Chris Fitch

Chris Fitch is a US-based sculptor and inventor in the Boston area. Beyond his work in sculpture, his creative reach has touched upon stop motion animation, science museum exhibits, design of teaching tools for science and math education, independent invention, and product development. His professional history has been eclectic. He built an electronic sculpture for the Inventions Gallery at the Connecticut Science Center. He and his state-of-the-art miniature mechanical puppet theater toured with major symphony orchestras. He engineered and built automated production machines for a toy factory. He co-owned an "emergency amusement" company -- building things like a giant fly that exploded through the wall of a nightclub and zoomed around the ceiling at 25 mph or like a shark that attacked diners at a fancy restaurant. He led the model and stop-motion puppet-making division of a major animation company, designed a physics playground, hit the streets of France with a two-man junk band with instruments made from French trash, designed landscapes, built outdoor fountains, designed residential furniture and lighting, built architectural models, studied music in West Africa, invented fasteners, toys, and armature systems for the animation industry, can occasionally be seen acting on-screen, built chain-reaction Rube Goldberg installations and conducted workshops about kinematics and foam latex stop motion puppetry. He has also eaten tarantulas and scorpions, sea centipedes, sharks and roasted locusts, chased a solar eclipse across the Peruvian high desert, co-owned a tree house bed-and-breakfast inn in the Philippines, collected jungle orchids in southeast Asia, spelunked underground rivers with nothing but a flashlight, and can throat sing like a Tuvan cowboy. Current interests are in product development for intelligent lighting design. More information and pictures of his artwork can be found at his website: www.chrisfitchsculpture.com.