ANNA MAYNARD is an interdisciplinary artist living in Saxapahaw North Carolina, originally inhabited by the Sissipahaw Tribe. I am in the process of locating and learning about the histories of settlement, and relationships held by the people of my blood line dating back to the early 1800’s in what is known today as the Piedmont region. I am currently cultivating a new creative process for myself as something long term, patient, and concerning things that I can touch and that can touch me. I have been “a dancer” for as long as I can remember, and have recently rearranged my life and practice to incorporate studies and musings in painting, textiles, sewing, voice and photography. This, all since, participating in the initiation of freeskewl at the onset of COVID-19. I am excited and touched by the caretaking of the community through virtual teaching, performance and conversation, and hope that it will sustain us until we can be together again.