About Workshops

Karen Taylor has been conducting workshops in forensic art since 1986. She now also offers workshops designed to benefit fine artists who seek to accurately depict human facial images in any medium. Betty Pat. Gatliff has taught workshops in facial sculpture since 1983. She is Karen’s friend, colleague and teacher in 3-D facial reconstruction. Students with interest in the content of Karen’s classes are usually intrigued by Betty Pat.’s classes as well. For this reason, they frequently schedule simultaneous workshops. At break times or after class, students benefit from exchanging perspectives between classrooms, even though the classes are separated.

Over the years, Taylor and Gatliff have become known as premier instructors in the field of forensic art. Both are devoted to high-quality, useful, hands-on training that provides students with a simulation of genuine case experience. These workshops are the result of years of real-life casework and proven results by each instructor and offer an unprecedented training experience.

Due to the large numbers of successful past skeletal identification cases by each instructor, students are given the opportunity to benefit from this in-depth experience base. Workshop attendees reconstruct faces from skulls, either by drawing in Karen's advanced class or by sculpting in Betty's advanced class, and then see photographs of the person in life for comparison. The instructors can repeatedly offer different skull case examples that vary in sex, race and age, including children. These rare exercises give the effect of more actual case experience. For this reason, some students return to re-take the same advanced courses several times. This unique training opportunity is unavailable in any other courses.

Karen Taylor is the author of the textbook, Forensic Art and Illustration published by CRC Press, with Betty Gatliff collaborating on Chapters 11 and 13. Chapter 14, “Methods of Superimposition”, is contributed by forensic anthropologist Dr. David M. Glassman. The highly-acclaimed textbook is a bestseller world-wide and is considered the definite text for the field. Order information is given in Forensic Art: Forensic Art and Illustration.

Both Karen and Betty Pat. have been long-term instructors in the Forensic Facial Imaging Course at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia and at the prestigious Scottsdale Artists’ School in Scottsdale, Arizona. Karen has presented training
at several international locations, including:

	•	Ministry of the Interior; Moscow, Russia
	•	Police Service/Ministry of National Security; Trinidad, West Indies
	•	Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Each of the workshops listed has been approved for 4.0 Continuing Education Units (40 hours of classroom instruction). Each workshop also helps to meet Level
I and Level II training requirements for forensic art certification with the International Association for Identification and fulfills CE credit requirements for certification renewal with the Association of Medical Illustrators.

Links:
The International Association for Identification
www.theiai.org/certifications/artist/index.html

Association of Medical Illustrators
www.ami.org/certification/certification.html