Rashayla Marie studies conceptual performance art, modern and contemporary art markets, arts education, Black performance and aesthetics of relation, and Global modernisms. The art market heavily influences art education, which thereby influences which artists are historically canonized and which studio practices dominate our understanding of who deserves to be considered a “master” artist. Rashayla Marie hopes to work as a professor or curator at a major educational art institution while maintaining an active studio practice and producing art essays and films for popular audiences.