Sculptural art
Community Engagement and Social Justice
2-D art, including murals, mosaic, photography, etc.
Pittsburgh Creative Corps Artist Directory
MarySue Flick
Noble Design Co.
Primary Discipline
Artistic Practice
Murals
Painting/works on paper/printmaking
Fabrication, Including Wood, Metal, Glass
Trestle Mural, 2024. Acrylic paint on wall and polytab. 155′ x 10.’ Installed at Island and Chartiers Avenue in McKees Rocks, PA with assistance from McKees Rocks Women’s Alliance and Mayor David Flick. Funded by the Allegheny Arts Revival Grant.
Trestle Mural, 2024, acrylic paint on polytab material, arranged on the floor prior to mounting on the wall at the railroad trestle at Island Avenue. This part of the mural is 21″ x 9″ and is part of a larger 155′ x 10′ mural.
Trestle Mural (detail), 2024, acrylic paint on cement wall. 155′ x 10′-1′. Installed on the Island Avenue side of the railroad trestle at Island and Chartiers Avenue in McKees Rocks, PA, with assistance from McKees Rocks Women’s Alliance and Mayor David Flick. Funded by the Allegheny Arts Revival Grant.
Trestle Mural (detail), 2024, acrylic paint on cement wall. 155′ x 10′-1′. Installed on the Island Avenue side of the railroad trestle at Island and Chartiers Avenue in McKees Rocks, PA, with assistance from McKees Rocks Women’s Alliance and Mayor David Flick. Funded by the Allegheny Arts Revival Grant.
I Love Your Smile, 2023. Paint on wall and polytab. 19′ x 93.’ Installed at Ryan Arts Center in McKees Rocks, PA. Funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development through a Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant.
About the Artist
I am an artist working out of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, who specializes in oversized paintings, mural work, as well as ferro-cement and wire-screen sculpture. I want to paint the world! Everywhere I look, I see a canvas begging for art: the walls in my studio and home, overgrown concrete walls, wooden fences. They all call to me. It is my great hope that I can use my painting abilities to bring beauty to some of the declining areas of my neighborhood and other communities around me, thereby bringing pride and happiness to these areas.
I have recently completed two murals at either end of the McKees Rocks business district. The “I Love Your Smile” mural on the side of the Fr. Ryan Arts Center was designed by me, and I led a team of community members to complete the mural both directly on the wall, and on polytab which we hung on the higher areas of the wall. You can also see another award-winning mural I completed at the other end of the McKees Rocks business district which I designed and led another team of community painters to complete. This mural was awarded the first ever Kennedy Garden Club non-traditional garden award!
Photo by Nancy Slattery
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Provides Fabrication Services to Other Artists
Yes
Teaching Artist
No
Joined the Directory
October 2024
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Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
“I believe in the importance of community collaboration in public art. It gives them ownership, pride, and I have found that brainstorming with community brings life and an abundance of ideas that will only make an artistic concept better in the end.”
MarySue Flick
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Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
