Debra Clem is a Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University Southeast, located in New Albany, Indiana in the metro Louisville area. She studied at Bowling Green State University where she was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Debra received a graduate assistantship to the Pennsylvania State University, earning a Master of Fine Arts degree from that institution. She has shown her paintings in more than 60 group, invitational, and solo exhibitions and has been awarded five individual artist grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Debra received an Al Smith Fellowship, the highest individual award given to artists from the state of Kentucky and has been awarded fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. She is a member of Indiana University's FACET (Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching). Debra was the recipient of IU Southeast's Distinguished Research and Creativity Award in 2006. 

Debra grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and currently lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Her email address is: dclem@ius.edu