The Men's Naked Drawing Group is a small group of men meeting regularly in Soho that draw each other's naked form as a way to promote body positivity and art.
In this video from Joshua Futtersak and Barbara Marcolini, learn all about the group and their leader 'Shungaboy'.
Shungaboy wants to paint, but even more so, he wants to be naked. The Men’s Naked Drawing Group, which Shungaboy founded, is a group of like-minded nudists who want a place to explore their art without judgment. In a small studio in SoHo, they do just that, meeting every two weeks to rediscover their naked selves. A New York resident who does not like to reveal his name, Shungaboy’s adopted moniker is borrowed from “Shunga,” the erotic art form of seventeenth-century Japan that inspires him. “The natural body is actually more attractive than the chiseled hunk,” Shungaboy says, which may as well be the motto of this accepting group of painters.
via Narratively
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