About this episode
Mary Tremonte discusses her work as an artist, activist, and educator, focusing on printmaking and queer ecology.
Guest: Mary Tremonte Host: Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on November 7, 2025 Mary Tremonte is an artist, activist, educator, and DJ based in Pittsburgh. A founding member of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative , a decentralized cooperative of social movement printmakers, she works with "printmaking in the expanded field," including printstallation, interactive silkscreen printing in public space, and wearable artist multiples. As DJ Mary Mack, she strives to make safe(r) spaces on dance floors for embodying a body politic with pleasure. Mary is co-organizer of Queer Ecology Hanky Project, an ongoing exhibition of over 120 artist-made bandanas exploring the emergent field of queer ecology, recently on view at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, and with an upcoming exhibition at Paper Machine in New Orleans, LA. In 2022 she completed Dirt Is Beautiful , a public art project in collaboration with Grow Pittsburgh , through Shiftworks’ Environment, Health, and Public Art Initiative . She was a printmaker in residence at Eureka! House for Center for Artistic Activism’s Unstoppable Voters initiative in 2020, and guest hosted a thematic residency there for Queer…
People in this episode
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Guest: Mary Tremonte
Topics covered
- art
- activism
- education
- printmaking
- queer ecology
Keywords
- Mary Tremonte
- printmaking
- queer ecology
- art education
- activism
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, Grow Pittsburgh, Center for Artistic Activism, The Andy Warhol Museum
Books & works: Dirt Is Beautiful
Places: Pittsburgh, New Orleans, LA, Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College
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