NEWSLETTERS
Today the veil is thin and one thing has always been true. There are Monsters and Mothers. I mean to tell you that Monsters and Mothers are not opposites. They’re two sides of an ancient coin, to the tune of Mars in Cancer. Like Medusa’s spilled blood, one drop destroys, one restores. Two special announcements via MissingWitches Podcast & Boston Art Review go deep into Mother’s Work & Monster’s Tools… October 31, 2024
Night Bats! Mourning Doves! Shame puts crybaby in the corner, but I shout “EMPATHS TO THE FRONT!” As the sun moves into Scorpio, I reflect on “Un-American Activities”, wells of emotions, my 7th and 41st birthdays. The layered magic of number seven unfolds in the last weeks of my exhibition Beautiful Seven… October 25, 2024
Beautiful Beings
After 9 months kicking the can down the road, I have a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT - X 2! Includes personal reflections on my visit home for the Nashville Film Festival the week before Helene hit Appalachia, the TN Parthenon, and BIG MEDUSA ENERGY… October 7, 2024
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Earth’s New Moon just crossed the Sun in the sign of the Warrior. As many peered through eclipse glasses to catch the show, I got some strange news about my lecture “Spiritual Spectacles”. Herein you’ll find a lineup of April events, reflections on 6 months of resistance since the fall eclipse season, and some valuable messages from our favorite feisty dwarf planet ERIS… April 11, 2024
As many states observe so-called “Columbus Day” myself and my non-binary Italian American collaborators express our dissidence regarding the holiday. We release a new “Gateway to Infinity (An Anti-monument)” project film + publication and Call to Dethrone Columbus Day… October 9, 2023
My newest groundwork Gateway to Infinity (An Anti-monument) is open to the public. Learn about the concepts, collaborations, rituals and publications supporting it + upcoming adventures for dreamers… July 13, 2023
I write to you from the OTHER SIDE… March 17, 2023
Happy Friday the 13th! … January 13, 2023
REM and Paula Abdul officially displaced by infinitely looping sleigh bells… December 15, 2022
I’ve got big news that won’t snooze… November 23, 2022
Hope you’ve enjoyed the season of the thinned veil… November 3, 2022
NEWS
2024
From Fall of 2023 onward, all of my new highlights are imbedded within my newsletters posted above!
2023
New Craft Artists in Action’s Cosmic Court is featured on the cover of Transgender Studies Quarterly- what an honor!
Psyched to be featured on Episode 8 “Stelle Scopa & Sedna” of A Starnight Dwell podcast
Honored to be interviewed on one of my favorite podcasts: Missing Witches! Special Equinox Episode #182
Kasia of Tarot Map reviews Counting to Infinity * Stelle Scopa, giving it “10 to of 10” <3- Watch it on YouTube
Counting to Infinity * Stelle Scopa Deck of Cards reached it’s funding goal! You can now purchase the deck from my online store
2022
My friend and colleague Tiffany Hopkins is teaching a class through Morbid Anatomy that features some of my artwork. Sign up for Mediumship for creativity here!
The Kickstarter Pre-launch for Counting to Infinity* Stelle Scopa - a playing and divination card deck- is now active. Sign up to be notified and preorder your deck!
STAR BALL has arrived! And it’s available at a “Birthday Bird” discount through 11/6
Honored to announce I’ve been selected to receive the Prilla Smith Bracket award- a generous grant for women artists issues by Wellesley’s Davis Museum
My Shaker Work-Outs are now on view in Mediating, a 2 person show at Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
Counting to Infinity/ Sweeping Stars is featured on Lifted Lab- covering contemporary, spiritual art
Molteni and the NCAA are featured in just the 2nd issue of a brand new Women’s basketball magazine! Check out The Opening Tip by Kevin Coval for WSLAM
I’ll be speaking on a panel during The Muhammad Ali Center Athletes and Social Change Forum on July 15 @2pm
A Sea Ball can now be purchased in the ICA Boston’s design store. Just 3 left!
I completed a new basketball court + recreational space at Doran Elementary in Fall River
Jerry Cullum review: The Shakers, moon walks and fly fishing, this “nature” exhibit covers it all in Arts Atlanta
My solo show at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art has been postponed a year and will open in August 2023 instead
The full 8 episodes of Shaker Work-Out will debut in a group show at White Space/Take It Easy, Atlanta
After 15 years of applying for the Mass Cultural Council artist grant, I have been selected as a recipient in the Painting category!
Unrequited Leisure (Nashville) will be flying my flag on their AIRSPACE flagpole for the month of May
My first solo show in my hometown: Counting to Infinity opens at COOP Galery (Nashville), run is 4/2-4/30
Unseen Hours is featured on Lifted Lab
The Unseen Hours publication + exhibition catalog is ready! Purchase from Fruitlands Museum here
Hilma’s Ghost invited me to participate in an Art & Magic panel discussion! Watch the recorded program here
My work was included in the Eccentric Devotions issue of Femme Salee Magazine. Get your copy here!
My “Make Your Own Visionary Art” Morbid Anatomy class session w/ Tiffany Hopkins is rescheduled for April 16, 3pm est
WBUR lists Unseen hours among “Five Things to Do This Weekend”
2021
You can now purchase gift certificates for Siren Call readings through the online store! Makes a good holiday gift- click here
The SEA BALL - special edition artist basketball based on this summer’s A Sea Bird Fort Point court is available for purchase in the online store
Seven Sisters (Celestial Subduction), 5,000 sq ft site specific mural at the historic Fremont Theater is complete! Thanks to SLOMA + City of San Luis Obispo
Maria will give a (virtually) public artist talk to students of Maine College of Art and Design for the Gary Ambrose Sculpture Lecture Series
Boston Globe includes Unseen Hours in their “What’s happening in the Arts World” September 2021 list
American Craft Council included Unseen Hours in their Craft Happenings recommendations for Winter 2021-22
Unseen Hours: Space Clearing for Spirit Work is open to the public at Fruitlands Museum (Register for a Fireside chat with artists in residence 12/11 2:30pm)
I just completed a 3 week artist residency at Canterbury Shaker Village. Search #ShakerWorkOut on my instagram to see what I was up to!
A Sea Bird, my newest Basketball Court/Ground painting is complete! Visit it in downtown Boston
The Hands: Suspiria’s Morbid Savior Complex, an essay written with Nathan Mondragon was published online and in print- Of Juliet Magazine, Volume 3
Art Witch Podcast interview with Zaneta has been published- Listen here --> Sacred Callings: Past Lives, Multimedia Art and Unapologetic Complexity
My work is included in one of the essays in the Visionary New England catalogue - Purchase from MIT Press