CLAIRE PAVLIK PURGUS
Claire Pavlik Purgus is the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism’s web and graphic designer. She creates visual materials to support the Schuster Institute’s investigative articles, prepares promotional material, and maintains the Institute’s website.
Before coming to work for the Schuster Institute, Purgus worked as a technical writer for Hewlett Packard and as the managing editor of a Massachusetts arts and culture magazine, for which she remains a regular contributing writer.
Purgus is also a published artist. Reproductions of her work are available through frame and art stores and have been widely distributed in Target and TJ Maxx stores around the country.
She has exhibited her work through open studios events and art galleries in the south coast of Massachusetts and Cape Cod.
Purgus received a post-graduate diploma in Urban Planning Practice for Developing Countries from University College London and a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.
Purgus is available as a consultant on individual web and graphic design projects through her own website, www.clairepavlikpurgus.com