Dr. Cora Marshall

My current research focuses on contemporary African American artists, in particular, Black women artists. My doctoral aesthetic inquiry examines how selected visual artists of African and Native American descent use cultural imaginings, visual explorations, and reflection in their art work to elaborate their cultural identity. Dissertation title: Elaborating Cultural Identity: Imaginal World Making of Selected Ethnocentered Artists (NYU, 1997).

Presentation Materials, Resources, and Outlines

Art and Artists

Art Education

Deconstructing the Creative Process: Breaking it Down
Art Education and Technology
Video Tips of CT BEST Teaching Certification

Selected Publications and Presentations

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. [Click the title to download.This is a large file and will take time to open.]

Creating Cultural Connections Through Art Making, The Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, 2007. [Click the title to download.]

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)

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.

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.

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 Ethnocentered 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.

An Inside Outsider Jean-Michel Basquiat. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford, CT. Winter 1999

Publication, review: Cowries, Crosses, and Black-eyed Peas. The Art of Charlotte Ka. NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art. Spring/Summer 1999.

Presentation: Elaborating Cultural Identity: Imaginal World Making of Selected Ethnocentered Artist. Bank Street College of Education, New York. Spring 1997