Future Artists in Residence
Maria Camia
23 Jun. – 20 Jul. 2025
Maria Camia (b. 1991) is a Brooklyn based Filipino-American Visual Theatre Artist, Director, Playwright, Fashion Designer, and Introspective Hypnosis Practitioner from Virginia Beach, VA. Her work is a playful yet political call to disconnect from hyper-consumerism and to reclaim the truth within through the use of storytelling, new ceremonies, puppets, comics, illustration, music, and spiritual clothing. With sharp comedy, Shakespearean styled writing, catchy tunes, and joyful theatrical surprise, she intends to make self-reflection and shadow work fun. Since 2013, Maria has dedicated her entire artistic practice to the creation of the world of Aricama, bridging indigenous ancestry with galactic futurism by globally inspiring practice, play, and healing.
Maria attended Virginia Commonwealth University for a BFA in Sculpture + Extended Media and Sarah Lawrence College for a Masters in Theatre. Her original work was performed at Dixon Place, La MaMa Experimental Club, Chicago’s International Puppet Festival, Coney Island, and Museum of Chinese in America. She received the Jim Henson’s Workshop in 2021 and 2023, and Production Grant, and Women’s Fund for Media and Music for her puppet musical, The Healing Shipment. Recently, she was awarded The Puppetry Guild of Greater New York’s BIPOC Puppeteer Scholarship for outstanding dedication to the art and craft of puppetry and ongoing contributions to the puppetry community.
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La MaMa Kids Workshop
My Handy Ancestors Art
Free Drop-In
28 Jun. 2025 | 1-4pm
Who is your first finger? Who is your pinky? Students will participate in making a pair of ancestor gloves with white cotton gloves, their imagination, paper, markers, glue, and scissors to celebrate their hands. They will think of each finger as an ancestor/character here to assist them in the world and share with the group if they wish. Gloves will be displayed and must be used in a ritual ceremony at the end of Maria’s performance in order to take home. Maria will provide examples to expand the possibilities. This workshop is to imagine the body as a sacred supportive vessel that supports us instead of just a meat sack to do work.
Materials included.
This class is suitable for all ages and abilities.
Workshop
Energy Hygiene Puppet Painting
$10 | RSVP Required
13 Jul. 2025 | 1-3pm | RSVP
Join Maria as we practice energy hygiene techniques to connect to the different sensations/emotions/pains trapped in our body followed by using our imagination to clean it out. Participants will then paint provided mini Aricamian puppet statues with how they imagined cleaning out their body. Painted puppets will be used in Maria’s final performance.
Since 2020, Maria became a certified Introspective Hypnosis Practitioner alongside her artistic practice to release heavy energies from the body. She has learned how past experiences can get stuck in our body and using the imagination daily to release these energies is beneficial before unresolved feelings become physical ailments or disease. She will teach techniques she uses in hypnosis and is excited to share this with the public.
Materials included.
This class is suitable for all ages and abilities.
Performance
Higher Eyes on Aricama
Piano | Aaron Banes
Free | RSVP Required
19 Jul. 2025 | 1pm | RSVP
19 Jul. 2025 | 3pm | RSVP
20 Jul. 2025 | 1pm | RSVP
20 Jul. 2025 | 3pm | RSVP
Maria will perform Higher Eyes on Aricama, a 45-minute solo-performance with four 4’x4’ colorful paintings / Toy Theater sets, hand puppets, costume, and a live pianist. The story follows two flower humanoids, Ari and Cama, as their attention spans shatter into infinite altered dimensions causing their homeland Aricama, the land of practice, play, and healing, to turn into dust. Will they release themselves from their attachments or lose everything they worked for? Maria explores dreams, phone addiction, and a message from the body.
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club is dedicated to the artist and all aspects of the theatre. They are a creative home to artists and audiences from around the world and a dynamic hub for risk-taking performance. La MaMa believes in the power of art to reveal our shared humanity and supports artists of all identities in the creation of new work.
Founded in 1961 by Ellen Stewart, La MaMa is the only original Off-Off-Broadway theatre still in operation. Over the course of 61 years, they have grown from an underground refuge for the avant-gar- de to a world-renowned cultural institution, with 30+ Obie Awards, dozens of Drama Desk Awards, Bessie Awards, Villager Awards, and the 2018 Regional Theater Tony Award. They have supported nearly 160,000 artists from all over the world, such as Blue Man Group, Peter Brook, André De Shields, Ping Chong, Olympia Dukakis, Harvey Fierstein, Philip Glass, Tedeschi Kantor, Shuji Terayama, Adrienne Kennedy, Diane Lane, Taylor Mac, Bette Midler, Meredith Monk, Sam Shepard, Andrei Serban, Elizabeth Swados, and Julie Taymor, to name a few.
This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Matt Keegan
21 Jul. – 18 Aug. 2025
Yale School of Arts
Fawn Krieger
26 Aug. – 21 Sep. 2025
Fawn Krieger is a NYC-based artist, whose multi-genre works examine how memory, rupture, and transference are embedded from the body into matter, and can be used as grounds for recovery, revolution, and re-imagination. Krieger works both individually and collaboratively, having developed previous projects with artists including Neal Medlyn, Edwin Torres, and Tracy + the Plastics. She received her BFA from Parsons School of Design, and her MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at The Kitchen, Art in General, Nice & Fit Gallery, The Moore Space, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Human Resources, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Real Art Ways, Soloway Gallery, and Neon>fdv. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB online, NY Arts, Flash Art, and Texte zur Kunst.
Krieger is a 2019 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award Fellow, and has received additional grants from Art Matters Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, and The John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund, among others.
Krieger is also participating in KinoSaito’s current exhibition - The Unknown and Its Poetics
Fawn Krieger, // 86, 2024, fired porcelain, underglaze, concrete, pigment, epoxy, 13 x 11.5 x 4.25 in
Fawn Krieger, // 81, 2024, fired porcelain, epoxy, 13.75 x 8.5 x 1.5 in
Fawn Krieger, // 70 (rebus), 2023, fired clay, underglaze, concrete, pigment, 11.25 x 11.75 x 2.25 in
Fawn Krieger, // 66 (rebus shapes small), 2023, fired clay, underglaze, concrete, pigment, 7.5 x 11 x 3 in
Fawn Krieger, // 55, 2022, fired clay, underglaze, concrete, vermiculite, pigment, polystyrene, 15.25 x 20 x 3 in
Fawn Krieger, // 57, 2022, fired clay, underglaze, concrete, vermiculite, pumice, pigment, pigment, 15.75 x 16 x 3.5 in
Fawn Krieger, // 58, 2022, fired clay, underglaze, concrete, vermiculite, pigment, polystyrene, 18.75 x 11.75 x 6.25 in
Fawn Krieger, Making of //6 (video still), 2021
Rachel Eulena Williams
27 Aug. – 21 Sep. 2025
Rachel Eulena Williams (b 1991, Miami, Florida) lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. She is an artist whose work displays an unusual level of candor, invention and lightness. Exuding confidence and pleasure, her painted constructions employ the language of abstract painting, but are transformed through her approach to material. Finding a balance between painting and sculpture, Williams applies larger swaths of color made from painted canvases that are subsequently cut and reconfigured. The collage-like works are tied together with sewing which acts both pictorially and creates marks inside her compositions. Williams also adds ropes of differing sizes and thickness that become stand-ins for gestural marks. The overall feeling is of solidity and lightness, structure and wild chances, jostling to create waves of energy.
Rachel Eulena Williams was also participating in one of KinoSaito’s exhibitions - NON-Objectified
Rachel Eulena Williams
Rachel Eulena Williams
Rachel Eulena Williams
Rachel Eulena Williams