Janice Kluge received her M.F.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and B.F.A. degree with Honors, from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. She was a Professor of Art at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she has taught from 1982- 2007. Currently, she is an Emeritus Professor and working full-time as an artist in Birmingham, Alabama.

Kluge has exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in various public collections among them- the Shengua Art Center, Nanjing, China, Huntsville and Mobile Museums of Art, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, The University of Georgia, Athens, and many private collections within the southeast. Most notable national exhibition venues include the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY; San Francisco State University, California; the Fine Arts Center in Taos, New Mexico; and The Hand and the Spirit Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Kluge has received recognition through numerous grants and awards. Her work has been reviewed and published in numerous journals and art magazines, such as, SCULPTURE magazine, Metalsmith magazine, American Crafts magazine, ART PAPERS, and CIRCA: Art Magazine, covering contemporary visual culture in Ireland. Most recently her work has been pictured in the Lark Ceramics Book, Image Transfer on Clay, 2006, and Beginning Sculpture, Davis Publications, and The Sculpture Reference, 2005.