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ARTIST: Anne Cochran Grey, Ph.D. (born April 4, 1958) is an American artist educator who teaches and integrates her skills into the K-12 and university settings. She has worked with some of the most notable artists, arts educators and creativity researchers in the field. Anne Cochran Grey holds a Ph.D. in Education with a major in Art Education and a specialty in Art Appreciation and Criticism. She is a recipient of the National Art Education Association’s 2012 Elliot Eisner Doctoral Research Award in Art Education Runner-Up of the Year Award for her dissertation. In addition to teaching middle school Dr. Grey’s most recent work is a museum university research partnership toward understanding some of the eternal questions in art. The vibrant Bleeding Hearts project uses a light flexible board thick enough for the tempera and acrylic Dr. Grey uses to create a hearts in a much textured Abstract Expressionist style inspired by the Bleeding Hearts in her grandmother’s garden in upstate New York. The Bleeding Heart flower has nature’s only heart-shaped blooms. The Bleeding Heart, an eye catching flower carries specifically deep meanings and a focused purpose. The Bleeding Heart flower carries meanings like: Expressing emotions deeply, love, sensitivity to the world around us, feeling compassion and unconditional love for creation and connectivity in life. In American and British culture, the Bleeding Heart is often exchanged as a symbol of true love.