Kristine Schomaker

Perceive Me Panel Discussion at Start Up Art Fair 2026 Sunday, March 1st at 2pm What happens when you're truly seen—without judgment, without the constant measuring against impossible standards, without shame? This March, we're gathering at Start Up Art Fair to talk about the thing we usually avoid: our bodies. How we see them. How we think others see them. Why it matters so much. And what changes when we choose visibility over hiding. The Panel I'll be moderating a conversation with six...

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 amazing happened....

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 And right there in their list of what's at stake: "Women's rights rescinded."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 years I've been...