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Shauta Marsh is co-founder of Big Car Collaborative, social practice artist, curator, writer, author and researcher. Her research centers around artist-run culture, censorship in red states, popular culture’s influence on the pursuit of utopia, urban/rural relationships and artists’ social roles.

She has served as the Director of Programming since the organization opened Tube Factory artspace in March of 2015. Tube Factory is a 12,000-square-foot contemporary art museum and Big Car Collaborative studio space. Exhibitions are curated based on the themes of community, place, memory and mythology.

She is also the creator of The Chicken Chapel of Love, a sacred art project that honors the divine feminine and belief systems that center around nature. Artist Jason Gray was commissioned to design the chapel, carve the doors and altar cabinent. Nasreen Khan was commissioned for the wood burning works in the Chapel, Julie Xiao for the mural on the east facing wall of the chapel. Commissions are on-going.

After Big Car received a 3 million dollar gift from Lilly Endowment to expand and renovate the Cruft Street Campus where Tube Factory is located, Marsh was appointed to program a new 46,000 square foot building with three new exhibition spaces and 25 artist studios set to open in 2025. In addition she leads the affordable artist housing program, Artist Public Life Residency (APLR).

She writes and produces radio programs on 99.1 WQRT LP-Indianapolis. She creates and helps coordinate public art projects and events via Big Car's placemaking program, Spark Placemaking. She also heads the Power Plant Grant for Indianapolis Visual Artists, a regranting program made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

In addition, Marsh is a co-author with Jim Walker a chapter in the book, "Creative Placemaking: Research, Theory and Practice" edited by Cara Courage and Anita McKeown and published by Routledge. Working with artists who explore identity to bring about social change, she specializes in rapid response exhibitions. She has curated over 50 exhibits with artists including Yvette Mayorga, Carlos Rolón, Saya Woolfalk, Jesse Sugarmann, Larissa Hammond, LaShawnda Crowe Storm, Mari Evans, Pablo Helguera, Prince Rama, Scott Hocking, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Tony Buba, Toyin Odutola, Tabitha Soren, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Richard Mosse and more.