Connie Cawley Kovac - A Celebration of Life
(October 10, 1949 - November 17, 2023)
Announcement image created by Stephen Baker
In loving memory of local Southern Tier artist
Please join us for a Celebration of Life, in loving memory of local Southern Tier artist Connie Cawley Kovac.
Sunday, November 26, 2023
From 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Located at the Bundy Museum of History & Art Annex Building
129 Main Street, Binghamton, NY 13905 (behind the museum)
Constance A. "Connie" Kovac:
74, of Owego, NY, passed away Friday, November 17, 2023. Connie was predeceased by her parents, Thomas and June Cawley. She is survived by her four children; Christine (Bryan Thomas), Barbara (Bill Hadamik), Maggie Kovac (Jim Stanley), Thomas Kovac; her life companion, Ricky Stilson and their son Malachai Stilson (Kelly Dean); 11 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren, sister, Kay Peyton; her extended family, father, Dave Baker; siblings, Yvonne Baker, Terry Alvarez, Lorrie Elmy, Stephen Baker, Diane Kubik, Kenneth Root, Russell Root, Jackie Worden; several nieces and nephews.
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About the Artist:
A 1967 graduate of Binghamton High School, doors were opening and closing for Constance 'Connie' Kovac. The magick of creation grounded her with the first of five children in 1969, opening the door to the long path of the crone, but not before her dream of becoming a psychologist was closed behind another door. It was a woman's place to be a secretary in 1967, not a doctor. Was it just a dream?
Connie rode the currents of life for two decades, mother and wife, yet she knew there was more. Her father, Tom Cawley, had shown her there was more through his friends - "Slam" Stewart, Johnny Hart, Rod Serling - and his loving encouragement.
Connie's search for revelation took her to a dark place, for not all dreams are pleasant, and artists are all too frequently doomed to quiet the haunting nightmares with alcohol. Dark are the dreams of the long night of the soul.
Following another's dream she bought a downtown Binghamton business, and there met a dark figure who seemed to offer the missing piece of her heart. But some dreams are fulfilled only by learning to fly after falling off a cliff. Stability and sobriety were at last achieved; maiden had become mother, and mother became grandmother then great-grandmother. Connie's art was recognized, and she fulfilled an old dream denied to her through attending college to major in art.
Yet that old yearning beckoned, and she changed her major to End of Life Counseling, receiving her Bachelor's degree in 2012. If you want to know the wisdom she has earned, the lessons she has learned, look to her art. Surreal and flowing like a dream, tinged with love, life, and regrets, on the razor's edge between dream and nightmare. In the happiest of times and the most trying of times, it was never "just a dream."
If you have any questions or need more information, please contact us at info@bundymuseum.org or by phone at (607) 772-9179.
The Bundy Museum of History & Art
129 Main St. Binghamton, NY 13905