Dehejia Maat


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Come Celebrate the Art and Poetry of Dehejia Maat. Poet, actress, yogi, and painter. Deep rooted original Earth woman who greets the dawn chanting while doing Surya Namaskar. Theater director for the Dragon Box Theater in Washington DC, this sista has graced many a stage from the Kennedy Center to local clubs on Historic U street, rocking mics from Japan to Toronto. Co-Creator of No Goddess Left Behind writers workshop and Yoga teacher. This year brings the directorial debut in the play, "For Colored Girls" and the release of two books "Deep Rooted Soul Sista Poem" & The Yes that Leads to Infinity, her second book poetry.

"I write and paint from my Mulahandra, I love freely and fiercely but I got a machete for the bammas"

Dehejia.maat@gmail.com

22nd November 2011

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About the Artist…

Dehejia Maat’s paintings are unfinished inventories of fragments: objects, drawings, photographs, and other found things. They are improvisational sites in which the constructed and the ready-made are used to question our making of the world through language and knowledge. Her arrangements are schematic, inviting the viewer to move into a space of speculation. She relies on our desires for beauty, poetics and seduction.

“I’ve never liked to explain a certain piece of work - if you’ve made a picture and that’s how you wanted it to be - hopefully it can speak for itself and whatever it says to the viewer - it’s the right message because there isn’t a wrong message. Each person takes something a little different from the same picture and I’m happy with that.”

Teaching all forms of art at Lowell School’s, after school program has allowed her to get back to the youthful joy of unbiased creating.

Being self-taught never stopped this artist from making her mark on the world. Her art and poetry has graced The Smithsonian African Art Museum, The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, Art-O-Matic, and HerStory Baltimore exhibit. In 2010 Dehejia published two books, Deep Rooted Soul Sista Poems and The Yes that Leads to Infinity. Painting makes her an artist, not her qualifications, something she shares with all of her students. She is inspired by the art of her native people, yoga, and nature. Her favorite artists include, Frida Khalo, Georgia O’Keefe, and Krista Franklyn.  

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