Maya Smith, March 2023

South Carolina-based artist, Maya Smith, has been honing her skills as a freelance artist for the past seventeen years. She graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2006 with a BFA in Illustration. 

Her work celebrates people of color and women with shape. Using pencils and paint, she creates imagery that counters negative stereotypes and provokes conversation.  

Maya’s work has been commissioned by Oscar Award-winning director Steve McQueen for the film, Widows. Her work is part of the New York Public Library archives through the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NY.