Correa, Cristina

Ms. Cristina Ann Correa, MFA

Ms. Correa is pleased to be spending her 20th year in art education by leading the award-winning, nationally-recognized visual arts department at Plano Senior High School for a third year.

Prior to teaching at PSHS, she taught at IDEA College Preparatory San Juan, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and Weslaco East High School.

Correa is currently an AP Art & Design Consultant and Mentor, Art21 Educator Teacher Council Member, Fine Arts Chair for the College Board National Academic Assembly Council, An At-Large Commissioner for the National Art Education Association.


 

Correa earned her BS in Mass Communications and Graphic Design from Texas Woman's University and MFA in Visual Arts, Latin American Art History, and Mexican American Studies (Summa Cum Laude) from the University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley. She has completed two figural painting marathons at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, interned at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, and conducted research on the Incan paintings of Colonial Peru in the archives of Cusco during graduate school. Correa was the 2016 alternate to the Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program and has had her work featured in regional, state, and national exhibitions.