Maya Gonzalez
Empowerment through creativity
Celebrating Dia de los Niños
Art workshop at the Green Festival in San Francisco
the Frida mirror
Maya teaching at 2008 Reading the World Conference
drawing portraits
drawing portraits
Maya working with children at an assembly
Maya talking with children
Artwork created by an adult
Artwork created by 4th grader
Books rule!
Maya talking with children
the Frida mirror
creating self-portraits
Maya talking with children

Artist Talks & Lectures
Maya enjoys opportunities to talk with people more specifically about her fine art and imagery. It offers a wonderful glimpse into the process and meaning behind Maya's work. She has often lectured as part of past solo shows.

Feel free to contact Maya to schedule an Artist Talk.

Reflection Press & Maya's work as an educator


Since 1996 Maya has been working in classrooms and libraries around the country teaching the lessons of empowerment through creativity. Making art for children's books gave her the perfect opportunity to work with some of the smartest people she knows, children! ...and some of the most courageous, educators! This work led her to co-found her own press.

Create Art | Find Peace | Live Free


Create Art | Find Peace | Live Free

Maya working in the classroomMission: Reflection Press empowers people to fully claim themselves and their inherent creative force. By providing experiences and materials that use creativity, presence, and reflection as tools to find, explore, and know self, we strengthen ourselves as a people. In this strength, we come to know that we all belong here and now and that we all possess the capacity to create a world based on equality in which we are free to express and expand into our truest selves.


Offerings: Reflection Press provides workshops, presentations, lectures, and materials that engage the creative force as a tool for self-empowerment. We also work to provide imagery, written and visual, that begins to reflect people who are often under-represented in the current media. Through books, posters, prints and online resources, we strive to reach and empower as many people as possible. For when we feel reflected in our world, we sense that we belong and that this is our world to love and create and change.


Read more on the Reflection Press website: www.reflectionpress.com

Create Art | Find Peace | Live Free

The 3 Rules:

1. Everyone is an Artist
2. There is never a right or wrong way to make art
3. Art is always an act of courage

Pink Chicana Buddha Black Buddha Fade Fill me with Creativity so that I am empowered Skeleton Balancing on Mushroom - 2011 Jaguar Woman - 2011 Bunny Bride - 2011 Deer Heart - 2010 Flower Soul Communion - 2010 Heart Gown - 2010 Healing Through Series #2 Healing Through Series #7 - 2008 Butterfly BirdGirl with Death and Family Tree - 2005 BirdWoman in Black Gloves with River Deer Riding the Cactus - 2002 Guadelupe Standing on Blue Rabbit - 2002 Switching Rabbits - 2002 Mula - 1999 Mayan Ball Gown - 1999 Woman with Lilies - 1993 Face - 1993 Fill me with Creativity so that I am empowered Maya working in the classroom Timeline of Art Statemeant text Maya at age 5 Maya from the book Just Like Me Illuminate the opportunities of the present momeant