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It was during that time that she began painting. Nearly 10 years later, she moved to Los Angeles to consciously pursue a career as a display artist and prop maker. “I could imagine my art there,” Hanrahan claims.

Later that day, staring at the awesome billboards as the bus made its way down Sunset Boulevard, she remembers being struck by the communication potential of image and scale. While attending a field trip from Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California, Mary Beth toured the Foster & Kleiser Billboard manufacturing facility.

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