On the Texas Commission for the Arts Artist in Education Roster, Marsha Dorsey-Outlaw 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 and 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 museum’s permanent collection, and the city’s artists and crafts persons livingin their midst and within themselves.

Studies at University of Houston, College of Education focused on program planning and health research. To augment the cancer prevention programs at UTMD Anderson Cancer Center, her Bunraku Puppeteer Troupe employed performing arts to educate children about the dangers of tobacco exposure.

As founder of Cultured Pearls Creative, Marsha is a certified enrichment instructor. With school residencies from Harris to Matagorda County, she composed the first IB high school fine art curriculum for St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, Houston, and was ceramics instructor at The Forum at Memorial Woods senior community from 2014 until the 2020 Pandemic.

Supported by The Periwinkle Foundation, she was Texas Children’s Cancer Center’s Making a Mark artist for 2006 and 2010 and adorned the hospital’s mobile, end-of-treatment bells. She amplifies her creative voice through mixed media public mosaics. Civic art installations include A Life, Illuminated on the Barbara Bush
Literacy Plaza, Vigango’s Stoop, on the Almeda Corridor, Redemption Song at Peggy Park; Raiment at Emancipation Park, Harambee Rising at SHAPE Community Center, Know All Men by These Presents at Judson Robinson, Sr. Park and Blood Relations and Street Cred on the Heights True North Art Path.