Ulysses Marshall is a distinguished artist and educator from Baltimore by way of Vienna, Georgia. Marshall’s work is predominately mixed media, utilizing paper collage and paint. Ulysses Marshall has garnered many awards and fellowships including the Whitney Independence Study Fellowship. Most recently, he is the first legacy in the arts awards winner at the Harriet Tubman museum in Macon, Georgia. This award is given to artists who have works in public collections and have maintained exhibiting success for over 25 years. ‘My artwork is a gift to me from my Grandmom. Through her stories, as she worked on her patchwork quilts, she instilled in me my goal as an artist: to use these stories, these tales, to share the plight, pride, dignity, and courage of a people whose lives have been BENT BUT NOT BROKEN.’ -Ulysses Marshall“Throughout his artistic career, Ulysses Marshall has conjured images of the African American experience that possess a timeless relevance and enduring beauty. The past is always present in Marshall’s work—not as historical fact but as a a deep dream-memory that moves through generation, regardless of time or place. It includes the unnamed and forgotten: abducted Africans, black sharecroppers, and mothers who hold together impoverished families. The artist has made it his responsibility to give these unheard voices a presence, to show that such lives contain a strength and sincerity that can nourish those who follow.” -Greg Waskowsky, Curator of Speical Porgrams (retired) Kalamazoo Institute of Arts