​Maia Palmer

Maia Palmer is a Delaware based visual artist and art educator who uses portraiture as a vehicle for storytelling. She embraces the language of art as a means of initiating communication; her subjects become her partner in conversation.

She began creating these dialogical portraits during her MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis. She graduated with her MFA in 2011, and received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. She has exhibited across the country as well internationally in Spain, Germany, and China, and her work is in the permanent collection at the Biggs Museum of American Art. She was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts in 2022,  and is the 2024 Delaware Art Educator of the Year.

Palmer is currently the high school Visual Arts teacher at Cab Calloway School of the Arts. She is also co-curator of the Cab Calloway School of the Arts Gallery and the exhibition coordinator at the Music School of Delaware. She is interested in helping artists create connections within the community and in celebrating diversity and collaboration.