Ulysses Marshall

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 awards is given to artists who have works in public collections and have maintained exhibiting success for over 25 years.

“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