Claudia received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from West Virginia University and studied art history and museum education at Penn State, graduating with a Masters in Education in 1981. She has worked in the museum field, including at the Smithsonian, the Birmingham Museum of Art and The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh for close to 40 years.
Claudia received her Master of Fine Arts degree from West Virginia University in 1999, with specialization in printmaking and photography. She has held residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts and participated in a residency at Artists Image Resource in Pittsburgh sponsored by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. The work she created there was included in an exhibition that traveled throughout the Mid Atlantic region in 2004/2005. Claudia has exhibited her work widely, including at SOHO20 Gallery in New York, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, the Buckham Gallery in Michigan, the Sande Webster Gallery in Philadelphia, Bonita Springs Arts Center, Florida, as well as throughout West Virginia. She contributed 13 images to a book, "Field Notes from Grief," with text by Judith Stitzel, published in 2012.
