Mary Griep is a visual artist and Professor Emerita of Art and Art History at St. Olaf College. Over a long career in painting and drawing, she has shown her work from Finland to Thailand.

From 1998-2022, she created the Anastylosis Project, a series of nineteen large-scale drawings of 12th-century sacred spaces. Along the way, she produced hundreds of studies, detail drawings, and prints to accompany the series. Through 2021, the series included eighteen drawings designed for exhibition in traditional gallery spaces with large walls. This body of work resulted in a commissioned compilation of archival digital prints from eleven panels representing inter-religous dialogue that was permanently installed at the University of St. Thomas in 2021, and led to an agreement to place the entire archive of materials from the Anastylosis Project with the University, to be digitized and made available to the public.

With the nineteenth work in the series, The 37 Nats, the Anastylosis Project took a new direction: a large-format artist book reflecting on the religious/cultural history of Burma, and the violence and oppression of the current military government. This work continues with additional artist books exploring the intersection of contemporary politics, culture, and social issues, captured in collage, text, and drawings.