# Mary Mann

Mary Mann is a Tacoma painter of detailed forest landscapes and a muralist whose public commissions include The Ripple Effect on Schuster Parkway.

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Profile updated: 2026-10-24
Mediums: Painting
Artist website: https://www.marymannpainter.com/

## Follow

- [Instagram](<https://www.instagram.com/marymann365/>)

## About Mary Mann

Mary Mann is a Tacoma painter and muralist. Her studio paintings use trees and forest edges as metaphors for family, resilience and community, built from her own photographs and memories of Pacific Northwest forests and shorelines.

She trained at the Colorado Institute of Art and at Bates Technical College, and has made grant-funded murals around Tacoma, often with high school students taking part. Her largest public work, The Ripple Effect, covers the Schuster Parkway underpass beside the Chinese Reconciliation Park.

## Public work

- The Ripple Effect — Schuster Parkway underpass at the Chinese Reconciliation Park, 2023
- Gateway to India Mural — Gateway to India restaurant, 2025
- Dragon with Poppies — Wedderman Architecture, South 48th and Yakima, 2024
- Tacoma Little Theater Mural — Tacoma Little Theater, 2002
- North Pacific Bank Mural — South 56th and South Washington Street, 1998

## Education

- Associate's Degree in Advertising Design, Colorado Institute of Art (1983)
- Degree in Career Technical Education, Bates Technical College (2010)

## Awards and recognition

- Tacoma Artist Initiative Project Grant

## Links

- [Public art and murals](<https://www.marymannpainter.com/public-art>)
- [Mary Mann Painter: about](<https://www.marymannpainter.com/about-7>)
- [Mary Mann Painter: teaching artist](<https://www.marymannpainter.com/teaching-artist>)
- [Mary Mann Painter: murals](<https://www.marymannpainter.com/public-art>)

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