Maya Chalee
@chaleeart.bsky.social
I am a New Mexican artist and designer who practices permaculture in Western NY. mayachalee.com
My apiary is finished! 5 hives. 4 are buzzing and queen right. #naturalbeekeeping #layenshives #savethebees #artist
May 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
My apiary is finished! 5 hives. 4 are buzzing and queen right. #naturalbeekeeping #layenshives #savethebees #artist
My dad has cancer and can't walk well. That didn't stop him from going to the Hands Off rally in Santa Fe, New Mexico and circling the rally while honking and cussing at Trump and Musk. Proud of my dad. #handsoff #democracy #newmexico
April 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
My dad has cancer and can't walk well. That didn't stop him from going to the Hands Off rally in Santa Fe, New Mexico and circling the rally while honking and cussing at Trump and Musk. Proud of my dad. #handsoff #democracy #newmexico
Just finished painting my 4th layens beehive for our apiary. This one is called "Spirit Rabbit".
April 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Just finished painting my 4th layens beehive for our apiary. This one is called "Spirit Rabbit".
Just finished my latest layens beehive. This is dedicated to the people of Ukraine. ❤️🙏🇺🇦 #ukraine #layenshive #freedom
February 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Just finished my latest layens beehive. This is dedicated to the people of Ukraine. ❤️🙏🇺🇦 #ukraine #layenshive #freedom
A painting I did to illustrate the many foods bees pollinate. Without bees these go. Neonicotinoids are largely responsible for the demise of bees as are habitat loss and monocropping. #savethebees #diversity #permaculture
January 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A painting I did to illustrate the many foods bees pollinate. Without bees these go. Neonicotinoids are largely responsible for the demise of bees as are habitat loss and monocropping. #savethebees #diversity #permaculture
This painting is called "The Bee Keeper". It sold to a collector in NYC. I think it's still one of my favorites.
January 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This painting is called "The Bee Keeper". It sold to a collector in NYC. I think it's still one of my favorites.
My take on Pueblo pottery. Acrylic and gold leaf. I just love the black and white pottery.
December 26, 2024 at 3:24 PM
My take on Pueblo pottery. Acrylic and gold leaf. I just love the black and white pottery.
Starry snake I painted a few years ago. Fitting now that my permaculture farmstead is called "Snake Hill". youtube.com/@snakehillpe...
December 20, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Starry snake I painted a few years ago. Fitting now that my permaculture farmstead is called "Snake Hill". youtube.com/@snakehillpe...
A tiny bundle of sage I painted. Mixed media with gold leaf. While sacred to Southwestern and California tribes White sage is over harvested for profit. Cedar and sweet grass are acceptable so consider them as substitutes for burning.
December 16, 2024 at 4:03 PM
A tiny bundle of sage I painted. Mixed media with gold leaf. While sacred to Southwestern and California tribes White sage is over harvested for profit. Cedar and sweet grass are acceptable so consider them as substitutes for burning.
Here's a painting I did about the Spirit of tobacco that a collector has since purchased. For many indigenous people tobacco is an offering to the ancestors.
December 14, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Here's a painting I did about the Spirit of tobacco that a collector has since purchased. For many indigenous people tobacco is an offering to the ancestors.
Was stuck in Buffalo for 3 days during this latest blizzard. We barely made it via the plane too. 🙏 Bless plow drivers!
December 13, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Was stuck in Buffalo for 3 days during this latest blizzard. We barely made it via the plane too. 🙏 Bless plow drivers!
Here's a portrait I did in 2020 of the apostle Sitting Bull. My family is Taos Pueblo and White. I now live on Seneca land. I will always honor the ancestors.
December 7, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Here's a portrait I did in 2020 of the apostle Sitting Bull. My family is Taos Pueblo and White. I now live on Seneca land. I will always honor the ancestors.
I'm in my first union job at age 46. Most of my life I toiled under corporate abuse with the threat I could be fired at any moment for any minor infraction. Constantly full of fear of starvation and wreckage. The difference is palpable. Unions are the way for the working class.
December 7, 2024 at 12:08 PM
I'm in my first union job at age 46. Most of my life I toiled under corporate abuse with the threat I could be fired at any moment for any minor infraction. Constantly full of fear of starvation and wreckage. The difference is palpable. Unions are the way for the working class.
Cheese pumpkin we grew. We save the seeds of course and for dinner I roasted it with blue cheese and walnuts!
December 7, 2024 at 12:31 AM
Cheese pumpkin we grew. We save the seeds of course and for dinner I roasted it with blue cheese and walnuts!
We're canning cranberries we bought on sale for next year. We try to put up as much food as possible from our garden & store. Between climate shocks, crop failures, delivery system decline & an incoming cruel American oligarchy regime we know food prices will only increase. Old world skills help.
December 6, 2024 at 8:35 PM
We're canning cranberries we bought on sale for next year. We try to put up as much food as possible from our garden & store. Between climate shocks, crop failures, delivery system decline & an incoming cruel American oligarchy regime we know food prices will only increase. Old world skills help.
Yesterday's view of my road in Western NY. Lake effect snow. More coming today.
December 5, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Yesterday's view of my road in Western NY. Lake effect snow. More coming today.
Currently reading "Radical Homemakers" by Shannon Hayes. It's amazing. As my family continues to downshift from mindless consumerism to thoughtful producers at a local level we find it very empowering to get off the corporate consumer hampster wheel.
December 4, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Currently reading "Radical Homemakers" by Shannon Hayes. It's amazing. As my family continues to downshift from mindless consumerism to thoughtful producers at a local level we find it very empowering to get off the corporate consumer hampster wheel.
The snow outside my kitchen window! First snow of the year was a lake effect blizzard! 🥶
December 2, 2024 at 5:25 PM
The snow outside my kitchen window! First snow of the year was a lake effect blizzard! 🥶
When you can a lot of your own food that you grow or forage and are on the way to a family Thanksgiving.
November 28, 2024 at 3:17 PM
When you can a lot of your own food that you grow or forage and are on the way to a family Thanksgiving.
Pepper is helping me paint. 😵💫
November 25, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Pepper is helping me paint. 😵💫
Trying to teach my cat what his job is. 🙄 It's sad I can catch mice with my "bare" hands better than him.
November 24, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Trying to teach my cat what his job is. 🙄 It's sad I can catch mice with my "bare" hands better than him.
Just a reminder to the artists out there to not be afraid to charge for your work. ❤️
November 21, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Just a reminder to the artists out there to not be afraid to charge for your work. ❤️
As an artist who works in reproductive justice and who believes in regenerative agriculture it often feels like the entire universe is against me. Burn out, Exhaustion, Grief follow. But my grandmother taught me to walk in beauty. So I do. Notes to myself like this help. I hope you'll walk with me.
November 20, 2024 at 8:23 PM
As an artist who works in reproductive justice and who believes in regenerative agriculture it often feels like the entire universe is against me. Burn out, Exhaustion, Grief follow. But my grandmother taught me to walk in beauty. So I do. Notes to myself like this help. I hope you'll walk with me.
Hello! I am an artist and practice permaculture in Western NY. Hope you all are having a wonderful day. Here's a rabbit I painted several years ago.
November 20, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Hello! I am an artist and practice permaculture in Western NY. Hope you all are having a wonderful day. Here's a rabbit I painted several years ago.