The University of Maryland, College Park’s David C. Driskell Center received a generous gift of 227 works of art from the Jean and Robert E. Steele Collection, which included works by Emma Amos, Romare Bearden, David C. Driskell, Sam Gilliam and Faith Ringgold. Maya Freelon Asante was one of several emerging artists included.
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Maya Freelon Asante was selected to be on the US FESMAN committee for the World Festival of Black Arts. "FESMAN will become modern Africa’s cultural beacon...the arts will be celebrated: poetry, sculpture, painting, music festival, cinema, theatre plays, fashion shows, African architecture and design exhibit, and dance performances."
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The February/March 2009 edition of Uptown Magazine published an article on family legacies in art, which featured Deborah and Hank Willis, Betye, Alison and Lezley Saar and Allan, Philip, Nnenna, Deen, Maya and Pierce Freelon. Click here to download the PDF.
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In the Spring of 2009 Maya Freelon Asante was the Visiting Artist Fellow for the Sonja Haynes Stone Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. During her residency she had a solo exhibition, gave art lectures and conducted workshops in the surrounding community.
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Maya Freelon Asante participated in an artist residency at the historic Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia November 2008-January 2009. There she worked with Founder and President Allan Edmunds and produced a limited edition Tissue Ink Monoprint.
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The International Review of African American Art is the only scholarly fine arts journal produced by a Historically Black College and needs the support of new subscribers. The latest issue entitled 'The View from Now' features articles on both Maya Freelon Asante and her father, award-winning architect Philip Freelon.
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Maya Freelon Asante, along with other artists from the Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera exhibition will participate in a panel discussion led by acclaimed artist and author Carla Williams. The event will take place Saturday June 22nd, 2008 from 2:00-3:30PM.
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Six-time Grammy nominated Jazz recording artist Nnenna Freelon commissioned her daughter, Maya Freelon Asante, to create a tissue paper collage for her latest album cover ‘Better Than Anything’. This is not the first time these two have connected to make music and art! Click here to see.
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The Kokrobitey Institute, has invited Maya Freelon Asante to be a guest artist for an intensive 11 day printmaking residency where she will join local Ghanaian artists in celebrating Ghana's 50th year of independence. The artists will explore the power of printmaking by using experimental techniques and creative collaboration.
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Beginning Fall 2007, Maya Freelon Asante will join the Department of Art faculty at Towson University and Morgan State University. Her classes include beginning Design, Computer Art and Design, American Traditions in Painting and African American Art History.
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November 15th-18th 2007, NYU will host the 2nd AAAF Conference. The conference will focus on contemporary expressions in art and cinema from multiple perspectives within the realm of African and African American visual culture. Maya Freelon Asante is helping to organize and facilitate this historical event.
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Due to popular demand, Curator and Director of the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Barry Gaither, has extended Enter-ACTION through August 12, 2007. This will be the principal exhibition of the summer and allow 18 fully funded tours and workshops to visit the installation.
(http://www.ncaaa.org/welcome.html).
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Maya Freelon’s artwork and writing is featured in the Hip-Hop Feminism Anthology Home Girls Make Some Noise edited by Gwendolyn Pough, the collection explores a range of critical essays, cultural critiques, interviews, personal narratives, fiction, poetry, and artwork.
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The National Art Gallery of Namibia has invited Maya Freelon to participate in a forthcoming solo exhibition. She will also be introducing the award-winning community arts initiative, Make Your Mark Art (MYMA) to organizations in Namibia. (http://www.nagn.org.na/).
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After completing a summer residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maya shifted her medium to primarily tissue paper, which reflects the deterioration of space and time vs. the human desire to save and protect. (www.skowheganart.org).
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Poet, educator and activist, Dr. Maya Angelou, praises the artwork of her namesake Maya Freelon: “It is amazing that Maya Freelon uses technology to tell a human truth… she observes and visualizes the truth about the vulnerability and power of the human being.” - Dr. Maya Angelou
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Maya Freelon talks to NPR’s Frank Stasio about her new Hybrigitals and Tissue Paper artwork on the radio show The State of Things. The artwork was shown in her hometown (Durham, NC) exhibit IN-Dependence January-February 2006. Click to listen to clips from the interview: (Hybrigitals) (Tissue Paper)
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