Maya Escobar is a performance artist, Internet curator, and editor. She uses the web as a platform for engaging in critical community dialogues that concern processes by which identities are socially and culturally constructed. She performs multiple identities, sampling widely from online representations of existing cultural discourses. Her identifications as a Latina-Jewish artist, dyslexic blogger, activist and educator are indexed by the blogs she keeps, the visual and textual links she posts, the books, articles, and blog posts she cites, the public comments she leaves, and the groups she joins.
Escobar received her MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited work in Spain, Guatemala, United States, Germany, and Venezuela.
| 2010 | (forthcoming) Frida Kahlo, author: Gannit Ankori, London: Reaktion Books, (Maya Escobar) | |
| Art exhibit at Saint Vincent explores iconography in Judaism by Justin Jacobs, The Jewish Chronicle Jan 27. | ||
| Smart Latina vs Sexy Latina by Carrie Ferguson Weir, Tiki Tiki Blog Jan 21. | ||
| Maya Escobar on Display! by Yoni Sarason, St. Lou Jew Blog Jan 20. | ||
| Orchard Street Exhibit Examines Community and Cultural Identity by Judy Birke, The New Haven Register, Art Section, Jan 10. | ||
| Tzit Tzit: Fiber Art and Jewish Identity Exhibition Catalogue, essay by Ben Schachter, Saint Vincent Gallery | ||
| 2009 | Re-living Jewish Life on Orchard Street by Karen Singer, New Haven Magazine Dec. | |
| Jewish Life on Orchard Street by Matthue Roth and Maya Escobar, MyJewishLearning.com | ||
| Orchard Street Shul Artists Cultural Heritage Project, WPKN 89.5 Radio Interview with Binnie Klein, New Haven, CT | ||
| Orchard Street Shul Artists Cultural Heritage Project, Exhibition Catalogue | ||
| Shomer Negiah Underwear by Dvora Meyers, Unorthodox Gymnastics Blog Dec 2. | ||
| Shomer Negiah Panties: Maya Escobar Is At It Again by Yoni Sarason, The St. Lou Jew Blog Nov 19. | ||
| This Week in Jewish Dating: Can’t Touch This by Esther Kustanowitz, JDater’s Anonymous Blog Oct 25. | ||
| About: Maya Escobar, Blogadera Blog Sep 15. | ||
| MFA 2009 Exhibition Catalogue Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO | ||
| Frida Kahlo at the synagogue: Maya Escobar and the young Jewish-American Creation by David Sperber, Ma’arav Israeli Arts and Culture Magazine Mar 29. | ||
| Who I Am by PJ Edelman, Jewish In St. Louis Mar 12. | ||
| Otot (Signs) – The Annual Cycle of Holidays and Contemporary Art by David Sperber, book published by Bar-Ilan University Leiber Center for Jewish Art in Exhibitions | ||
| Scripting Latinidad: Re/Defining Textual Selves and Worlds in the Age of MySpace by Jacqueline Hidalgo, Latino Journal of Theology, Claremont Graduate University Feb 13. | ||
| 2008 | Hope’ Springs Anew for Washington University Grad Students by Margaret Gillerman, St. Louis Post Dispatch Nov 29. | |
| The Princess Diaries: In an Age of Ostentation the J.A.P is Back by Julia Appel, Bitch Magazine, Winter Issue | ||
| Maya Escobar: Living Jew by Yoni Sarason, St. Lou Jew Blog Aug. | ||
| Acciones Plásticas by Eleena Lissar, Voices en Español (podcast) Apr 25. | ||
| 100 Años de Frida, a! Diseño Magazine Mexico City, Mexico. Feb. | ||
| 2007 | El Es Frida Kahlo, Centenario Frida Kahlo Fridomanía Blog May. | |
| Acomplejada Complexities and Complicity: Performance of Latina Subjectivity by Nicole Guerra (video) | ||
| Living Dolls by Mark Fisher, Riverfront Times St. Louis, MO, Oct 18. | ||
| Siempre Frida by Roger Omar, d[x]i Magazine Valencia, Spain, Jun. | ||
| One Person, Multiple Realities by Juan Tornoe, Hispanic Trending Blog May 31. | ||
| Maya Escobar, la Muñequita Supersemita by Adan Levy, Supersemita: Cultura de Fusión y Vanguardia en Español Blog Apr. | ||
| No Laughing Matter by Mel Weiss, Lilith Magazine Mar 6. | ||
| Tzitzit for Women by Dov Bear Blog Feb 22. | ||
| Can we please not revive that ugly stereotype? by Kol Ra’ash Gadol, Jewschool Blog Feb 20. | ||
| The Anti-Feminist Feminist Jewish Latina by Beth Gotlieb, Jewcy Blog Feb 20. | ||
| Who Are You Supposed To Be? Mobius, Jewschool Blog Feb 19. |
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