Maya is an artist; her projects in photography, drawing and film originate in her multilingual background and center on scenes of translation. 

Maya is an educator; she is a passionate teacher trainer and facilitator of dialogue on language and culture.  

For workshop requests, please email mayakrinsky@gmail.com. 

CV

Education 

Whitney Museum of American Art— Independent Study Program, 2016

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI — Master of Fine Arts, 2014

International Language Institute, Northampton, MA — SIT TESOL Certificate, 2007

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY— Bachelor of Arts, 2004

College Teaching Record

Senior Photography Studio. Department of Photography, Rhode Island School of Design. 2025

Senior studio course facilitating degree project development with weekly critiques, assigned writing and visits to campus resources.

Photography Foundation. Department of Visual Art, Brown University. 2021 - 2024

Darkroom, digital, and alternative process photography; basic history and discourse of the medium. Includes instruction on film scanning, studio lighting, and project development.

Graduate Language Intensive. Division of Architecture and Design, RISD. 2024

Interdisciplinary elective on academic cultural adjustment, study skills, and English language development for incoming multilingual graduate students in any degree program. 

English for Art & Design. Division of Architecture and Design, RISD. 2019- 2023

Interdisciplinary elective on art and design language skills for graduate students. Curriculum centers vocabulary, artist talks, and writing. 

Art History 101: Global Modernisms. Theory and History of Art & Design, RISD. 2018 - 2021

Required first-year art history course tracing modernism as a global project, includes skill building around formal analysis, writing about art, learning from lectures, in-class discussion skills.

Digital Photography. Department of Visual Art, Brown University. 2019

Studio course incorporating theory and practice of digital photography. Focus on project development and editing with Photoshop and Capture One. 

Studio Languages, Department of Graduate Studies, RISD. 2014 - 2018

Interdisciplinary graduate-level studio and seminar hybrid course on language and translation as material in contemporary art. 

Issues and Images II, Department of Photography, RISD. 2017

Seminar on video installation, film and other time-based practices for photography majors. 

Issues and Images I, Department of Photography, RISD. 2016

Seminar on critical issues in contemporary photography. 

Senior Thesis in Photography, Department of Design, UMASS Dartmouth. 2015

Studio course for senior photography majors. Advised students on all aspects of their final projects, including book design and final exhibition of work. 

Digital Photography, Department of Design, UMASS Dartmouth. 2014

Studio course in capture, edit and print of digital images and project development.

Publishing 

2023 How to Learn a Foreign Language. Providence Arts and Letters, PC Art Galleries. 

2023 The Language Learner’s Critique, Let’s Talk About Critique, Mariah Doren/Elissa Armstrong

2018 Camera Austria International, Ideal Abyss in print, issue #143, Selected by Nicolas Linnert  

Speaking engagements

2025 Guest presenter, Critical Thinking and Making with AI, RISD Teaching and Learning Lab. 

2022 Language Pedagogy and Social Justice, Columbia University Public Humanities program

2021 Artist talk with RaMell Ross, Photography and Human Rights Program, Bard College, NY 

2018 Panel discussion, Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship, Quad Cinema, New York, NY 2018 Artist talk with RaMell Ross, Based On a True Story, True False Film Festival, Columbia, MO 2017 Public Conversation with artist Saman Sajasi, Periphery Art Space, Pawtucket, RI 

2017 Artist talk and guest critic, University of Minnesota Department of Art, Minneapolis, MN 

2016 Guest critic, Drawing as Installation, Prof. Alan Ruiz, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 

2016 Art and Language(s), Artist lecture, Museum Education Department, RISD Museum of Art 

2015 On Language Learning, Prompter for La Table Ronde, Critical Practices Inc., New York 

2014 What is a Document? Panel Presentation, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI    

Selected Exhibitions 

2026 Manual Decolonial, La QuNa PR art space, Caguas, Puerto Rico

2019 “Spanish Lessons.”nibia pastrana santiago, Hidrante, San Juan, Puerto Rico 

2019 Can You Dream It, curated by Scott Alario, Kristen Lorello Gallery, New York, NY 

2018 Cultural Crossroads curated by Vanessa Godden, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX 

2018 If you're not into subtitles, faculty exhibition, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI 

2017 Crossing Borders, Center for Public Humanities, Brown University, Providence, RI 

2017 Maya Krinsky and Dylan Nelson, Yeah Maybe, Minneapolis, MN 

2016 Curator: When we think of tourists, Open Aperture Gallery, Newport, RI 

2016 Tools and Relics, The Open Aperture Gallery, Newport, RI 

2015 101, Strange Teaching curated by Rainer Ganahl, The Sump, Ridgewood, NY 

2015 Curator: Language vs. Language, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI.

2015 Solo exhibition, Maintenance, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA 

2015 101, 28 day performance in faculty biennial, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI 

2014 English Lessons, 6th Cairo Video Festival, Gezira Art Center, Cairo, Egypt 

Film Credits

2019 Associate Producer, Easter Snap, dir. by RaMell Ross 

2018 Edit Team, Co-Writer, Hale County This Morning, This Evening dir. by RaMell Ross

Professional Experience 

Associate Director, Multilingual Learning and Inclusive Teaching, Center for Arts & Language, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI. 2017 – 2025

• Launched Teaching Multilingual Learners, a 4-week intensive faculty training with 15 Liberal Arts participants. Received continued positive feedback on the effects of the training and requests for further consultation.

• Initiated a program of Language-Intensive sections for first-year liberal arts courses. Guided student enrollment and communications, and supported faculty members with monthly meetings, materials and problem-solving. 

• Created English for Art & Design, an interdisciplinary elective for graduate students. Taught four successive programs. 

• Led design of A&L’s Communication Skills Workshops, a series of five extensive asynchronous online learning modules on Canvas LMS for first-year art and design students to learn academic culture and orient themselves to college expectations. 

• Delivered presentations and workshops yearly for Orientation, Teaching and Learning Lab, International Student Services, Social Equity & Inclusion and other campus partners.

• Served on committees for Holistic Student Wellness and Accreditation (NECHE).

• Inclusive Writing Across the Curriculum contributor and participant.

Freelance Instructional Designer, Openbook English, Brattleboro, VT, 2009–12

• Designed interactive and multimodal grammar lessons for Openbook English software using Openbook’s unique coding language. 

• Expanded image archive linked to the program’s vocabulary bank. 

• Provided training and advocacy for Openbook’s use among language teachers. 

Graduate Assistant, School and Teacher Programs, RISD Museum of Art, Providence RI, 2012–14

• Led thematic, learner-centered instructional tours for K-12 student groups.

• Collaborated with K-12 teachers in order to link tour content to curricular learning outcomes. 

• Created an archive of original language-oriented lesson plans for English language learners.

• Designed bilingual tours to be delivered in family educational program. 

Full-Time Staff, International Language Institute of Massachusetts, Northampton, MA, 2006–12

• Taught in ESOL, Intensive English, and World Language programs. Conducted new student intakes and student assessments. Coordinated Intensive English Program.

• Designed a series of learning workbooks for beginner and intermediate students in the World Language courses. These books are still in use and have served hundreds of students. 

• Delivered professional development workshop on using modern and contemporary art as richer visuals for cultural content in language classes. 

• Contributed photographs, design, video and other marketing content to a nonprofit community organization.

Skills

Canvas LMS | Microsoft Office | BEST Plus, Cambridge Oral Test of English and REEP language assessments |Advanced film and digital photographic editing | Adobe Photoshop | Advanced speaker of Spanish and French