{"id":43112,"date":"2016-03-11T16:51:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T22:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=43112"},"modified":"2016-03-11T16:51:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T22:51:54","slug":"what-its-like-to-model-naked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2016\/03\/11\/what-its-like-to-model-naked\/","title":{"rendered":"What it&#8217;s like to model naked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For life models, sitting, standing and lying down naked are just part of the job.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke with three University of Kansas students who model for the Visual Arts Department <span class=\"_Tgc\">\u2014<\/span> Valerie, Olivia and Maria <span class=\"_Tgc\">\u2014 about what got them interested in modeling as a part-time job, what it&#8217;s like to be artists&#8217; muses and if it&#8217;s weird to be naked for strangers.<\/span><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kjhk\/what-its-like-to-model-naked&amp;color=993300&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=false&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43264\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/drawings-of-models-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"drawings of models\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/drawings-of-models-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/drawings-of-models-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/drawings-of-models-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/drawings-of-models-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8220;I like being able to see what for me is just sitting around, I like seeing what the art students do with that,&#8221; Valerie Kutcho said. &#8220;What creation they can make out of me sitting on my ass basically.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re going to see anything that they don&#8217;t expect, you know?&#8221; Olivia Huels said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Standing here naked in front of these people is going to make me not worry about my stretch marks and the fat on my body,&#8221; Maria said. &#8220;Because like they&#8217;re just drawing lights and shadows and lines and that&#8217;s all I am. I&#8217;m just lights and shadows and lines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see paintings all the time of naked people and it&#8217;s just cool because you think, &#8216;That&#8217;s a real person. That person exists,'&#8221; Olivia said. &#8220;And now I am that person.&#8221;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-43265\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/back-of-canvases-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"back of canvases\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/back-of-canvases-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/back-of-canvases-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/back-of-canvases-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/back-of-canvases-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For life models, sitting, standing and lying down naked are just part of the job. I spoke with three University of Kansas students who model for the Visual Arts Department \u2014 Valerie, Olivia and Maria \u2014 about what got them interested in modeling as a part-time job, what it&#8217;s like to be artists&#8217; muses and if it&#8217;s weird to be naked for strangers. &#8220;I like being able to see what for me is just sitting around, I like seeing what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12077,"featured_media":43267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3226,15],"tags":[4614,4615,4616],"class_list":["post-43112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-culture-articles","category-featured-on-kjhk","tag-models","tag-nudity","tag-visual-arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/art-is-dread.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}