Chris is a graduate of Bates College and has lived and worked in the Greater Portland area since 1981. She has studied printmaking at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (ME), Maine College of Art and Design, Mass College of Art, Zea Mays Printmaking (MA), Ballinglen Arts Foundation (Ireland) and the Icelandic Printmaking Association. She has been a member of the Peregrine Press in Portland since 2005 and is also a member of the Boston Printmakers and the Monotype Guild of New England. 

Recent exhibitions include Under Construction, a solo exhibit at the Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, Peregrine Press @ 30 at Cove Street Arts, Portland, Singular and Serial at Cove Street Arts, Portland and Soprafina Gallery, Boston.  Her recent sculptural work will be in the upcoming Boston Printmakers North American Biennial in the fall of 2023 and received the The Ture Bengtz Memorial Purchase Prize from the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA.