Born in Lyon, France, Christine Arveil was the first in her working-class family to enter university, graduating with a master’s degree in Classics and Literature from the Sorbonne, and later earning a competitive MBA in Art Management and Public Policies from Paris-Dauphine. She studied painting and lacquerwork in Paris with Luis Ansa and Isabelle Emmerique. Her work was exhibited in Europe and the United States.

Alongside her creative pursuit, Arveil acquired substantial organizational and communication experience, bringing together musicians, visual artists, and intellectuals beyond the art sphere. She interacts as comfortably with artists as she does with diplomats and policy makers. The projects she initiated, articulating local and international dimensions, steadily demonstrated attention to inclusion, respect, and diversity. Early on, she was an intern with the Arab World Institute Department of Contemporary Art in Paris while she co-headed the project Art & Peace; she later collaborated with several non-profits in the United States, and most recently with Brown University School of Business and Engineering, as a mentor fostering diversity in leadership and innovation.

After settling in Boston in 2001, she managed the music studio of master bow maker Benoît Rolland, where she structured a business and a legacy as his worldwide outreach expanded. She oversaw Rolland’s innovations and intellectual property, and addressed legal and ethical issues raised by the rarefaction of the wood used to make bows. Serving the nearly two thousand musicians who play Benoît Rolland bows, she animated a community around the Studio.

She is an active friend to non-profits like Music for Food, My Life My Choice, Community Music Works, and Community Supported Films, that channel respect and social justice through the arts.

Meanwhile, she has continued writing and painting. In 2009, she completed the Volcano Project, a large-scale multi-year, multi-disciplinary project uniting painting and writing to examine how adversity catalyzes the creative process. The ensemble was installed in Portugal and the U.S. More recently, her three-dimensional creations range from design and construction of studio spaces to site-specific sculptural flower installations. Whether writing, painting, designing, or strategic planning, Arveil consistently works to an exacting level, creating welcoming spaces that harmonize technical mastery and imagination. Challenging the conventional dichotomy between art and life, she proposes an integrated Art de Vivre.

She is proud to see her family evolving from traditional French roots to a community sharing multiple cultural heritages.