Some artists work in one medium their entire lives. Christine Musser has never been able to choose just one.
Formally trained at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she earned a BFA in Illustration, Christine has spent her career exploring the full range of what it means to make things by hand — from oil painting and watercolor to fused glass, silk painting, needle felting, and sculpture in clay, wood, and stone. That breadth isn't restlessness; it's curiosity. Each medium teaches something the others can't.
Christine's needle felted animal portraits, created under her Felt Artistic brand, have become some of her most personal work — building three-dimensional form and texture from fiber, one careful layer at a time, to capture the individual character of a specific animal. Most are memorial pieces, custom orders created for clients who have lost a beloved pet. The work requires more than technical skill; it requires the ability to study a photograph and find within it the particular tilt of an ear, the expression in the eyes, the quality of a coat; the details that made that animal irreplaceable to the person who loved them. No two pieces are alike because no two subjects ever were.
Beyond her studio practice, Christine has demonstrated art techniques on HGTV and spent five years teaching art to elementary school children through a volunteer program in her community.
She lives and works in the Pacific Northwest, where she also created KilnTrack, a studio management app for ceramic and glass artists born out of her own experience as a glass artist who needed a better way to track projects and firing schedules.
Her work spans traditional and digital media, but the throughline is always the same: a deep attention to how visual elements create meaning, mood, and connection.
