Marie T. Cochran
Visiting Lecturer
mixed media artist, community-based public art projects, exhibition curator, arts advocate, interdisciplinary project consultant

Research interests include: art & society, visual literacy, vernacular cultural studies and oral history

Education: MFA, School of the Art institute, Chicago, IL; BFA University of Georgia, Athens

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