Claire Stigliani (b. 1983) received an MFA (2010) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has been active in solo and group exhibitions at a diverse number of venues including: The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, (WI), The Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, (WI), RussellProjects, Richmond (VA), and the Jenkins Johnson Gallery (NY). She was a 2016 Recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation 2015 Painters & Sculptors Grant. Claire has taught drawing and painting at the University of Missouri, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Tennessee.