Maria Weaver

Pronouns: she/her

Maria Weaver is a visual artist. She has been creating “wearable art” (jewelry/crochet/sewing) all her life. These skills turned her into a teaching artist for 10+ years. Her teaching artist work gave way to more visual arts—drawing, painting, papercraft, and most of all, bead-making! Maria loves to shape her art themes in Black American culture and social issues that encourage awareness, pride, and self-love, which connect to students’ Identity.

Artist Statement

“I come from a family of creatives. It’s in our DNA: It comes from the need to be resourceful and the joy of figuring things out. Family and community connections encourage self-love, social awareness, and acceptance via visual arts. Art is a necessary tool to help us feel good, understand each other, and communicate. It helps students learn or reinforce learning literacy, math, social studies, engineering, and science in a creative way. Visual art is a constantly evolving tool that helps students with critical- thinking and inspiring ways that they can, “Make the world a better place!”