Elena Maza   Elena was born in Havana, Cuba, and came to the U.S. in 1961 as a result of Castro's revolution, living in New Mexico with a foster family for a year until her own family was able to leave. A resident of the Washington area since then, she studied architecture at Catholic University, where she gained her first exposure to the local arts scene working with a group of students at Walter Hopps' Washington Gallery of Modern Art. She started painting in 1970 while working as an architectural drafts-woman and designer, and studied later at the Corcoran School of Art. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally in juried and invitational shows. She has received a number of awards, including an individual artist grant from Montgomery county in 1994, and has curated art exhibitions locally and in Delaware, where "Collage of Cultures: Many Visions, One Community" received a Governor's award. She is a past President of the Women's Caucus for Art of Greater Washington, and of The Cuban American Cultural Society of Washington. She also teaches Taijiquan, a Chinese martial art.

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