"There was something pure and real in these images, something I could trust, and, suddenly, I began to know myself as an artist."
How do you know when your images are
authentic? How do you reach deep inside yourself and draw out what is natural and ready to be expressed? What kinds of creative practices will help you get out of your head and into your body, your heart, your soul?
Touch Drawing changed my perception of myself. It was instrumental in the shift I experienced from identifying as a non-artist to an artist Touch Drawing helped me to access and develop my authentic imagery. Over the years, it has been an inspiring and reliable source to return to, to reconnect with myself and to what is most real to me in my artistic expression.
I first found out
about Touch Drawing from a book I read in the early '90's. Deborah Koff-Chapin's writing, her images, and her description of how the process began drew me in. I went out a bought the supplies and, on a weekend home alone, I tried it. I was truly astounded at what emerged! Images of power and transformation; images like nothing I had seen (or made) before. Images that seemed to come directly from somewhere inside me and onto the page. I still have those images stored away somewhere. It was before digital photography, so I can't share them with you today, but what I can say is that those first images predicted, and guided, much of my own
art-making over the next couple of decades. There was something pure, something real, something I could trust, and, suddenly I began to know myself as an artist.
It was a couple more years until I met Deborah Koff-Chapin, and learned more about her story of "discovering" Touch Drawing on her last day of art school in the '70's, and knowing immediately
that she was to share this process with the world. And so she has, and does! My partners and I have had the good fortune to work extensively with Deborah, and to integrate Touch Drawing into our own work as artists, facilitators, and teachers. I encourage you to visit www.touchdrawing.com to learn more. Touch Drawing is, in Deborah's words, an "art form, and therapeutic tool, and a spiritual practice". Kathleen Horne
- Do you wonder what is "authentic" for you?
- Are you an Expressive
Arts practitioner or therapist looking for a way to access your own authentic imagery and/or to facilitate others?
- Are you a beginning artist, uncertain about your own creative voice?
- Are you an experienced artist who is feeling stuck or disconnected?
- Are you
curious and interested in learning a way to combine art and meditation?
- Have you done Touch Drawing before, and want to re-immerse yourself?
Tamara Teeter Knapp and Victoria Domenichello-Anderson will guide you in a remarkable two days, where you will enter into sacred creative space and open to your own authentic
imagery and creative wisdom. You will also learn to mount, develop, and finish your images by adding color in various ways. with Tamara Teeter Knapp and
Victoria Domenichello-Anderson
August 4-5
10 am - 3 pm
Touch Drawing is a powerful, yet simple way, to bring forth your authentic imagery, whether or not you have any experience with art.
Expressive Arts Florida Institute has established a powerful regional, national and international presence in the field of Expressive Arts. They provide substantial programming for the general public as well as professional training. I think of EAFI as one of the great disseminators of the
Expressive Arts in the world today.
HERE'S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING THIS SUMMER!
Embracing the power of everyone's creativity, Victoria, Tamara, Kathleen
Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, MA, REACE Tamara Teeter Knapp, BA, Certified K-12 Teacher
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