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Claudia Dishon (b.1983 Louisville , KY) is a trained printmaker with a curiosity for medicine and cuisine. Her body of work spans printmaking, drawing, collage, paper sculpture, design, photography, and performance with some clumsy forays into video. Drawing will always be the therapeutic core to her creative process. She received her MFA in Printmaking at Clemson University and her BFA in Printmaking at Murray State University. She is proud to belong to the loyal and dysfunctional family of printmaking alumni from both of these universities. Her work is exhibited routinely in print portfolios at Southern Graphics Council conferences annually. In 2008 Dishon represented Clemson at the Charles E. Daniel Center for Architecture Research in Genoa, Italy, where she ate things that changed her life forever.

Regardless of her medium, her work poses questions of truth and quality through a symbolic language of animals and color. Daily struggles as simplistic as bumbled conversations become epic mythological quests in the venue of her work. Thematically her work is an exploration of domestic issues, natural phenomena and an interest in the less fortunate. These topics are lovingly blended with the detritus of her glamorous bag lady life style, and the house plants, spiders and tropical fish that make up her ecosystem.

Dishon anticipates her residency in Spartanburg as a chance to realize her ongoing goal to teach people to heal themselves through Art and awareness. She looks forward to another year in the balmy south and swears this fresh start means she will keep her room clean. She looks forward to the golden wish of creating full time again, as a two month waitressing stint has plainly indicated that she is unfit for anything else.

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