Christopher Gowell is a sculptor, painter, and director of Sanctuary Arts, an artists’ residential and studio community with a “skill-based” art school and bronze casting teaching foundry. There she lives, and has her studio in an active arts environment.

My art education began as a child at Munson Williams Proctor Institute, a museum school in Utica, New York. I attended Syracuse University for two years, took sculpture classes at the Corcoran School of Art and George Washington University, and completed my undergraduate degree (Summa Cum Laude) at the University of New Hampshire in 1974. I earned my Master of Fine Arts from Boston University in 1977, working as a graduate assistant teaching basic and intermediate figure sculpture. My commissions include a tidal pool relief for the Seacoast Science Center in Rye, NH, a bronze fountain of Alexander the Great with two companions, a six foot bronze of an 1870’s millworker and her son for Nashua New Hampshire’s waterfront, and an eight foot by seven foot fire fighter’s memorial for the Manchester NH fire department. I also design and carve traditional slate tombstones, most of them for Martha's Vineyard. My work is represented by Bowersock Gallery in Provincetown Massachussetts -www.bowersockgallery.com.