Painting Words

It’s in the conjuring
Of the visual images
Of your word dreams
To play off
To inhabit
What do my words look like?
A turn of phrase evokes a picture
Details bring the tangible to mind

Templates ready to be realized in two dimensions.

Chris Arvidson is a writer and visual artist. She has been a communications and development professional for non-profits and higher education. She’s worked in politics, at land trusts, and for Habitat for Humanity. She has taught speaking and writing, and even a class about baseball in literature and culture, at the university level. She was a co-editor of Mountain Memoirs: An Ashe County Anthology (Main Street Rag), Reflections on the New River: New Essays, Poems and Personal Stories (McFarland), and The Love of Baseball: Essays by Lifelong Fans (McFarland), which include her own writing. In 2022, Chris published her first poetry chapbook, The House Inside My Head (Finishing Line Press). In January 2023, she was a writer-in-residence at Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities. Chris serves on the board of Charlotte Lit (Charlotte Center for Literary Arts) and the gallery committee at Charlotte Art League