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About maya escobar
Maya Escobar
American, BornLives and works in St. Louis, Missouri
Maya Escobar is a Guatemalan Jewish interdisciplinary artist and educator. She is a recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received a BFA with an emphasis in Art Education. She has taught, performed and exhibited work in Spain, Guatemala, Puerto Rico and the United States.
Jewish Women, Jewish Girls, The Club, and Latina Role Model are part of a series entitled Acciones Plásticas, an interactive performance piece that questions the role of stereotyping in the development of identity. Modeled after low-quality videos blogs, each video features a woman whose life has been visibly defined by societal expectations. The videos are made accessible to the general public through their strategic placement, on all of the popular social networking sites such as youtube and myspace. This internet-backdrop contextualizes the videos by framing them with similarly tagged content. The linked videos, images, and profiles point directly to the heart of the depicted stereotypes.
Recent Blog Postings
| 2008 Jewish Multiracial Network Retreat | |
 by Maya Escobar, June 14, 2008
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I just returned from the residency I did for the Jewish Multiracial Network, located at Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center.
As part of my programming I worked with the youth staff to generate a series of questions regarding Jewish Identity. These questions then set the framework for the theater games (inspired by theater of the oppressed) and the flag books that we made over the course of the weekend.
Unfourtunatley not everyone got around to answering these questions at the retreat, however here is a new chance :). So I now invite anyone and everyone to participate in finding answers to these questions(JMNners, non-JMNers, Jews, non-Jews….. )
What do you need from society, yourself, the Jewish Community to recognize...
Strip malls, weird sex, and Scooby Doo in the hinterland of Semitic...
The architect talks to Zeek about the new Jewish Museum in San...
What the pin-up ‘victim’ of global warming can teach us about...
Why we should all be more like the Amish
And prostitution need not contradict Jewish beliefs
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