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'The work of Maria Molteni is made possible through simultaneous devotions: from beekeeping to the Shakers, basketball to punk they cultivate their own complex approach to research and practice through an intuitive sense of spatial and psychic purpose. Self-described as a mystic there is a deeply spiritual aspect to their methodology, a part-formalist, part-social interventionist approach that is channeled through a humble resourcefulness and keen awareness of the current conditions that request for a dialogue to occur at all. From their giant iridescent inflatables to their crocheted basketball nets hung on abandoned hoops, their multi-faceted projects result in objects that are never static and instead serve as catalysts for new models of engagement.' -- Shalini Patel
Complete Artist Bio
Maria Molteni (They/Them, b 1983, Nashville) is a queer interdisciplinary artist, designer, educator and mystic. They descend from Tennessee (Cherokee, Shawnee, Yuchi lands) square dancers, stunt motorcyclists, quilters, beekeepers and opera singers of various, still unfolding, European backgrounds. Their practice has grown from formal studies in Painting, Printmaking and Dance to incorporate research, ritual and play-based collaboration. Their intuitive practice spans movement-based alchemy, astrology, tarot, dreamwork and color magic
Molteni exists at the intersection of embodied mysticism and tactile problem solving, giving shape to the unseen. From fiber to found-object sculpture, textile to video, performance to publication, they choose media that combine conceptual rigor, formal satisfaction and spiritual depth. Invested in many areas of study, they seek to interrupt binary thinking, crossing otherwise siloed worlds. They playfully position their practice as Phys Ed experiments for visionary communities like the Shakers or Black Mountain College.
In 2010 they founded the international queer/feminist collective New Craft Artists in Action. The NCAA works creatively in public space to champion participation over spectatorship and the liberation of recreation over status quo commercial sports culture. Their most well known projects include Net Works, encouraging folks to create hand made basketball nets for their own empty hoops, and Cosmic Courts by which they laid the foundations for a national movement of community-centered basketball court “murals”. As creative director/ lead artist, Molteni views courts as horizontal monuments, altars to the sky and a vibrant commons that should welcome a wider spectrum of players.
Molteni brings over a decade of first-hand experience in competitive sports, fifteen + years in community/study of the Shakers, five years as a member of Lake Pleasant (one of two oldest Spiritualist communities in the US), eight years on an ocean rowing team, and fifteen + years working with nation-wide radical beekeepers. Their extensive experience in various fields combines “academic” observation and participation through interspecies and spiritual communication. They currently sit on the board of the Golden Dome School and have collaborated with international orgs and collectives such as Design Studio for Social Intervention, Queer Sport Split, Hardworking Goodlooking. See an extensive list of past collaborators below:
Molteni currently lives and works on Massachusett/Wampanoag land, in Fort Point’s Midway Artist Studios. Since living on the East Coast, they have also developed a passion for the sea, its mysterious ecosystems and island lore. Several days a week, they jump in a wide pilot gig to row the open ocean waters of the Boston Harbor with a team that evolved out of 19th century volunteer shipwreck “Lifesavers”. They have addressed their relationship to feminist and queer identities via Sirens and other nautical beings, offering “shell-phone” divination services - see Siren Calls.
Molteni has exhibited at numerous galleries and museums as well as basements, meadows, sidewalks and seascapes across the globe. More formal institutions include The Momentary Contemporary Art Museum (Bentonville, AK), MFA Boston (MA), ICA Boston (MA), Project Rowhouses (Houston, TX), Den Frei Contemporary Art Center (Copenhagen, Denmark), Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Cambridge, MA), NGBK (Berlin), Fruitlands Museum (Harvard, MA), Museum of Design (Atlanta, GA), Conduit Gallery (Dallas, TX), Flower Head (LA, CA), Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA), Fitchburg Art Museum (Fitchburg, MA), Space Gallery (Portland, ME), A Plus A Gallery (Venice, Italy), SLO Museum of Art (San Luis Obispo, CA). They have completed residencies at Canterbury Shaker Village (New Hampshire), Heima (Iceland), Haystack (Maine), Elsewhere (Greensboro, NC), Queer Sport Split (Croatia), Vermont Studio Center (VT), Platteforum (Denver, CO), Facebook HQ, to name a few. In 2016 their NCAA artist collective was invited to present their work on Capitol Hill to the Congressional Makers and STEAM Caucuses.
Past Collaborators include (but not limited to!)
Queer Sport Split, The Office of Culture and Design Manila, Free to Bee Bees/ Golden Rule Honey, They Keep Bees, Kosmologym, Sue Murad, Hermione Spriggs, Vin Caponigro + Snake Hair Press, Common Field, White Walls Boston (Ethan Kiermaier), DS4SI, Laura Campagna, Allison Halter, Andrea Sherrill Evans, Taylor McVay, Samantha Fields.
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Born: 1983 Nashville, Tennessee // Currently based in: Massachusetts
EDUCATION
2009 Norfolk County School of Agriculture: Beekeepers Association
2006 BFA, Boston University College of Fine Arts: Painting, Printmaking
2005 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy: Print & Bookmaking
OTHER AFFILIATIONS
2010 - Present Founder & Team Captain: New Craft Artists in Action // MOLTENi Net Works, International
2015 - Present Boston LGBTIAQ Artist Alliance (BLAA) Member, Boston, MA
2023 - Present Board Member, Golden Dome School
2015 - Present Member, Boston Rowing Center
2016 - 2020 Member, Common Field
2016 - 2019 Designer + Artist: Design Studio for Social Intervention
2011 - 2018 Board Member: Voces De Cambio women’s after school program, Xela, Guatemala
2014 - 2017 Outreach Chair: Midway Artist Studios, Boston, MA
2012 - 2016 Collaborator: Office of Culture and Design, Manila, Philippines
2011 - 2012 Co-conspirator: CASA, Creative Action and Subversive Arts Working Group, Occupy Boston
2010 - 2012 Dancer: Danza Organica Ensemble, directed by Marsha Parilla, Boston, MA
CURRENT
Maria Molteni: Soft Score, solo show at Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (through Jan 2025)
Manifestation of Light: Exploring the Shakers’ Celestial Inspiration, Shaker Historical Society, Shaker Heights, Ohio (through August 11)
UPCOMING
August: solo show at San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, SLO, CA
2025: solo show at Practice Gallery, Philly, PA
RESIDENCIES / VISITING ARTIST
2024
Sacred Third Gender Pilgrimage, Campania, Italy
2023
Great Awakenings: Radical Road Trip Seeks Heaven on Earth, pilgrimage hosted by myself in collaboration with Now Age Travel from Salem, MA - Lily Dale, NY
2022
Canterbury Shaker Village, Research residency, New Hampshire
2021
Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Canterbury Shaker Village, New Hampshire
2020
Heima, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA
2019
Platteforum Fellowship Artist in Residence, Denver, CO
Golden Dome Artist Residency, The Hermit: Panpsychic Poetry, 29 Palms, California
2018
Hoop Dreams: Facebook Artist in Residence, Cambridge, MA
Visiting designer/Artist in Residence w/ Design Studio for Social Intervention, Social Emergency Response Center
Round 48: Beyond Social Practice, curated by Ryan Dennis
Project Rowhouses, Houston, TX
Visiting Artist + Keynote speaker at Fall Student Conference
Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, ME
John Michael Kohler Arts Center Visiting Artist, Sheboygan, WI
Fukk Residency + Kosmologym Exhibition
Den Frei Udstillingsbygning, Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Festooning: Enter the Beehive, Art Truck 1 year Teaching Artist Residency
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, SLC, Utah
2017
Goodman Banks Visiting Artist Residency
Kingswood Oxford Highschool, West Hartford, CT
Guest Artist/Collaborator, invitation by Queer Sport, Split, Croatia
Craft City kick off with New Craft Artists in Action
Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Asheville, NC
Artist Fellowship
Vermont Studio Center, VT
2016
Boston AIR- through August 2017
Artist in Residence for the City of Boston and BCYF Neighborhood Organizations
Southern Constellations Fellowship, Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC
Making in the Arts hosted by Congressional Maker Caucus, Fractured Atlas invites NCAA to Capitol Hill
Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC
2015
Community Artist Project Teaching Artist in Residence, September 2015-May 2016
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2014
NCAA art therapy/teaching artist residency w/ young adults from Cushing House
Medicine Wheel, South Boston, MA
2012
Zamboanga HACE!
Arts and Activism for students of Western Mindanao State University
In collaboration with Institute for Infinitely Small Things (MA) and Office of Culture and Design (Manila)
Zamboanga City, Philippines
Sübsamsøn Artist in Residence
March-August 2012, Boston, MA
2010
Berwick Research Institute's Bumpkin Island Art Encampment
July, Boston Harbor Islands, MA
MoMA PS1 Process Room Studio Residency
Invited by A.L. Steiner, Greater New York exhibitor
July, Long Island City, NY
Mildred's Lane Fellowship with J. Morgan Puett and Mark Dion
Session: Pondhouse, Springhouse, Land, and Bee, June, Beach Lake, PA
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & NOMINATIONS
2022
Mass Cultural Council Award in Painting: Recipient - $15,000
Prilla Smith Bracket Award, Davis Museum of Art: Recipient - $15,000
2021
Brother Thomas Fellowship Nominee
Mass Cultural Council Installation/Sculpture/New Genres Finalist - $1,500
2020
Craft Research Fund Artists Fellowship Nominee
2019
Anderson Ranch scholarship recipient - From Bauhaus to Our House (woodworking intensive)
Mass Cultural Council Installation/Sculpture/New Genres Finalist - $1,000
Craft Research Fund Artists Fellowship nominee
Americans for the Arts National Public Art Award (non monetary)
Brother Thomas Grant Fellowship Nominee
James and Audrey Foster Prize, ICA Boston, Nominee
2017
Painting Fellowship Recipient, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
United States Artists Fellowship/Grant Nominee
Brother Thomas Fellowship/Grant Nominee
2016
City of Boston Artist in Residence, Boston, MA
Common Field Convening Scholarship Recipient
St. Botolf Award Nominee, Boston, MA
Southern Constellations Fellowship Recipient, Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC
Assets for Artists Grantee
2014
James and Audrey Foster Prize Nominee, ICA Boston, MA
Public Artist Residency Nominee, Boston Center for the Arts, MA
2013
Boston Center for the Arts Public Artist Residency, Nominee
2012
James and Audrey Foster Prize nominee, ICA Boston, MA
Public Artist Residency Nominee, Boston Center for the Arts, MA
2011
Awesome Foundation February Grant Recipient
SOLO EXHIBITIONS + PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2024
Maria Molteni: Soft Score, solo show at Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (through Jan 2025)
Beautiful Seven, solo show at San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA), CA
2023
Gateway to Infinity (An Anti-monument)
Painted groundwork between so-called “Christopher Columbus Park” and “Faneuil Hall”
Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, curated by Audrey Lopez
2022
Contando All’Infinito: Stelle Scopa (Sweeping Stars)
Within Figure, Character, Sign exhibition partnering with Boston University
A Plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy
Counting to Infinity
Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN
2021
Unseen Hours: Space Clearing for Spirit Work
Collaborative solo w/Allison Halter, Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA
A Sea Bird- Site-specific groundwork/basketball court
Fort Point/Seaport, Boston, MA
Seven Sisters (Celestial Subduction)
San Luis Obispo Art Museum + City of SLO
2020
Venusian Rosaceae (Five Seeded Star), The Momentary, Contemporary Art Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas
Which House? HausWitch, HausWitch, Salem, MA
2019
Courting the Sky, full basketball court/groundwork, Clasky Common, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
Cosmic Court, full basketball court/groundwork, Talbot Middle School, New Bedford Art Museum, Fall River, MA
AB EXorcism! Applied Action Painting & Inverted Arenas, Platteforum, Denver, CO
2018
Triple Threat, BB&N School, Cambridge, MA
Tormenta En La Cancha, basketball court/groundwork The Point neighborhood, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2017
Hard in the Paint, Harambee Park basketball court/groundwork
City of Boston, Dorchester, MA
NCAA Presents... Sidelines: Soft Power in the Margins
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2016
Second Hands Community Artist Project Final Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
L'oeuf et L'oeil (The Egg and The Eye) curated by John Robert Roy, How's Howard? Boston, MA
2015
NCAA Presents: Field Days - Curated by Pam Campanaro
A New Craft Artists in Action collective exhibition
Montserrat Galleries, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2014
The Immortals, site-specific window installation
Space Gallery, Portland, ME
Hoops, from Swoopes- Summitt: Historical Figures in Professional Women's Basketball
A New Craft Artists in Action collective exhibition accompanying Craft and Modernity: Professional Women Artists in Boston (1890-1920)
Boston University Art Gallery Annex, Boston, MA
Standard Variation
Lincoln Arts Project, Waltham, MA
2011
MOLTENi NET WORKS @ MEME
MEME Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2010
Inhabit < > Outsource
Gallery 263, Cambridgeport, MA
Bindings
Hallway Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Manifestation of Light: Exploring the Shakers’ Celestial Inspiration, Shaker Historical Society, Shaker Heights, Ohio (through August 11)
2023
@BAK (Basis Voor Actuele Kunst), Utrecht, Netherlands
Hex, Hex!
Zero Station, Portland, Maine
2022
Figure, Character, Sign
A Plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy
Back to School
Friend of a Friend, Denver, CO
Mediating
Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
Is It Not Enough That I Smile in the Valleys?
White Space x Take It Easy, Atlanta, GA
2021
Golden Dome Presents: The Work of the Sun
Flower Head, Los Angeles, CA
2020
After Spiritualism: Loss and Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
To The Hoop: Basketball and Contemporary Art, curated by Emily Stamey, Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro
Recruiting for Utopia, Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA
Time To Play, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida
2019
Round 48: Beyond Social Practice, curated by Ryan Dennis, Project Rowhouses, Houston, TX
2018
Sun Worship & Solar Machines- curated by Kari Adelaide, The Envoy Hotel, Boston, MA
Making Change: The Art of Craft and Activism- curated by Betsy Greer, Museum of Design, Atlanta,GA
Altarations, Dorchester Art Project, Boston, MA
Stitched, New Art Center, Newton, MA
Making Art / Making Community, Vicki Myhren Gallery, Denver University, Colorado
2017
Medium, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw Georgia
Year of the Woman: Now + There curated exhibition, Beehive, Boston, MA
Diamonds, Rings, Courts, and Fields: Sport is More Than a Game
Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery, St. John's University, Jamaica NY
Stand Up! Curated by Silvi Naci
Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
Selvedge
Able Baker Gallery, Portland, ME
Aether
Arnheim Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA
2016
RE//Woven
Montserrat College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Radius
The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
Northampton Print and Book Fair + Pre-party film screening
Northampton, MA
Changing Allston
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Contesting/Contexting Sport: To Reclaim the Field with Art and Activism
NGBK Gallery, Berlin, Germany
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
Whir curated by Robert Moeller
Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
Making in the Arts hosted by Congressional Maker Caucus
Fractured Atlas invites New Craft Artists in Action to Capitol Hill
Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC
Yard Sale curated by Jack Schneider
Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA
Hothouse Clubhouse - Curated by Ethan Kiermaier
University of Massachusetts, Amherst Student Union Art Gallery
2015 Eyes as Sieves
Global Committee, Brooklyn, NY
Space Suits- Curated by Anais Duplan
Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA
Woander
GRIN, Providence, RI
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
2014
Play
Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
Boston University Alumni Exhibit @ 808 Gallery // Boston, MA
October 24- December 14
Broadside
13 Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA
NY Art Book Fair Zine Tent
MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
Friend of a Friend
Calico Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Art Park
Pop Up Gallery, Soho, NYC
Living As Form, Creative Time's traveling exhibition
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2013
Scraps
Distillery Gallery, South Boston, MA
GAME ON // NCAA/MOLTENi Net Works
Medicine Wheel, South Boston, MA
Systems ECOnomies // Premiers Festooning the Inflatable Beehive
808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
2012
Space Mission with NCAA/MOLTENi Net Works
119 Gallery, Lowell, MA
Otis MFA Thesis curated by Shalini Patel and Scott Raby
Los Angeles, CA
Sting! VII: Boston Contemporaries
The Beehive, Boston, MA
Boston Does Boston V
Proof Gallery, Distillery, South Boston, MA
2011
Art For Sport
curated by Carlin Wing and Amanda Perez
Maravilla Handball Court, Los Angeles, CA
Works Sited for The Wassaic Project Summer Festival
Curated by Bridget Hanson & Anna Stothart (ICA Boston) and Kathleen Smith
Wassaic, NY
Flush With the Walls
Best of Boston reenactment, curated/facilitated by Greg Cook
Museum of Fine Arts Boston Restrooms!
2010
Draw Drawings Every Day and Hey I Know that Guy! Portrait Show
Washington Street Art Center, Somerville, MA
Hypo Typo, text-based works curated by Snow Project
The Distillery Gallery, South Boston, MA
2007
The Boston Printmaker's North American Print Biennial
808 Commonwealth Gallery, Boston, MA
Juror's Commendation Award
New Art 07, Juried by Nato Thompson of MassMoca and Creative Time,
Kingston Gallery, Boston's South End, MA
2006
Boston University, BFA Undergraduate Exhibition
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2005
Spring Student Exhibition
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
PERFORMANCES + SCREENINGS
2021
Unseen Hours: film debut
Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA
2017
Ectoplasm Selfie Building Workshop with Lacey Prpić Hedtke
The Future, Minneapolis, MN
2016
A Visitors Guide to Reorientation on Spectacle Island Film Premier!
FPAC Space @ Envoy Hotel, Seaport, Boston, MA
Ectoplasm Selfie-Building Workshop in collaboration with Lacey Prpić Hedtke
Hosted by the Boston LGBTIAQ Artists Alliance
Part of Programming for the Queer Threads exhibition at the BCA/Mills Gallery
2015
Polychromatic Antiphony
In collaboration with Jessica Douche for the ICA's Bauhaus Party
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
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
Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor, MA
2014
Home, in collaboration with So Percussion
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2013
Multinatural Histories curated by Harvard Graduate School of Design's GSDnonhuman
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, MA
Afterswarm at Re:Present Me performance event
Anthony Greaney Gallery, Boston, MA
2012
I Will Come into Him and Eat With Him for Boston LGBT Artist Alliance's Momentum
Samsøn Gallery, Boston, MA
OPEN with Biba Bell ensemble for Dlectricity Festival
Cathedral of St Paul, Detroit, MI
U SAVE! 24 Hr Glossolalia
August programming & performance for White Walls Boston, Mobile Gallery
Boston, MA
Bathaus Manifestaux at Communion III
Anthony Greaney Gallery, Boston, MA
No Dancing in LA
Samsøn Gallery, Boston, MA
2011
Dance/Draw, participating dancer in Trisha Brown's Floor of the Forest
Curated by Helen Molesworth
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Holy Ghost // Hungry Ghost , curated by Maggie Cavallo
with Dirk Adams, Alice Vogler, Vela Phelan, GJYD, and Jeff Huckleberry
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Dark Moon
Lufthansa Studios, Dorchester, MA
2010
Ma Maison Bleue at Équinoxe Performance Art Festival
Université Laval, Québec City, Québec
Movement at the Mills, performed with Danza Organica
Boston Center for the Art's Mills Gallery, South End, Boston, MA
A Spectacle on Bumpkin, performance and installation
MIT's Art, Culture and Technology SOCS event: Sweat Lodge
Fleischner Courtyard, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Cusp for William Pope. L's Color Isn't Matter
Samsøn Gallery, South End, Boston
Triple Threat for Works in Progress
Mobius Art Space, South End of Boston, MA
BALROM performance piece
With Siri Mortensen Gossman, Taylor McVay, Allison Vanouse, Elsa Kim
Fnord Box, Brookline, MA
2009
Breadwinners for Acteon's Wake curated by Ian Colon & Andrew Barco
57 Delle, Mission Hill, Boston
Reunion de L'invisible, With Siri Mortensen Gossman and Kevin Clancy
International Contemporary Art Symposium, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec
Our Lady and the Net:Triple Threat series
October Effectus, monthly performance Salon in Boston's South End
Boston Opera Collaborative's production of Robert Ward's The Crucible
Interactive set design, construction, and installation
Boston's Church of the Covenant, Boston, MA
2008
Savage/Love: a Marriage of Pop, Poetry, and Puppetry
Set design, construction and manipulation of interactive installation
Studio 105, Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA
Big Top Landing at Axiom’s Carnival of the Arts
Axiom Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
MMAA@UNDERGROUND
Reveal of mural in collaboration with Autumn Ahn
Underground Snowboards, Boston, MA
OTHER LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS
2017
Ectoplasm Selfie Building Ritual
The Future, Minneapolis
Boston AIR Projects in Process Public Proposals
Boston Public Library, Johnson Building, Raab Lecture Hall
Southern Constellations public artist talks
Elsewhere Living Museum and Residency, Greensboro, NC
Art Unfolded: The Practice and Process of Contemporary Artists
Lecture Series for DS4SI @ Design Studio for Social Intervention, 1496 Washington St, Roxbury, MA
2014
Fiber: Sculpture As Tactile and Tactical, Visiting Artist Workshop
Teen Arts Council, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Gift Giving As Art, Visiting Artist Workshop
Urbano Project, Jamaica Plain, MA
Spirit-Finger Knitting, Visiting Artist Workshop
Childrens Museum, Boston, MA
The Hive, Decordova Summer Youth Programs
Visiting Arts Instructor Sessions 1,3,4
Intensives: Knots, Nature, Craft / Stories, Spaces, Tools / Language, Landscape, Design
Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Craftivism and City Planning: The Tactile and Tactical Liberation of Recreation
Visting artist/instructor for JTerm Curricular Arts Intensive
Arts @29 Garden, Harvard University, Boston, MA
2013
Festooning Brings Us Together
4 day workshop for Summer Artlab
Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
NCAA Net Works 2 week art therapy intensive
With at-risk youth from the Cushing House
Medicine Wheel Productions
Artward Bound
Massachusetts College of Art
Art/Science Blender
Harvard Graduate School of Design
2012
Warm Up to Activism
Visiting artist workshop preceding Guerrilla Girls Symposium
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Shake, Waggle & Drone: Honeybee and Shaker Dancing
Visiting artist workshop for ARTLAB: Utopia
Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, PA
Plastic Bag Knitting in the Round
NCAA Net Workshop
Assemble / Arts + Technology, Pittsburgh, PA
Haint Blue, ROY G BIV Lecture Series for Figuring Color
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Steve Lambert Addresses Occupy Boston, organized with Triple Threat
Samsøn Gallery, Boston, MA
Artist Feature: Maria Molteni interview with Jordan Tynes
Radio Context, Howard Art Projects, Boston, MA
Binary Practices in Fiber Arts, Artist Lecture
University of Massachusetts Boston
2011
Artist Lecture, Freshman in Studio Forum
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
MOLTENi Net Works, Artist Lecture, Fibers Department
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Performance of Place, Artist Lecture
Villa Victoria Center for the Arts
Going Toward Radio Programming
Jordan Tyne's interviews Maria Molteni and Net Works Collaborators
2010
Bees and Beekeeping, SOCS Negative Feedback
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
COLLECTIONS
Google Office, Cambridge, MA (Artist in Residence Installation Commission)
Facebook Offices, Cambridge, MA (Artist in Residence Installation Commission)
MFA Boston
Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator, LA Contemporary Museum of Art
Anna Stothart, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, San Antonio Museum of Art