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Cora Marshall, born in Washington, DC, is an artist, educator, and scholar. She received her B.F.A. from Howard University with a major in art and a minor in education. After teaching art in the Alexandria Virginia City Schools for many years, she returned to school to acquire a Master of Science in Education from Bank Street College of Education with Parsons School of Design and her doctorate in art from New York University. Currently, Dr. Marshall is the Art Department's Chairperson at Central Connecticut State University. There she teaches research, theory, and practice in Art Education as well as classes in Mixed Media art and educational technology.As an artist, she centers her work in spirituality and creates art that seeks out the connections to and lessons from her past. By mixing symbols and meaning, by affirming the potency of the spirits, by honoring the holy, she “extends an invitation to contemplate the significance and depth of the power within.” Dr. Marshall is currently, working in and across the medium of painting, photography, and video. She has exhibited both internationally and nationally including National Conference of Artists; Kumasi, Ghana; A.I.R. Gallery NYC; Skylight Restoration Gallery in Brooklyn; Hammonds House Gallery in Atlanta; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; Craftery Gallery, in Hartford; the Rosenburg Gallery at NYU; and Picture That, LLC, Stamford, CT with multiple venues.As a scholar, her current research interest focuses on contemporary African American artists, in particular, Black women artists (African/African-Native women artists). She has presented at numerous professional venues including the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Cornell University, Columbia University Teachers College in NY, College Art Association, Connecticut Art Education Association, and Southern Connecticut State University, in New Haven. In the spring of 2000, her article on Jean-Michele Basquiat was published in the International Review of African American Art.In 2004, Dr. Marshall was selected as a member of the "Teaching Excellence Honor Roll" at CCSU. Also in 2004, Dr. Marshall was selected as "Outstanding Art Educator in Higher Education" by the Connecticut Art Education Association.
Copyright ©February, 2007 Cora Marshall
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