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"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
~Benjamin Disraeli

MEET THE ARTIST

Joshua Diedrich is one of the finest classically-trained figure sculptors working in the world today. He is the Sculpture Department Head of the Kirk Newman museum school at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, where he teaches anatomy, life drawing, and a variety of sculpture classes. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Vaugel Academy in The Loire Valley of France, where he met his wife. He divides his time between Michigan and the Southwest of France.

"One thing that I think needs to be pointed out, is the sensitivity and view of this artist. It's because of these qualities, and so many others, that modeling for Joshua was an amazing experience. You don't feel uneasy when posing, you understand the perspective from which he is viewing you- with an artist's eye. You feel engaged and part of the process."
- From a previous model

"The girl with dark hair was coming towards him across the field. With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside. Her body was white and smooth, but it aroused no desire in him, indeed he barely looked at it. What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside. With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm."
~ George Orwell 1984