Falling or Flying: A Perspective on Life in the Human Form

 Artist Christopher M. Dance. Christopher is a visual artist in the Indianapolis area, as well as an Art Educator at Pike High School, and art Collaborator with the Big Car Collective. Christopher was an artist in residence recently at the Fire Arts Inc. South Bend, IN., was awarded the Eli Lilly Teacher Creativity Grant to study master works in Italy and has shown his work in several galleries including the Box Factory for the Arts, St. Joseph, Michigan, TransAmoeba Studios in Chicago, and American Art Clay Company’s Contemporary Clay Gallery, Indianapolis, In. 

The Visual art will be comprised of a collection of recent works by Christopher focusing primarily on the figure; Themes of body positivity, cultural connectivity, and meditative aspects of form are addressed in all mediums. The gallery will be installed with larger than life sculptural works in wood and cardboard, Life size and smaller works in clay, wood and mixed media, and a multitude of drawn and painted portraits of people from the Indianapolis community.