Big Muddy Speaker Series presents:

Adrienne Outlaw is a socially engaged, multidisciplinary artist utilizing post-consumer plastic waste as source material to celebrate environmental responsibility.

Outlaw holds degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Vanderbilt University. She has exhibited her artwork in galleries, museums, and public spaces across the United States and abroad in Europe, Asia, and Africa. More than a dozen exhibition catalogs and books feature her work, which has been positively reviewed in such publications as Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, World Sculpture News, and Art Papers.

Outlaw’s work has earned grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement as well as many fellowships, residencies, local and regional awards.

In addition to her studio practice, Outlaw has organized four traveling and city-wide projects. She was the founder and director of Seed Space. She also founded and continues to direct The Red Gate Gallery in St. Louis. Additionally, Outlaw is a resident teaching artist with the Contemporary Art Museum, where she works with students to make art with post-consumer plastics. She was just awarded the 2025 Artist-in-Residence at Forsyth School, whose community she will collaborate to create a participatory work celebrating environmental responsibility.