San Francisco's Academy of Art University figure modeling instructor, Hugh David Wagner, will model a clay figure, explaining the proportions and alignments as he works, on Thursday, June 18, 2009. His sculpturing presentation, entitled "Modeling the Figure", is part of Arts Habitat's event series Arts in Progress: Third Thursdays with Arts Habitat. The events take place every third Thursday of the month at the Monterey YMCA, 600 Camino El Estero, at Webster Street, from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. Refreshments are served and the events are free and open to the public.

Wagner will model a 24" clay figure and display two 32" tall ecorche (3 dimensional anatomy) figures and large drawings of the human body to aid in teaching the process of figure modeling. He'll also show digital images of an ecorche figure being modeled from armature to finished figure, one stage at a time. A life size skeleton, in parts, will be available to the audience for visual and tactile exploration. Following the presentation the audience is invited to comment or ask questions of the artist, and stay for conversation and refreshments.