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Artist
Chris Vinsonhaler is an author and performing artist who tours nationally
and internationally, offering programs for community events, conferences,
schools, and universities. See performances.
Educator
Language begins with listening and speaking, and language develops
most efficiently through listening and speaking. Chris offers innovative,
practical, and proven methods to integrate speaking, listening,
reading, and writing across the curriculum. See teacher
training.
Artistic
Director
Chris Vinsonhaler works with students to create, perform and record
stories, poems, and songs. See audio.
And she is the director of The Great Oaks Storytelling Festival,
an award-winning annual event in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. See
festival.
Consultant
and Entrepreneur
Chris brings a wealth of experience to her work. She is co-owner
of Oak Shade B&B, the first
bed and breakfast in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, an establishment
honored in 2003 by the Historic Ocean Springs Preservation Award.
And she brings a wealth of experienced to her work. Trained as a
journalist with master's degrees in English and library science,
she has served a columnist on children's literature for Mississippi's
statewide newspaper, The Clarion-Ledger. She is also a veteran
teacher who has served more than a decade as a touring artist and
arts educator with the Mississippi Arts Commission. See
resume.
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I
am a weaver of stories
both written
and musical.
But I find
the immediacy of telling
most exciting.
There is intimacy
in the rhythms
and cadence of language.
And there are messages
borne by the spirit
and also by a gathering
of two or more
who hear the story
as one.
All stories move us
beyond time and terrain
to which we are born.
But the oral tale
embraces us
as we spin
with the teller
an imaginary tale
all our own.
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