While more recently living in the Pacific Northwest, Kris lived and worked in Alaska 48 years, increasingly pursuing her creative muse as a weaver and surface design textile artist. She has explored and studied the fiber arts through weaving, dyeing, surface design, surface embellishment, and in more recent years, silk fabrics, yarns and fibers in combination with other media, such as handmade papers, beads, artist canvas, wood and metal in a fiber/mixed media approach to the decorative arts. Inspiration for her work comes from many years of venturing into Alaska’s wilderness, and more recently, the rich palette of the Skagit Valley farm, marine and mountain environs of western Washington state.

Her work has been represented at the Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, Oregon School of Arts & Crafts, Museum of Northwest Art (MoNA), and fine galleries in Anchorage and the Pacific Northwest. She has received juror’s awards and special recognition for entries into exhibits throughout the Northwest and in British Columbia.

She is a passionate supporter of wildlife conservation and habitat integrity issues, engaged in advocacy and encouraging others to lend their voices, also.