Authentic, Detailed. Cheerful. Cora Barhorst is the creative mind behind Cora B. Gallery. She went to the all girls high school, St. Joseph’s Academy in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and she is approaching her near graduation from LSU’s Ogden Honors College. For Cora, artwork has been something she’s always loved and has dreamed of being able to support herself with.

Her parents are her #1 supporters and her mom is the best assistant (“momager”) she could ask for. You can often find Cora on the phone with her brainstorming ideas about new pieces. She appreciates having someone to share ideas with and receive advice from.

The Cora B. Gallery gallery is a collection of her portraiture and other pop culture items that hold symbolic imagery. Cora enjoys creating art that represents someone admired and respected by the general public because of the way they live or lived. She has shown her range of display by highlighting individuals from the Virgin Mary to RBG. When someone encounters Cora’s work, she wants them to not only see the beauty but to also interact with it in a way that makes them feel spoken to.

There’s a rush she experiences when she is excited for an anticipated new piece and she isn’t able to focus until the entire work of art is complete. One of her favorite parts of the creative process is being able to officially set her work out and share in its reward. Being able to have full autonomy over her work is something she values. An important element of her art is being able to show others the faces of people who are important to her and give their stories a platform.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

—Gloria Steinem

Going to an all girls school showed Cora the power that exists when women work together and find ways to support one another. She personally uses her platform by highlighting influential and powerful women in her artwork. There are an infinite amount of women that people look up to and Cora is honored to be able to express that through her art.

Purpose, Cora believes, is about more than finding something important everyday or finally discovering an ultimate need of the world to pursue, it is something ever changing that doesn’t have a specific end point or outline.

225 Magazine highlighted Cora in their December issue as a new emerging artist of the month. As a college student and young adult, she was encouraged when she was taken seriously by the Baton Rouge art community as a notable artist. She dreams of opening her own gallery location for people to view her art and plans to have complete authority over the profit and purchases of her work!

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