Mary Barnett is a multi-disciplinary creative thinker with a joyful career that spans working with high-profile high-impact teams and projects, ground-level collaborations, national partnerships, and deep media and placed-based experience. Social impact arts projects that combine photography, independent journalism and publishing, experimental printmaking and community building. Now in the southeast and producing projects for arts, newsmedia, equitable placemaking, regenerative agriculture and conservation, public lands, and cultural institutions. Recipient 2022-23 Artist-at-Work Social Impact Residency. Recipient CreateHere MakeWork Project Grant. Recipient Arts-In-Neighborhood Project Grant. FULL CV ~
“Mary is a mixed-media artist whose work centers around place, materiality, and story, offering an archivist’s instinct for preservation with an artist’s interpretive sensibilities. Her statement-driven media explore the conservation of natural, historic, and cultural resources. She has served as a historical documentarian, journalist, and activist, engaging the public with a textured history of land, industry, and people through publications, short films, and visual installations that look to understand the world more deeply. During the pandemic, Barnett started the Steel Ball Print House to create a home practice of mixed media creative play as meditation.”
Steel Ball Print House seed swap pocket project
ArtsBuild Artist-At-Work Social Impact Arts Residency 2022-2023