Cristina Ann Correa is pleased to be spending her 19th year in art education by leading the award-winning, nationally-recognized visual arts department at Plano Senior High School. Prior to teaching at PSHS, she taught at IDEA College Preparatory San Juan (San Juan, TX) for 14 years and Weslaco East High School (Weslaco, TX) for three.

Correa is currently both the high school and Central Cluster lead visual arts teacher for Plano ISD and a member of the Arts Centre of Plano Education Committee. She is the Arts Chair for the College Board National Academic Assembly Council, At-Large Commissioner for the National Art Education Association (NAEA) Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Commission, and a 2023-25 Texas Education Agency Teacher Leadership Senior Fellow. Correa is a 2024 NAEA School For Art Leaders Graduate, Art21 Educator, and an Advanced Placement (AP) Art & Design Consultant, Mentor, Exam Development Committee Member and Reading Question Leader. She was selected as the 2024 recipient of the UT-RGV College of Fine Arts Young Alumnus Merit Award and 2024 Pride of Plano Award for Art Education. She is featured in multiple AP Daily videos and has presented for multiple K-12 and collegiate art education programs, at the College Board’s Preparate Conference, the TAEA and NAEA conventions, and SCAD Workshops for AP Educators. Correa is a candidate for National Board Certification in Art and spends her summers teaching at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in NYC.

Correa earned her BS in Mass Communications and Graphic Design from Texas Woman’s University in May of 2006 and MFA in Visual Arts, Latin American Art History, and Mexican American Studies from the University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley in December of 2018. 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.

When she is not teaching art, Correa enjoys knitting, sewing, cooking, hiking, and spending time with her family and two cats.