Chris Rowlands

Chris Rowlands has worked passionately to connect children and youth to nature and the environment through a creative variety of mediums. He has taught in Ohio for over 20 years in public and private schools. His curricula have included outdoor education, hands-on artistic residencies for art murals, one-on- one guided art and original books, music residencies creating original songs, and other activities promoting environmental awareness, with a focus on birds, wildlife, history and biodiversity. Chris reaches over 30,000 students each year as an Environmental Outreach Naturalist at Aullwood Audubon. He presents programs entitled, “It’s Wild Out there” and “Farmin’ Fever” assemblies in dozens of schools in the Greater Dayton Region each year. He combines humor, fun, music with environmental education imparting to the students unique features of the natural world and animals in a way they will remember.