Mary Welcome
County: Whitman County
Website: http://bangbangboomerang.com
Discipline:
![Mary_Welcome_Headshot](https://media.artisttrust.org/assets/2018/12/Mary_Welcome_Headshot-1024x761.jpg)
Awards
Fellowship Awards 2017
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Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) 2023
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About
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.
Artist External Links
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bangbangboomerang/
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/godblesstheusps/
Featured Works
![Welcome_Mary_01](https://media.artisttrust.org/assets/2023/10/Welcome_Mary_01-1-1024x683.jpg)
Mary Welcome & Kelly Gregory, Artists-in-Residence at WSDOT, Transportation Divination Deck (2020)
![Maintenance_Post_6](https://media.artisttrust.org/assets/2023/10/Maintenance_Post_6-1024x682.jpg)
Mary Welcome & Kelly Gregory, Artists-in-Residence at WSDOT, The Maintenance Post (2020-2023)
![WSDOT-HANDS-7](https://media.artisttrust.org/assets/2023/10/WSDOT-HANDS-7-1024x683.jpg)
Mary Welcome & Kelly Gregory, Artists-in-Residence at WSDOT, This Book is a Bridge (2020)
![98860_WIlson_Creek_WA](https://media.artisttrust.org/assets/2023/10/98860_WIlson_Creek_WA-1024x683.jpg)
Mary Welcome, God Bless the USPS, Selection from the Archive: Wilson Creek, Washington (Ongoing)
![99161_Palouse_Washington_2020](https://media.artisttrust.org/assets/2023/10/99161_Palouse_Washington_2020-1024x683.jpg)
Mary Welcome, God Bless the USPS, Selection from the Archive: Palouse, Washington (Ongoing)