Maya Freelon Asante is an award-winning visual artist who has been influenced and mentored by artistic visionaries, Emma Amos and Faith Ringgold.

Awarded a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in the summer of 2006, Asante’s artwork has also received acclaim from the Boston News Network television station, and international poet laureate, Maya Angelou, who praised, “She observes and visualizes the truth about the vulnerability and the power of the human being.”

In 2007 Asante worked with distinguished artist and scholar, Deborah Willis, to help coordinate the second African and African American Art and Film Conference, entitled “Here and Now”, which was held on the campus of New York University. She also was invited to Ghana by Renee Neblett, founder of the Kokrobitey Institute, as an Artist-in-Residence for their International Printmaking Workshop.