Chris Featured by NBC Sports

Dues to a last-minute weather emergency in Florida, NBC Sports moved the tournament leader's start to 10:AM on the Golf Channel, and sadly the spot featuring Chris moved with it. But you can see it here on YouTube! (Opening title added.)

NBC Sports to Feature Chris' PGA Work

NBC Sports will carry THE PLAYER'S Championship Tournament broadcasts on Saturday and Sunday (March 15th and 16th) starting at 1:00 PM.  NBC plans to open their coverage with the story of how the portraits are produced, and have other short features of Chris and her art throughout the broadcast. NBC Sports sent a film crew to her home studio in Winchester, Virginia, for a day to capture how she approaches and produces each year’s new artwork, from initial sketch though to the final piece.

Here are Ben Johnson (right) and Tyler Adams filming Chris in her studio.

National Watercolor Society

Exciting update: Chris' Feininger Soul won a major award!

Exciting News!  Chris' painting Feininger Soul has been accepted into the very prestigious 2024 National Watercolor Society 104th International Open Exhibition!

It previously won awards in the 2023 Baltimore Watercolor Society Mid-Atlantic and The 2024 Virginia Watercolor Society shows.

Also...

Chris' painting Mary Loves Feininger and Miro was accepted in the  prestigious 2024 National Watercolor Society Member Exhibition

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Chris was previously honored to have one of her works Tenement Window After Midnight featured in their "First One Hundred Years " special exhibition, viewable here (Chris' work is around the five minute mark).

Grace Church, Millbrook New York Stained Glass

Chris has been working on new Stained Glass Window designs, of both the saint Julian of Norwich and  local heroes  Elanor Roosevelt for her humanitarian work, and Charles Johnson of Millbrook, on the left, who won the Silver Star (and who is recommended for the Congressional Medal of Honor) for valiantly saving many of his fellow soldiers in Korea.

Gillia Gallery Verum Ultimim Art Gallery

Chris' early work "Insomnia" was included in their LIMINAL III online show.

BALTIMORE WATERCOLOR SOCIETY

Chris was pleased to win an award at the 2024 Baltimore Watercolor Society Signature  Show for Veteran's Story. The award winners are viewable here.

She previously won first place at their 2022 Signature show with her painting  Saint Nickolas and the Wedding of  the Three Sisters.

PGA TOUR Sawgrass Gallery of Champions

Chris says "The fiftieth anniversary of THE PLAYERS Tournament was a magnificent celebratory weekend. I was present in the mix of fans all four spectacular days."

Chris' portrait of 2024 winner Scottie Schefller

"As I ponder all fifty years of THE PLAYERS champions I have painted, I feel great gratitude to John Snow who envisioned the idea of art with text that summarizes the story of the tournament that year. It is always an epic and heroic story – and usually is a nail biter by late Sunday! John Snow’s idea of telling as well as illustrating the story dovetails with my illustration style beautifully. This tradition has successfully continued thanks to the leadership of John Rice and Rob Knox." 

John Rice, Chris, and Rob Knox

"Reflecting back from now, I love that this PGA TOUR art captures the spirit of what THE PLAYERS is about. The winner is always center, captured immediately after his spectacular win. The painting also tells his bold and valiant story. His portrait is surrounded by glorious flowers of the Sawgrass Stadium with elements like his scorecard, with its rectilinear exactitude reflecting the precision of the game. I love rambling back and forth amid the paintings, perhaps comparing what Tiger and Scheffler did on 17.  One can do that in the Sawgrass Gallery of Champions.  Then we have the scenes from the day; I love drawing key moments and then savor my time drawing the crowd of always highly individuated characters. The Sawgrass crowds are a great part of the story of THE PLAYERS, of the art."

"The Hall of Champions gallery of (thus far!) thirty-six paintings is a wonderful space for memories and reflection. I read and ponder the text as I go, smiling as I remember the story of singular years. The art joyously brings one back, remembering giants of the game, men of great spirit and verve.  I love my role as a chronologist of THE PLAYERS history, and can’t help but grin with anticipation seeing the placeholders in the Gallery of Champions for the art of the future!"