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]

Marie Toni Cochran
Born	1962 Toccoa, Georgia
Nationality	American
Education	University of Georgia (B.F.A.) School of the Art Institute of Chicago (M.F.A.)
Known for	mixed media

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]

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

References

1. Women artists of color : a bio-critical sourcebook to 20th century artists in the Americas. Farris, Phoebe, 1952-. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 1999. ISBN 0313303746. OCLC 40193578.CS1 maint: others (link)
2. "Marie T. Cochran | Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University". documentarystudies.duke.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
3. Farris 1999, p. 264.
4. Farris 1999, p. 267.
5. Cochran, Marie. "Marie Cochran". LinkedIn. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
6. "Toccoa Native and Local Artist featured in Garden and Guns".
7. Katy Nelson (November 26, 2012), Growing Project Showcases Black Artists in the Mountain Region, Carolina Public Press, retrieved March 10, 2018
8. Western Carolina University's Research and Scholarship Celebration (PDF), Western Carolina University, March 29, 2017, retrieved March 10, 2018

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.