Hire Maia

Maia Scott – Interdisciplinary artist, educator and activist:

Maia Scott is a delight to work with as a collaborator, an exhibiting artist, a trainer, and a teaching artist. I’ve worked with her in all four capacities and can speak to her remarkable ability to engage diverse constituents—through her exciting art installations, her hands-on collaborative artmaking experiences, and her teaching. She brings intelligence, humor, and humility to her work—in the process encouraging us all to do better to provide spaces and experiences that are truly inclusive to diverse participants. I can’t wait for our next collaboration.

— Karen Kienzel, Director, Palo Alto Art Center

Bring Maia to your organization and set her loose to facilitate a class, work/playshop, ideation session or access informed presentation specially designed to meet you where you are and dare you to see the world in new ways.

Holding a BA degree in therapeutic recreation from CSU Long Beach, an MFA in Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary arts from California Institute of Integral Studies, certificates in bodywork and sound healing along with thirty years creating accessible arts programming; Maia pulls from experience and a deep love of her work to offer programming support, curriculum and experiences with access and inclusion in mind from the foundation on up. Along the way, she shares her lived experience through a love of language complete with quirky, vulnerable yet passionate sensibilities that feel humble and approachable.

Maia’s offerings are adaptable to meet the needs and interests of people with diverse abilities and learning styles:

  • Body positive dance improvisation and theater games with or without performative opportunities.
  • Multi-arts playshops to spark team building, self-esteem, social justice and other themes.
  • Specific art practices such as meditative art, book making, masks, crowns and capes, collage and mixed media and art as activism.
  • Labyrinth meditation walks on a 24ft. canvas, a 15ft. tactile labyrinth or with handheld labyrinths.
  • Writing sessions featuring prompts and tools for unlocking ideas and unblocking flow.
  • Creative Ideation and brainstorming sessions to optimize team synergy, increase open mindedness and generate solutions.
  • Disability access presentations especially focused on guide dog lifestyle, access rights and etiquette.
  • Writing and editing image and audio descriptions, enabling those who are blind and low vision to engage with your offerings.
  • Writing and editing sensitive, welcoming copy to support access and inclusion throughout your organization.
  • Interactive art installations and performance works created and performed by a blind woman with a very atypical body seen in motion.