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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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PGH Art For Black Trans Liberation

PGH Art For Black Trans Liberation

June 25, 2020

PGH Art for Black Trans Liberation is a platform that serves to raise funds for Black- and trans-led organizations in the Pittsburgh area through the sale of artworks, publications, and…

Rad Post-Teen Print of the Week: Palm Oil

Rad Post-Teen Print of the Week: Palm Oil

March 4, 2015

After a long hiatus, I am reviving my Rad Teen Print of the Week series as Rad Post-Teen Print of the Week, to share the amazing work from university students and other post-teens that I’ve been working with here in Toronto. I first forayed into this zone a few years ago with Lauren Jurysta’s Free Pussy Riot silkscreen.

Ask First

Ask First

July 22, 2013

Ask First from Brendan Anckaert on Vimeo. Just turned on to this brilliant reworking of the Robin Thicke creepy top-40 tune by a bunch of Canadian coastal queers…it’s all about…