Anna M. Maynard is a recent graduate of the Smith College MFA. She is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in Portraiture through the varying mediums of Photography, Dance, Improvised Performance, and Choreography. With training in Classical Ballet, she now is an improvisational dancer. In both photography and performance art, Anna creates work that probes the dynamics of interpersonal relations in dialogue with the world. In photography, she documents and highlights independent artists by exposing the intimacies and celebrations of their creative practices. In performance art, she reveals the complexities of the human heart through moving images that invite physical and imagined journeys through time, sensation and memory.
In.Company has a core intention of platforming and contributing to the vitality of the community. As a local artist, I am working to understand and create a way to practice and generate work that engages with the community itself with the intention of illuminating the work and presence of other artists who are also devoted to developing their craft as well as contributing the vitality their individual networks, and building opportunity for the wider community to come together as a whole. I am considering the theories of Laura Sewell in her book Sense and sensibility, and Adrienne Maree Brown in her book Pleasure Activism. Although these two women have very different approaches to their work, they share a plea to the world. They believe the primary path to liberation is through the body and a coming to a greater felt experience of life. As a Photographer as well as a participant in movement, I respond to their plea by asking artists to place themselves in front of me to be seen and documented int heir own felt experience of being who they are. These photographs are merely a representation what is present in our bodies, hearts and, and the possibilities of what is possible when we come together to be ourselves, see one another, and make art.
In.Company is supported, and hosted by the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought in the 2019 Fall Artist In Residence program.
In.Company has a core intention of platforming and contributing to the vitality of the community. As a local artist, I am working to understand and create a way to practice and generate work that engages with the community itself with the intention of illuminating the work and presence of other artists who are also devoted to developing their craft as well as contributing the vitality their individual networks, and building opportunity for the wider community to come together as a whole. I am considering the theories of Laura Sewell in her book Sense and sensibility, and Adrienne Maree Brown in her book Pleasure Activism. Although these two women have very different approaches to their work, they share a plea to the world. They believe the primary path to liberation is through the body and a coming to a greater felt experience of life. As a Photographer as well as a participant in movement, I respond to their plea by asking artists to place themselves in front of me to be seen and documented int heir own felt experience of being who they are. These photographs are merely a representation what is present in our bodies, hearts and, and the possibilities of what is possible when we come together to be ourselves, see one another, and make art.
In.Company is supported, and hosted by the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought in the 2019 Fall Artist In Residence program.