Maya is a community-taught interdisciplinary artist and organizer based in New Orleans.

Her artwork gives voice to personal and collective histories through mythology across SPFX, costume, scenic arts, photography, film, writing, and sound. Her work as an organizer and as an artist intersect in the space of magical realism; using creature, costume, and scenic construction to reimagine our stories and geographies; visualizing the imagination needed to create new worlds through film; demystifying solidarity economies through community art making; using story creation processes to heal from grief.

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She believes in storytelling as connective tissue, in grotesque lifeforms, in using magic to build resonance without re-traumatizing the humans at the center of recurring tragedies. Her myth-making is invested in the reckoning with our crying earth, romance amidst apocalypse, and retelling the origins of our cities, bodies, dreams, and homes. 

Maya's recent creature photography and mixed media art has been displayed at galleries such as the Southern Exposure gallery (San Francisco), Bark gallery (Berlin), and Staple Goods gallery (New Orleans). Her writing appears in publications such as Tilted House Review and Metal Hurlant. 

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She has had the pleasure of participating and learning from local programs such as New Orleans Film Festival’s Emerging Voices fellowship, and is a recent winner of South Pitch, where she received the Warner Brothers' Innovation Hub award for her feature length screenplay, “Flammable Water.”

As co-director of the film production collective Studio Lalala, Maya seeks to provide free studio space, equipment access, and film education for photographers and filmmakers of color. Through her work with Cooperation New Orleans, she helps organize the support of Black and Indigenous worker-owned cooperatives. Maya also serves on the editorial staff for the literature collective Tilted House, and is a member of Latinx art collective, Collectiva Manos.  

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