Clare Murray

Raised in a family that valued play just as much as deep, philosophical thought, I have been using art as a tool to capture the essence of situations, places, and problems for as long as I can remember; from sketching how gravity works at a young age to conceptually communicating how different people occupy different museum spaces in my graduate studies, I have turned toward the languages of art to invite others into my thinking. With an advanced M.Ed. in Arts in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an M.A. in Early Childhood Education Policy from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an Ed.D. in Art and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, I bring my artist-researcher background to bear in my art practice. I investigate the potentialities of different media, paying particular attention to how different media heighten different aspects of certain subject matter. I train my eye to not just see a subject, but to communicate what I feel and think about it as well. I see my art practice as a mind map of my thinking, learning, and observing in, of, and with the world.