Printmaker | Art Book Maker | Teacher
VIDEOS AND DOCUMENTARIES
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In 2021, Ekundayo Bandele, the founder and director of Hattiloo Theatre, created the Women of Color Monologues. The series of presentations by six women of diverse backgrounds presented their versions of their own lives. The full series can be seen here. |
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In 2020, Maritza was interviewed by Cazateatro Bilingual Theatre Group as part of LatinFest in Memphis celebrating local Latino artists. |
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"Journey of a COVID Heart" by Maritza Dávila and Jon W. Sparks. A 2020 video of the making of a book for the Memphis and Shelby County UrbanArt Commission as part of its "Bridging the Distance" grant project. The handmade book by Maritza includes photos of her artwork, plus photography and 17 haiku by Jon. The video shows Maritza putting together the book and then Jon and Maritza alternating the reading of the haiku. Use of the song "Catch That Train" by the Driftwood Ramblers is done with permission.
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In 2009, Maritza Davila was interviewed by Live From Memphis for ArtsMemphis TV. Here, the artist and professor at Memphis College of Art discusses her lifelong devotion to teaching and the process she uses to create artworks. Born in Puerto Rico, Maritza has been doing printmaking, making art books and exhibiting around the world since the 1970s.
I'm passionate about teaching. I teach, and what I learn from the students ends up in my work. |
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On collaboration, 2016: Maritza Davila, Professor of Printmaking at Memphis College of Art brings passion to her program and talks about the energetic collaborative process at MCA.
I'm looking for them to be hungry for knowledge. |
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“Mi Sur/My South: A Survey of Latina/o Artists Working in Memphis" attempts to show a cross section of contemporary Latina/o artists creating artwork in the Memphis area. Mi Sur/My South is concerned with amplifying the artistic voices that have largely been ignored but are in fact and deed contributing to the changing demographic and cultural dynamic disrupting the once binary racial understanding of the South. What this exhibition has in common is the Latin American Hispanic experience. |