Storyworks biography of christopher

American author and artist (born 1974)

Christopher Myers (born 1974) is an American interdisciplinary artist, author and illustrator of children's books, and playwright.^[1][2][3] His wide-ranging practice—including tapestries, sculpture, stained glass lightboxes, theater and writing—is rooted in storytelling and artmaking as modes of transformation and cultural exchange.^[4][5] He explores contemporary hybrid cultures and identities resulting from histories of migration (chosen and forced), globalization and colonization.^[1][6][7] Critics have noted his work's fluid movement between disciplines, image and language, sociopolitical research and mythology, and diverse materials.^[8][9] Shana Nys Dambrot of LA Weekly wrote, "Ideas about authorship, collaboration, cross-cultural pollination, intergenerational storytelling, mythology, literature and the oral historie