Community-Based Artist
Becky McIntyre (she/her) is a freelance printmaker, muralist, and digital artist living in Philadelphia. Her work, inspired by community, the environment, justice, and the Spirit, seeks to bring awareness to sociopolitical issues and to activate and inspire new ways of being. Bex believes in the transformative and healing nature of art, especially art done in the context of community and relationship. Much of her work is created through community-based, participatory art practices, educating in and facilitating spaces of creativity for both youth and adults.
Bex also works as the visual artist for the Synodality in Catholic Higher Education in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (SCHEAP) project, to continue imagining ways to bring the arts to the global synod process called for by Pope Francis. Additionally, She is an extended member of the Catholic Worker community and is an artist within the movement. Bex is grateful for community arts and mural organization Walls for Justice where she formally served as Chief of Operations, and still occasionally is an artist and project manager. She has helped create over 25 murals around the city of Philadelphia, as well as others around the world,