Production/Research Areas: Digital Cinema Production
Teaching Areas: digital film production, documentary film making, media literacy, oral history, community video/outreach, amateur films, home movies, small format filmmaking
Courses: Digital Cinema Production, Advanced Topics in Film
Degrees: M.F.A. Temple University, B.A. University of Tennessee
Professional creative work website: Preservation Project
office - 246 East Henderson
phone - (540) 231-5946
e-mail - amaynor@vt.edu
Ashley Maynor is a documentarian whose films and new media works have been exhibited around the country. Maynor is also engaged with building communities through video partnerships, empowering youth and communities to tell their own stories. Maynor's creative work, outreach, and research have been supported by the Southern Humanities Media Fund, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
In addition to teaching at Temple University in Philadelphia, Professor Maynor has taught workshops as a video facilitator for Scribe Video Center’s Precious Places Project and as a guest artist in the Arts Council of the Blue Ridge’s Artists in Schools program. Locally, she is the co-founder and program director of Virginia Tech's Blacksburg Stories Youth Video Workshop. Maynor also organizes Southwest Virginia's annual Home Movie Day celebration. Maynor joined the Virginia Tech Cinema Program in Fall 2008 as a Visiting Assistant Professor.