Phone: 828-227-3599
Email: MCOCHRAN@wcu.edu
Office Address: FPAC 138

Education:

• M.F.A., School of the Art institute, Chicago, IL
• B.F.A., University of Georgia, Athens

Publications and Presentations:

Selected Exhibitions: 

• Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library & Museum, Austin, TX
• Howard University Art Gallery, Washington, DC
• Camille Hanks Cosby Fine Art Museum, Spelman University, Atlanta, GA
• South Florida Arts Center, Miami Beach, Florida
• Center for African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
• Studio Museum of Harlem, NYC
• High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Permanent Public Art:  

• Reunion Place, Mechanicsville Community Pavilion, Atlanta, GA artist team - Marie T. Cochran and Tony Bingham
• LEGACY '96 Public Art Commission, co-sponsored by (ACOG) the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, (APOL) Art Partners on Location and the Atlanta/Fulton County Bureau of Cultural Affairs

Selected Awards/Grants: 

• Artist as Catalyst Grant, Mid-Atlantic Arts Council, Baltimore, MD
• Lilly Teaching fellowship, University of Georgia travel/study to Havana, Cuba with UGA Foundation Fellows group
• Achievement by Georgia Women in the Visual Arts award presented by the Georgia Historic Preservation Division and the Secretary of State of the State of Georgia
• NEA/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship, Sculpture
• Cultural Olympiad Regional Designation Award, (from the Atlanta Cultural Olympics Committee in honor of 1996 Summer Olympics)
• Georgia Council for the Arts, Individual Artist’s Grant
• NEA Summer Internship, Museum Education Department Art Institute of Chicago
• The Student Leadership Award, commencement ceremony School of the Art Institute, Chicago
• Merit Scholarship, full-tuition, graduate studies School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL

Research Interests:

• Interests include: art and society, visual literacy, vernacular cultural studies and oral history.