In Remembrance: Andrea Kovacs ’75MFA Died on July 25 2024

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Andrea Kovacs passed away on July 25, 2024, after her battle with cancer. She was 71 years old.

Kovacs was a professional artist in New York City who created a beautiful and unprecedented art form through photo mosaics. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and received her master’s degree from Yale University. Her brilliance and wit attracted much attention and success. The evolution of her art's enlightened shift, inspired by her Buddhist practice, was shown and described in the well-known book Visible Light by Michael Lesy.

Later on she moved to Tennessee to fulfill her dream of creating a horse rescue farm with her daughter. She saved many horses bound for slaughter and from abusive environments. It is on this beautiful farm that she lived out the remainder of her life. Her immense empathy toward animals touched many and opened many closed minds.

She is preceded in death by her mother Rita Deborah Deroo, first female editor of the Harvard Crimson, and her father lmre Kovacs, Hungarian author and politician who devoted his life to creating democracy in his native country. She leaves behind her daughter Amanda Sky, grandson Dragan Sky, and stepmother Mitsy Kovacs.

—Submitted by the family.