Plus, I have a passion for using my body to express whatever I’m feeling or going through. My background in dance, physical theater, and performance art are some of the main things that distinguish my modeling work from others. It’s been great to provide these live-stream opportunities to the whole world!Īlright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally? Sedona Arts Center is also giving other online art-related workshops. I also provide private sessions to artists. Attendees RSVP to me in advance for a Zoom meeting link to attend. I currently offer online Friday Long Pose and Monday Short Pose sessions, 10am-1pmMST, and other groups are in the works. Now, with COVID-19 upon us, our weekly life drawing groups have gone online and they are no longer limited to local participants only. Since then, I’ve conducted weekly life drawing sessions and modeled for many art workshops there, as well as at other venues. In 2012, I was thrilled when Vince Fazio, director of the Sedona Arts Center, asked if I would host and model for life drawing groups there. It was a healing way to work through some of the trauma of that loss and also to illustrate the devastating and very real impact of climate change. One great example was modeling for photographer Jorge Vismara on the homesite and surrounds of our family home of 48 years that burnt to the ground in the 2018 Woolsey fire. There is nothing better or richer for me than working with skilled art practitioners of various mediums to help bring our visions to life. I do this through mask making and performance art, movement and dance, and modeling for artists. My personal art practice lies in using my body to express emotion, archetypes, characters, and often feelings that people can’t identify or don’t want to acknowledge. So, it is my honor to participate in that process with talented artists. In my opinion, the most important purposes of creating art are to show beauty or emotion or to make a statement about something meaningful. I’ve also always had a rebellious streak, and I delight in the non-traditional aspects of those pleasures and my businesses. So, I knew from first-hand experience that I wasn’t alone. Only a small handful fit our societal supposed “norms” of physical attractiveness. I was also a massage practitioner for over two decades, so I saw and worked on thousands of naked bodies. At that time, Sedona wasn’t so popular, so you could do that and never meet a soul. I spent a lot of time naked on the land there, swimming in the creek and hiking. I went to high school in the seventies and eighties in Sedona. I think its important work to buck a system that says you should only show your body if you’re young and beautiful. I started modeling for artists when I was in my late thirties and I’m now in my fifties. Eventually, I decided to try modeling for a photographer whose portfolio I liked, and I discovered that I enjoyed the work and that it was very empowering. When I was first asked to model for a life drawing class, I was too scared to do it, because I thought I didn’t have the physical attributes. People used to ask if I was a model, which I found curious since I didn’t think I looked good enough to be one. Hi Pash, can you walk us through the thought-process of starting your business? We had the good fortune of connecting with Pash Galbavy and we’ve shared our conversation below.
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