Claudia La Bianca never took an anatomy drawing class. Instead, her lessons about the human form were learned as a child. Night after night, the wide-eyed, golden-locked dreamer sat backstage at her big sister's lingerie fashion shows in Sicily, where she gazed at beautiful, scantily clad models strutting on the catwalk.

"Our parents never stopped us from expressing ourselves through art," La Bianca says. "Our town was small-minded, but we had freedom as kids." Born into a relentlessly artistic family, La Bianca flitted through countless creative disciplines before arriving at her true calling: street art.