Becky McIntyre (Bex) is a visual artist living in Philadelphia. She has practiced various art mediums for much of her life, traveling around from Philadelphia to Los Angeles, the Philippines, Nicaragua, and Peru, finding spaces to create and build community with others through the creative process. Her work is inspired by nature, community, her spirituality, and the cultures she has traveled to, seeking to bring awareness to sociopolitical issues, the transformative and healing nature of art, and to activate and inspire new ways of being. Bex is practiced in linoleum block printing, painting, and digital design.

She enjoys educating in and facilitating art spaces for both youth and adults on her own, as well as through community arts and mural organization Walls for Justice where she serves as Project Manager, and formally as Chief of Operations.  With Walls for Justice she has managed projects, designs and paints murals, curates gallery art shows, helps out with communications, and hosts artist meet ups, paint days, and live art competition events. She has helped create over 20 murals around the city of Philadelphia, as well as others around the world, and in 2021 installed her first mural of her own design with Walls for Justice. She has always had a deep appreciation for the communal mural process, as art has always been more meaningful for her in connection to others. Bex also works closely with the Synodality in Catholic Higher Education in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (SCHEAP) team to continue imagining ways to bring the arts to the global synod process called for by Pope Francis in 2021 and continuing until 2024. Additionally, Bex regularly creates the cover art for the Los Angeles Catholic Worker Catholic Agitator newspaper. Bex’s work is a combination of public art as well as personal and private commissions. Her artist name, sanaartista, is a mixture of Tagalog and Spanish words. Bex also commits her life to working with youth in a diversion program, working full time as an Intensive Prevention Services Counselor.