(i am a model and also an artist)  taking mostly only paid jobs now. unless you are amazingly talented then we can trade for prints and share the images etc.

i share my photos on #instagram  https://www.instagram.com/goddesskring/

#Seattle Photographers!  I am seeking good photographers to model for.  I want to update my modeling portfolio- I want both clothed and full body shots In a studio etc. with white or black simple back drops etc.  here is my MM profile:  http://www.modelmayhem.com/40611



I live in Seattle but love to travel. If you pay my expenses I am willing to fly to you for modeling projects. 

Me as a Model:
http://shannonkringen.com/figuremodel.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/sets/72157600505442881/with/10187189144/
http://www.modelmayhem.com/shannonkringen


Me as a Photographer:
http://www.modelmayhem.com/ShannonKringenPhotography
http://www.shannonkringen.com/headshots.htm
http://shannonkringen.com/photography.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/sets/


Email me for my rates! I love both modeling and being a photographer.

as a model:
http://shannonkringen.com/figuremodel.htm

as a photographer:
http://shannonkringen.com/photography.htm

I just got back from the Bahamas modeling and being body painted by Monty Knowles: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/10515838755/lightbox/

Shannon Kringen Fine Art Model
5 foot 9.
You can hire me to model for your art class, photo shoots.
drawing, painting, sculpture, photography.

I also do body painting and am open to doing nude or clothed sessions.

Creative Unusual Ideas welcome.

Hire me! Email for rates.

Photos of me here:
http://shannonkringen.com/figuremodel.htm
http://www.modelmayhem.com/shannonkringen


Bio:
Multi Media Artist Shannon Kringen grew up in San Diego California and Whidbey Island Washington. She is a self taught photographer with a background in Graphic Design. She has worked as a figure model in Seattle for 22 years. She completed her BA degree in Arts and Literature from Antioch University in 2013. She sees her creative expression as a tool to connect with community and a way of increasing self awareness and tap into a deeper wisdom within.

Artist Statement:
I work with cameras and paint improvisationally. I am very kinesthetic and use my whole body when I create.

In my photography,  I  fall in love with shape, texture and light while out wandering. I like to capture what is naturally there but in a way that abstracts it and allows the viewer to notice something new and different about ordinary physical reality. I carefully compose all my photos spontaneously as I am shooting moving the camera angle until I see what looks like a balanced, dynamic composition.

In my painting, I allow my hands to move intuitively on the canvas creating shapes and textures that feel right. I repeat patterns and choose colors from somewhere beyond my thinking mind. I am very inspired by the repeating patterns I see in nature. Plants and animals move me a great deal.

I am taping into my unconscious and go into a dream like state when I create art.

over 800 self portraits here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/sets/72157600269667311/

Published Book of me Modeling for myself and of my own Photography and aRtwork:
aRt, Identity and the Sacred

Shannon Kringen's 140 page book of multi media aRt. (mostly photography) and her philosophy on how aRt, Identity and the Sacred relate to each other. aRt as a spiritual practice.

By Shannon Kringen
http://www.blurb.com/b/4063156-art-identity-and-the-sacred

Recommendations:

"Shannon is a serious model. She shows up on time, works together with me to find the right attitude of the pose,
is enthusiastic and committed to the long haul. She is great in every way. Professional, creative and so very nice to work with!"

~Tip Toland.

"When I think of Shannon, I know that I am lucky to know her, and even more importantly,
It is always great when I have the chance to work with her as my model. I enjoy listening to her when she tells me about her projects
and what she might be doing with her art. I have been drawing nude people in classes and also drawing groups since I was in high school,
so that's about 15 years for me at this point. I think that Shannon might have been one of the first people that I worked with at a young age.
As my experience as a draftsman has developed I have found that the model does make a difference in my drawings.
In my really good drawings I believe there is some type of psychological connection that the drawing speaks
of long after I have drawn the image. The way the model sits and the aura that one projects is mainly where
this psychology must be interpreted. Shannon is one of those models who's body language isn't a facade,
she is pure at heart and can't really hide what is on her mind, and you can tell. I find that it becomes evident in my drawings
when working with her. As an observer I have always been interested in Shannon's work, from her video based
cable access TV show that was always so cool to the shoes she paints,
I find it very stimulating the way she interprets the world and the ideas that she is working through"  ~Jonathan Clarren



"A font of creativity and the Queen of Seattle figure models, Shannon has worked with leading artists in the Seattle area for years,
is the subject of innumerable paintings and drawings, and she is compelling, inventive, and truly professional.
Rare indeed is the Seattle-trained figurative artist who has not drawn her. I have worked with Shannon in a quite number of my college
and private figure classes, and I can strongly recommend her work as an artists' model."
~Jamie Bollenbach


"I worked with Shannon for several years, hiring her regularly to model for many of the figure drawing classes that I taught.
Shannon is easy to work with and very reliable; she also has great endurance on the stand,
an important quality that is easy to take for granted. I would recommend her to anyone looking for a good figure model."  ~Katy Stone


"I have used Shannon as an Art model for over ten years, and I will continue to do so in the future.
She is reliable, creative and trustworthy, a wonderful asset to the art community."  ~Preston Wadley

"Shannon is a creative thinker and artist in her own right.
Her life is her canvas and she aspires to the Bauhaus ideal that an artist's hand should touch everything in their lives.
She was always a pleasure to see in class and the students always knew how valuable she is.
I was particularly fond of her as a model, because she always presented a challenge
that I could never quite capture. Many of my students made similar comments.
An elusive muse who inspires us to do better."  ~Jon Rader Jarvis

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Shannon Kringen Fine Art Model
5 foot 9.  Modeling Since 1992.
You can hire me to model for your art class.
drawing, painting, sculpture, photography.


I currently work at:
Gage Academy of Fine Art
The Art Institute of Seattle
Pratt Fine Arts Center
Cornish College of the Arts
Many different Private Art Studios
Hengst Studio
A variety of  Community Colleges

follow me on twitter
https://twitter.com/goddesskring
see my photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/
watch my videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/shannonkringen
read my diary
http://shannonkringen.livejournal.com/
enjoy my main aRt shrine
http://www.shannonkringen.com/
like my official facebook aRt page!
https://www.facebook.com/GoddessKRING

~Shannon Kringen
http://shannonkringen.com/

Art Resume
Shannon Kringen

Shows
Shows & Live Appearances
2018 Featured Visual Artist ArtFX 420 N. 35th St.Seattle
2017 Featured Visual Artist Cabrini Medical Tower Suite 850 Seattle
2017 Seattle Art Museum Appearance as "Helga" Andrew Wyeth Show
2017 Actor in: Twin Peaks Live, Part 3: Now BOB woN (West of Lenin Theatre Seattle)
2017 Goddess KRING Podcasts Weekly Hollow Earth Radio
2017 Goddess KRING music part of Seattle Public Library "playback"
2017 Guest Performer "House of Julie" Good Shepard Center Seattle
2016 Live Model Drink and Draw Capitol Cider
2016 Live Model Folklife Festival
2015-16 Alien She Museum of Contemporary Craft Portland Oregon
2015 Seattle Torch Light Parade Gage Float Model "The Kiss"
2015 Scrarecrow Video Channeling Yourself Preview Screening
2015 Live Model Drink and Draw Capitol Cider
2015 Live Model Westlake Plaza Family Fun Days
2015 Live Model Folklife Festival
2014  Center for Spiritual Living
2014  Figment NYC
2014  Gallery 4500 U District Art Walk
2014  Live Painting/ Melrose Market Studios
2014  Guest Artist/ Speaker/ Presenter Cornish College of the Arts
2014  Published "Selfies Outside the Box"
2014  MAGMA: Goddess Kring @ Chop Suey/Hollow Earth Radio.
2014  Video "Alien She"  Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University
2014  Solo Performance Art at Cafe Racer with Claxton Kent
2013  Performance Art at Cafe Racer– Operadisiac Two Hour Variety Hour
2013 Julia's in Wallingford Paintings & Photos
2013 New York Pizza and Bar Paintings & Photos
2013 72nd Street Cafe 8 Paintings
2013 US Bank Seattle Capitol Hill Branch
2013 Art Up PhinneyWood Live Painting
2013 Featured Artist Zippys
2013 RatCity ArtCity: The Live Painting Extravaganza!
2013 Center For Spiritual Living Art Show
2013 Self Published book: "aRt, Identity and the Sacred"
2013 Senior Symposium Presentation "aRt, Identity and the Sacred"
2013 TOMS+Indigo Plum Style Your Sole Shoepainting Event
2012 Photos showing Antioch University BA department.
2012 "Typecast Dragon" screened Toronto Film Festival,SIFF, Bumbershoot, NW Film Forum, finalist in the 2012 International Documentary Challenge
2012 Featured Artist Pel Meni Seattle Dumpling Tzar Fremont Art Walk
2012 Featured Artist Cupcake Royale Ballard Art Walk
2012 Featured Artist The Green Door Studio Capitol Hill Blitz Art Walk
2011 American Association of Zoo Keepers Auction
2011 CoCa Sculpture Installation Belltown Seattle "Second Nature"
2011 Antioch University Student Show Fall
2011 Art/Not Terminal
2011 Pratt Fine Arts Center
1999-2010 Performer and Body Painter Fremont Summer Solstice Parade
2011 Annual Photo Show Art Not Terminal Gallery Seattle.
2011 Group Show "Celebrate with Heart" Antioch University Seattle.
2008 Solo Show "Amplified Chameleon" Art Not Terminal Gallery Seattle.
2008 Group Show "Spirit Of Art" Center For Spiritual Living Seattle
2008 Solo Show Scan TV Studios
2007 Functional Art Show Art Not Terminal Gallery Seattle.
2005 Group Show "Shoe In" Art Museum in Southern California.
2003 Solo Show "SynKRINGnicity" Art Not Terminal Gallery Seattle
1998 and 2008 Guest Performer "Goddess KRING" in "Carlottas Late Night Wing Ding" Freehold Theater Seattle
1996-2011 produced, directed and starred in a weekly video cable TV Program called "Goddess KRING".
1989 Sister Clothing Store Selling Hand Painted Shoes Langley, WA
1989 Choochokam Festival Of the Arts. Langley, WA


Published Photos/Video/Film:

Mountain Record: The Zen Practitioners Journal
Book Published "aRt, Identity and the Sacred"
Real Change Website Saaduuts Carving Cedar Canoe
SIFF "Typecast Dragon" Documentary feauturing Goddess KRING
Latin American Travel Magazine Centro Y Sur  http://centroysur.com
You Will Rise Project  http://www.youwillrise.blogspot.com
The Writing Reader http://www.thewritingreader.com
Photography Dictionary http://www.photographicdictionary.com
Tidningen Swedish Online Magazine http://www.tidningen-anti.se
Pearson Canada http://www.pearsoncanada.ca
Live Photographically http://www.livephotographically.blogspot.com
Learning The Light http://www.learningthelight.com
Northwest Folklife Foundation http://www.nwfolklife.org
Examiner Blog http://www.examiner.com
Photographer Dictionary http://www.photographicdictionary.com
Shrink Unwrapped http://www.shrinkunwrapped.com
Thunders Quill Newsletter Donnorshafen Quarterly Volume VIII Issue #1
Manic Desktop http://www.manicdesktop.com
Depree http://www.depree.tumblr.com
Zitante Germany http://www.blog.zitante.de
Sage Adderly http://www.sageradderley.weebly.com
Writers Ninja Promotions http://www.writersninja.com
Featured in the Weird Washington Book Published by Weird NJ, Inc.
My Greenlake http://www.mygreenlake.com
Dobbies UK http://www.dobbies.co.uk
Success Your Way http://www.success.yourway.net
Pioneer Productions http://www.pioneerproductions.blogspot.com
Visualize Us http://www.vi.usalize.us
Seattlest http://www.seattlest.com
Estadao Brazil http://www.estadao.com
Capitol Hill Seattle Blog http://www.capitolhillseattle.com
The Stranger Slog http://www.thestranger.com
KBCS Radio Website 91.3FM http://www.kbcs.com
Schmap http://www.schmap.com
Love and Diversity http://www.loveanddiversity.org
Naturist Magazine http://www.naturistsociety.com
Rant Zine http://www.antgallery.org
Big Miss Movieola (Now Called http://www.joanie4jackie.com)
Bravo BBC Goddess Kring video aired.

Bio:
Multi Media Artist Shannon Kringen grew up in San Diego California and Whidbey Island Washington. She is a self taught photographer with a background in Graphic Design. She has worked as a figure model in Seattle for 22 years. She completed her BA degree in Arts and Literature from Antioch University in 2013. She sees her creative expression as a tool to connect with community and a way of increasing self awareness and tap into a deeper wisdom within.

Artist Statement:
I work with cameras and paint improvisationally. I am very kinesthetic and use my whole body when I create.

In my photography,  I  fall in love with shape, texture and light while out wandering. I like to capture what is naturally there but in a way that abstracts it and allows the viewer to notice something new and different about ordinary physical reality. I carefully compose all my photos spontaneously as I am shooting moving the camera angle until I see what looks like a balanced, dynamic composition.

In my painting, I allow my hands to move intuitively on the canvas creating shapes and textures that feel right. I repeat patterns and choose colors from somewhere beyond my thinking mind. I am very inspired by the repeating patterns I see in nature. Plants and animals move me a great deal.

I am taping into my unconscious and go into a dream like state when I create art.

Artist Interviews:
Soul Sister An Interview With Goddess Kring By Tonya Stumphauzer
The Goddess KRING: Shannon Kringen http://www.naturistsociety.com
Your Guide to Becoming a Local Cable Access Star by Sarah Taylor Sherman
GODDESS IN PROGRESS Cable Access World
The Onion UW Daily Disclosure Disclothesure by Caleb Schaber
The Goddess Kring Grins And Bares It By Melanie Mcfarland Seattle Times Staff Columnist
Stranded in the Jungle--20 Goddess Kring by STEVEN SHAVIRO

Sold Images:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/sets/72157627066477375/with/2530538734/

Published Work:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/sets/72157622598647846/with/5102962137/

Work History

Webmaster http://www.shannonkringen.com since 1999
Art Model since 1992
Freelance Photographer since 2000
Shoe Painter since 1986

Education
BA Antioch University Seattle June 2013
SCCC Graphic Design Certificate 1989

Shannon Kringen
PO BOX 20355
Seattle, Wa 98102

aRt, Identity and the Sacred

Shannon Kringen's 140 page book of multi media aRt. (mostly photography) and her philosophy on how aRt, Identity and the Sacred relate to each other. aRt as a spiritual practice.

By Shannon Kringen

http://www.blurb.com/b/4063156-art-identity-and-the-sacred

Typecast Dragon (A short doc. film make about me) "Goddess KRING"
http://www.docchallenge.org/2012-Finalists/typecast-dragon.html

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