Dr. Sketchy mixes burlesque and art
By: Rebecca Blissett
tags: adrian mack, burlesque art, burlesque photography vancouver, burlesque vancouver, dr. sketchy anti-art school, live model art sketching, low brow art, melody mangler, rebecca blissett, rebecca blissett photography, screaming chicken, shary contrary, straight arts, the georgia straight, vancouver lowbrow art scene, wallflower modern diner
Category: events
The first birthday of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School happened in Vancouver Sunday evening at the Modern Diner on Main Street. Dr. Sketchy, a monthly art class where mostly artistic hipsters (is there any other kind of hipster?) sit around tables with sketch pads, drink beer and sketch various burlesque performers.
Tonight’s model happened to be one of my favourite dancer-performers, Screaming Chicken’s Melody Mangler who teetered on the small bar in various poses for two minute “cardio” rounds and advancing to the more serious 20 minute poses. Emcee Shary Contrary encouraged the artists to toot on dollar store noisemakers when Mangler changed poses and Straight scribe Adrian Mack both drew and wrote a story about the event. Read it here.
