Christopher is a sculptor originally from Kentucky. He uses recycled and reclaimed material as his medium. Though he predominantly works in wood he recently has begun to use paper pulp as a medium as well. His work deals with recontextualized people and animals along with combinations of both. His figurative sculptures are allegorical, referencing several mythological traditions while still maintaining a personal dialogue for the artist. His earliest exposure to creating art was carving wooden figures with his grandfather. It wasn’t until much later during graduate school that he came back to this basic skill and rediscovered the joy of finding the figure within an organic material. Christopher has an M.F.A. in sculpture from Edinboro University and a B.A. in Art from Georgetown College. His work has been exhibited all over the country including the Smithsonian Craft Show. Currently he lives in Spokane, WA where he teaches at Gonzaga University.

“My life, as seen from space, is a dotted line that leads from a small town in Germany to art college in Stuttgart, on to London, where I earned an MA in animation at the Royal College of Art, and then across the pond to Portland, Oregon.Animation: In the UK I worked as a freelancer for media companies including Aardman and the BBC before taking a job with animation studio LAIKA (then Will Vinton Studios) in Portland. As a designer and a director I have shaped the look of award winning advertising campaigns and short films. Highlights of my animation career include design for Puget Sound Energy, Ben&Jerry’s, eggos, esure.com, The Goodlife Recipe and ESPN and direction for m+m’s, The American Cheese Board, Oxfam and Crayola. For the Harvard Medical School I designed and directed the animation for Once Upon A Tide, an educational film about the health of our oceans. I have also contributed character designs to feature film development. Art and Illustration: Most of all I love to draw and sculpt squiggly creatures and to dream up small worlds and stories for them to inhabit. In the last few years I have been lucky enough to be able to concentrate on my personal art.”

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Hugging Creatures Episode

Wonderfully Odd World Episode