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How parallels between the Shaker Era of Manifestations and early Spiritualism movements might inform our present. Essay written with Laura Campagna for Boston Art Review’s issue #13: Make Believe..
Hear from 2 Gorgons and a Lunar Priestess on collaboration and raising Medusa Consciousness
CURRENTLY ON VIEW
Solo show @ Fuller Craft Museum through Jan 5
UPCOMING EVENTS + PROGRAMS
A Beautiful Stillness -Panel discussion through American Folk Art Museum 12/ 19, 2024
Join a virtual discussion with artists Maria Molteni, Mariam Ghani and Cauleen Smith for a conversation about the Shaker influence on American culture and imagination. Programming as part of the exhibit Anything But Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic. December 19 6-7:30pm, free with registration.
Choose Your Own Adventure Esoteric Artist Lecture
Join my class and support Morbid Anatomy! There are 13 spots available in my offering for their auction - bids start at $33.
SELECT PUBLIC WORKS ON VIEW
Gateway to Infinity (An Anti-monument)
My newest groundwork is complete! Located on Boston’s Greenway - just across from the Longwharf Hotel, btwn Greenway Carousel and Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion. The piece was unveiled via a Summer Solstice ritual hosted with queer non-binary Italian-American collaborators. Learn more about the work, our program, newly-released project publication + short film, and letter of resistance.
Hand painted mural behind the Fremont Theatre in Downtown San Luis Obispo, CA. With support from the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art and the City of SLO
Curated by Emma Saperstein
Hand painted groundwork at The Momentary contemporary art museum, Bentonville, AR
Curated by Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas
COSMIC COURTS!
AKA “Altars to the Sky”. Visit the sites that laid the foundation for the national community-centered basketball court mural movement! A Sea Bird is number six of seven courts designed by Molteni and hand painted with the help of Queer/ LGBTQIA NCAA Collective collaborators.
FB AIR video feature of my commission including hand-welded and painted basketball hoops + site-specific painting
STAY IN THE LOOP
PAST EVENTS 2024
Sacred Sheets at Nashville Film Festival 9/19-9/25
All Power Comes from the Sun
”Triskele & The Monster’s Tools” is included in a rad group show curated by Solarpunk Surfclub in Lexington, KY
Sacred Sheets in “Manifestation of Light”
Shaker Historical Society (Ohio) includes our film “Sacred Sheets” in exhibition about celestial inspirations for the Shakers. On view March 8-August 11, 2024
Join us at the Crystal Ballroom on April 26 for the best drag show in Boston. The Inflatable Beehive will be a guest installation at Hole Show! GET YOUR TICKETS BEFORE THEY SELL OUT!
Triskeles & The Moster’s Tools will be screened at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square as part of the GRRLHAUS Film Festival. April 18, 8pm
PAST EVENTS 2023
Join us at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square on October 11. An evening of GRRL HAUS international film festival selections will screen starting at 7pm!
I’ll be performing Yarn Over Double Dribble: Ball Handling Score at this year’s BMC Conference
Radical Road Trip Seeks Heaven on Earth! Join us in our chariot on a roving retreat from Salem, MA to Lily Dale, NY this summer. Click photo for details or watch our INSTA LIVE Q&A HERE
PAST EVENTS (view CV for full list post 2021)
2022
Needs updating!
2021
Unseen Hours: Space Clearing for Spirit Work
Collaborative Solo show with Allison Halter, curated by Shana Dumont Garr
Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA
Golden Dome Presents: The Work of the Sun
Flower Head, Los Angeles, CA
2020
After Spiritualism: Loss & Transcendence in Contemporary Art
Fitchburg Art Museum, MA
To The Hoop: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro
Venusian Rosaceae (Five Seeded Star) - Site specific painted groundwork
The Momentary, Bentonville, AK
Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida
2019
Cosmic Court basketball court mural
Talbot Middle School, Fall River, MA
With the New Bedford Art Museum
Digital Soup- Evening of rooftop performances curated by Lani Asuncion
Studio 550, Cambridge MA
Courting the Sky
Basketball Court makeover & celebratory block party
Curated by the New Bedford Art Museum
Clasky Common, New Bedford, MA
From Bauhaus to Your House
Woodworking workshop scholarship
Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado
Eschaton (we were just kids playing kings)
Project 1612, Peoria, IL
Pried
Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance group exhibition
The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
Platteforum Artist Residency + Solo Exhibition
AB EXorcism! Applied Action Painting & Inverted Arenas
Denver, CO
Social Emergency Response Center
Co-designed for DS4SI for Round 48: Beyond Social Practice
Project Rowhouses (25th Anniversary Round), Houston, TX
2018
Haystack Art Schools Collaborative Conference, visiting artist presenter
Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, ME
Solo Show
BB&N Upper School Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Sun Worship & Solar Machines - group show
Curated by Kari Adelaide and Max Razdow (The Sphinx Northeast)
FPAC at Envoy Hotel, Boston Seaport District
Opening Reception 9/6, 6-8pm
Making Change: The Art of Craft and Activism
Museum of Design Atlanta, Georgia
Opening Reception: June 2
Altarations: A Selection of Shrines at the Dorchester Art Project- group show
Opening Reception: July 21, 6-9pm
Closing Reception: August 26, 1-4pm
Dorchester Art Projects, Boston, MA
John Michael Kohler Art Center for the Midsummer Festival in the Arts
Sheboygan, WI
Art Truck Teaching Artist Residency
Stitched: Syntax/ Action/ Reaction
New Art Center, Newton MA
Vicki Myhren Gallery, Denver University, Colorado
Opening March 8, 5-8pm
Kosmologym - collaboration between Camp Little Hope + Fukk + New Craft Artists in Action
Den Frei Center for Contemporary Art
Copenhagen, Denmark
2017
Odds and Ends // Yale Art Book Fair, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Boston Art Book Fair- Maria Molteni/ Free Bleed Publications booth
Special Programs: Screening of A Visitors Guide to Reorientation on Spectacle Island
Goodman Banks Visiting Artist Residency, Kingswood Oxford School, West Hartford, Connecticut
City of Boston Artist in Residence with BCYF Perkins Center
Collaboration/Residency with Queer Sport Split, Split, Croatia
Medium, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Georgia
Year of the Woman: Now + There Curated Group show, Beehive, Boston
Stand Up, Gallery Kayafas
NCAA Craft City Workshop 5-8pm July 7
The Center for Craft Creativity and Design, Asheville, North Carolina
Selvedge - Group Show centered on intersection of textile & painting, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland ME
Makers Marks: Art, Craft and the Fiber of Change
Panel discussion: Artists Discuss Their Practices, Moderated by Miguel Gomez-Ibanez, President of the North Bennet Street School
BCA BALL - Gala and Fundraiser for Boston Center for the Arts
NCAA Presents... Sidelines: Soft Power in the Margins, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
Month of February- Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
2016
Montserrat College of Art and Design, Beverly, MA
Radius
The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
Linde Family Wing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Northampton Print and Book Fair!
A.P.E Gallery, Northampton, MA
Changing Allston
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Gallery Talk for Second Hands MFA Community Artist Project
Linde Family Wing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Contesting/Contexting Sport: To Reclaim the Field with Art and Activism
NGBK Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA
Souther Constellations public artist talks
Elsewhere Living Museum and Residency, Greensboro, NC
Southern Constellations fellowship/residency
Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC
CounterCraft: The Rise of the Indie Craft Movement - Curated by Faythe Levine
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Re: Development
Group show curated by Maggie Cavallo for the Fort Point Artists Community (FPAC)
Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA
Art Unfolded: The Practice and Process of Contemporary Artists
Lecture Series for DS4SI @ Design Studio for Social Intervention, 1496 Washington St, Roxbury, MA
Ectoplasm Selfie-Building Workshop in collaboration with Lacey Prpić Hedtke
Collaboration with hosted by the Boston LGBTIAQ Artists Alliance
Part of Programming for the Queer Threads exhibition at the BCA/Mills Gallery
Solo Show!
L'oeuf et L'oeil (The Egg and The Eye)
How's Howard? (exhibitions), 450 Harrison Ave Suite 309C, South End, Boston
Whir curated by Robert Moeller
Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
Hothouse Clubhouse: Works to Ease the Season, Curated by Ethan Kiermiar
Student Union Art Gallery, UMASS Amherst
Making in the Arts 4-6pm hosted by the Congressional Maker Caucus
Fractured Atlas invites New Craft Artists in Action to Capitol Hill
Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC
2015
Just What I Always Wanted / Holiday Pop Up
Thomas Young Gallery, Boston, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, Newhaven, CT
New Craft Artists in Action participate in BUST Craftacular Boston
Polychromatic Antiphony - Performance with Jessie Doucha
First Fridays (Bau)House Party @ ICA Boston
They were sunbeams. They were perilous cliffs. They were prophets. They were cannibals.
In collaboration with Hermione Spriggs, part of Time, Body, Space, Objects IV performance series
Curated by Alice Vogler and Vela Phelan for the Island Arts Initiative
August 22nd from first to last ferry, Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor, MA
NCAA in collaboration with ICA Boston's Teen Arts Council
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
Woander
Grin, Providence, RI
NCAA Presents: Field Days - Curated by Pam Campanaro
Montserrat Galleries, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Oops, You Missed it - Curated by Robert Moeller
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Flag Day Flag Show
Club Roar, Nashville, TN
Window Installation @ SPACE Gallery // Portland Main
Boston University Alumni Exhibit @ 808 Gallery // Boston, MA
FPAC Members show @ Atlantic Wharf Gallery // Boston, MA
Group show @ 13 Forest Gallery // Boston, MA