Musée Rodin, Paris. 2009.
Claire L. Kovacs is the director of the NYSCC museum + galleries at Alfred University. Previously, she was the curator of collections and exhibitions at the Binghamton University Art Museum where recent exhibitions include an investigation of gender and its histories in asylums (Michal Heiman), histories and speculative futures of e-waste (Nathaniel Stern), Latinx celebrations of joy and play as modes of resistance (Miguel Luciano and Hiram Maristany), and histories of punk design, fashion, and music. She emphasizes anti-racist, queer, and feminist practices that center community knowledges and histories, trauma-informed praxis, and a culture of care. Kovacs participated in the 2018 Getty Leadership Institute's NextGen program and the NEH/Newberry Library Summer Institute on Art and Public Culture in Chicago. She represents the Southern Tier on the Museum Association of New York's Board of Directors.
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.