empowering children
to express their magic
about.
I am passionate about guiding children to uncover their creative potential. My expressive art classes honor art as a reflective, sensory part of life and facilitate the magic that children can create when sharing together with love, strength and passion.
I am innate, interdisciplinary performing artist, and a licensed psychologist from Greece. I also lived 10 years in Argentina and Peru, before moving to San Francisco in 2014 to complete my MA in Expressive Arts Therapy at CIIS (2017).
I believe in the power of the arts to get to know ourselves and transform the world, and I am convinced that children always stay alive within, no matter how old we are.
That is why I am here to advocate for the priceless value of play, imagination, expression, art making, and creativity in our everyday lives, at ALL ages.
experience.
with children
Go Girls Camp
San Francisco, 2015-2017
In San Francisco, maria also worked the last three years, as the expressive teaching artist at the Go-Girls Camp.
Girasol
Argentina, 2010-2012
In Argentina she worked for the project “Learning through stories”, in which she created and facilitated educational art workshops on self-awareness and skills development through storytelling and art, at public schools for children and teenagers at an economic disadvantage and at-risk neighborhoods.
Aytosxedia
Greece, 2002-2005
During her college years in Greece, she was a co-funder and active member of the cultural center "Aytosxedia", an autonomous initiative that offered a respectful space to the wider community to discuss, relate and co-create. There she led a weekly creative playgroup for the immigrant children of the neighborhood and participated in the puppet theater group Ku-Klu-Bau.
with adults
Takiwasi
Peru, 2013-2014
In San Francisco, maria also worked the last three years, as the expressive teaching artist at the Go-Girls Camp.
Creativity
Argentina, 2010
In Argentina she worked for the project “Learning through stories”, in which she created and facilitated educational art workshops on self-awareness and skills development through storytelling and art, at public schools for children and teenagers at an economic disadvantage and at-risk neighborhoods.
Women
Greece, 2008-2010
During her college years in Greece, she was a co-funder and active member of the cultural center "Aytosxedia", an autonomous initiative that offered a respectful space to t
