Price range: $0.00 through $10.00
Learn some helpful stretches that every artist could use!
In this one-hour workshop, Kriota Willberg will lead participants through small stretches that every artist needs to know! Living a creative and productive life centered around creative practice, and/or a small-scale work area can be liberating for your mind, but hard on your body. This workshop explores how hours of daily drawing can lead to repetitive stress injuries and eye strain. We will also explore hand/wrist alignment, posture, and physical self-care, and practice movement and stretching sequences to help increase physical comfort, loosen tight muscles, and reduce stress. At the end of the stretching session, participants are welcome to share any comics they’re working on about bodies, health, or disability.
This workshop is the February installment of Crucial’s Chronic Illness Comics Club.
Date:
This is an online workshop Sunday 2/8 at 11am-12pm PST (2pm-3pm EST). It is free to attend but donations to Crucial are welcome to support our work. RSVP for the free Zoom link. Everyone who registers will receive a recording of the talk and be invited to join our Discord, where people can share their own comics and connect with community.
About the teacher:
Kriota Willberg uses her experiences as a cartoonist, illustrator, massage therapist, and health science educator to promote science inspired and healthy pain-free creativity. As an artist and educator, Kriota teaches cartoonists about anatomy for artists, graphic medicine, and injury prevention. Her injury prevention book, Draw Stronger, published by Uncivilized Books. Check out her self-care column for the Comics Beat called “Get A Grip!” She has been artist in residence at the New York Academy of Medicine Library, NYU Grossman school of medicine, and The Center to Advance Palliative Care at Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC. She teaches Art and Anatomy classes to medical students at NYU, and teaches at the Parsons School of Design.
To make them affordable, all of our classes and workshops are offered at a sliding scale cost.
Supporter - This payment level pitches in a little extra toward the teacher’s income and helps pay artists to create new comics at Crucial. Thanks for your support!
Standard - This is the basic rate for the class, which covers our costs.
Discount - We want people of all income levels in our classes, so choose this rate if you paying the standard rate is a stretch for you.
We set aside three spots in each class to be offered for free to people who would find it a hardship to pay the discount rate for any reason. These free spots are first-come, first-serve. If you would like to take a class for free, please send us a short email about yourself, what class you would like to take, and why. If a free spot is still available, we’ll send you a discount code to register for free! Email: editors@crucialcomix.com
