Claudia O'Steen

Claudia O’Steen is a practicing artist and Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Winthrop University (b. Northwest Alabama, 1984). Claudia received her BFA from Watkins College of Art Design & Film, and her MFA in Digital+Media at Rhode Island School of Design.
Through her research-based practice, O’Steen examines navigation, exploration, perception, failure, and the experience of being lost. She creates languages to convey distance, scale, and direction, giving evidence to a process that has taken place and creates landscapes supplemented by scientific curiosity and human memory.