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Maia’s on the Move

PROJECTS IN PROGRESS & HERSTORY OF HAPPENINGS:

• Saturday, January 31 – Meditative Arts Playshop at the Sonoma Community Center — A chance to immerse in a variety of creative prompts to enhance your arts and meditative practices.
• Coming in October 2026 – ComUnity Ignition – We, a committee of creatives from the Disability Community, are working with NuMU of Los Gatos to build a disability centered art exhibit exploring the power of collaboration, community and interdependence.

2025 HIGHLIGHTS

• Saturday, September 10 – California Academy of Science new Nature Lab accessible activities ideation reveal and celebration:  We invited our friends and family to enjoy good food and share the creations we developed in partnership with the museum.  
• Saturday, July 26 — ADA 35th Anniversary Celebration at the de Young: I offered mini zine making at the event and was on the organizing committee.  The fun, belonging and creative connection factors proved abundant and fulfilling.  Hopefully, we’ll do it again.
• Saturday, July 19, 10-3 — Meditative Arts Playshop at the Sonoma Community Center Turned out to be a smallish group, though the size allowed for gentler energies and personalization.  Participants went away relaxed and happy and I get to do it again.  
• Saturday, July 12, 2-4 — Disability Community Flag Project at the BTBC SF Main Library – Our collective community creation is still up in the TBBC for touching and viewing.
• Sunday, May 18, 11-12 — “Scrappy Access Adaptations”  SCRAP SF Free Teacher Workshop – We sent teachers away with lots of fun tools and ideas for accessibility and Universal Design for Learning.  I had the chance to facilitate this process again for SFUSD paras and teachers in partnership with the SF Museum of Modern Art.
• Thursday, July 17, 6:30-8:30 — Tactile Labyrinth making workshop with Naiomi Rosenberg at 836M, manifested a pretty full house and a fun collaboration with a fabulous creative and ally. 
• May 9-11 — Eye Am Peace Labyrinth at the New Living Expo in San Rafael – kind of disappointing turnout because we were in the back forty and attendees barely knew the labyrinth was there. One instructor did use it for his presentation, though.
• Saturday, May 3, 8pm — “Bigger on the Inside” performance workshopped in the RAW showcase, Safehouse for the Arts, San Francisco.
• Saturday, April 5, 11:00am – Peaceful Palms for the “One Peace Labyrinth” at the Museum of Craft and Design’s Make Art Family Day.
• Saturday, April 5, 6:00pm – Night of Ideas workshops at the San Francisco Main Library, including a peace hand making workshop and a zine building session exploring ways of seeing our community.
• Mid-April – “One Peace Labyrinth” leaves San Francisco as part of Museum of Craft and Design’s “Rug Life” to visit other museums.
• Friday, April 24 and online — Interview on Pushing Limits, “Making Museums Accessible for All”.
• Friday, May 3, 8:00pm – RAW Performance Showcase at Safehouse Performing Arts, featuring a new text and movement piece entitled “Bigger on the Inside”.

Employment and Engagements

Here is a selection of her current and recent work:

Instruction and Facilitation:
Accessible art, theater and movement class at City College of San Francisco serving students with disabilities who may not be able to attend standard college arts courses.
Accessible art classes at the Lighthouse for the Blind
Labyrinth making workshops at locations such as SCRAP SF, the San Francisco Library, Root Division and the Lighthouse.

Image and Audio Description:
Audio description consulting and co-authoring with Gravity Access who is contracted with venues such as CAL Performances, Berkeley Rep and San Francisco Theater Works.
Image description editing and advising for museums such as The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Asian Art Museum, the Museum of Craft and Design and California Institute of Integral Studies.

Artist Engagements:
Collaborating artist on projects with the Museum of Craft and Design.
Artist engagement at the San Francisco Library.
Work displayed at Root Division in “Crip’d Ecologies and at the Palo Alto Arts Center in “The Art of Disability Culture”.

Conference Appearances:
Workshops on labyrinth accessibility, design and multi-arts play at the Labyrinth Society’s international gatherings (including a keynote presentation).
Access Symposium, focus on the Blind Experience experiential workshop in partnership with the Museum of Craft and Design at the California Association of Museums.

Ideation and Creative Development:
In partnership with the California Academy of Science, developed a focus group of blind and low vision museum goers to codesign accessible activities for their Nature Lab.

Web Accessibility:
Works with companies such as Fable, Google, Meta, URI, and AURC to test the user experience on websites, apps and related products to help optimize accessible experiences using magnification and screen readers.

Access and Advocacy:
Supporting the work of local organizations as a member of the Alumni Board for Guide Dogs for the Blind, on the board of Gravity (dance company and access services), serving access committees with the Fine Arts Museums and the Museum of Craft and Design.