Art & Sex- Seems like an equasion that works

But is it? According to local Vancouver artist and burlesque aficionado Shary Contrary, the humanity of art can sometimes become buried in stale, sterile drawings. Life is reduced to figures drawn and observed in tight-lipped scrutiny.

In Shary’s "anti-art" workshops, models become breathing subjects that chat and laugh and drink with the people sketching them. Not objects to be observed, but subjects in a cabaret performance, led by a gregarious host with a penchant for whiskey. Read more: