The NYC Art Models Guild provides these updated guidelines for educators, institutions, HR departments, ateliers, sketch groups, artists, and figure models. This guide outlines best practices and industry standards to ensure a professional and respectful environment for all. Read, download, and share this valuable resource to promote safe and ethical practices in the art community. 

What’s New?

META Ray- Ban Eyewear records video  and you may or may not know how to tell. This is a new frontier that requires tact, monitor enforcement, institutional policies and clear boundaries for Figure Models and Artists . Tact is needed because it can be against the law to accuse someone of wearing video recording eyewear. The question is how do you know?  

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But there is a caveat : How People With Meta Glasses Can Secretly Record YouIn this Updated Version we open the topic on how to address this new invasive  technology and how it can be handled in the studio workplace environment. No Figure Model should be photographed or recorded on video without their consent. Concerns include 

•  Privacy and Security
•  Personal Safety
• Sexual Harassment
• AI Deep Fake video
•  Financial Compensation for the use of your image