A different kind of art therapy.

The Art Dominatrix (www.theartdominatrix.com) holds a safe and nurturing but challenging and rigorous space for her charges to explore and achieve their creative and professional goals. Mistress firmly guides clients in meeting personal, project, portfolio, career, and professional development goals. Services available include creative un-blockings, studio visits, portfolio reviews, support through the research and ideation of creative works to their fabrication and exhibition, BFA and MFA application reviews and mock-interviews, academic application packet reviews and mock-interviews, group critiques, and novelty studio visits. Open to individuals and collaborative groups.*

The Art Dominatrix debuted in May of 2022 and made her first live appearance at Other Places Art Fair North. She continues to offer virtual and live sessions and has subsequently been invited to appear at Inverse Performance Art Festival at The Momentary in Bentonville AR, High Beams at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, CO, and Other Places Art Fair 5 in San Pedro, CA.

.More about The Art Dominatrix:

The Art Dominatrix is an alternate persona of the artist and educator Elizabeth Folk (she/her). Elizabeth is an Assistant Professor of Art & Design at California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, CA. She has 13 years of experience teaching visual literacy, sculpture, installation, time-based art, critique and discourse, and professional development courses in colleges and universities. She has viewed thousands of BFA and MFA portfolios, juried university exhibitions, and served on many admissions and hiring committees.

Folk has exhibited at venues such as The Momentary, Denver Art Museum, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Torrance Art Museum, Highways Performance Space, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art. She serves on the board of Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (an educational association dedicated to the promotion of excellence in the development and teaching of college-level foundation courses in both studio and art history), and is an active member of the College Art Association and the LA Women’s Center for Creative Work. Folk earned a BFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

* Art Dominatrix services are not available to current students of Elizabeth Folk. The Art Dominatrix reserves the right to refuse or to discontinue services at any time