About the Artist
Art has been a part of Claudia Hershman's world since she was a child. Born in Detroit, she graduated from the University of Michigan with a BS in Design with majors in Painting and Ceramics. She taught art in elementary school and worked with polymer clay, making jewelry ,before it became a popular material. Her pins and earrings were the small canvases that foreshadowed her current abstract paintings and totems. She spent several years making functional ceramics and exploring alternative methods in printmaking. Excited by the freedom in children's art, experimentation with materials, a love of color, shape, and pattern are common themes and a driving force in her work. Her goal is to have the viewer enjoy the varied details and whimsy in her work and form their own interpretation of it. Claudia's mixed media paintings are part of Henry Ford Hospital's collection, owned by Molina Health Care, the Woman Center at Oakland Community College, Starthmore Apartments and in private collections.