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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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exhibitions & performance

Afuera, Adentro, Antenna Gallery

Group Gallery Show - Artist

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We've Been Among You, Staple Goods

Solo Gallery Show - Artist

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Bark Berlin Gallery

Group Show - Artist

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We've Been Among You, Southern Exposure

Solo Gallery Show - Artist 

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Mary Beth Hotel & Gallery

Art Curator 

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The Songs We Left Behind, The Kimmel Center

Writer and Performer

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Portal Juice, Art Klub

artist | creative director

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Tongue in Cheek, Headlong Studios

curator | artist

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One Fest, One Love Community Center

writer | director | producer

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Future Is Female Festival, Headlong Studios Philadelphia

Contributing monologue writer/director

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A Laced Late Night Experiment on Post Humanism

Contributing playwright

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New Voices Festival, Temple University

playwright

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Young Voices Festival, Drake Theater

playwright

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The Agency, Myvision Theater Ensemble

playwright | director | scenic designer

projects & community

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2018

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2017

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2017

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2015

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2016

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2015

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2019 - ongoing

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2023 - ongoing

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2024

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2020-2023

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2020-ongoing

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2022-ongoing

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2018-2020

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2018

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2015-2016

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2016-2020

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2020

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2017

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Studio Lalala - QTBIPOC film production cooperative | New Orleans

Codirector

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Colectiva Manos - Latin American arts collective | New Orleans

Member

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Beloved Community Incubator - Solidarity Economy Movement Organization | Washington, DC

Participatory Action Research Cohort Member​

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Tilted House - Small Press Literature Collective | New Orleans

Visual Arts Editor

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Cooperation New Orleans Loan Fund - Solidarity Economy Movement Organization | New Orleans

Steering Committee Member​

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Cooperation Gumbo - research creation project uplifting Black cooperative economics in New Orleans 

Organizer/artist

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La Plante - Music Venue and Community Space | Montreal

Collective member

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Philadelphia Jazz Residency | Philadelphia

Lyricist/performer

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Puentes De Salud - Free Clinic for Undox Immigrants

Teaching Artist

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Yes! And Collaborative Arts 

Teaching artist

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Emergency Circus - Social Circus 

Touring Performer

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Philly Young Playwrights

Youth Mentor

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Fellowships & Residencies

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2018

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2017

​Emerging Voices - Filmmaking Fellowship | New Orleans

Fellow

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Dragon Dance Theater | Toulouse, France

Puppeteer

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Le Grande Costumier | Montreal, CA

Intern

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Art Klub | New Orleans

Resident

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One Love Community Center | New Orleans

Resident

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mentions | panels | Publications | Awards

South Pitch - Regional Film Competition | New Orleans Film Festival

Winner

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Metal Hurlant Anthology - Publication 

Writer

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Tilted House Review | New Orleans

Writer

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New Voices Festival - Philly Young Playwrights

Winning Playwright 

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Young Voices Festival - Philly Young Playwrights

Winning Playwright

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​​South Summit | New Orleans Film Festival

Panelist

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Remaking the Economy: Building Regional Solidarity Economies | New Economy Coalition

Panelist​​

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2022

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2021

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2021

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2015

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2017​​​

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2023, 2024

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