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 Ecology Hanky Project in 2021.
Mary holds an MFA from OCAD University, and a BHA from Carnegie Mellon University, where she currently teaches printmaking. A former youth programs coordinator at The Andy Warhol Museum, she values art education as a means of empowerment and social change. Through her work, she endeavors to create temporary utopias and sustainable commons through pedagogy, collaboration, visual pleasure and serious fun.
https://www.marymacktremonte.org
https://justseeds.org/artists/
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