Paint Creek Center for the Arts is pleased to announce a one woman show of paintings by Claudia Shepard. Claudia is a long-time member of the Detroit art community who earned her Bachelors and Masters of Fine Arts degrees at Wayne State University. She has taught for many years in the Detroit area, including at Wayne State University, the College for Creative Studies, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center. Claudia’s oil paintings and watercolors have been exhibited widely in Michigan and across the United States. She works as a freelance illustrator and courtroom sketch artist. Her illustrations were published in “Lake of the Big Snake: An African Rainforest Adventure.”

For her exhibit at Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Claudia presents paintings from two bodies of work. One group of paintings features studies of rocks collected on the beaches of Michigan’s Great Lakes. Another series focuses on figures observed at her local coffee shop. Claudia says of this work, “Garrison Keillor has said that ‘most of us live ordinary lives.’ This series of paintings is a celebration of the flow of individuals through the line at Starbucks where I spend part of my own ordinary days.  Seizing little stories and encoding them in paint is my way of showing that the extraordinary can be everywhere.”