Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter
Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter was born in Philadelphia, PA. She graduated with a BS from Temple University and received her MFA from Howard University. Gibson-Hunter attended Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Studio, the New York Arts Students League, and later received a fellowship from the Bronx Museum of Art. She joined “Where We At,” a group of Black women artists in the early 1980s. Gibson-Hunter was an administrator at Parsons School of Design and a faculty member at Howard University, and Bowie State University.
Gibson-Hunter’s work can be found in the collections of the Liberian Embassy, Montgomery County, MD, and other noted collections. She completed two public commissions for the DC Department of General Services. The Wall of Unity (2017) and, ANCESTORS (2019) are both located in District public schools. In 2019, Gibson-Hunter was a Pyramid Atlantic Denbo Fellow. She is currently a cofounding member of Black Artists of DC, a member of WOAUA, and a post-studio member of STABLE, a DC arts community. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is also a member of PROJECT 2020, a group of nine women that made nine collaborative books, each capturing the experiences, and emotions of a year that will live in the memory of world events. You can find more about Gibson-Hunter on the digital archive JEMBE.
