Karen T. Taylor

Karen T. Taylor is an American Forensic and Portrait Artist who has worked for over a quarter century helping resolve prominent criminal cases for a variety of law enforcement agencies throughout the world. Taylor is also well-established as a forensic art educator, fine art portrait sculptor, and s…

Taylor considers herself a life-long crime victims' advocate and forensic artist, but now also uses her skills in other applications. She creates skull-based faces of the long dead for historical projects for museums, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel and the National Geographic Channel.…

As a forensic art instructor for over twenty years at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, Taylor shared knowledge learned in the trenches with the next generation of artistic crime fighters. Credited with coining the term "forensic art" in the early 1980s, her cases have involved a wide variety…