Artist’s Statement Centered in spirituality, I create work that seeks out the connections to and lessons from my African and Native American past. By mixing symbols and meaning, by affirming the potency of the past, by honoring the holy, I extend an invitation to contemplate the significance and depth of the power within. Currently, I am working in and across the medium of painting, collage, and mixed media to find those intersections and crossroads where the spirits dwell. In so doing, I hope to further understand and establish a relationship with that that has gone before me. Bio Cora Marshall, born in Washington, DC, is an artist, educator, and scholar. She received her B.F.A. from Howard University; 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. Marshall 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. Dr. Marshall’s 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. Research Runaway! Going, Going, Gone. A Painting Series by Dr. Cora Marshall. Woodson Review 2007. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History. [NOTE: This is a large file and will take time to open.] Talking Back and Taking Sides: Socio-Political Art of Women of Color A survey of women artists of color who address issues of race, gender, and identity. Where’s the Art? The Studio Component in Secondary Methods Courses in Art Education. A discuss the importance of balancing theory and praxis in a middle school and high school methods courses. Techniques for the Women Artists of Color A survey of women artists of color focusing on four themes: Keeping the Past Present; Making Art and Imaginal Worlds; Planting Roots (Cultural Kinship); Taking Sides (Socio-Political) NAEA, Chicago 2006 Deconstructing the Creative Process In this presentation, attendees learn how to bring to the surface intuitive components involved in their creative process to bridge the gap from knowing how to teaching others. NAEA, Chicago 2006 Going Going, Gone: Running from Slavery to Freedom. The runaway enslaved series and slavery in Connecticut. Stamford Center for the Arts, Palace Theatre, Stamford CT. Winter 2005 Juneteenth: Remembering to Remember. Community conversations program in celebration of the 2004 return of the Amistad to Connecticut. Stamford CT. Spring 2004 The Role of African American Artists in Contemporary Society. Stamford Center for the Arts, Stamford, CT. Spring 2004 Brown Vs. Board of Education: 50 year Anniversary. Stamford Center for the Arts, Stamford CT. Spring 2004 The Art of Women of African Descent. National Art Education Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Spring 2003. Renewing the Spirit: Accumulated Aesthetics and Ethno-centered African American Artists. Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. January 2003 Published by University of Hawaii, First International Conferences on Arts and Humanities, HI. Contemporary Art of African American Women. Huntington House Museum, Winsor, CT. February 2003. More Than a Drop: The Art of African-Native Americans, National Association of Native American Studies. Consortium Conference with the National Association of African American Studies, the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies, and the National Association of Asian Studies. Houston, TX. February 2003 Image, Imagination, and Identity: Contemporary Art of Women of Color Connecticut Art Education Association Annual Conference. West Hartford, CT. October 2002 Patterns that Connect: African American Women Artists in the 21st Century Women of African Descent: Reaching Across the Diaspora, Department of Women Studies, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT. 2001 When Red is Black: The Art of African-Native American Women Women’s Studies, Southern Connecticut State University. New Haven, CT. Fall, 2001 Sacred Circles and Imaginal Worlds: Accumulated Artistic Aesthetics and Ethnocentered African American Artists, The Arts Council of the African Studies Association, College Art Association Conference 2001, Chicago, IL. Winter 2001 Sisterhood, Art, and Community: “Where We At: Black Women Artists”, Africana Studies Department. Symposium, Visualizing Culture: The Black Arts Movement 1960s and 1970s, Cornell University, NY. Fall 2000 Contemporary African American Women Artists, Conversations Across Cultures: African and African American Art, Columbia University, Teachers College, NY. Fall 2000 Patterns that Connect: African American Women Artists in the 21st Century, Women of African Descent: Reaching Across the Diaspora, 10th Annual Women Studies Conference, Southern Connecticut State University, 2000 Publication, article: Jean-Michel Basquiat: Outsider Superstar, The International Review of African American Art. Spring 2000.

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