Maria Curb (Hawaii, b. 1997) has been living in Philadelphia, PA as of recent. She graduated with her coordinated BFA from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and The University of Pennsylvania after the spring semester of 2021 with a sculpture certificate. She decided to pursue a career in art through schools in Philadelphia after she attended a summer session at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her learned art skills include welding, casting, woodworking, oil painting, water colors, press printing, drawing, intaglio, book making, and more. Her learned academic skills from the University of Pennsylvania include professional writing, social media, data entry, art history, leadership, and management.

Curb has always been interested in entrepreneurship ventures and volunteering in her community. Most recently she worked with KAPA Magazine helping in administration and operations to organize events, market, and offer business services for local entrepreneurs and artists in Hawaii. As a family business venture, she worked with her sister, Isa, to sell their coveted seitan nuggets for their business, Hail Seitan. They both attended an intensive one month entrepreneurship course at PreX to gain more knowledge about running a business in Hawaii. Since the summer of 2019, she has also been working on an local entertainment-seeking app in Philadelphia called Qurrent as co-founder and lead marketing manager with Muammar Johnson. During her first semester at UPenn, she volunteered with Nancy Makale and Dana Leifert in fundraising for Dada Safarini, a group that strives to support and educate women in Kenya about menstrual health. From 2017 to 2019, she volunteered to interview business owners to write stories for the Vegetarian Society of South Jersey’s website page to offer more information about the plant-based lifestyle (see BLOG in navigation). Curb got introduced to the world of business back in Hawaii when she started working and traveling with Solar Motion as an executive assistant. Curb has also exhibited and curated in the US.

She has shown her art in multiple group exhibitions in Philadelphia such as the Pechin Art Show, Splatterhouse Collective events, The Koresh Dance Company Exhibition, SQUID, and The Annual Student Exhibition at PAFA. She has co-curated Home is Where the Art is at Sakura Arts Collective, the Pechin Art Show, SQUID (PAFA), and The Capacity of Color with other artists and professional gallerists. She has also worked in sales at the Ruby Mazur Gallery selling high end paintings which feature portraits of famous musicians that the artists spent time with while creating album cover art in the 70’s and 80’s.