MARIA MOLTENI
My work is conceptual, formal, socially engaged, deeply researched, collaborative, contemplative and mystical.
ON VIEW & UPCOMING
Sacred Sheets
Film Debut + Collaborative Solo Show
with Allison Halter, Opening September 2021
Fruitlands Museum, Harvard MA
NEWS
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
2020
11.15.20 Recorded Artist Talk for Boston College’s CURRENTS series is now available on my vimeo
10.15.20 Venusian Rosaceae, a site specific outdoor commission at The Momentary, in Bentonville, AK is complete!
08.15.20 Recorded Artist Lecture Double Vision: Intersections of Shaker and Spiritualist History in Art has been posted to my vimeo
05.15.20 New Craft Artists in Action have a brand new website on the year of our 10th anniversary
05.01.20 “Paint Buckets” Instagram Live interview recording between Project in the Paint & Maria Molteni is up on vimeo!
02.17.20 Episode 32: Maria Molteni & Basketball Magic / Dear Adam Silver podcast interview with Abigail Smithson published
02.08.20 My Installation Bough House/Bauhaus is complete! After Spiritualism opens to the public at Fitchburg Art Museum
01.01.20 Public Art Review features Maria Molteni + NCAA in issue #59: Redesigning How We Live Together
12.07.19 Grey Magazine features New Craft Artists in Action in issue #48: This Changes Everything
11.15.19 Boston Art Review features Storming the Court in Issue #4: The Public Art Issue
06.01.19 Hard in the Paint receives national public art award from Americans 4 the Arts
03.15.19 I’ve received a scholarship to attend From Bauhaus to Your House at Anderson Ranch
02.25.19 I’ve been selected as a finalist for the Mass Cultural Council $1000 grant for Sculpture/Installation/New Genres
11.05.18 RoKit One steals New Craft Artists in Action Net Works concept for Complexcon, Long Beach installation
11.18.18 My installation Hoop Dreams is completed as part of my residency with Facebook AIR
11.16.18 Sabat Magazine- Elisabeth Krohn interviews myself + Lacey Prpic Hedtke on Spiritualism/Ectoplasm Selfies
10.13.18 SERC installation I Co-designed for DS4SI opens at Project Rowhouses 25th Anniversary Opening/Celebration
10.09.18 New Bedford Art Museum acquires funding for two new basketball court makeovers in Fall River & New Bedford
07.09.18 New interview posted to Boston Voyager Magazine- Meet Maria Molteni - check it out!
06.20.18 I've been accepted to be a fellow/resident at Platteforum in Denver for the winter of 2019!
06.15.18 Storming the Court, Salem MA community basketball is finished! Greg Cook covers the project for Wonderland
05.20.18 I've been appointed by Leonie Bradbury as an Artist in Residence for Union Point
05.01.18 Storming the Court! Peabody Essex Museum collaborates w/NCAA on basketball court for PLAYTIME public program
04.17.18 Studio Allston Hotel is now open for business. Guests may reserve a special suite #514 designed & painted by yours truly
01.20.18 Kosmologym- collaboration between Camp Little Hope, Fukk, & NCAA opens in Copenhagen, Denmark at Den Frei
12.21.17 Hyperallergic includes Boston artists of Now + There's Year of the Woman in their top 20 Best Of for 2017
11.28.17 Crosswalk mural inspired by traditional quilting motif "Drunkard's Path" is completed in South Bay, Boston
11.16.17 United States Artists Fellowships have been selected! It was an honor to be nominated for this prestigious award
10.20.17 A new feminist publication and multiples project - Free Bleed Press - debuts at the Boston Art Book Fair!
10.17.17 The Brother Thomas award fellows have been chosen! I'm grateful to have been nominated among amazing artists
10.06.17 Hard in the Paint: an Interview with Maria Molteni by Megan Gregory is published in Big Red & Shiny
09.11.17 UMOCA's Art Truck Installation Festooning: Enter the Beehive is finished & ready to tour schools in Salt Lake City!
08.20.17 Ectoplasm Selfies zine is hot off the press to debut in the Medium exhibit at the Zuckerman Museum of Art!
08.05.17 Creators.Vice features the Hard in the Paint basketball court makeover in Dorchester
07.10.17 Hard in the Paint, Harambee Park collaborative basketball court makeover is finished! Review in WBUR Artery here
07.07.17 Center for Craft Creativity & Design's new series Craft City is kicked off by New Craft Artists in Action in Asheville
06-07.17 My work has been featured in the June/July Fun & Games issue of American Craft Magazine, in print and online
01.01.17 Clubhouse Court (aka Ballteni Court) was selected as one of the best public art projects in Boston for 2016
10.15.16 Vermont Studio Center has selected me to receive a full Fellowship for one month to their artist residency program
10.03.16 I've been selected as one of 10 Artists in Residence for the city of Boston, 2016-2017! >>> Boston AIR
09.30.16 Common Field has kindly awarded me a scholarship to attend this year's Common Field Convening in Miami
08.15.16 Great Review of NCAA's work in ARTSLANT, Berlin! Playing for Justice: Contesting/Contexting Sport by Andrea Alessi
04.08.16 I've been accepted to attend Elsewhere (Greensboro, NC) as a fellow of the Southern Constellations residency
03.22.16 Boston Globe reviews L'oeuf et L'oeil (The Egg and the Eye) at How's Howard? running my image in print
03.25.16 The Clubhouse has a brand new court I designed for Bostonians to ball on- an NCAA collective collabo at 471 Somerville Ave
01.26.16 I've been nominated to apply for Elsewhere's Southern Constellations fellowship for artists born/based in the South
01.14.16 The NCAA have been invited by Fractured Atlas to participate in a Congressional Maker's Caucus event on Capitol Hill!
11.18.15 I'll be lecturing to the Massart Sculpture Department about Public and Community Art along with Janet Echelman
08.10.15 Woander is reviewed in Big Red and Shiny!
RECENT/PAST (view CV for full list)
Group show includes artists: Gina Adams, Daniel Arsham, Bill Bamberger, Janet Biggs, Mark Bradford, Kendell Carter, André Leon Gray, David Hammons, David Hilliard, David Huffman, Brian Jungen, Jeff Koons, Esmaa Mohamoud, Suzanne McClelland, New Craft Artists in Action, Paul Pfeiffer, Joyce J. Scott, Lorna Simpson, Victor Solomon, Hank Willis Thomas, Nari Ward
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