- Origin: Byhalia, Mississippi
- Active: Memphis (Shelby County)
- Region: West
- Mediums: Community Arts
LueElla Hardin Marshall
“VISUAL ARTIST, BUSINESS WOMAN, MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER, GREAT GRANDMOTHER and GREAT GREAT GRAND MOTHER, and OLDEST SISTER
Mrs. LueElla Hardin Marshall, a native of Byhalia, Mississippi. My family moved to Memphis, Tennessee. In The Historic Orange Mound Community December 24, 1966. Founder/President of the Orange Mound Neighborhood and Veterans Association, INC. Founded, September 1, 2012.
(OMAG) Orange Mound Art Gallery, Event and Program Co-Ordinator Myself, fellow resident Mary E. Mitchell of Orange Mound, and Linde Stelle from ArtsMemphis worked together, with Mike Goldstein, owner of The Historic Orange Mound, Lamar and Airways Shopping Center, to secure a Vacant Space for African-American Artists to exhibit their work in The Orange Mound Art Gallery. 2232 Lamar Ave I also developed “A Clean Orange Mound Blight Project” The project was developed using (55 Gallon Metal Drums), Designed Painted Beautiful works of Art Receptacles, by Melrose High School Art Instructor, Mr. Craig Massey and his art Students. RedZone Ministry and Melrose after school student also spray painted (12 ) Receptacles. The first 2 were installed at Africa In April Celebration, Down Town Memphis. Crump Park on Beale Street. April 15th 2015. With Dr. David and Yvonne Acey. Originally, they were to be used to collect trash on the ground near Neighborhood Stores in Orange Mound I created a Social Enterprise. Showing how art can transform a community through beautification.
A 2016-2017 ArtsMemphis and Art-Up Art Fellow.
Traveling to different United States, going into black neighborhood where there were underserved, under resourced, and neglected. Our mission was to come back to our own community with the intention of using Economic Redeveloping to create jobs, reduce crime and to beautify the community to bring back peace and pride. My Organization was created in the Spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Thomas Oliver (T.O.) Jones, and Memphis Sanitation Strikers of 1968, and my mother, Ruthie Mae Harris- Hardin, who was the First Union Shop Steward at John Gaston Hospital, where she was employed in House Keeping, cleaning floors. Organization Memberships include: Orange Mound Neighborhood Watch; Orange Mound Neighborhood and Veterans Association, INC; Melrose PTSA, Treasurer; Melrose Center for Cultural Enrichment, Treasurer; Orange Mound Community Council; Orange Mound Historic Art Gallery, one of the Founders; ArtUP Art Fellow 2016; and Orange Mound Art Council (OMAC).
January 16, 2023. I received The 2023 MLK Luminary Award because of my commitment to the City of Memphis and serving as a catalyst of change for my community.”
CRAFTING BLACKNESS 
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