Claudia Flynn received a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and participated in RISD’s European Honors Program for study in Italy. In the past few years, she has been awarded several Individual Artist Project Grants from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. These grants have assisted in enabling her to facilitate a variety of therapeutic art workshops at psychiatric/behavioral health facilities within the state, most recently at Newport Hospital.
In the last decade, Flynn has been presented with some rare opportunities to travel abroad enabling her to engage directly with the indigenous cultures of Europe, South America, South East Asia, and North Africa, which notably inform her work. In addition, she was invited by the Kashi Art Gallery in Kochi, India to create a site-specific installation for their annual international invitational exhibition in 2002. Flynn also completed a collection of poems about her four-month experience in the country.
The Office of the Governor awarded Flynn a citation in recognition of her artistic contributions to the State of Rhode Island in 2005. This past year, her work has been on exhibit at the Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the Arts for Peace Gallery in NYC, and locally at AS220 Project Space in Providence with a solo exhibition entitled “Ritual Structures.”
Rhode Island-based Flynn is a longtime member of Hera Educational Foundation and Gallery. In 2004, her work was selected for inclusion in “3-D Rhode Island: Selections of Contemporary Sculpture” at The Newport Art Museum. Her first solo exhibition at Hera Gallery was entitled “Investigations: Past and Present” in 2005. Her second solo show was entitled “Ancestral Vestiges” in 2007.
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