Cris Fulton lives in southwestern North Dakota - a landscape of rolling hills, buttes, badlands, immense skies, fields, and prairies that has inspired her artwork and photography. She studied art at the University of North Dakota, and photography at Bemidji State College. Her work has been displayed in numerous shows and galleries in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Taos, New Mexico. Her work has also been published by Pomegranate, Taos Magazine, the Dickinson Press, Bowman County Pioneer, NMN, Inc., and North Dakota Horizons magazine.

Fulton has been influenced by the work of Georgia O'Keeffe, Wolf Kahn, Forrest Moses, Marco Crivello, Mark Rothko, Jamie Kirkland, Luc Leestemaker, Russell Chatham, and Gail Morris. She enjoys working with soft pastels, made from pigments of the earth, which can be used to express in bold and direct strokes the intense beauty she sees in the land and sky of southwestern North Dakota. She uses Sennelier, Girault, Holbein, Cretacolor, NuPastels, Yarka, and Van Gogh pastels on Rising Stonehenge paper to create her drawings. Her drawings are created in the studio, based on photographs she has taken in the field. She has plans to explore making larger images on canvas, using artists' oil sticks, which allow one to draw with paint.

Some of Fulton's favorite places are Theodore Roosevelt National Park, the East River Road through the Little Missouri National Grasslands, the Burning Coal Vein near Amidon, and the buttes, hills and fields surrounding her hometown of Bowman. She loves the scoria roads and hills that are unique to this region, and the hardy junipers that grow on the rugged slopes out in the badlands. The vastness of the prairie sky with its ever-changing clouds, colors and light is something she finds fascinating, and a challenge to capture, both on film and on paper. She uses a variety of lenses to compose her photographs, from extreme close-ups to long telephoto zooms, and shoots Velvia slide film to get the most saturated color.

Fulton's photographs have been published in the 2007 Bowman County Centennial calendar. The Bowman library featured a one-woman show of her work in November 2006. Her work was showcased at the Crossroads Arts Center in February 2007. Fulton's work can be viewed at Pioneer Trails Regional Museum in Bowman, Crossroads Arts Center in Hettinger, as well as Western Edge Books, Art Work, Music in Medora. NMN, Inc. of Crosslake, Minnesota has published Fulton's photography for their North Dakota postcards and 2007 North Dakota calendar. Photographs by Fulton will appear in the 2007 Bowman County Centennial Book and the 2008 North Dakota Horizons' calendar. Her artwork will also be in several Centennial shows. For more information, visit: www.crisfulton.com.

Big Sky Day	Clouds Over the Little Missouri	Purple Cloud Near the Light

Contact Cris Fulton:
PO Box 558
Bowman, ND 58623
(701) 523-5568
Web site: www.crisfulton.com