Christopher Myers
, b. 1974
Christopher Dean “Chris” Myers is a writer, illustrator, dancer and fine artist. The son of Constance Myers and Walter Dean Myers, a distinguished and prolific Black writer for children, Christopher Myers lives in New York. He studied at Brown University and the Whitney Museum of Art Independent Studio Program. He has written and illustrated 20 books, for children and for adults, including illustrated editions of the work of e.e. cummings, Zora Neale Hurston, Lewis Carroll, and Walter Dean Myers. He illustrated Firebird, by the prima ballerina Misty Copeland, about how to dance the famous role. He has held several fine art exhibitions, including Chris Myers’ All-Negro Freakshow (2000), Am I Going Too Fast? (2014) Go Forth (2016), Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me. Mythical and animal imagery features in his art, which utilizes paint, photography and collage, and frequently draws on images of wings and feathers.
Sources:
Profile at en.wikipedia.org (accessed: September 15, 2020).
Christopher Myers: Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me, contemporaryand.com (accessed: September 15, 2020).
"Myers, Christopher" in Something About the Author, Lisa Kumar eds, volume 306, Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017, 138–141.
Bio prepared by Elizabeth Hale, University of New England, ehale@une.edu.aus
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