Originally from central Massachusetts, Claudia Hollander-Lucas has also lived in Boston, Colorado, England, and Spain. She has made the Puget Sound her home since 1979. She is a full professor of Fine Arts at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. She has exhibited her work extensively, including BVAU in Boston, MA; Rutgers University in New Jersy; the Portland Art musuem in Both Maine and Oregon; Vladevastok, Russia; Forest Row Sussex, England, as well as numerous local exhibitions, Claudia earned a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston Massachusetts and a MFA from the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.

She had been a long-term member of the Quartermaster Press and Le Petite Salon on Vashon Island. She is currently an active member of Seattle Print Arts, Artist Trust, The Audubon Society, and the Arboretum Foundtion.

She lives in the woods on Vashon Island with her husband, John, and with many deer, birds and other wildlife.