Mary Tremonte

Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Mary Tremonte is an artist, educator, and DJ based in Pittsburgh. A founding member of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, she works with "printmaking in the expanded field," including printstallation, interactive silkscreen printing in public space, and wearable artist multiples such as queer scout badges. As DJ Mary Mack she strives to make safe(r) spaces on dance floors for embodying a body politic with pleasure. With Justseeds and independently Mary has exhibited, presented lectures and workshops, and performed in Toronto, Pittsburgh, throughout the United States, and internationally. She has recently completed public art projects through Pittsburgh's Office of Public Art with Grow Pittsburgh as part of OPA's Environment, Health, and Public Art Initiative, and was an artist in residence with Literacy Pittsburgh. Formerly the youth programs coordinator at The Andy Warhol Museum, she values art education as a means of youth empowerment and social change. Mary is co-organizer, with Vanessa Adams, of Queer Ecology Hanky Project, an exhibit of over 100 artist-made bandanas. Through her work she aims to create temporary utopias and sustainable commons through pedagogy, collaboration, visual pleasure and serious fun.

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