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Dorsey-Outlaw, Marsha (b.1962)

Found 2 Works by this Artist

• A Life, Illuminated
• Know All Men by These Presents

(b.1962)

Houston, TX

Marsha Dorsey-Outlaw is a mixed media visual artist, with an emphasis on social practice and education.

Her work is an investigation of the narratives that motifs bear in the rhythm of textile patterns, tender

threads of metal or silk, contours of wood or stone, in finely cast plastics, and evolving into the durable,

accessible practice of mixed-media mosaics. On the Texas Commission for the Arts Artist in Education Roster, Marsha Dorsey-Outlaw has enjoyed extended residencies at The Community Artists’ Collective and the Austin Children’s Museum. She was the first artist in residence and community liaison in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Education Department.  As Project Manager, her focus was community engagement with the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens. Through the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Foundation, she composed, promoted and facilitated programs and festivals to increase public awareness of the communities’ artists and crafts persons living in their midst and within themselves.

 

As Cultured Pearls Creative, Marsha is a certified enrichment instructor for many school districts with the Harris County Department of Education, and she is a member of Young Audiences of Houston, facilitating successful school residencies from Harris to Matagorda County. She is certified in the International Middle Years Curriculum (IMYC) and International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme for visual art (IB).

 

With a broad range of collectors, her assemblages “celebrate and challenge ancestral motifs and

motives.” Many exhibitions include A Hair Museum, Round 4 installation at Project Rowhouses, Call and

Response and the pop up show, Cleo’s Simple Life at MFAH. Her artwork is installed at many SPARK Parks

including Whidby, Walnut Bend, Tinsley, Wharton, Mahanay, Osborne, Piney Point and Lockhart

elementary schools. Earlier civic art installations include Vigango’s Stoop, the columns on Almeda Road;

Redemption Song at Peggy Park; Raiment at Emancipation Park, Know All Men by These Presents at

Judson Robinson, Sr. Park, and Blood Relations, on the Heights True North Art Path.

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