Chris Engel

Chris is an artist, educator, and expressive arts therapist who incorporates Jungian philosophy and techniques into his work. His immersion in the arts began as a child growing up in the theater and surrounded by the art of his parents. He began exhibiting his work in the mid-1980s in NYC and has continued to exhibit his work in Paris, Buenos Aires, NYC, and the East End. Currently serving as Director of Community Programs at Ross, Chris has spent the past 30 years as a visual arts teacher in New York City and on the East End. He has worked with children with special needs at the NYC Foundling Hospital Pediatrics Center, designing and implementing the first Expressive Arts Program. He served as the Arts & Education Coordinator for the City of New York Parks & Recreation where he designed, developed, and taught programs in Visual Arts, Creative Writing, and Dramatics as well as facilitated Science/Environmental programs for inner-city children. As Director of the Youth Environmental Science Society, an offshoot of Friends of Fishes, he ran environmental education programs. Chris has also collaborated with The American Museum of Natural History/The Rose Science Center and facilitated Astronomy workshops. He has run Creative Arts Programs & Workshops in the Hamptons at The Child Development Center of the Hamptons (CDCH), The Charter School, The Tuller School, the Children's Museum of the East End, Art House, as well as Ross School. He has studios in Sag Harbor, NY, and Guilford, CT. He is represented by Romany Kramoris Gallery.