Claudia La Bianca is an American artist and filmmaker. She is best
known for her Miami street art and as a finalist on the filmmaking
competition show On the Lot. She produced and directed several
episodes of the Hannah Help Me! series for PBS and the independent
feature The Journey of the Dragonfly.Claudia was born in Sicily. She
took to drawing female superheroes in her childhood as a result of
being bullied by schoolboys. She comes from a family of artists where
artistic expression was encouraged. She was known as the girl who
painted walls in her home town of Bagheria, Sicily. After losing her
older brother who was a filmmaker, she decided to pursue filmmaking
herself to still feel close to him.Following the completion of her
studies at New York Film Academy, Claudia was selected as a top-50
semi-finalist out of more than 12,000 submissions for the filmmaking
reality series On the Lot. Claudia helped make the team short film,
Out Of Time 2, and made her own short, Blind Date, before finishing in
the show's Final 18. She has gone on to direct several national
commercials and music videos. In 2014, she completed her second
feature film, The Journey of a Dragonfly, which was shot in Sicily and
stars Katarina Morhacova.Claudia is well known for her vibrant
large-scale murals in the Wynwood district of Miami. Numerous city
walls and single- and double-story buildings serve as canvases to some
of her most recognizable works. Her artworks have been featured on
CNN, CBS News, and Telemundo and she has sold installations in New
York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Italy. She specializes in murals,
sculpture, paintings, sketches, characters, and fashion illustrations.
Claudia's works message themes of unity, female empowerment, and
individuality. Her 2018 mural, "Unite in Love" drew widespread
attention for featuring the embrace of first ladies Michelle Obama and
Melania Trump. Following the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Claudia painted a
mural titled "Our Heroes" on the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.
It features four female nurses stylized as comic superheroes. As
popularity of the piece grew, several hospitals commissioned similar
installations.
known for her Miami street art and as a finalist on the filmmaking
competition show On the Lot. She produced and directed several
episodes of the Hannah Help Me! series for PBS and the independent
feature The Journey of the Dragonfly.Claudia was born in Sicily. She
took to drawing female superheroes in her childhood as a result of
being bullied by schoolboys. She comes from a family of artists where
artistic expression was encouraged. She was known as the girl who
painted walls in her home town of Bagheria, Sicily. After losing her
older brother who was a filmmaker, she decided to pursue filmmaking
herself to still feel close to him.Following the completion of her
studies at New York Film Academy, Claudia was selected as a top-50
semi-finalist out of more than 12,000 submissions for the filmmaking
reality series On the Lot. Claudia helped make the team short film,
Out Of Time 2, and made her own short, Blind Date, before finishing in
the show's Final 18. She has gone on to direct several national
commercials and music videos. In 2014, she completed her second
feature film, The Journey of a Dragonfly, which was shot in Sicily and
stars Katarina Morhacova.Claudia is well known for her vibrant
large-scale murals in the Wynwood district of Miami. Numerous city
walls and single- and double-story buildings serve as canvases to some
of her most recognizable works. Her artworks have been featured on
CNN, CBS News, and Telemundo and she has sold installations in New
York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Italy. She specializes in murals,
sculpture, paintings, sketches, characters, and fashion illustrations.
Claudia's works message themes of unity, female empowerment, and
individuality. Her 2018 mural, "Unite in Love" drew widespread
attention for featuring the embrace of first ladies Michelle Obama and
Melania Trump. Following the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Claudia painted a
mural titled "Our Heroes" on the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.
It features four female nurses stylized as comic superheroes. As
popularity of the piece grew, several hospitals commissioned similar
installations.
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