Mary Welcome

Mary Welcome (Palouse, Washington) is a cultural worker collaborating with remote landscapes and rural communities. Her investigations into the American landscape are a chronicle from years on the road. She uses conversational research, publications, performance, picnics, and play to express and understand the places we situate ourselves within. As an artist-activist, her projects are rooted in community engagement and the development of intersectional programming to address hyper-local issues of equity, cultural advocacy, inclusivity, visibility, queerness, and imagination.

Mary Welcome brings a nuanced perspective to the contemporary field, as a cultural worker in service to small towns, as a cultural producer across American geographies, and as facilitator of entrenched place-based arts programming. She uses conversational research, publications, performance, picnics, and play to express and understand the places we situate ourselves within. Mary serves at the artist-in-residence for the Washington State Department of Transportation and is a lifelong collaborator with the United States Postal Service.