Clare Murray is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of cARTie, Connecticut’s first and only nonprofit art museum bus for kids. Clare cares a lot about kids and their rights to powerful art and museum-based learning experiences. She has a background in early childhood museum education, and is currently a doctoral candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University.

She also holds an MEd in Art in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an MA in Early Childhood Education Policy from Teachers College, and a BA in Economics and Latin American Studies from Colby College. She is a two-time Fulbright Scholar — to Spain and Paraguay — and is currently working on a book for Routledge about museum design with, by, and for young children (scheduled for release Spring, 2025).