Artists have drawn and painted human figures for millennia. Figure drawing is among the hardest art forms to master, and artists need human models. This course demystifies what modeling involves and introduces some unconventional opportunities like posing as patients at medical schools, even here in Athens. Modeling types from portrait to clothed figure to costumes to nude will all be discussed, with expectations and pay for each. Attendees interested in becoming personally involved will see examples of the model types posing and will learn how to join in at their own level of comfort.

This class explores how East Asian cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare engage multiple senses to articulate women’s experiences and amplify women’s voices within other spaces. By combining sensory analysis with a gendered lens, this study examines how the selected films employ auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory cues to represent female characters’ gendered melancholia, desires, and agency. As the focus shifts from mere visibility, the multisensory emerges as the mechanism through which the other space becomes experientially distinct, shaping the female characters’ lived experiences. Therefore, heterotopia provides the overarching theoretical framework, highlighting how other spaces in the films—whether natural landscapes, palaces, schools, or spaces of solitude—allow women to explore, negotiate, and reflect on their identities beyond socially prescribed roles.

This class explores how East Asian cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare engage multiple senses to articulate women’s experiences and amplify women’s voices within other spaces. By combining sensory analysis with a gendered lens, this study examines how the selected films employ auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory cues to represent female characters’ gendered melancholia, desires, and agency. As the focus shifts from mere visibility, the multisensory emerges as the mechanism through which the other space becomes experientially distinct, shaping the female characters’ lived experiences. Therefore, heterotopia provides the overarching theoretical framework, highlighting how other spaces in the films—whether natural landscapes, palaces, schools, or spaces of solitude—allow women to explore, negotiate, and reflect on their identities beyond socially prescribed roles.