Living a creative and productive life centered around a sketch book, digital device, desk, or small-scale work area can be liberating for your mind, but hard on your body. Hours of daily drawing can lead to repetitive stress injuries, eye strain, stress, and all sorts of pain. This workshop explores the relationships between your creative environment, tools, hand/wrist alignment, and posture when working with traditional media or digital equipment. Learn some ergonomics hacks and how to prevent eye strain. Explore ways to make drawing and writing postures easier on your body. Practice some self-care techniques that will loosen tight muscles and reduce stress.

Having lived dual careers as a performance and a visual artist, Kriota Willberg’s work in healthcare and education now very successfully facilitates her graphic medicine and integrative arts careers. Her presentation shares her images, describes her successful artworks based on her emotional, social, humorous, and professional experiences, and explores the integration of her viewers’ interests. Also, as a current educator, she successfully teaches art to scientists and science to artists.