Common performs with Sounds of Blackness for a crowd of thousands at Rise & Remember block party and concert celebrating George Floyd, the Community at 38th and Chicago, and families of injustice and loss. George Floyd Square, Minneapolis, MN May 25, 2021. Creative Director, Concert Producer, and Event Planner Maya Washington. Event hosts George Floyd Global Memorial and the Community at 38th & Chicago. Photo by Tom Dunn

Nur-D performs for a crowd of thousands at Rise & Remember block party and concert celebrating George Floyd, the Community at 38th and Chicago, and families of injustice and loss. George Floyd Square, Minneapolis, MN May 25, 2021. Creative Director, Concert Producer, and Event Planner Maya Washington. Event hosts George Floyd Global Memorial and the Community at 38th & Chicago. Photo by Tom Dunn

Maya Washington created digital mixed media plates “On the Road,” for Healing in Solidarity, a collaborative exhibition of Asian and Black artists showcasing their visual works on healing, social justice, and cross-racial allyship through a collaboration with artist Joua Lee Grande. This exhibit strived to inspire and initiate conversations mobilizing Black and Asian communities to continue supporting one another through artistic expressions. “On the Road, plates” Copyright Maya Washington, 2023.

Maya Washington’s photography featuring American poets Natalie Graham and T’ai Freedom Ford, were selected for the American Indian Community Housing Organization exhibition celebrating artists who identify as women of color. This was the first exhibit to feature only the work of the Duluth region’s least represented demographic of artists — Indigenous, Black, Latinx and Asian women. A total of 31 different artists representing a wide range of backgrounds and cultures submitted their work for display in the Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center, drawing in a crowd of 300 in an opening reception that took place alongside an award ceremony for some of AICHO’s most influential women leaders. Image Description: Poet Natalie Graham and Son— Motherhood as Resistance, copyright Maya Washington, 2017

Legendary is a collaboration between Maya Washington, Hannah Foslien, and Tom Baker. The work is inspired by Maya Washington’s documentary film, Through the Banks of the Red Cedar. As pedestrians pass by, they feel the textures of a bygone era in Minnesota history through dignified portraiture of football legends, Carl Eller, Alan Page, and Gene Washington, while considering how their physical experiences live on through today’s players. Image courtesy of Hannah Folsien, 2017

Maya Washington curator of #BlackPoetsSpeakOut in the Twin Cities, recites her poem “If I’m killed by police.” Photojournalist Tom Baker captured the event featuring local black-identified poets at the Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul, held days after the shooting death of Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, MN was captured live on Facebook. Photo copyright Tom Baker, MPR News 2016. Click through for more images.

White Space Poetry Project Presents Same Page | Same Stage - Minneapolis. A night of poetry, music, film, and American Sign Language with Herschel L. McPherson, Jonathan Roberts, Anna Miller, and Lynell Robinson III. Photo copyright Nicole LaPoint, White Space Poetry Project 2014.

Tanya Alexander presents her piece “Recession” while Zendrea Mitchell signs at White Space Poetry Project Same Page | Same Stage, an evening of film, poetry, and American Sign Language in Los Angeles. Photo copyright Araya Diaz, White Space Poetry Project 2014.

Maya Washington’s poetry was paired with visual arts in the Family Housing Fund’s 25th Anniversary Exhibition “Home Sweet Home Again” an exhibition of Art and Poetry, dedicated to public awareness and solutions in housing and homelessness. Image copyright Robin Getsug Taple, The Family Housing Fund, 2004.