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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, 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. Their practices gives 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. Exploring seemingly separate areas of study- athletics to craft, urban planning to feminism, entomology to queerness, Spiritualism to Shakers (to name a few) - 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 “Hard in the Paint,” by which they pioneered the national community-centered basketball court painting movement. 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 (the first Spiritualist community in the US), seven years on an ocean rowing team, four years as a member of the Golden Dome School, four years designing for Design Studio for Social Intervention, and twelve + years working with nation-wide radical beekeepers. Their extensive experience in various fields combines “academic” observation and participation through interspecies and spiritual communication. 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 shellphone 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, 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

UPCOMING 

January: Soft Score, solo show at Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

June: solo show at San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, SLO, CA

October: solo show at Practice Gallery, Philly, PA

RESIDENCIES / VISITING ARTIST

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

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


2023

Ultradependent Public School

@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

 

Convergence  

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'invisibleWith 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

 

2016      

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 BlueROY 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