Mary Ensz (she/they) is a Nebraska based artist and muralist. Mary received her BFA in Studio Art from Creighton University in 2011 and is on the programming and arts committees of Nebraskans for Palestine. In the community, Mary creates vibrant murals and in her attic studio she experiments with painting, drawing, and collaging. She layers human forms and *Matryoshkas, or Russian nesting doll, shapes to connect with identities and truths. 

Mary’s work has been displayed in the Kaneko, RBR G, Split Gallery, Benson Art Gallery, Apollon Art Space, Petshop Gallery, Hot Shops Art Center, and Creighton University. She has created several private murals as well as being lead artist for Westgate Pool’s mural through the Cammy Watkins for City Council campaign and co-lead artist on “Mental Health is Community Health” on 24th Ave. and Farnam.

*Matryoshkas are a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another. Vasily Zvyozdochkin, wood turning craftsman and wood carver, made the first Russian nesting doll set in 1890 from a design by Sergey Malyutin, craft painter.