Taylor
Maroney
Taylor Maroney graduated with a MFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2020 after earning a BFA in 2012 from the University of New Hampshire. As of 2020 Taylor has been the recipient of two Elizabeth Greenshield International Grants and in 2017, UMass Dartmouth awarded them the Distinguished Artist Fellowship to study in the MFA program. They have taught nationally and internationally since 2010 in various environments and student demographics- from South Africa to San Francisco, to rural North Dakota, and now at Bryant University.
MFA, University of Massachusetts- Dartmouth
I have taught nationally and internationally since 2010 in various environments and student demographics- from South Africa to San Francisco, to rural North Dakota. I am adept at teaching majors and non-majors and thoroughly appreciate the challenge of making art and creativity accessible to all, no matter a student's prior experience. I have worked on creating a system for disaggregating student data so that I can see specifically how BIPOC and LGBTQ+ student populations that are routinely underserved are faring within an institution. Along with attending as many trainings, conferences, and committees as I can on social justice and DEI, I have been a lead faculty trainer of “SAFE Zones” for the LGBTQIA+ community, and I have taught a workshop called “Equity in the Art and Design Classroom'' to help spread knowledge and awareness on these topics.
My professional work over the past five years has been about excavating and reimagining. It began with a focus on race, consisting of visual explorations of white identity within the United States. In this work, I wanted to make visible this part of myself that was concealed in ubiquity and understand how I was contributing to white supremacy. The work then began to evolve into other aspects of socially constructed identities, especially those that exist within a binary, such as gender and sexuality. This work is a celebration and an acknowledgment of the queer, trans bodies that have been largely left out of contemporary and historical figurative representation.
