Ariane Ardalan Clarke was born on the cusp of Sagittarius and Capricorn in NYC. She attended Bennington College in Vermont and studied visual arts, Spanish language and culture, literature, hand-drumming and modern dance. A year later she transferred to the Maryland Institute College of Art, (MICA) in Baltimore to pursue BFA degree in printmaking with a concentration in paper making and book arts. She currently works and resides in Ridgefield, CT. She likes cats, Mexican wrestling masks, drawing people asleep in airports, hot sauces, Archie comics, Rat Fink, Betty Boop and donkeys.