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Artists Wanted: Nude Portrait Sessions at Startup Art Fair
We're doing live nude portrait sessions at Startup Art Fair and I need artists to draw with me! If you've been following Perceive Me, you know this project started with me posing nude for 60+ artists - exploring body liberation and challenging how we see bodies that don't fit conventional beauty standards. Now we're opening that transformative experience to anyone who wants to be drawn. We tested Community Nude Portrait Sessions at The Other Art Fair in October and something
Kristine Schomaker
Nov 222 min read


When They Come for Women's Bodies, We Answer With More Bodies
How Perceive Me Becomes Political Infrastructure in a Fall of Freedom So this happened. There's a nationwide creative resistance movement launching November 21-22 called Fall of Freedom. Artists, writers, musicians, theaters, galleries across the country organizing against rising authoritarianism. And right there in their list of what's at stake: "Women's rights rescinded." When I saw that, something clicked into place about why Perceive Me feels so urgent right now. For ten
Kristine Schomaker
Nov 174 min read


Welcome to Perceive Me
Our first NEWS!!! We're going to Start Up Art Fair 2026 . Coming Soon: Perceive Me at Start Up Art Fair February 27 - March 1, 2026 The Kinney Hotel, Venice Beach So this is happening. Three rooms at Start Up Art Fair. Not a booth. Not a corner. Three actual rooms at The Kinney Hotel in Venice Beach where something transformative can unfold. Room one: 60+ artworks from Perceive Me—paintings, photographs, sculptures, all these different artists seeing my plus-size body as wort
Kristine Schomaker
Nov 152 min read
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