Malaika Ross

Artist, Writer and Breast Cancer Survivor/Advocate

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

  • B.A. Hampshire College, Div III thesis, The Impact of Solar Arrays on Soil Microbial Activity

  • Assets for Artists Alumn

  • New England Foundation For the Arts Five-Week Workshop, Making It Public for Massachusetts Artists

GRANTS

  • 2024, The Puffin Foundation grant for The Visibility Project.

  • 2023, ValleyCreates Project Evolution grant. A program of the Community Foundation of Western MA and MASS MoCA.

  • 2023, Mass Cultural Council grant for creative individuals.

  • 2022, ValleyCreates Capacity-Building grant. A program of the Community Foundation of Western MA and MASS MoCA.

EXHIBITIONS

  • 2025, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI. CARE group show.

  • 2025, UMass Science & Engineering Library, Amherst, MA. The Soil Beneath Us.

  • 2024, The Gallery at Hope & Feathers, Framing and Gallery, Northampton, MA. Novel Botanical.

  • 2024, Greenfield Public Library, Greenfield, MA. The Visibility Project.

  • 2024, A.P.E. Split Level Gallery, 33 Hawley St, Northampton, MA. Shadow and Light: An Expression of the Cancer Experience group show (curator and exhibiting artist).

  • 2024, UMass Amherst Design Building Gallery, Amherst, MA. Y3K On Distant Keys group show.

  • 2023, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA. Reflecting Ecologies: Artists in Nature.

  • 2023, Geissler Gallery, Stoneleigh-Burnham School, Greenfield, MA. A Different Way to Experience Winter.

  • 2023, Peacock Room, Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity, Florence, MA. Contemporary Botanical Paintings, Winter.

  • 2022, ECA Gallery, Easthampton, MA. The Microbes That Saved My Life: A survey of drawings and paintings of soil microbes.

  • 2022, The Gallery at Hope & Feathers, Amherst, MA. Summer to Fall, a collection of 12 botanical paintings.

  • 2022, ECA/MAP Workspace at Eastworks Open Studio / Solo Exhibition, Easthampton, MA

  • 2021, You + Me Gallery, Group Exhibition: Urgent Unity, Unprecedented Healing: Reflections from COVID, Greenfield, MA

  • 2021, Creative People Leading Climate Action, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (The Augusta Savage Gallery, the Arts Extension Service, and partners in Creative Women Leading Climate Action Virtual Symposium co-hosted Creative People Leading Climate Action, a juried digital visual art and multi-disciplinary exhibition.)

TEACHING

  • 2025, Art Demonstration, Community Day at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA.

  • 2025, Workshop Instructor, Botanical Painting Using Pigments from Local Flowers and Plants, deTours Program, Cummington, MA.

  • 2025, Workshop Instructor, Expressive Botanical Painting, Snow Farm New England Craft Program, Williamsburg, MA.

  • 2025, Workshop Instructor, Seed Drawing Workshop, UMass Science & Engineering Library, Amherst, MA

  • 2025, Workshop Instructor, Botanical Workshop, The Care Center, Holyoke, MA.

  • 2024, Workshop Instructor, Art Workshop for Cancer Survivors and Caregivers, Greenfield Public Library, Greenfield, MA.

  • 2024, Workshop Facilitator, Shadow and Light Art Workshop for Cancer Survivors, Resilient Community Arts, Easthampton, MA.

  • 2022, Co-facilitator, Smith College New Student Orientation, Northampton, MA.

  • 2022, Workshop Instructor, Watercolor Your Way, Easthampton, MA.

  • 2022, Workshop Instructor, Drawing and Painting, Make-It Springfield, Springfield, MA.

  • 2022, Guest Artist Speaker, Summer Camp, Easthampton, MA.

  • 2022, Guest Artist Speaker, Art Teens, Shelburne Falls, MA.

 RESIDENCIES

  • 2025, Pollinator Coop Program, International.

  • 2022 Easthampton City Arts, MAP Space Artist Residency, Easthampton, MA