Marie Cochran

Marie T. Cochran (born 1962) is an American installation artist, educator, curator and art writer. She was born and raised in Toccoa, Georgia. Her work centers issues of race and gender from an African-American perspective, and explores the dynamics of Affrilachia, referring to the history and culture of African-Americans and other people of color from the Appalachian region of the United States.^[1][2]

Education[]

Marie Cochran was born in Toccoa, Georgia in 1962. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting from the University of Georgia in 1985, and in 1987, took a position as a visiting artist at Georgia Southern University. She was later awarded a Ford Foundation scholarship and earned a Master of Fine Arts in Fiber and Drawing/Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1992.^[3][4]

Career[]

From 1992 until 1996, she was an assistant professor of art at Georgia Southern University. From 1996 to 2000, she served as an assistant professor of art at the University of Georgia.^[4][5] Her work has been exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Spelman College, the High Museum of Art, and the Georgia Museum of Art.^[6]

She is the founding curator for the Affrilachian Artist Project an organization that promotes the concept of Affrilachia, and works with artists of color in Appalachia.^[7][8]

the 2020-21 academic year, she was the Lehman Brady Professor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.^[2]

Throughout her work. she became a huge advocate for the arts. She has spoken at several universities within the area. She also was a resident artist at several universities, which means that she would either travel to several locations with art or it would give artists time to reflect and work outside of the their comfort zones. Most of this work took place in Asheville, North Carolina.

Awards[]

Cochran has won many awards in her advocacy for the arts. She won the Georgia Council's Arts individual artist's grant; the Mid-Atlantic Arts Council's "Artist as a Catalyst" grant; the NEA/Southern Arts Federation Sculpture Fellowship and Fast Track Challenge Grant and the "We Shall Overcome Fund" by the Higherlander Center for Research and Education in New Market, Tennessee.^[9]

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Farris, Phoebe, ed. (1999). Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313303746.
• King-Hammond, Leslie, ed. (1995). Gumbo Ya Ya: Anthology of Contemporary African-American Women Artists. NY NY: Midmarch Arts Press.
• "Marie T. Cochran | Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University". documentarystudies.duke.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-09.

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