A different kind of art therapy.

The Art Dominatrix holds a safe 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 critiques, studio visits, creative "unblockings,” 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, and group critiques. Open to individuals and collaborative groups.* Mistress has a trauma informed approach, is a member of the disability and LGBTQIA communities, and is firmly committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in all areas.

The Art Dominatrix is an alternate persona of the artist and educator Elizabeth Folk. 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 at the university level. She has viewed thousands of BFA and MFA portfolios, juried university exhibitions, and served on many admissions and hiring committees. She is experienced with power play in many roles and contexts.

Folk has exhibited at venues such as the 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 Feminist Center for Creative Work. Folk earned a BFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The Art Dominatrix offers discounted services for historically marginalized artists and educators.

*You must be at least 18 to book a session. Art Dominatrix services are not available to current students of Elizabeth Folk. Mistress reserves the right to refuse or to discontinue services at any time.