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Maura Cluthe is an Associate Professor and the Charlie Sosland Chair of Illustration, currently on sabbatical during Spring 2025. Her work blurs the boundaries between fine art, illustration, and design, often integrating text, drawing, photography, painting, and collected objects into mixed media compositions. She has a long professional history at Hallmark Cards, where she worked for twenty years as an illustrator, designer, and art director, contributing to projects like the "Fresh Ink" alternative card line and the redesign of Kaleidoscope—a creative space for children.
Maura maintains an active freelance practice and exhibits nationally. During the pandemic, she taught remotely from her studio while creating the series "Pattern Play," which focused on shape, pattern, and color. She emphasizes iterative creative exploration with students, often sharing works-in-progress and involving them in her artistic decision-making.
Her studio, converted from a garage in 2008, serves as both a workspace and a repository for her collections of robots, wooden blocks, and scrap materials. These artifacts frequently inspire her art, including 3D wooden robots and small collages. Maura prioritizes direct ink-to-paper drawing without preliminary sketches, refining her work until it "feels right".
