Education
Born in New York, Maxson received her Master of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University, her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Houston and attended the De Ateliers program in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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She is the first recipient of the Arthouse Texas Prize. Maxson"s works have been seen at museums and microcinemas from Texas to Tel Aviv, including Anthology Film Archives, New New York Art in General, New New York Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Los Angeles
Light Industry, Brooklyn.
Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City. The New York Underground Film Festival.
Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festivals and on the Internet. In 2008, Lost Broadcasts, a Digital Video Disc compilation of Maxson’s videos, was released by the nationally recognized, Houston-based microcinema Aurora Picture Show in conjunction with Microcinema International.
In 2006, Maxson was called "..a transmedia Cindy Sherman for the MySpace generation.." by New York Village Voice media critic Editor Halter.
Halter had previously named her to a "sweet 16" list of experimental film and video, 2003. Texas Prize
In 2005, Maxson was named as a finalist for the inaugural Texas Prize, a $30,000 art prize established by the Austin, Texas, non-profit Arthouse and the largest art prize in the region at the time.
