My Background

​Maia Moranville, born in 2002, is from Hillsboro, IL. In the fall of 2024, she will graduate from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and a minor in Art History. Her interest in photography and the arts started when she was younger. It was a way to express herself in a school subject where she felt she could belong and shine. Moranville continued participating in art courses throughout high school and began her undergraduate degree with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a minor in Art History. Her studies at SIUE have allowed her to grow and develop her artistic skills across multiple mediums. Moranville's primary medium is photography, but she also enjoys working in metalsmithing and printmaking. The size range of her work varies, but it is usually an 8x11 photograph for digital prints and cyanotype prints.  At SIUE, she had work featured in the Annual Student Juried Show and won an award for her cyanotype series called Petals of Society. Moranville's most recent show was the Nosie Box Gallery at Southern Illinois Edwardsville, where part of her Petals of Society was featured in the new student gallery. Her work mainly focuses on either Save the Bees or societal standards in America. At the beginning of her career at SIUE, she focused on the theme of Save the Bees, but she is now focused on societal standards in America as her theme throughout the photography she is creating. The series she is working on as we speak is on societal standards of women in the kitchen when it comes to cooking and cleaning.