A self-sufficient Artrepreneur and artist's advocate, who for more than 24-years has focused on helping artistic individuals worldwide to achieve success on their own terms. She founded and published Manhattan Arts International magazine for 17 years to promote under-recognized artists. She is a nationally published writer, author and motivational keynote speaker. Her highly acclaimed books The Complete Guide to New York Art Galleries, Presentation Power Tools for Fine Artists, and Success Now! For Artists: A Motivational Guide for the Artrepreneur are sold in major bookstores and the Museum of Modern Art. She has been featured in New York Newsday as a "Community Leader", and has appeared on CBS News and National Broadcast Radio. She has curated more than 50 multi-media exhibitions in NYC and is a member of the distinguished International Association of Art Critics. Although no longer an exhibiting artist her work is in many private and public collections including Merrill Lynch and Chase Manhattan Bank.

Working side by side for 13 years with the internationally known graphic designer Robert Miles Runyan, who was famous for the 1984 Olympic Stars in Motion logo, Claudette Runyan has carved a niche in acquiring, appreciating and delineating fine art from a graphic design point of view. A self-taught painter, her own collection of art ranges from Victor Vasereley to Renoir to an extensive collection of Mexican artifacts of which she has acquired after living in Mexico for 8 years. After many years of working with numerous Fortune 500 clients with her late husband, Claudette is well aware of how good design (i.e., form, function and emotion) play an integral role in an artist's painting. Along with assisting artist?s in developing new marketing concepts and strategies, Claudette's company, Runyan & Associates, Inc. is currently licensing the designs of her late husband in the textile and home decor industry.