Maggie Golightly Haslam (b. Washington DC) received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in painting at Brigham Young University and a Masters of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute in New York City. She is primarily a painter and paper maker. She uses water based paints on paper to explore the essential characteristics of art mediums and their components by engineering situations where she relinquishes total control over the creative process. This practice focuses on the process behind the art making. Developing as a papermaker has allowed her to think more about conscious consumption and seek meaningful sources for materials. Maggie found inspiration in visual aesthetics related to Alissa Freeman’s ||:HerClassical:|| project. Using the visual forms in the shape of the piano, the silhouettes of the female pianists, and the sophisticated marks found within the sheet music, Maggie created paintings torn from time and linking these two artistic mediums. In 2017 Maggie collaborated with a fellow artist in a residency program located in Beginning with Children Charter School in Brooklyn, New York. They worked together with the help of the middle school students on a project relating to immigration and displacement. In the summer of 2018 and again in 2019, Maggie worked as an artist in residence on Governor’s Island, New York with Underwater New York/Works On Water where she used only collected and recycled water to make art. Most recently in 2021, Maggie orchestrated a solo exhibition at the District of Columbia Arts Center where she built a monument to grief made out of handmade paper and the community’s remembrances of those lost.