Mary Lucking creates artworks that help people explore and understand the environments and communities where they live. Her work ranges from large-scale, permanent artworks to temporary interactive installations, and include art incorporated into walking and biking trails, transit stations, college campuses, and neighborhood parks. Her work is in the permanent public art collections of the cities across the US. In Arizona, they include projects at the Dunbar/Spring traffic circles in Tucson, the Arizona Science Center, Tempe and Tucson streetcars stations, and the Phoenix/Tempe canal systems. Mary holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Architecture from Wellesley College and a Master of Fine Arts in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A long-time Arizona resident, she lived in Tucson for nine years, and currently lives and works in Phoenix.