Liz Brent-Maldonado

Artist, Writer, Educator

Liz loves teaching, design, research, travel, colors, organizing, and coffee. Whether curriculum or comics, yoga or neuroscience, her favorite projects feature the everyday interlaced with the magical and mysterious.

She works best in the intersections of the practical and the theatrical, the fantastical and the scientific, movement and stillness, comfort and organization, and solitary focus with team collaboration.

Her modus operandi has always been, “Leave it better than we found it.”


Currently

 

in the Community

  • Assistant to the Artistic Planning Director and Guest Artist Liaison for the Sun Valley Music Festival.

  • Wellness Instructor for BreakthroughSF - This spring teaching wellness strategies and mindfulness techniques to high school students.

  • Substitute Yoga Teacher for HAUM SF and a participant of their 300 hour Yoga Teacher Training program (set to finish in Oct. 2024).

  • A member of the 2025 cohort of the 2 year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program - Diving deeper into meditation, wellness, and social justice.

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sparkle.vision the Book

In 2015, I began a collection of autobiographical writings. What emerged was a research journey about my own rare, neurological condition. In the beginning, I didn’t even have that label. Now I know it as “Visual Snow Syndrome.” Since then, I’ve been working on a book about living with VSS.

The goal for the next year is to have my book fully ready for designing and self-publishing!

For now:

Stance on Dance

My illustrations have been printed in the Fall/Winter print edition of Stance on Dance!

Breadth of Bodies PUBLISHED!

A collaborative project with Stance on Dance, The Discussing Disability in Dance Project, 5 years in the making is NOW a published book, ebook, and audiobook! I created original illustrations to accompany each of the 35 interviews with dance artists from 15 countries.

 
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What is Sparkle.vision?

A description of how Liz sees - quite literally - and this hub for her projects. For VSS specifically:

queries Welcome

Have an idea for a project, collaboration, or event? Looking for a Yoga or Meditation instructor? Send me a message.


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