[NEohioPAL] Female Model Needed Immediately for Life Drawing Class at Beck Center

[Marie Bohusch]

Unfortunately, many university/college student artists models don't
realize the art dept is paying them is bird feed.  The impossibly low
pay goes for just about ANY university "student" position.  Last time
I stopped by the financial aid office at Kent State in 2005, I saw a
KSU job posting looking for students-only with "intermediate
experience in UNIX based MySQL/PHP programming" - $6.50/hr.  I nearly
died laughing!  When I checked with KSU's art dept in 2003, they were
paying artists models $10/hr.  Bird feed!  While a computer programmer
will usually "know better", artists models who START in Uni/College
art dept's often have no idea that they were being dramatically
underpaid, and happily leap at any other work that pays the same or
just a little better.

Any sort of work that is so physically demanding that a person
couldn't do it for 40hrs/wk (I certainly could never pose that many
hours in any one week!), they need to rethink how much their actual
WORKING hours (plus any needed recovery time) are REALLY worth.  The
more statuesque a model is -- no flinching, drooping, change of face,
nothing -- the more they are likely to "feel it" the next day.  That's
recovery time, and yes - the pantry, landlord and electric company
would very much appreciate it if a model calculates the value of the
time they can't work as a direct result of work ALREADY DONE.

Just something to think about.

~marie



2008/1/17 Star Day <staroftheday1 at yahoo.com>:
>
> I don't know if you all are aware but industry standard for "Nude
> Modeling/Nude Figure Models" begins at $100 - $125 per hour. A newer model,
> you may be able to hire for $75 per hour because they are not an established
> model. Offering $11 per hour is disturbing.
>
> Sorry, I just had to point that out. Many models are exploited or paid well
> below the indutry standard here in CLeveland and it's simply disturbing.
>
> Kaye
> myspace.com/kristal13
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