Christopher “Sandman” Reaves (b. 2004) is a printmaker, designer and archivist born and living in Baltimore, Maryland. His visual language draws on Afro-diasporic fashion using archives to create narratives through a wide range of printmaking mediums such as screen print, lithography and primarily, monotype. His work often references specific styles adorned by Black people throughout the 20th century, referencing movements like Afrofuturism, Black Ivy, Dandyism, Streetwear. In his illustrations, Reaves uses clothing as a vessel to connect stories throughout different moments in time, highlighting the ways clothing is a conduit to tackle the complexities of resistance, history, rebellion and reclamation. Taking up the moniker: Sandman, he encapsulates the dream-like synchronicity held in crafting narratives based on the archive. His primary medium, trace monotype, functions as an experimental bridge; using abstract and figurative language to render fragmented visions of his imagined realities. Drawing on Black folklore, design and fashion to weave together imagined realities within past histories. Within the narratives of his pieces, he channels the ancestral lineage of a storyteller, whose images echo throughout time connecting the past, present and future of Afro-lineages. He gained foundational archival experience through a fellowship with MUSE 360 in the New Generation Scholars program in Baltimore, Maryland. He has also served as an Archives & Library Intern at the Baltimore Museum of Art and as an Archival Legacy Intern with the Valerie J. Maynard Foundation. In 2026 he earned his BFA in Printmaking from the Maryland Institute of College Art, having also studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2024 prior to their closing. His work has been displayed at institutions such as The Baltimore Museum of Art (2022), The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2024), The Peale Museum (2025), the Immortal Art Fair in Mexico City (2025), and the University of Maryland Medical Center (2022). In October 2025, he debuted his first solo exhibition at the Maryland Institute College of Art, titled Bring Me A Dream.