Mary Anne Carter is a Seattle-based artist and curator. She works in a wide range of materials including textiles, printmaking, and glass to create vibrant immersive installations and functional art objects. Her recent installation, STÖR, was named one of the best shows of 2024 by The Seattle Times. 

Born with a prominent port-wine stain birthmark on her left cheek, she has a lifelong attraction to the odd, unusual, discarded, and other. Her playful, boldly patterned environments and sculptures invite viewers to drop their guard and step into spaces where humor softens the edges of deeper conversations about self-expression, identity, and other social issues.

At the core of her art and curatorial practice is a desire to erode the barriers to viewing, creating, and experiencing art.

Her work has appeared in galleries and museums including The Frye, AMcE Gallery, J. Rinehart, The Bellevue Art Museum, Museum of Museums, The Factory, Forest For the Trees, King Street Station, Junior High LA, Get Nice Gallery, Mount Analogue, Vermillion, The Seattle Design Festival, Seattle Art Fair and more. 

Since 2016, she has worked to uplift the work of emerging artists through her gallery and creative studio, Party Hat. She has curated exhibitions and juried acquisitions at Museum of Museums, Basecamp 2, Actualize AiR, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, 4Culture, and more. 

In 2024, she co-founded Wishbone Industrial Arts, a multidisciplinary design and fabrication studio that unifies form and function to create an array of architectural amenities and art objects.