Kevin Claiborne
Program Manager
Kevin joined Creative Art Works as a Program Manager in 2024, responsible for the implementation of our high school and academic-year creative workforce development programs. Prior to joining CAW, he spent several years as the Student Leadership Programs Advisor at UC Santa Barbara, where he advised 45 student government leaders and hall councils as well as serving on committees that educated UCSB staff on diversity and inclusion and facilitated campus discussions on social justice issues. He also oversaw the Student-Initiated Outreach program to attract underrepresented and low-income transfer students and pre-college youth. Previously, he was the Diversity Coordinator at Onondaga Community College, and the Posse Foundation’s graduate assistant at Syracuse University, liaising with and supporting their 110 Posse Scholars.
Kevin is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist whose work examines intersections of identity, social environment, and mental health within the Black American experience. Moving between collage, silkscreen, photography, painting, and sculpture, while frequently using language as material, Kevin is interested in finding new ways to look at history and its connection to the present. His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions across America and Europe and is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia. He has been the recipient of numerous honors, awards and scholarships, and has taught photography at Columbia University.
Kevin holds a BS in mathematics from North Carolina Central University, an MS in higher education from Syracuse University, and an MFA in visual arts from Columbia University. He currently lives in Harlem and spends his free time doing street photography around New York City.