Chris McAdoo
Chris McAdoo is an artist, strategist, and creative professional living in East Tennessee who believes that creativity can change the world. His artwork is intensely autobiographical and uses paint and canvas to focus on “the stories we tell others, the stories we tell ourselves, and the liminal space between those two shores”. His paintings and original prints have been featured in numerous exhibitions, private collections, and publications around the country and he has been an active studio artist for over twenty years.
A long-time entrepreneur and public speaker, Chris serves as Chief Experience Officer at Knoxville Entrepreneur Center, where he focuses on advising growth-stage companies and leads The WORKS business accelerator. Additionally, Chris hosts the "Big Ideas Welcome" podcast, featuring in-depth conversations with makers, change-makers, and leaders that make "big ideas" come to life.
A Creative Life…Very Much in Progress.
What I make, and how I show up every day, is for those of us living with a little more purpose, a little more adventure, and a lot more curiosity. From artwork to storytelling, this is the ongoing, imperfect, energized body of work that I share with people walking a similar path.
I hope you can join me.
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Original Artwork
Paintings, drawings, and linocuts inspired by “the stories we tell others, the stories we tell ourselves, and the liminal space between those two shores”
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Speaking
The High Energy Emcee, Keynote Speaker, and facilitator who knows business & turns events into experiences.
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Big Ideas Welcome
Season three of The Big Ideas Welcome podcast pairs business legends and ambitious founders to dive deep into the world of big ideas—successes, failures, and everything in between.
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Business Consulting
Providing clarity, defining purpose, and compressing time for leaders and organizations ready to move fast & fix things.
An exclusive collection of all three “Tennessee River” hand--pulled prints is available now for a limited time.
Each edition (limited to 50) is 15” x 22”, printed on archival paper, hand-carved, hand-printed, and signed and numbered by Chris McAdoo. AND…anyone that purchases all three prints will also receive a special original sketch from the artist.
Each print was painstakingly carved and printed one color at a time on an 80 year old Vandercook proof press. If you look closely, you’ll notice the Tennessee River, running through Knox County, TN, in the background of each piece.
