“My heart is often most absurd. I play with music, and I play with words, I form with clay, and I build with wire, and I make whatever my heart desires. I make fine art of the low brow kind I manifest what’s in my mind. My art is colorful, strange, and queer.”

Maven is an outsider artist specializing in sculpture and mixed media. She has worked with the Washington Glass School, interned with jeweler Nick Barnes, and has worked with VisArts since 2016. She had a solo show in VisArts’ Common Ground Gallery, August 2018, has been part of many group art shows, and started teaching at VisArts in spring 2023.