Artist Bio
Maya McCollum is an interdisciplinary artist. Her site specific installation and performance practice incorporates gathered objects and attends to their unspoken stories. Her work examines interactions between technology and the natural world through sonic and material processes, utilizing traditional craft techniques, such as weaving and basketry, alongside contemporary technologies. Improvisation is an important part of Maya's compositional and performance practice, and she often works with violin and eurorack. Maya has attended residencies at Skowhegan, I-Park, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Binaural Nodar, the Icelandic Textile Center, and Yale Norfolk. She was the 2022 recipient of the SEAMUS Allen Strange Award. In December 2023, Maya completed a BA in Studio Art and a BM in Music Technology at Oberlin College. Maya was a 2024-25 Thomas J. Watson Fellow.