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Maya Erdelyi is an award-winning animator and artist. Her work has involved: experimental animation, collage, printmaking, curatorial projects, full moon artist salons, drawing clubs, sleep concerts in giant wooden fort structures, puppet shows, making clothing and textile designs, renegade fashion shows in the Paris Metro, domestic ‘happenings’, collective skill-sharing and various collaborative projects involving visual music. Maya’s hand-crafted animations and collages are inspired by imaginary worlds, memories and the unconscious. Her animations explore a hybrid approach to cut-paper stop-motion, puppetry, hand-drawn, digital animation and installation. Her work has been shown in national and international film festivals, galleries, museums and DIY venues. She was a 2020 City of Boston Artist Fellow, the recipient of a 2019 Yaddo Residency, a 2018 WGBH Launchpad Residency, a 2017 Brother Thomas Fellowship Award and the 2017 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Film. She curated the highly regarded group animation show “The Skin has Eyes: Animated Visions” at the Mills Gallery in Boston in 2019. Maya is a 2012 MFA graduate in Experimental Animation from CalArts. She first studied animation at Harvard University. Maya is currently finishing an experimental animated documentary about her refugee grandmother’s marvelous life, and developing several large-scale installation projects and two solo shows in the city of Boston slated to open in 2022. Maya is a Colombian/Hungarian first-generation American. Born and raised bilingually in New York City, she is currently based in Boston. She lives with her husband Daniel, also an animator, and their child Paloma. Maya is a Faculty member in Animation at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and was recently a guest lecturer in Animation at the Rhode Island School of Design & Pratt Institute. Maya has given Guest Artist talks and workshops at various Universities and museums including: Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University, MICA, UPenn, MassArt, The University of Illinois Chicago, Emerson College, Montserrat College of Art, and the ICA Boston, among others.

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