What: Art 1A Artist Talk Featuring Maiza Hixson
When: Tuesday, March 1 from 12:30-1:45
Zoom Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/88345381029
Websites:
Instragram: @maiza_hixson
About Maiza Hixson,
Maiza Hixson is an interdisciplinary artist and a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Santa Barbara. She has exhibited and performed widely at such venues as: Highways in Santa Monica; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Baltimore Contemporary; Soap Factory, Minneapolis; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art; Haverford College; University of the Arts, Philadelphia; Eugen Lendl Gallery, Graz, Austria; and 21C Museum, Louisville. She is an affiliate of Independent Curators International. Her works are included in the collections of: 21C Museum, Will Oldham, Larry Shapin and Ladonna Nicolas, Joan and Kurtwood Smith, Dr. Jennifer Sorkin, Patrick Stallard, Aspect Chronicle of New Media Art, and the Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology. Hixson was featured on the EMMY Award-winning PBS TV show “Articulate with Jim Cotter” and her curatorial projects have been presented at such national galleries as the Rosenwald-Wolf at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia; the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, and many others. Prior to receiving her MFA at UCSB in 2019, she studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received her MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of Louisville in 2005.
