Claire L. Kovacs is the director of the NYSCC museums + galleries at Alfred University. She emphasizes anti-racist, queer, and feminist practices that center community knowledges and histories, trauma-informed praxis, and a culture of care.
Outside of her interests in art, Kovacs is an avid gardener (from starting seeds to turning her front yard into a perennial food + native plant oasis), cook (she makes a mean pot o' greens), baker (she is currently working her way through Stanley Ginsberg's The Rye Baker), and fermenter (pickles, sauerkraut, cheese, and wine, but never onions – ask her about that failure). She is an avid reader, and her years of looking out windows in the pauses of her writing developed into a bit of a bird watching habit.
Musée Rodin, Paris. 2009.