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

• Brick & Mortar Gallery Exhibits

• 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 our thriving arts community!

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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 brick & mortar gallery exhibits as well as by providing an online gallery to connect art buyers with figurative artist members.  Artists retain 100% of their online sales.

• 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/Executive Director, 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.  Ellen also managed a professional commercial fashion model with dual representation in Denver & San Francisco, working directly with booking agents at two major talent agencies for a decade.

Before Ellen started Art of Modeling, she interned in arts administration for the Boulder County Arts Alliance, and worked in arts administration for the Arts Hub Performing & Visual Arts Center, and for the NoBo Art District.  

Over the years, Ellen has regularly volunteered in the Boulder, CO and the Scotts Valley, CA communities that she and her family have made her home and most recently 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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