My work in color etching & aquatint is in the collections of the White House, Smithsonian Institution, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Springfield Art Museum, NH Arts Council, NH Historical Society & thousands of private collections. My MFA is in Printmaking & my BS in Art Ed. My curriculum is College Board approved for AP credit. I direct an enrichment program, Experiencing the Arts: A fully integrated enrichment program focusing on six areas of the Arts: Theater, Media Arts, Visual Arts, Dance, Music, and Writing/Poetry. Connecting students and artists from the NH State Council's Artists Roster, The League of NH Craftsmen, and from the four corners of the world. The program has succeeded in far exceeding its initial benefit as a class bringing programs to the entire school and broader community as well as sponsoring dozens of field trips to arts events. "Teachers across the disciplines see a greater need for Arts activities to stimulate learning in their classes. They are excited to stimulate learning by bringing the arts into their curriculum. Teachers do not work in a vacuum and learning does not just take place in the formal classroom. In order to continue to raise the bar and meet goals, teachers need the continued investment of their students. They must be excited about learning. With Experiencing the Arts we have seen firsthand that student learning is energized by enrichment experiences. Students find the classroom work more meaningful and useful when skills have been brought to life, so to speak, by arts experiences." The Voice of New Hampshire
By Christopher Hill Morse
Speaking as the voice of the public lands and landmarks of New Hampshire, I feel very proud. There is so much of this state that is set aside for everybody now and for future generations. Beautiful mountains juxtaposed near huge lakes so clean and clear that you can drink their waters. Architecture, which communicates the sincerity of out forefathers reminds us of the pride and care with which we must approach the future. Granite rising magically by the efforts of spirit now blended into a much larger effort and purpose; to represent the spirit and verve necessary to be counted among those called New Hampshire residents. And of our other residents, the deer in the woods and the trout in the streams, I feel confident seeing the care and resolution that has been taken to embrace their existence with empathy and reverence. I feel confident our caretakers, the people of New Hampshire, will accept any necessary steps and effort from the depth of their love for the riches set before them. It is easy to believe having seen the sublime light their eyes with the majestic views of our mountains and from the peace filling the heart of a lone fisherman on the foggy early morning lake with a calling loon and the mist lighting coolly, silently. The hikers labored and pained by our pesky mosquitoes, blisters, and the hard work of climbing to their goal find it remarkable that so much of our day to day life goes forgotten, yet, an encounter with our public lands, years later, is a clear memory. The smells of a scrub spruce, a certain bird call, and these places rush back to mind. A clear memory, the temperature of the air, the feeling of the wind, a feeling of the sun or of the wet boots and slippery socks. The depth of the impression allows me to feel confident that not only am I protected and safe, which would be a hollow antiseptic safety, but that I am loved and shared. I am everybody’s family heirloom, with stories that form a web of private legend so strong that I am blanketed with provenance. People frightened by the implication of current environmental trends are reborn with purpose when they come back to see our wilderness and we share our private state of the State. New Hampshire residents know in their quiet individualistic way what is worth protecting, preserving, and embracing. They each will have an influence culminating into a strength no single individual could represent. Speaking as an artist that believes in the future, I am resolved that it will be through the love and appreciation of our public lands and landmarks that we will do more than is needed to merely protect and preserve. I believe that there is a great power here in the experiences we have shared for this state. I believe each individual has the opportunity to show an influence with greater significance than is represented by one’s own name, one’s physical body, or lifetime achievements. It is this significance that is represented by the beauty we now have at hand. Together, share the role of caretaker. I am not the voice of the public lands and landmarks of our great state.
