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SPIRAL HAND LABYRINTH Created in 2009 and first used publicly in 2011 for an installation at the New Living Expo in San Francisco, CA.

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“Bigger on the Inside” a movement and spoken word piece with sounding devised by Maia. Photo images by Sean Anomie from performance workshopped at Safehouse Arts on May 3, 2025.

KPFA Pushing Limits

A half hour radio show exploring current topics from a disability perspective produced by Jake Lesner,

“Making Museums More Accessible” April 2025.

In which I talk about arts access.

https://kpfa.org/episode/pushing-limits-april-25-2025/

 

“Eye Am Peace” 3 circuit labyrinth eye constructed at the New Living Expo in San Rafael. Sequined ribbon lines the pattern with some sparkly silver ribbon forming the quadrants of a peace sign at the center. Strips cut from the silver scrim backing the original “One Peace Labyrinth” form the ellipse around the eye.

Archive: As an interdisciplinary artist, educator and activist, Maia Scott creates a wide range of work. Here is a sampling of past and current works:

“A Hand Made Labyrinth” at the New Living Expo a good while back when I premiered my signature hand labyrinth pattern.
“For greater inner peace, make less snap decisions”. And yes, the bumpy things are indeed snaps.
Colorful digital work of a Hamsa hand labyrinth with the eye at its center rolled up and to the right. Colorful spirals, labyrinths and embelishments surround the hand and run through the labyrinth pathway.
This Hamsa hand rolls its eye like I do mine. I’m claiming it as the first visually impaired Hamsa.
Roughly heart shaped wood slice with a tree woman drawn on it.
“Human Nature” was drawn onto a slice of wood from my parents’ yard up in the lower Sierra mountains.
A colorful pastel representation of Maia's spiral hand labyrinth design.
A study of my spiral hand pattern in chalk pastel.
Maia and her guide dog standing next to a wall of 100 colorful squares in a grid pattern.
“Squared” is located in the Braille and Talking Book Center at the San Francisco Main Library.
Maia wearing white inside a graffiti covered PVC cube, arms up holding the cube on an angle.
Attendees visiting the opening at SOMArts wrote on my plastic wrapped cube.
It took courage for me to perform in all white. A. Brand took this image playing at Stern grove on a quite morning.
A crumpled fabric and pipe cube sculpture that now looks like an odd sort of bird wings upstretched leaning on its side.
This was a cube and became one again. A. Brand captured this moment among others.
A figure in black wearing a crossbody bag with a cube for a head featuring faces made from random objects such as a spring, batteries and a toilet paper tube.
I’m a Block Head and proud of it, at least when I’m embodying random bits as faces on my fuzzy cube.
A living sculpture made from a human and a large ball inside an iridescent stretchy sheath dances in the courtyard outside the de Young Museum.

Blobbing around as an interactive sculpture in the de Young Museum courtyard in this photo captured by J. Spicer.
Three figures in bright pink, yellow and blue sacks ooze over each other.
“Body Socks” provide a cathartic and therapeutic means of exploring movement. I used to love teaching with these prior to COVID. Do we bring them back or no?
Watercolor created in Yosemite. I find bodies in motion even in old stumpy trees.
Brightly colored abstract of Maia's name featuring faces, eyes and dancers
I added color and pattern to one of my meditative drawing exercises. It is fun to discover what wanted to emerge.
Eye shaped labyrinth made of stamped images of Maia's eye in a gallery space featuring a large-scale photo of a man ina wheelchair holding a beer.
“In-site Insight Incite” eye labyrinth at “The Art of Disability Culture” at Palo Alto Art Center overlooked by Anthony Tusler’s larger than life self portrait.
Hanging PVC cube covered in eyes with a labyrinth hand hanging inside at the center.
This suspended cube connects parts of “Insite Insight Incite” at Palo Alto Art Center.
Colorful eye with a labyrinth pupil, dancers as eye lashes and surrounded by lots of labyrinths and spirals.
Labyrinth pupil indeed! This is a work made using marker on mu\ixed media paper.
Maia standing behind a table playing a shruti box. There's a laptop to her left and the corner of a projection to her right.
Sounding and playing the shruti box during a keynote presentation for the Labyrinth Society Gathering several years ago.
Cover of "Finger Walks" guidebook by Maia Scott.
I wrote the guidebook and cocreated “Finger Walks” tactile labyrinth collection with Americal Printing h\\House for the Blind.
Mylar silhouette of a fat woman with upstretched arms made into a tree with curly roots and labyrinth hands as leaves. Next to her is a guide dog silhouette made into a bush with eye labyrinths as leaves.
I finally had the courage to hang a full-frontal self-portrait as part of an installation at Root Division in “Crip’d Ecologies”.
Black and white outline of a heart key labyrinth pattern.
I love creating labyrinth patters and designed this one during lockdown.
Three circuit labyrinth made from twisted fabric with colorful hands attached sewn to a silvery mesh background.
The “One Peace Labyrinth” created in partnership with Museum of Craft and Design acquired even more hands than shown.
Rough whiteboard drawing of a colorful abstracted figure seated on a paint pallette aiming to resemble the newer "disabled" wheelchair symbol.
Whiteboard art demo over Zoom during lockdown. I was able to continue teaching accessible art and theater with City College of San Francisco’s DSPS and focused on disability justice and body positivity.