Both Anna and Chris have taught at Wild Salamander Creative Arts Center. Anna has been a longstanding teacher and workshop leader since 2012. Anna has experience in paper arts, printmaking, fiber arts and experiments with various mediums. Her website can be found here. Chris is moving his painting studio from Lowell MA, and will make his studio’s home here at Hollis Artspace, where he will create oil paintings, display them in the gallery space, and offer workshops and classes. Chris also writes about art for Art New England magazine and writes a daily art newsletter called Inside Art through Streamline Publishing. His website can be found here.

Anna & Chris live in Hollis, where Anna grew up. They lived in the Portsmouth area for 20 years but moved back to the area in 2010. The house at 30 Ash Street was her best friend Naomi Whitty’s home growing up, and she first visited the house when she was only 6 weeks old, and has been coming back ever since! Lucie Whitty and Arthur Whitty were important creative and artistic influences in her life, and the building at 30 Ash Street has long held positive creative connections… which just keep going! Just after she moved back to the area in 2010, she learned of an art center getting started on Ash Street and immediately wanted to become involved. Anna worked at Wild Salamander from its start in 2012, teaching, helping with gallery shows, marketing and selling her wares in the shop.