Claire Campbell Park is an internationally recognized artist, lecturer and teacher.
Exhibits of her artwork include: “Made in California 1900-2000: Art, Image and Identity” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “The Twelfth International Biennial of Miniature Textiles” in Szombathely, Hungary and “The International Textile Competition” in Kyoto, Japan. An image of her work tied for second in an international competition sponsored by Telos Fine Art Publishing, England, with jurors from Australia, Japan and the Netherlands.
Lecture venues include: the Louvre and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; Seian College of Art and the World Textile Conference, Kyoto; Apeejay College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar, India; the Center for Middle East Studies, University of Arizona; the Textile Society of America 9th Biennial Symposium; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; the University of South Australia, South Australian School of Art and the University of Tasmania, School of Visual and Performing Arts.
Claire researched Moroccan Textiles for a year in London, Paris and Morocco, and served as an exhibit consultant for the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. She has published articles in the Textile Museum exhibition catalog From the Far West: Carpets and Textiles of Morocco, FIBERARTS magazine, TEXTILE/ART - a French art journal, as well as seven entries in North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century; a Biographical Dictionary.
Claire received a B.A. from Scripps College in 1973 and an M.F.A. from U.C.L.A. in 1978 and has since been Head of the Color and Fiber areas at Pima Community College, West Campus, in Tucson. Pima Community College is the nation's sixth largest community college with 82,000 students. Teaching at Pima Community College has given her the opportunity to work with thousands of students from extremely varied geographical, cultural, economic, vocational and educational backgrounds. She has done research on five continents and published a book titled Creating with Reverence: Art, Diversity, Culture and Soul. She leads seminars and workshops on Creativity, as well as on Creating with Color.
Claire lives on the Sonoran Desert with her husband and daughter.
