The Art Box - Episode 6 - Meet Chris Picior

Episode 6: Meet Chris Picior

Chris is a native of NYC. She attended Queens College, Kathryn Gibbs Secretarial School, and Utica College before starting her first career in radio management which took her to New York, New England, and Florida. After 25 years she decided to go into Natural Health. She received her massage license in Florida, then obtained a Bachelor of Natural Health Studies degree and a Doctor of Naturopathy degree from Clayton College of Natural Health in Birmingham, AL. She worked at Clayton College of Natural Health as faculty and in admissions, and had private practices in Atlanta and Birmingham. Christine worked as a Community Educator for the Mesquite Citizens for Clean Indoor Air for 8 years. Her true love has always been art.

 

From January of 2020 through December 31st of 2121 Chris served as elected President of the Virgin Valley Artists Association. She is now Past President working with the Membership Committee.  

 

In December of 2019, Councilman George Gault appointed her to be on the Mesquite Public Arts Commission. In January of 2020, she was elected Chair and still holds that position.

 

At 16 she was sketching people at Washington Square in Greenwich Village in New York. Her first job was in Ace Publishing Company in the Art Department. However, that didn’t last long because she got married and soon had three children to support. When her children were little, she worked in oils and then moved to watercolor. When she moved to Mesquite, she joined a neighborhood group who used acrylic. She then joined the VVAA and started working with colored pencil and just loves it. Chris also plays around with acrylics and is adding ink to her new works. She took a class in alcohol ink last February.

One of her most favorite hobbies it to make gourds into pieces of art. Chris cleans, carves, creates, and decorates gourds and it is one of her favorite mediums.

Chris loves to learn new techniques about art and expand her expertise. Making her artwork into cards intrigued her but the best part, now that she’s retired, is that she’s having fun with her art.