E. Oscar Maynard
Elizabeth “Oscar” Maynard has a self-designed B.A. in Visual Art, Psychology, and Gender Studies from Antioch College. They have an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in Printmaking. Their work has been shown at Somarts, Mission Cultural Center, and in a number of the National Queer Arts Festival shows. They were a Queer Cultural Center Grantee for a 2014 show called Breaking Code, looking at mental health through a queer lens. They are currently a fellow at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Their cohort is grappling with and responding to the question “Why Citizenship?” They are an Artist in Residence and educator at Kala Art Institute. In 2016 they were a resident at A Studio in the Woods in New Orleans, through Tulane University. They were awarded a residency at Santa Fe Art Institute in 2017. In their spare time they nerd out about gender, feed wild animals in local parks, carve gourd luminaries, and make new things from the Southern Living magazine recipes section.
Residency/Fellowship
Equal Justice 2017/2018
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Location
Oakland, CA USA