Chris是一名设计师、雕塑家、戏剧制作人和社区教育家，他的工作围绕木偶、面具、道具、服装、戏剧发明、动态布景和雕塑装置的设计、建造和表演展开。他的艺术创作主要取材于废物流材料，探索各种材料内在的独特潜力。

二十年来，Chris一直致力于促进戏剧、教育和公共艺术设计领域的原创思维。重点是生态意识、资源利用、协作和即兴创作。

Chris是大动物制作有限责任公司的创始人和艺术总监，这是一家位于明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯的公共艺术制作公司。他还管理和指导木偶农场艺术，一个不起眼的非营利性社区艺术组织。木偶农场的使命是“通过教导人们将废物转化为富有想象力的艺术的过程，改善人类社区和地球的健康”。

Chris获得了2006年布什艺术家奖学金，2008年公共艺术圣保罗可持续实践奖学金，2012年麦克奈特剧院艺术家奖学金和2014年预测/麦克奈特专业发展奖学金。他是明尼苏达州艺术委员会和COMPAS创意课堂和艺术老龄化教学艺术家名册上的一员。

Chris is a designer， sculptor, theater-maker and community educator whose work revolves around the design, construction and performance of puppets, masks, props, costumes, theatrical inventions, kinetic-sets and sculptural installations. He produces his art predominately from waste-stream materials, exploring the unique potentials inherent in a variety of materials.

For two decades Chris has been working to facilitate original thinking in the realms of theatrical, educational and public-art design. A deep emphasis is placed upon eco-consciousness, resource-fulness, collaboration and improvisation.

Chris is founder and artistic director of Big Animal Productions LLC, a public art production company, based in Minneapolis, MN. He also manages and directs Puppet Farm Arts, a humble nonprofit community-arts organization. The mission of The Puppet Farm is “to improve the health of human communities and the Earth by teaching people the process of transforming waste materials into imaginative art”.

Chris received a 2006 Bush Artist Fellowship, a 2008 Public Art Saint Paul Sustainable Practices Fellowship, a 2012 McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship and a 2014 Forecast/ McKnight Profes-sional Development Grant. He is on the Minnesota State Arts Board and COMPAS Creative Classroom and Artful Aging teaching-artist rosters.