Studio & Visual Art
Murals are one chapter. Maya's wider practice spans studio painting, living altar installations honoring missing and murdered Black women, journalism, and spoken poetry.
Serena, 2016 — © Maya James, all rights reserved.
Serena
One of Maya's earliest portraits in a long body of work centering Black femme identity, tenderness, and presence.
Living Altar — To Black Women, From a Black Woman
An ongoing installation and devotional series honoring missing and murdered Black women — a space for witnessing, mourning, and refusing erasure. Part altar, part love letter in pigment, the work weaves portraiture, ritual objects, and named remembrance into rooms the public is invited to sit with.
Kzoo artist paints mural depicting the faces of injustice
WOOD TV8
'Living altar space' honors missing, murdered Black women
WOOD TV8
Kalamazoo Lively Arts — Maya James Art Studio
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Video & features
Kalamazoo Lively Arts — Maya James
WGVU35
The Hoodrat Strategist Radio Program 11/13/19
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