Chris Ramsay

Artist, valued mentor and educator, and community arts leader, Chris Ramsay taught metals and jewelry courses at Oklahoma State University between 1990–2023, serving as Head of the Art Department from 2008–2012 and in 2020. He presented numerous metalworking workshops at universities and in prestigious craft schools in the United States, such as Arrowmont, Penland, and Haystack, as well as in Cortona, Italy. He is the recipient of a 2016 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, through which he created artwork at Fab Lab Tulsa and Hardesty Art Center studios exploring concepts observed during a Fall 2015 artist residency at Crater Lake National Park. Ramsay has also been awarded residencies at such sites as the Oregon School of Arts and Crafts; Lookout Residency in Portland, Oregon; Acadia National Park, Maine; and Open Studio Residency at Haystack School of Crafts in Maine. Ramsay’s artwork is included in private and public collections across the United States, including at Philbrook; the Children’s Hospital of Cleveland, Ohio; the Botanical Gardens of Southern Living Magazine in Birmingham, Alabama, and the Oklahoma State University Museum of Art.