Claire Elam is a talented young artist who is a recent graduate of Bennington College, Vermont. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts with a concentration in painting and ceramics. Claire has published work in the college’s The Silo, editions 69 and 70, and in 2014 she took part in “Things Have Changed Between Us”, an Usdan Gallery show. Claire held a personal showing of her work at South Street Café, Bennington, titled “Domesticity and Other Things”. She has electronically curated for Visual AIDS, a contemporary arts organization fully committed to HIV prevention and AIDS awareness; she continues to work with ideas of feminism, gender, and home. She is a member of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Eugene, Oregon and has designed and painted several whimsical murals for the church’s Sunday school wing. Claire has been commissioned to provide an illustration with each blog entry to help us better connect with the women who speak in the Bible.
