Sat May 17 - 1:00pm-2:30pm
Education Room

Bio:Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter “Aziza” Claudia Gibson-Hunter was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. She attended Tyler College of Art, and graduated from Temple University with a BS in art education. After teaching in the Philadelphia school system for three years Claudia received an Arts-In Education fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation to learn aspects of art education policy making on a state level. Claudia attended graduate school at Howard University and moved to Harlem New York. After completing her MFA in printmaking, Claudia further pursued her art, taking a class in Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Studio and later received a fellowship from the Bronx Museum of Art, She joined “Where We At “, a Black women’s artists group. She took a position at Parsons School of Design as an academic counselor for foundation students. In 1987 she and her family returned to Washington DC, In 1999 she was invited to take an adjunct position at Howard University to teach printmaking. She taught undergraduate and graduate courses in printmaking and introduced an array of non-toxic printmaking techniques to the college. Aziza wrote several grants to purchase equipment to further develop the department. Two of the grants were funded. In 1999 she PLANTA and Viola Leak, co-founded the Black Artists of DC, to aid in developing a community of Black Artists in the metropolitan Washington DC area. Presently there are over 300 artists in the organization. With her children older, Aziza decided in 2002 to resign from Howard University to pursue her art full time. Since then she has exhibited in Washington DC, Maryland, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida, and Great Brittan. She was one of the ten artists chosen to create a digital print portfolio with David Adamson for the DC Commission on the Arts. Ms Gibson-Hunter completed a public art piece for the Washington DC Art Walk erected on the grounds of the former Washington DC Convention Center. She represented BADC during Art Basel Miami 06, in the Design District. The exhibition “LO GLO” included over twenty BADC members. In the same year Ms. Gibson-Hunter was awarded the Artist Fellowship Program Grant, from the DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities. for more information, check out:gibsonhunterstudio.com