xol [hɔl] Wolof. The heart; the seat of the soul.
A multidisciplinary practice at the intersection of memory, intimacy, and legacy through archival inquiry, embodied practice, and creative infrastructure.
A home for artists, cultural workers, and values-aligned organizations designing the conditions for clearer process, broader risk, and more sustainable creative lives.
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Each pathway addresses a different dimension of creative life. Together, they form a complete practice.
Memory bearing as method.
Archival research, curriculum design, and learning experiences rooted in Black performance lineages and embodied ethics.
Explore →Relation as architecture.
Intimacy direction and coordination, sensitivity specialization, and relational architecture for theatre, film, and performance.
Explore →Legacy as infrastructure.
Creative legacy planning, protection planning, and professional positioning for artists and cultural worldbuilders constructing lives that can hold their life's creations.
Explore →Structure
Each pathway uses three interconnected systems to shape its offerings, allowing collaborators to enter at any level and deepen over time.
A single-project engagement or standalone offering designed around one practice area.
Multiple cycles, chosen together. The spiral is the shape that emerges when a collaborator's needs span more than one practice area.
An ongoing, multilayered partnership or curriculum built across an institution. Custom designed for your organization, your people, and your goals.
Founder
Xol Labs is rooted in a simple belief: care deserves structure.
My purpose brings together practices that are often kept apart but have always belonged in conversation for me. Archival research teaches me that memory is infrastructure, that lineage is a form of protection, and that in remembering, we begin to understand what we are responsible for carrying forward. Intimacy teaches me that the body carries knowledge, that consent is part of how we honor what has been entrusted to us, and that safety is something we build so that knowledge can move forward with care. Legacy planning teaches me to consider what comes after us, to understand that the future also requires intention, and that preservation is an active practice of care.
This purpose has been shaped through study, apprenticeship, and practice across multiple spaces. My archival frameworks have been formed through research at the August Wilson Archive at the University of Pittsburgh, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. My intimacy systems and embodied safety designs draw from ongoing Sensitivity Specialist Certification training with Ann James, my graduate study with Adam Noble at the University of Houston, and a grounding in intimacy practices from Intimacy Directors & Coordinators. I am also licensed in life and health insurance, and that training has expanded how I understand protection, continuity, and the long-term care of what people are building in their lives.
This way of working is shaped by how I move through the world. I am interested in what helps people feel more resourced in their thinking, more held in their bodies, and more protected in the lives they are building around their work. I care about language, atmosphere, ethics, and what becomes possible when support is treated as part of the practice rather than an afterthought.
Xol Labs is an invitation to keep these commitments in conversation, honoring the stories we inherit, the bodies that carry them, and the futures we are shaping across mind, body, xol.
— Maya Camille, Founder
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