Mary Ann Haven

2011- 2025,  701 Center for Contemporary Art Open Studios Participant

2023 Juried into Artfields, Lake City, SC

2025 Jasper Solo Show at Motor Supply Jan-March

2025 November, Southern Exposure Music Festival contributing artist

Artist Statement

I recently listened again to Neal Diamonds' song, "Coming to America".  It paints this image of people coming to this wonderful place from all over the world.....very "patriotic".  Those lyrics are much at odds with the images and stories we are hearing and seeing daily from our news media sources. 

It feels more like " Come here at your own risk !!

And by the way.... your chance of getting in....well...you might just be 'shit out of luck' if you're the wrong color or of the wrong religion or from the wrong country.  And the folks that have fulfilled all the requirements only to have the chance to become citizens ripped away......it brings me to tears.


Presented by the Jasper Project, The Degenerate Art Project II is the answer to an overwhelming request by artists and patrons of Jasper's inaugural Degenerate Art Project (July 2025) for an additional exhibition which will involve an open call for visual artists. This 3 week-long multidisciplinary arts event (Feb. 11–28 at Stormwater Studios) invites Midlands artists to respond to today's socio-political climate, and unite our local arts community—physically and in spirit—in support and solidarity during challenging times. Inspired by—and reclaiming—the legacy of the Nazi-labeled "Degenerate Art" of 1937, this project champions creative resistance and free expression through a visual art exhibition, featuring over 40 Midlands artists.