Books and Published Portfolios

Eyes Of the Soul; Exploring Inspiration in Art
    Phil Rubinov Jacobson, forward by Ken Wilbur; Optimum Druck 2005
The Touch Drawing Facilitator Workbook
    Deborah Koff-Chapin; The Center for Touch Drawing 2001
SoulCards 2
    Deborah Koff-Chapin; A portfolio of sixty images for inspiration and insight - The Center for Touch Drawing     2000 (15,000 sold)
SoulCards 1
    Deborah Koff-Chapin; A portfolio of sixty images for inspiration and insight - The Center for Touch Drawing     1995 (over 47,000 sold)
One Source - Sacred Journeys: A Celebration of Spirit and Art
    Gary Markowitz; Markowitz Publishing 1997
Drawing Out Your Soul, The Touch Drawing Handbook
    Deborah Koff-Chapin; The Center for Touch Drawing 1996 (over 9,000 sold)
The Healing Arts; The Best American Artists Look at Medicine Today
    Wayman Spence MD; WRS Publishing 1995 (Two page presentation with full color reproductions)
At the Pool of Wonder; Dreams and Visions of an Awakening Humanity
    Marcia Lauck and Deborah Koff-Chapin; Bear and Co. 1989 (22 full color reproductions)

Published Articles

Getting in Touch: An Interview with Deborah Koff-Chapin
    by Susan Dobra - Magical Blend Magazine, 2004 (also published in Cyberblend)
A Brief History of Divination Decks
    Janie Teague-Urbach Magical Blend Magazine 2003
Touch Drawing; The Creator of SoulCards Describes Process of Discovery
    Deborah Koff-Chapin Nexus Magazine 2002
From Paper Towels to SoulCards
    Cat Saunders Ph.D, Interview with Deborah Koff-Chapin;
    The New Times 2000 (reprinted in Dream Network Journal 2001)
Drawing Out the Soul
    Alex Fisher; Kindred Spirit Magazine (U.K.) 1999
Transforming the Myth (expanded and updated)
    Deborah Koff-Chapin; Aurora Magazine 1998
The Magic of Touch Drawing
    Jennifer Reidel; Common Ground 1997
Drawing Out Your Soul
    Deborah Koff-Chapin; Shared Vision 1997
Touch Drawing Opens the Door to Creative Expression
    Rachel Bryant; Awareness Journal 1996
Simple Moments; Discovering Your Own Visions Through Touch Drawing
    Deborah Koff-Chapin; Sage Woman Magazine 1995
Transforming the Myth
    Deborah Koff-Chapin; In Context Magazine 1984
    Deborah was guest co-editor of this issue of on the theme of Arts and Ceremony
Living With Ceremonial
    Deborah Koff-Chapin and Ross Chapin; In Context Magazine 1983

Bookcovers and Interior Art

Marissa the Tooth Fairy Karla Andersdatter 2005 The Butterfly Tree (fully illustrated children’s book)
Finde deine Traume Christopher Weidner, 2003, Ludwig
Women Called to the Path of Rumi Shakira Reinhertz 2001 Hohm Press
In Search of Woman’s Passionate Soul Caitlin Matthews 1997 Element Books
Soul Therapy Joy Manne 1997 North Atlantic Books
Spiritual Apprenticeship Greg Bogart 1997 Dawn Mountain Press
Goddesses for Every Season Nancy Blair Element Books 1995
We Moon Calendar Mother Tongue Ink numerous editions plus Wall Calendar
Angelic Dialogues Stephen Schwartz 1993 Riverrun Press
Company of Prophets Joyce Elaine Noll 1992 Llewellen publications

Artwork in Magazines and Journals

Sacred Pathways cover 2004
Isabella cover 2004
Mystic Pop cover 2004
Magical Blend Magazine 2002
Bodhi Tree Book Review cover 1998, 2002
Banyan Tree Book Review cover 2001, 2002
DreamTime Magazine cover, feature artist 2001
Continuum Magazine 2001
Gene Watch, A Bulletin of the Council for Responsible Genetics cover art, feature artist 2000, 2001
USR La Revista De Reiki en Espanol cover art, interior 2000, 2001
Dream Network, A Journal Exploring Dreams and Mythology cover, interior, multiple issues 1990-2002
Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures 2001
Conscious Living Magazine interior art 1998, feature article 2001
Kindred Spirit UK, 1999 feature article
Chrone Chronicles cover art, interior; multiple issues 1996-1999
Psychological Perspectives cover art, interior 1990, 1991, 1997
The Quest cover art, interior, multiple issues 1995-1999
Sage Woman Magazine multiple issues including feature article 1994-1998
Woman’s Way Magazine cover art and interior, multiple issues 1995-1997
Creation Spirituality Magazine cover art, feature artist 1991, 1992, 1995
Women's Spirituality Calendar 1991
We’moon Calendar cover art, interior; multiple publications 1988-2002
Mother’s Underground cover art and interior, multiple issues 1990-1994
Common Boundary 1991
Darshan Magazine 1991, 1993
The Creative Woman cover art 1990
Common Ground cover art 1990
In Context: A journal for Humane Sustainable Culture cover art, interior, multiple issues including two feature articles 1983-1993
Woman of Power multiple issues, including feature on Deborah’s Touch Drawings created during the labor to birth her daughter 1987
Parabola; Myth and the Quest for Meaning 1982
City Woman Magazine cover 1990
Shaman's Drum Shamanic Arts Gallery 1989
The American Theosophist; The Spiritual in the Arts 1982
Association for Humanistic Psychology Perspectives 1981
Dromenon; A Journal of New Ways of Being cover, interior, multiple issues 1978-1982

Touch Drawing Workshops and Slide Lectures (selected)

California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, 1996, 1998, (2001, 2002 2003, 2005 - 2 credit course –adjunct professor)
University of Creation Spirituality, Oakland, CA 1997, 1999, 2002 2004 (Masters and Doctoral of Ministry, adjunct professor)
Kaiser Institute Program in Intuition 2004
School of Visual Arts, NY, NY 2003
Southern Illinois University Art Therapy Program 2003
Alternatives London, England 2003
Agrau Art Therapy School Barcelona, Spain
Prague Art Center, Prague, Czek Republic
Rowe Conference Center, Rowe, MA 1999, 2002
New York Open Center NYC, NY 1983, 2001, 2002, 2003
The International Labyrinth Association Annual Conference 2002
The Annual Touch Drawing Gathering, Clinton, WA 1997-2004
Women of Wisdom Annual Conference, Seattle, WA 1994-2005
Power of Hope Arts Program for Teens, Clinton, WA 1999- 2003
JFK University School of Arts and Consciousness, Berkeley, CA 1998-2001, 2004
International Expressive Arts Therapy Association Conference 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005
The American Art Therapy Association 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004 (plus Open Studio Feature)
Heritage Institute, (CEU credits for Educators) Seattle, WA 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
American Expressive Therapy Association 1985, 1987, 1990
Conference on the Study of Shamanism and Alternate Modes of Healing 1990, 1992, 1996
Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO 1994
The Association for Humanistic Psychology 1990, 1992, 1993 (plenary presenter) 1996
Antioch University, Seattle, WA 1984, 1992
Chinook Learning Center, Clinton, WA 1982-1990
The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology 1990, 1992
The Association for the Study of Dreams 1990
The Association for Transpersonal Psychology (ongoing Touch Drawing activity through out conference) 1990
Wainwright House Rye, NY 1981, 1983, 1984
New York State Art Teachers Association 1978
New Horizons for Learning 1987, 1988
Plus numerous other workshops and slide shows in various settings.

Organizational Commitments

Adjunct Professor, California Institute of Integral Studies 2001-present
Adjunct Professor, Institute for Creation Centered Spirituality 1998, 2002 - present
Board of Directors, International Expressive Arts Therapy Association 1998-2002 Founder and Director of The Center for Touch Drawing 1990-present
Board of Directors of Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY 1978-1979

Honors and Awards

Coalition of Visionary Retailers 2001 Visionary Awards Finalist- SoulCards 2
Selection, Book of the Month Club’s One Spirit Review - SoulCards 1 1996, Drawing Out Your Soul 1997, SoulCards 2 2001

Solo Exhibitions

California Institute of Integral Studies San Francisco, CA 2004 - Major exhibition of 108 works
Isle of Art, Langley, WA 2004
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Langley, WA 2002
International Expressive Art Therapy Association Conference, Banff Art Center, Banff, Canada 2002
The Livingroom Gallery, Eastsound, WA 2001
Parkinson Gallery, Eastsound, WA 1994
In Her Image Gallery, Portland, OR 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997
Carolyn Hartness Fine Art, Seattle, WA 1986
The New York Open Center, New York, NY 1985
Unity in Diversity Conference, Seattle, WA 1984
Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA 1983
Rowe Conference Center, Rowe, MA 1983
The Institute for the New Age, New York, NY 1981
Interface Conference Center, Newton MA 1981
The Gallery at the Piano Factory, Boston, MA 1981
Solidaridad Humana, New York, NY 1979 (Exhibition to celebrate the unveiling of Deborah’ s mural, The Touching of Hands)
Fantasia Art Gallery Sloatsburg, NY 1968 (age 16)

Group Exhibitions

Brave Destiny, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY 2003
100 Sacred Visions, Payerbach, Austria 2000
International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, San Francisco, CA 2000
Vision, Myth and Magic, Kirsten Gallery, Seattle, WA 1993, 1994
The Artist as Shaman, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, OH 1993
Childers Proctor Gallery, Langley, WA 1990, 1992
Association for the Study of Dreams, Chicago, IL 1991
The Association for Transpersonal Psychology, Stony Point, NY 1984
Chochokum Arts Festival, Langley, WA multiple
A Circle of Women’s Visions, Corvalis Art Museum, Corvalis, OR 1983
Arcosanti, Cordes Junction, AZ 1983
Planetary Village Conference, Clinton, WA 1983
Reverence for Life, Conference of World Religious Leaders, New York, NY 1982
Thorpe-Intermedia Gallery, Sparkhill, NY 1980
Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY 1980

Audio and Video Recordings

Touch Drawing; A Guided Experience Deborah Koff-Chapin; voice, drum, chimes, guided imagery, 78 minute CD The Center for Touch Drawing 2002
Crossing the Veil Zikr Lead vocalist; Sufi Zikr lead by Eric Narayan Waldman, Oneness Project CD 2001
Goodbye Lullaby Deborah Koff-Chapin; vocals, dulcimer and chimes, 40 minute audiotape The Center for Touch Drawing 1997
Voices from the Deep Deborah Koff-Chapin and Anahata Moore; vocal and instrumental CD 1995
Through the Veil, The Story of Touch Drawing Deborah Koff-Chapin; sixty-minute video, The Center for Touch Drawing 1993

Corporate/Organizational Consulting

Kaiser Institute; Interpretive Touch Drawing for Hospital Executive retreats –
    Michigan Health Association, St Mary’s Hospital, Banner Health, Program in Intuition, 2000-present
On-stage creation of Touch Drawings to interpret corporate issues in collaboration with Transformance Theater 1993-1996. Worked with the following corporations, among others:
Boeing Aircraft multiple
Hewlett Packard multiple, including commissions of artwork for notecards for corporate development
Sun Microsystems Inc.
James River Corporation
Simpson Paper Company
Seattle Center
Implementation Management Associates (consultants to Fortune 500 companies)

Collections

Four Circles Foundation, San Jose, CA
New Horizons for Learning, Seattle, WA
Learning Methods Group, Buckinghamshire, England
Interface Newton, MA
Wainright House, Rye, NY
Foundation for Mind Research, Ashland, OR
Mead Institute, New York, NY
Whidbey Institute, Clinton, WA
Kirpal Ashram, Delhi, India
St Mary’s Villa Sloatsburg, NY
Harrison Public Library, Harrison, NY
Hilda Charleton Meditation Center, NY NY
Plus numerous private collections

Inner Portraits

Deborah has also originated a form of portraiture that she calls the Inner Portrait. This is a series of Touch Drawings that reflect multiple aspects of the soul. Since her first sitting in 1982, Deborah has completed over 150 Inner Portraits.

Multi-Media Ceremonial Designer, Slide Artist and Vocalist

Whidbey Institute Millennial Celebrations Large community multi-media ritual design, vocalist, slides of artwork 1999-2000, 2000-2001
Matthew Fox’s Techno-Cosmic Mass Artwork slides used in Mass for Gaia 1998-2002
International Expressive Arts Therapy Association Saturday Night Ritual
    Celebration - Design, leadership and vocalist 2000, 2002
Mevlevi Order of America Zikr, Lead vocalist, Seattle 1995-2002
Instant Infinity Vocalist for improvisational musical group including Talia Marcus on violin, Laurie Riley on harp, Bob Effertz on tabla, harmonium and digereedo 1998-2002
Chinook Learning Center/Whidbey Institute Community rituals 1983-2002
Whidbey Island Ceremonial Circle Co-founder and active member of ongoing improvisational sacred arts and ritual group, 1983-present

Education

BFA Cooper Union 1970-1974
Studied with NY Times art critic and author, Dore Ashton, and artists Larry Poons, Jack Tworkov, Deborah Remington (studio assistant) Doug Sanderson (studio assistant), Chris Wilmarth, Paul Resnick and others. Received ‘crits’ and experienced lectures from visiting artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Al Held, Helen Frankenthaler, Agnes Martin and others.
Foundation for Mind Research with Dr. Jean Houston multiple trainings 1976-1983
Tree of Life School for Living Ceremonial with Elizabeth Cogburn; Apprentice in multi-
modal sacred ceremonial process 1977-1983

Interpretive Touch Drawing by Deborah Koff-Chapin

Through the immediacy of Touch Drawing, Deborah is able to visually portray both the content and energetic qualities of a lecture, poetry reading, or musical performance. She creates 10 to 15 drawings per hour. These images are then displayed for the audience to reflect upon. In some settings, they are sold as a benefit for charitable causes. The images can also be reproduced along with conference proceedings, or in association with the published works of the author whose words she has interpreted.

Deborah engages in this process along the sidelines without distracting from the presentations. Occasionally, she is on stage so that people can witness the Touch Drawings being created.

Authors, musicians and religious leaders with whom Deborah has worked:

Women of Wisdom Annual Conference Seattle, WA 1993-2005
Vicki Noble, Cherie Carter Scott, Rianne Eisler, Margot Adler, Shakti Gawain, Sherry Anderson, Paul Ray, Isabel Allende, Angela Davis, Angeles Arrien Ph,D, Marion Woodman Ph.D, Jean Shinoda Bolen Ph.D, Jean Achtenberg Ph.D, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Nicki Scully, Rhiannon, Luisa Teish, Starhawk, Gabrielle Roth, Jamie Sams, Susun Weed, Chris Williamson, Tickletoon Typhoon, Mary Ann Morrissey, Margot Anand, Jean Houston, Ph, D.

Whidbey Institute lectures Clinton, WA 1995-2004
Shodo Harada Roshi, Rupert Sheldrake, Satish Kumar, Chloe Goodchild, Julia Butterfly Hill, Jane Goodall Ph.D, Jean Houston Ph.D, Rachel Remen MD, Caroline Myss Ph.D, Joan Borysenko Ph.D ,James Twyman, Yehzkel Landau, Laura Simms, Gioa Timpaneli, Joanna Macy, Sherry Anderson, Paul Ray, David La Chappelle, David Abram, Michael Stillwater, Ellias Lonsdale, Ilona Selke, Emily Day, David Hykes Harmonic Choir, Monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery (Deborah also introduced the monks to Touch Drawing)

Kaiser Institute 2002-2005
Hospital executive, administration, and board retreats and trainings
Michigan Health Alliance, St Mary’s Hospital, Program in Intuition, Banner Health System, others

Prameni Poets for Peace at Sanalan Poetryfest in Prague, Czek Republic, 2003
Featuring performing poets from the Naropa-Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Sanalanfest, Vienna, Labyrinth Poets, Ubannomadmxs-artists, Czek and English language poets including the Alchemy Poets and anti-war poets

Music and Sacred Musical Events, 1982-2004 Various locations
Philip Glass, Hamza El Din, Paul Winter Consort (Missa Gaia, multiple), Mevlevi Order of America Whirling Dervish Sema, (98, 99, 00, 02), International Dance Therapy Conference, Susan Osborn, Babatunde Olatungi, Sister Monk, Scott Huckaby Harper Tasche, and others

Poets, Story tellers, and Authors, 1982-2004 Various locations
Coleman Barks, Marianne Woodman Ph.D, Gary Snyder, Carolyn Myss Ph.D, Robert Bly, Ken Carey, Steven Levine, Dorothy Maclean, Paul Hawkin, Gioia Timpanelli and others

University of Creation Spirituality D.Min Program Oakland, CA 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004 Andrew Harvey, Clarissa Pinkola Estes Ph.D, Matthew Fox

Gather the Women Congress, San Francisco, CA 2003
Various presenters including Lynn Twisp, Jean Shinoda Bolen and small groups

Playing Peace and New Humanity Conference, Ashland, OR 2003, 2004
James Twyman, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Neal Donald Walsh, Jean Houston Ph.D., Stephen Simon, Jose Arguelles, Gina Sala, Scott Huckabay and others.

International New Age Trade Show 1997-2001
Louise Hay, Doreen Virtue,Ph. D, Hank Wesselman, Ph.D, Leonard Shlain MD, Cherie Carter-Scott, Jean Shinoda Bolen Ph.D, Huston Smith Ph.D, Shakti Gawain, Denise Linn, Michael Roads, Neal Donald Walsh, Robin Larson Ph.D, Steve Larson, Ph.D, Elia Wise

Transformance Theater Corporate Retreats
On-Stage Touch Drawing retreats of Hewlett Packard, Boeing, Sun Microsystems, James River Corporation, Simpson Paper Company and Seattle Center. Deborah has fulfilled image commissions from Hewlett Packard for use in corporate graphics.

Body and Soul Conference Seattle, WA 1995, 1996
John Bradshaw, Marianne Williamson, Joan Borysenko Ph.D, David Whyte, Father Matthew Fox, Judith Orloff, Jean Houston Ph.D, John Kabat-Zinn, Terrence McKenna, Brian Weiss, Bernie Siegal MD, Andrew Weil MD, Larry Dossey MD

Napra Author’s Breakfasts; American Bookseller’s Association 1995, 1996
Carolyn Myss Ph.D, Julia Cameron, Jeremy Tarcher, Christiane Northrup MD, Father Matthew Fox, Terrence Deal, Michael Jones, Joseph Sharp

10th Annual Conference on Shamanism and Alternate Modes of Healing 1996
Ruth Inge-Heinz Ph.D, Christopher Lantz, Felicitas Goodman Ph.D, William Gogh Ph.D and many others. Images published with conference proceedings.

Naropa Institute Celebration of Beat Poets 1994
Alan Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Meredith Monk, David Amram, Anne Waldman

The Sacred in the Arts Conference Cathedral St John the Divine New York 1993
Father Thomas Berry, Kitaro, Thomas Moore Ph.D, Monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery, Tuva, Frederick Franck, Carmen Moore (Mass for the 21st Century) and many others.

Earth and Spirit Conference Seattle, WA 1992
Father Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, Vivienne Hull, David Spangler, Susan Osborn, Native American Elders Billy Frank and Jewel James

Association for Humanistic Psychology Conference 1992
Mboli Umoja, Al Huang, David Whyte, Charles Johnson MD, David Darling

Association for Transpersonal Psychology Conference 1991
Jean Shinoda Bolen Ph.D, Angeles Arrien Ph.D, Father Thomas Keating

New Horizons for Learning Conferences 1984, 1987, 1988
Tony Buzan, Dee Dickinson Ph.D, James Machado Ph.D, Reuven Feurenstein MD Howard Gardner Ph.D and others.

Unity in Diversity Conference 1984
Swami Satchitanada, Mother Tessa, Gesshen Midwer, David Spangler, Vivienne Hull

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