Branch Blog - South Florida
"For Brooklyn artists Molly Crabapple and A.V. Phibes, life drawing classes had become snoozeworthy: Sure, there was a naked model in the room, but said room was cold, fluorescent-lit, and filled with strangers.
The experience would be so much better with friends. And alcohol. Thus, the two wizards birthed Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School — a cure for the common, drab, drawing-class environment. The alternative art craze swept the nation, finally landing itself a home in South Florida at Stage 84.
Once a month, creative folk gather at the cozy hangout and feast their eyes on busty burlesque babes waiting to be sketched. The alcoholic drinks flow, cheering and shouting ensues, and five-foot-long balloons get swallowed by amazonian beauties.
This anything-goes artistic atmosphere
By Betsey Denberg Fri., Aug. 19 2011 at 2:44 PM
Betty Pickle Knows Her Balloons
Stage 84 is the type of place that you walk in and you're instantly taken back to your high school boyfriend's basement. AC/DC, Chicago, and various classic rock LPs decorate the walls, cozy couches fill the room, and the smell of incense tickle the nostrils. Every nook and cranny is filled with antique treasures and kitschy items and a tapestry curtain shields the outsiders from peeking in. The psychedelic decor and eye-catching art work makes you forget that you're inside a Davie strip mall off 595.
An eclectic crowd of individuals has gathered tonight for the second installment of Dr.Sketchy's Anti-Art School, a monthly
Betty Pickle Knows Her Balloons
Stage 84 is the type of place that you walk in and you're instantly taken back to your high school boyfriend's basement. AC/DC, Chicago, and various classic rock LPs decorate the walls, cozy couches fill the room, and the smell of incense tickle the nostrils. Every nook and cranny is filled with antique treasures and kitschy items and a tapestry curtain shields the outsiders from peeking in. The psychedelic decor and eye-catching art work makes you forget that you're inside a Davie strip mall off 595.
An eclectic crowd of individuals has gathered tonight for the second installment of Dr.Sketchy's Anti-Art School, a monthly
With burlesque dancers, drunken artists and a no-nonsense ringleader, the South Florida chapter of this international organization has arrived.
by Phillip Valys 8:58 a.m. EDT, August 17, 2011
Betty Pickle (photos by Beth Black)
It’s a balmy Thursday night at Davie’s Stage 84, a detail not even remotely helped by the sprawl of some 50-odd warm bodies — local artists, bartenders, scantily clad dancers — all wedged inside the quaint music café for a live sketching class. Sweat trickles down the glittery, cream-powdered cheek of Cupcake Burlesque dancer Jenna Beth as she describes, counting on glossy, white fingernails, the number of times some “pervy old man” has hit on her tonight.
“My
Betty Pickle (photos by Beth Black)
It’s a balmy Thursday night at Davie’s Stage 84, a detail not even remotely helped by the sprawl of some 50-odd warm bodies — local artists, bartenders, scantily clad dancers — all wedged inside the quaint music café for a live sketching class. Sweat trickles down the glittery, cream-powdered cheek of Cupcake Burlesque dancer Jenna Beth as she describes, counting on glossy, white fingernails, the number of times some “pervy old man” has hit on her tonight.
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Tiki torches, totem poles and thatch-roofed island bars surround a spotlit stage at a downtown Fort Lauderdale restaurant. A beefy man with tanker truck-thick shoulders emerges from behind a curtain, and tucked within his pair of python arms is a topless blonde in a skin-tight mermaid costume.
For the briefest of moments, doubt enters Charlotte Sundquist's mind. She's standing inside the Mai-Kai, this kitschy tropical-themed eatery, armed with
Wanted: Artistic Debauchery
By Betsey Denberg
The thought of a life drawing class makes us yawn: spending our free night in a cold, fluorescent-lit room staring at a stale model surrounded by strangers. It did for artists Molly Crabapple and A.V. Phibes as well, and their alternative solution to the drab drawing-class environment became Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. The duo got rid of using the same old stick-figure models: A wild array of ladies — burlesque babes, fetish beauties, roller derby girls, and drag queens — are brought in for your drawing pleasure. Everyone is welcome to drink and cheer and socialize (no awkward silences!).
And don’t even begin to worry about
On July 21st from 7pm to 9:45, Stage 84 Music Cafe will host the opening launch session of Dr. Sketchy’s South Florida. It’s been a long time since our area has had the pleasure of experiencing what is easily the most exciting and creative anti-art school alternative life drawing sessions.
You will want to bring a drawing board, sketch pad or something sturdy to draw on....also, any dry materials - such as colored pencils, charcoal, pencil, etc. We will be doing a series of short poses (1, 2 and 5 minutes) and then work up to some longer 20 minute poses. Models will typically be costumed or wearing clothing to a point, as this is not a nude drawing session. Some
