Jodi Colellaartist + teacher

My durational handwork and fetishist focus embrace the ideals of labor, process, and community.
Realizing the complexities of vulnerability and power I interrogate areas of cultural tension—identity politics, institutionalized prejudice, corporal agency, and substance use. 
Harnessing a disparate array of found objects and the power of needle and thread I utilize materiality’s aesthetic and technical possibilities to effect societal change.
Jodi Colella exhibits and teaches internationally. She is a member of Boston Sculptors Gallery and the recipient of a 2019 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Award for Sculpture.
Jodi’s exhibitions include The Textile Museum in Washington D.C.; Textile Center, Minneapolis; Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton; World of Threads, Toronto; and Da Wang Culture Highland in Shenzhen China among others. She has collaborated on several public art projects, and her work is held in multiple museum collections. Recently interviewed for WGBH’s Open Studio with Jared Bowen, her work has featured in The Boston Globe, Surface Design Journal, The Woven Tale Press, Vasari 21, Artistry in Fiber,  POSIT and TextileArtist.org.  

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S E L E C T E D   S H O W S
2023       But It Doesn't Hold Water   Boston Sculptors Gallery, SOWA Boston MA
                Danforth Museum Member Show   Danforth Museum at Framingham State University, Framingham MA 
                Through the Eye of the Needle   Hudson Valley MOCA, Hudson NY
                Tenuous Threads   Atlantic Gallery, NYC
2022       Compendium  George Marshall Store Gallery, York ME
                Boston Sculptors 30th Anniversary Group Exhibition   Boston Sculptors Gallery, SOWA and Highfield Hall, Falmouth MA 
                Theme and Variations   The Art Gallery at North Hill, Needham MA
2021        BSG Alight   Nocturnal Exhibition, Manship Artist Residency, Gloucester MA
                (Re)Sisters   Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville MA
                Womens Work   Woodstock Art Center, Atlanta GA
                Outer Edges   Three Stones Gallery, Concord MA
                The Chemistry of FiberLab   Lexington Arts + Crafts Society, Lexington MA
2020	Faculty of Utterance   Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA
                Full Circle  Public Interactive   Cary Memorial Library, Lexington MA                Obstructed View  Piper Gallery   Cary Memorial Library, Lexington MA  2018	Loom Large   Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA                Unidentified Women   Form + Concept, Santa Fe NM
                Twisted, Twined and Woven   Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit MA
2019    	Human Impact: Stories of the Opioid Epidemic   Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA
                Dressed   Danforth Art, Framingham MA
                Look This Way   Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit MA2017	Unidentified Woman    Historic Northampton Museum, Northampton MA2016	Beastiary   Chandler Gallery, Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge MA
                Intimacy+Materiality   Helen Day Art Center, Stowe VT
                Own Your Piece/Peace   Collaborative school wide installation for community event, Needham H.S., Needham MA
2015    	WHACK!    Pop-Up exhibition in Beacon Hill, Boston MA
2014     	November Works   Da Wang Culture Highland, Shenzhen China                Unraveled   Museums of Old York, York ME                High Fiber   Conrad-Wilde Gallery, Tuscon AZ
                Over and Under: Weaving Together the Fabric of Our Community    Wheaton College, Norton MA  
2013     	The Order of the Universe   Beard Gallery, Wheaton College, Norfolk MA                A Room of Our Own   Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
2011    	GREEN: the Color and the Cause   International exhibition, Textile Museum, Washington D.C.

R E S I D E N C I E S / A W A R D S
2019        Mass Cultural Council Fellowship Award for Sculpture   Boston, MA
                Haystack Mountain School of Craft   Open Studio Residency 2019, Deer Isle ME2018        Society for Arts + Crafts   Artist-in-Residence Oct. 2018-Jan. 2019, Boston MA
                Visual Artist Fellowship Award 2018, 2015, 2012   Somerville Arts Council, Somerville MA2016        Fay Chandler Emerging Artist   City of Boston Council on the Arts, Boston MA
                Compeung Art Residency   Doi Saket, Thailand2015        Weir Farm Art Center   Artist Residency, Weir Farm National Park, Wilton CT2014        Da Wang Cultural Highland   Artist Residency, Shenzhen China2013        Fruitlands Museum   Artist-in-Residence, Harvard MA                Vermont Studio Center   Pollack-Krasner Fellowship Award, Johnson VT
P R O F E S S I O N A L / S P E A K I N G
2020       Institute of Contemporary Art, Gallery Talk on Yayoi Kusama, Boston MA                Fuller Craft Museum, Craft Chat, Brockton MA                Lexington Arts & Crafts Society, Sparks Fly! Inspire Series, Lexington MA2019        Stonehill College, Symposium on the Opioid Epidemic, Easton MA2018        Montserrat College of Art, Material + Process, Beverly MA   	
                FiberLAB, Founder of a studio mentoring and instruction program for working fiber artists  2015-present
                Center for the Arts Skopelos, Stitching Nature and Culture Workshop Instructor, Skopelos Greece
                Eliot School, Workshop Faculty, Jamaica Plain, Boston MA, ongoing
                Governors Institute on the Arts, Faculty, summer arts program,  Governors Institutes of Vermont, Castleton VT


Unabridged resume including Press/Bibliography