Chris Hall is a teacher and scholar, but he’s also a musician, a craftsman in arts such as leatherwork and woodworking, an auto mechanic, a longtime practitioner of the martial arts, a marksman, a hunter, a farmer, a brewer, and a baker.
These pursuits fall into the category of what Hall calls the common arts, which he defines as “the arts and skills that allow us to meet our basic, embodied needs in the world. … But you see from that definition just how broad that is—everything from agriculture to armament and a number of skills in between.”
