Contour Drawing Self-Portraiture: Theory and Experience of the Ault/Layton Approach (Ticket Required) (N/NY-TA1064)
Half Day Advanced Practice Courses (Requires a Ticket and Separate Registration)
Libby Schmanke, MS, ATR-BC, ATCS, LCAC, MAC
Libby Schmanke, MS, ATR-BC, ATCS, LCAC, MAC, faculty at Emporia State University’s graduate art therapy program for 17 years, served for the ATCB for over 12 years. She is a Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor with 25 years’ experience whose book, Art Therapy and Substance Abuse, was published in 2017.
Participants will learn the history, method, and therapeutic factors of this technique as developed by Robert Ault after studying its use by Elizabeth Layton. Participants will see slides of Ault and Layton exemplars, receive suggestions for incorporating the technique into therapeutic practice, and create a modified blind contour self-portrait.