Moll King and Erika Roberts are two Chattanooga poets who were hired as models for a sculpture workshop Townsend Atelier - led by an internationally acclaimed sculptor.
They had to sit still for seven hours a day - with breaks - for three days as students in the workshop studied and sculpted them.
That experience planted the seed for a performance of their original poetry - “Intimacy of a Stranger” - tomorrow evening starting at 6 PM at Townsend Atelier in the Arts Building in downtown Chattanooga.
I spoke with Moll, Erika - and Peggy Townsend of Townsend Atelier.
![Moll King sitting for a sculpture](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/bf0a558/2147483647/strip/true/crop/388x409+0+0/resize/880x928!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1b%2F0e%2F0b7905b847568b1b7f5968c7fb2c%2Fsculptureb.jpg)
Townsend Atelier
![Erika Roberts with her sculpture](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3254c55/2147483647/strip/true/crop/382x394+0+0/resize/880x908!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fbf%2F0b%2F593fa7d7414ab52721004fd19b94%2Fsculpturec.jpg)
Townsend Atelier