KinoSaito is an art center rooted in the creation and practice of abstract art and committed to nurturing experimentation in every form and medium. By engaging artist and audience, painting and performance, and learning and play, KinoSaito honors the spirit of its founding muse, Kikuo Saito, and furthers his vision for an interdisciplinary art of making and moving, free of borders and definitions.
Maria Camia at KinoSaito
June 28 – July 20, 2025
KinoSaito Arts Center
115 7th St.
Verplanck, NY 10596
La MaMa is pleased to partner with KinoSaito Art Center for Maris Camia’s summer 2025 residency.
CREDITS
KinoSaito
Elise Wunderlich – Fabrication Design Assistant
UJ Mangune – Videography
Aaron Banes – Piano/ Singer/ Voice Actor
BIOS
Maria Camia (b. 1991) is a Brooklyn based Filipino-American Visual Theatre Artist, Director, Playwright, Fashion Designer, and Introspective Hypnosis Practitioner from Virginia Beach, VA. Her work is a playful yet political call to disconnect from hyper-consumerism and to reclaim the truth within through the use of storytelling, new ceremonies, puppets, comics, illustration, music, and spiritual clothing. With sharp comedy, Shakespearean styled writing, catchy tunes, and joyful theatrical surprise, she intends to make self-reflection and shadow work fun. Since 2013, Maria has dedicated her entire artistic practice to the creation of the world of Aricama, bridging indigenous ancestry with galactic futurism by globally inspiring practice, play, and healing.
Maria attended Virginia Commonwealth University for a BFA in Sculpture + Extended Media and Sarah Lawrence College for a Masters in Theatre. Her original work was performed at Dixon Place, La MaMa Experimental Club, Chicago’s International Puppet Festival, Coney Island, and Museum of Chinese in America. She received the Jim Henson’s Workshop in 2021 and 2023, and Production Grant, and Women’s Fund for Media and Music for her puppet musical, The Healing Shipment. Recently, she was awarded The Puppetry Guild of Greater New York’s BIPOC Puppeteer Scholarship for outstanding dedication to the art and craft of puppetry and ongoing contributions to the puppetry community.
@themaricama
Youtube.com/MariaCamia
This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Energy Hygiene
Puppet Painting Workshop
13 Jul. 2025 | 1-3pm
Tickets: $10
Join Maria as we practice energy hygiene techniques to connect to the different sensations/emotions/pains trapped in our body – and then use our imagination to clean them out. Participants will then paint provided mini Aricamian puppet statues, representing how they imagined cleaning out their body. Painted puppets will be used in Maria’s final performance.
Since 2020, Maria has been a certified Introspective Hypnosis Practitioner alongside her artistic practice to release heavy energies from the body. She has learned how past experiences can get stuck in our body and how using the imagination daily to release these energies is beneficial, before unresolved feelings become physical ailments or disease. She will teach techniques she uses in hypnosis and is excited to share this with the public.
