Kasey Marsh

Art Outreach: Plan, facilitate, and promote group and individual art activities, both virtual and in-person, with patients (of all ages, skill levels, and physical/mental ability levels), caregivers, staff members, and special high profile visitors. Quickly transitioned to sustainable virtual programming at onset of pandemic.

• Art Week (virtual): Each month, week-long series of art meetings for patients of all ages, caregivers, employees, and other members of the MD Anderson community
• Connect & Learn (virtual): Plan and facilitate monthly art activity for the cancer survivorship community, in collaboration with myCancerConnection
• Young Adult Art (virtual): Plan, promote, and facilitate monthly late-night art classes for the YA Program’s community of patients and caregivers
• One on One and Small Group Art (in-person or virtual): Work with inpatients and their family members by request at the inpatient bedside, outpatients in clinic waiting areas, between appointments, or in their own locations
• Camp Star Trails (ages 6-14) and Camp AOK (ages 15-18): Collaborate with pediatrics to plan activities for week-long sleep-away camps, attend camp, and facilitate art
• Unit/Departmental: Collaborate with individual units, floors, and service lines to provide special art opportunities to their patients
• Staff: work with clinical and support teams to lead employee socialization/teambuilding activities
• Conference & Special Events: Present/facilitate at conferences and special events such as GRYT Health Global Cancer Conference, Cancer180 Young Adult Conference, Cancer Survivorship Conference, Survivorship Week, Employee Education Week, Grand Rounds, Kendra Scott Cares, Sunshine Kids, Candlelighters, Lombardi Foundation visit, PGA Tour Wives, visiting celebrities/donors
• Create and maintain library of 100+ narrated video tutorials appealing to all ages and skill levels
• Maintain databases of attendance metrics, participant information, distribution lists, and release forms
• Photograph and interview artists and program participants, manage release forms, index images
• Oversee art supply inventory, purchasing, and provision of supplies to artists through personal delivery, mail, and other avenues
• Recruit artists, manage submission process, scan art submissions for archival and maintain/organize files for product selection committee, return art to creators
• Train and mentor art volunteers
• Strategize with Facilities Planning, Design & Construction and Davis Cohen Art consultants for integration of program-based art pieces into institutional facilities
• Plan and provide specifications for main campus art studio, and CAP program expansion
• Maintain/administer social media pages: Children's Art Project, Children's Cancer Hospital, Adolescent & Young Adult Group

Marketing/Patient Relations

• Copy writing, portrait photography, product photography for internal and external communications including print catalogs, social media, e-commerce website, main website
• Television media appearances, production and appearance in internal videos, liaison for patients and family members at large media and sporting events in partnership with Communications/PR
• Maintain/administer social media pages: Children's Art Project, Children's Cancer Hospital, Adolescent & Young Adult Group

Recognition: Two-time recipient of annual departmental Exceptional Performance Reward

• Capstone: Pilot, evaluate, and roll out sustainable arts in health program to improve employee wellbeing. Paper: Evaluating a Creative Art Program with Peer Mentors in the Addiction Recovery Community
• Consulting: Plan, budget, oversee purchasing, and facilitate collaborative art piece for 500 attendees at annual national Peerpocalypse convention occurring this spring (in-person)

• General Business Management: budget planning, accounting, vendor relations, purchasing, training, risk management, equipment maintenance, contracts, scheduling, payroll, domestic and international travel, continuing education, conflict resolution, data analysis
• Sales & Marketing: targeted marketing, tradeshows, social media, web and print materials, sales of products and services, customer satisfaction and retention throughout the life of the business, successful transition from high volume wedding services to boutique family portraiture
• Creative: artistic direction, set design, event planning and styling, vendor collaboration, photography, photo editing, graphic design, creative writing to maintain website, blog, social media, and marketing materials
• Mentorship & Training: created curriculum and taught small-group beginner dSLR camera classes, sponsored Independent Study Mentorships for local high school students, presented at science and career day engagements for local schools, mentored 500+ local photographers as co-founder and facilitator of Women of Houston Photography group

• Recruited, trained, placed and managed adult, teen, group, and corporate volunteers
• Planned and facilitated “Healing the Human Spirit” series of creative arts activities for employees
• Planned/executed annual Volunteer Recognition Banquet at Junior League of Houston
• Served on World Burn Congress Committee, Publicity Chair for United Way Steering Committee, Houston Area Council of Volunteer Coordinators