Meet the Artist
“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, born in 1946 in Vienna, Georgia, is the recipient of a Purple Heart from a tour in Vietnam. He was educated at Albany State University, Albany, Georgia, in sociology. Marshall received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland, and then received the Phillip Morris Fellowship and Master of Fine Arts degree under the instruction of Grace Hartigan, Hoffberger School of Painting, at MICA. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Whitney Independent Study Fellowship, New York, as well as several Maryland State Art Council Individual Artist Awards.
His works are included in both public and private collections. Marshall also lectures at colleges and universities and conducts workshops for children.
