEW!

• Hire us to facilitate your drawing group at your spot

• Online Art Gallery Exhibitions/Sales Opportunities

• An Unofficial Association of Fine Arts Models in the Boulder/Denver Metro Area

OUR 

STORY

The Art of Modeling is a booking agency, fine arts model training provider and an informal professional association of fine arts models in the Boulder-Denver metropolitan area.

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Boulder, Colorado has the third highest per capita rate of artists in the country and Art of Modeling is thrilled to promote the performing art of figure modeling & to provide this service to the thriving arts community here!

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Our Mission and Goals include:

• To promote fine arts modeling as a legitimate and artistic profession

• To encourage models’ safety and respect

• To raise the level of professionalism within the fine arts modeling industry

• To facilitate both the hiring of models & finding work as a professional fine arts model

• To promote a wage that is equitable to the profession

• To create and provide figurative drawing opportunities for the arts community

• To support figurative artists careers by hosting an online gallery to connect art buyers with figurative artist members, who retain 100% of their sales and by organizing and hosting brick and mortar gallery exhibits

• To educate artists & models on industry appropriate conduct

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Ellen art modeling in Los Gatos, CA

Illustration in progress by Artist, John Peck

ELLEN ALLEN, founder

Boulder Artist and Art of Modeling Founder, Ellen Allen, is an award-winning artist with a traditional arts training (A.O.S. Graphic Design) from Pratt Institute, NY, NY and a BA (Psychology) from the University of Colorado at Boulder, with additional coursework at Parson's School of Design at the New School, NY, NY.  Ellen was a sought-after fine arts model in the San Francisco & Monterey Bay Areas.  For almost a decade, Ellen has managed a professional commercial fashion model with dual representation in Denver & San Francisco, working directly with booking agents at two major talent agencies. Ellen has worked in arts administration for the Boulder County Arts Alliance, the Arts Hub Performing & Visual Arts Center, and for the NoBo Art District.  Ellen also volunteers in the Boulder arts community and has donated time & experience to the Dairy Arts Center, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), The Boulder County Arts Alliance (BCAA), The NoBo Art District, The City of Boulder's Office of Arts & Culture's (BAC) Boulder Arts Week (BAW), Arts Parts Creative Reuse Center, and Art Walk Longmont.

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