Maya McCollum’s site specific installation and performance practice incorporates gathered objects and attends to their unspoken stories. Her work examines interactions between technology and the natural world through sonic and material processes, utilizing traditional craft techniques, such as weaving and basketry, alongside contemporary technologies. Improvisation is an important part of Maya’s compositional and performance practice, and she often works with violin and modular eurorack systems. Maya has attended residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, I-Park, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Binaural Nodar, the Icelandic Textile Center, and more. She was the 2022 recipient of the Allen Strange Award from the Society of Electroacoustic Music in the U.S. Maya has a Bachelor of Art in Studio Art and a Bachelor of Music in Music Technology from Oberlin College and Conservatory. In 2024-25, Maya was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for her project, Weaving Sound: Interdisciplinary Art in the Evolving Landscape.

“Artists and scientists are both asking questions about the world, they’re just doing it in different ways”
Alex Braidwood
Director, Iowa Lakeside Lab Artists-in-Residence Program

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