Clare Kobasa, associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs

Clare Kobasa, the associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs, joined the Saint Louis Art Museum in 2020.

Kobasa also manages the museum’s Study Room for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, where students, scholars and members of the public can make appointments for free viewings of more than 16,000 works on paper in the collection.

Previously, Kobasa was the Suzanne Andrée Curatorial Fellow in Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she curated several exhibitions and installations, including “Woodcuts: Groove and Grain,” which explored the variety and malleability of the oldest printmaking medium. Prior to her position in Philadelphia, she was a predoctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana–Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome.

Kobasa received a doctorate and a master’s degree in art history from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in art history and history from Swarthmore College.

Notable media appearances and mentions

• St. Louis Art Museum’s latest exhibit celebrates art made during the Great Depression (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Aug. 1, 2024)
• Explore LACMA’s Spanish colonial treasures at the Saint Louis Art Museum (St. Louis Magazine, June 18, 2024)

Television and video

• SLAM in 60: Enrique Chagoya at the Saint Louis Art Museum (Saint Louis Art Museum, Aug. 30, 2022)
• Art Speaks: Prints and Murals by Black Artists in the WPA (Saint Louis Art Museum, Aug. 20, 2021)
• Art Speaks: The Mysteries of Early Italian Engravings (July 8, 2021)

Recent and upcoming exhibitions

• The Work of Art: The Federal Art Project, 1935–1943 (2024)
• Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800: Highlights from LACMA’s Collection (2024)
• New to the Museum: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs (2023)
• Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection (2022)