Claire Campbell Park

Artist, lecturer, author, instructor:

Exhibits include: the museum-wide centennial exhibition Made in California 1900-2000: Art, Image and Identity, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The International Textile Competition, Kyoto Convention Center, Japan; The Twelfth International Biennial of Miniature Textiles, in Szombathely, Hungary; EXPO Chicago. An image of her work was awarded second place in an international competition sponsored by Telos Fine Art Publishing, England, with jurors from Australia, Japan and the Netherlands. Claire was awarded an exhibit at the Tucson Museum of Art and has work in the permanent collection, as well as the collections of the MAD Museum, New York; Szombathely Kunsthalle, Hungary; the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose; Robert and Karen Duncan – named one of the top 50 art collections in the United States. The French web resource Textile/Art designates her, “…a very important influence on the development of art textiles.”

Lecture venues include: the Louvre and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; Seian University of Art, Otsu, Japan, and the World Textile Conference, Kyoto; Apeejay College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar, India; the Center for Middle East Studies, University of Arizona; University of California, Los Angeles; the New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; the University of Hawaii and the East/West Center, Manoa; Canyon Ranch, Tucson; Textile Society of America conferences; 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. Her articles, Challenging the Politics of Creating Art in the 21st Century, 2012, and Appropriation, Transformation and Contemporary Fiber Art, 2004, continue to be downloaded on a monthly basis around the world.

She received an M.F.A. from U.C.L.A. in 1978, and was honored to give the student eulogy for her mentor Bernard Kester, at his Life Celebration, LACMA, 2019. Since 1978, she has taught thousands of students from extremely varied geographical, cultural, economic, vocational and educational backgrounds. Claire researched on five continents and her book, Creating with Reverence: Art, Diversity, Culture and Soul is used by creativity support groups, college and university Studio Art courses, and Religious Studies classes. “Creating with Reverence is a deeply moving work, that will inspire for generations.” – Michael Schiffer, Pulitzer-nominated author of numerous books.

Claire strongly believes in the importance of supporting the local art community. She has served as the President of the Board for Tucson Visiting Artist Consortium, sponsored numerous nationally and internationally known visiting artists, organized and lead tours of local artist studios and museums for national collector organizations, curated and juried exhibitions.

PBS/AZPM Video: Claire Campbell Park-The Weaver of Hope, Color and Light

The American Scholar | Portrait of the Artist: Claire Campbell Park

University of Arizona Museum of Art | Picturing 2020

The Desert Leaf | Claire Campbell Park: Woven Life

TEXTILE/ART REVUE | Claire Campbell Park

Tucson Weekly | Community and the Sacred

Phoenix Home & Garden | Bauhaus Celebrates 100 Years