Mary Bucci McCoy specializes in meeting the web and print design needs of a geographically diverse clientele of artists of all disciplines. She also writes exhibition essays and writes about art for publication.

Mary started Big Picture Communications in the greater Boston, MA area in 1996. She draws upon more than 25 years of experience in the areas of graphic design, web site development, and content development. She has created web sites, logos, corporate identities, and a wide range of print materials including booklets and exhibit catalogs, brochures, postcards, business cards, and stationery.

Her design work is informed by her ongoing experience as an artist, arts writer, and educator as well as by past publications experience in the academic world. Her firsthand knowledge of the art world gives her a clear understanding of the specific issues faced by artists; she is able to meet the needs of artists at any stage of their career, whether emerging, mid-career, or mature artists.

Mary exhibits her artwork nationally and is represented by Gray Contemporary in Houston, TX. She received the 2015 Luz Dorrien Faculty Development Award from Montserrat College of Art, as wll as a merit-based grant from the Vermont Studio Center in support of her February 2015 residency. She is a 2012 Massachusetts Cultural Council Painting Fellow. She is included in the curated White Columns Artist Registry, and has also been included in New American Paintings and New American Paintings: 15 Years. See artwork > She has written numerous reviews and other articles about art, and now primarily focuses her writing on exhibition essays. Read writing >

She teaches senior fine arts capstone seminar at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA, and has also taught graphic design and freshman seminar there. In addition, she was the coordinator of the Artist's Professional Toolbox program there in 2012–13. She has served on the Beverly Cultural Council and has been a member of the adivisory board of the Artists Foundation. Prior to starting Big Picture Communications, she managed publications at the internationally recognized Center for Information Systems Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Mary holds a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), Boston and a BA in English from Tufts University. She has studied ceramic sculpture at l'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs (now Haute École d’Art et de Design Genève) in Geneva, Switzerland, and has done additional course work at Massachusetts College of Art, the SMFA and the University of Pennsylvania.