Maria Renée

Maria Renée creates art that reflects connection and animism. Her work emerges from practices of deep listening, dreaming, walking, and cultivating relationship with places and their inhabitants. Through drawn images and words, her pieces reflect the teachings of the natural world about how human beings can better practice reciprocity, respect, and a culture of belonging with reverence for place.

Much of her visual art takes the form of black and white ink drawing using a stippling technique resulting in thousands of tiny dots. It is a meditative reflection on connectivity. Other creative pursuits include writing and mural painting. Maria's art has been shown at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, Saguaro National Park, the Natural History Institute, and the Corvallis Arts Center as well as published in The Dark Mountain Project, Edible Baja Arizona, Terrain.org, You Are Here Journal of Creative Geography, among others. She has an BA in environmental studies from Prescott College and an MS from Oregon State University. Outside of art-making she works in many ways at the intersection of humans and the environment, including as a community-based ecological griefworker.