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, and 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) & Catholic Education Network to Encounter Rome and Synodality (CENTERS) projects to continue imagining ways to bring the arts to enacting synodality, informed by 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 was trained as a muralist by community arts and mural organization Walls for Justice where she works as a contracted artist and project manager, and formerly as Chief of Operations. She has helped create over 40 murals around the city of Philadelphia, as well as others around the country.

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