Chrystal grew up in a creative environment where she was encouraged to use her innate ability to “make things”. Her earliest memory of making “art” was from a first grade experience when she made the Purple People Eater that everyone raved about.

Her formal art training began at Alverno College where she received her Bachelor of Art degree in art education. Years later, and with a bit more maturity, she returned to school, The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Chrystal has been working in assemblagé and collage for a number of years. She uses a variety of mediums mixed with found and recycled objects as she explores a number of themes from the perspective of an African American, a lover of Jesus and as expressions of the nostalgia she has for her childhood years of the 50’s and 60’s.

Chrystal has recently added soap making to her creative credentials. Her soaps are those using all natural ingredients with essential oils, natural colorants and nature’s botanicals to those using both synthetic coloring and fragrance. She has soaps for those vegetarian, vegan and gluten conscious individuals to those concerned less with these issues. Presently, she is working towards marketing her soaps from her studio in The Marshall Building in Milwaukee’s Third Ward.

Chrystal resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has participated in local and out of state exhibitions and has artwork held in both corporate and private collections in the Midwest. She won honorable mention in Milwaukee’s first summer Art and Funk Music Festival. She spent one year as an artist in resident in the Mandel Creative Group Plaid Tuba Art Studio, in the Third Ward. She, currently, occupies a small studio space, along with other artists, in the studio known as Materials Studios + Gallery in the Marshall Building.