JESSICA B MUISE
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Hi, I'm Jess. I help people make the world they imagine through transformative experiences in creative community. 

Born and raised outside of Boston, MA, USA, I am the product of generations of laborers and craftspeople - people who build things. I have dedicated my professional career to supporting shared infrastructure for artists, creatives, and engineers working for a better world. This has included coordinating shared tools workspace, funding, mentorship, and technical support in service of collective ownership and radical belonging.
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I am always looking to connect with other humans for accompaniment in this work. Drop me a line to connect, or sign up for my occasional newsletter below.


Organizations and collectives I have worked with
Art for All, Artisan’s Asylum, Boston Advocates for Dance, Boston Community Leaders Cohort, Boston Children’s Museum, Boston University, Call to Arts, Center for the Arts at the Armory, City of Biddeford, CraftMass, Dance For World Community Festival, DNAWorks, Engine, Factory 3, Green Street Studios, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, MASSCreative, National Choreography Month, New England Foundation for the Arts, New Movement Collaborative, OnStage Dance Company, Permaculture Institute of the Northeast, Permaculture FEAST, Sacred Design Lab, Somerville Arts Council, The Umbrella Arts Center, Waltham Fields Community Farm, Waltham Woman’s Club, and Watch City Arts.
Teaching / Facilitation
​2019-2022  Student Resource & Mentor, Arts & Culture and Social Impact, Boston University BUild Lab
2011-2021  Independent Choreographer and Dance Educator: Collective Motion Arts,
Onstage Dance Company, Newton Community Education, the Dance for World Community Festival, Moving Target, Nazar Bollywood Training Series.
2013  Teaching Assistant, Permaculture F.E.A.S.T. Certification Course, Holyoke, MA
2008-09  Teaching Assistant, New York University, Dangerous & Intermingled: Subaltern NY
2006-2008  Head Dance Instructor, BB&N Summer Day Camp
2008  Co-facilitator, Dance Theatre Etcetera @ Brooklyn International High School
2007  Teaching Assistant, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Political Ecology of Food & Gender & Sexuality Studies
2006-08  Flatfoot Dance Company Dance Development Programs, Durban, South Africa


Invited Talks & Interviews
2022  Keep it Local Maine Podcast on the creative economy and arts organizations
2020  
Arts in Emergency talk on creative responses to COVID-19
2018  Panel on Artist Residencies presented by the Somerville Arts Council, Center for the Arts at the Armory
​2016  Creative Somerville talk on small business and local manufacturing

2015  General Assembly: Introduction to the Maker Movement
2014
  Conversing with Choreographers, Monkeyhouse
2014  Luminarium’s Backlight Series
2013  24-Hour Choreofest Interview
2009  TEDx NYU Talk on Embodied Education


Curatorial Projects
2020  Hope Shadows, Somernova Art Project, Somerville, MA
2019  Art Ramble 2019: Witnessing Change, Hapgood Wright Town Forest
2019  Earth Press Project: Witness, Minute Man National Historical Park Inaugural Art-in-the-Park Project
2019  Migration, curated fiber arts exhibition, The Umbrella Arts Center Main Gallery
2012-17  National Choreography Month (NACHMO) Boston annual dance performance series
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Select Dance/Choreography/Performances/Residencies
2012-17  Intimations Dance, Artistic Director and Choreographer, 2012-2017
2015  Somerville Arts Council Dancing in the Streets, mentored by David Dorfman
2015  aMaSSiT Program
2015  Green Street Studios Company Residency
2014
  GreenWorks Residency

2008-2015 Independent Choreographer with work presented at JOMBA! International Dance Festival, Somerville Arts Council's ArtBeat, OnStage Dance Company, Dancers/Choreographers Alliance, MIT/Hacking Arts

2006-2015 Performer for Flatfoot Dance Company, Cambridge Dance Company, Moving Target Repertory/Annie Kloppenberg, Hearbeat/George Woods and Jennifer Kuhnberg, Dear Olivia/Selmadance, OnStage Dance Company, DanceWorks Boston, Heather Inglis/PMT Dance Studio, Crabtree Carabetta Collective, 24Hour ChoreoFest/Sarah Mae Gibbons


Exhibitions
2020 Exquisite Corpse Game of Chance, Somerville Arts Council, Somerville, MA
2020 Earth Month Exhibition, The Umbrella Arts Center, Concord, MA


Press
2021   Maine Magazine, "The Arts Nonprofit Bolstering Biddeford"
2021   SBSavings Newsroom Community Profile, "Engine Director: Jess Muise"
2020  Portland Press Herald, "Biddeford arts organization Engine hires a new director"
2020  The New England Foundation for the Arts, "NEFA Grows the Creative Economy Department"
2020  The Somerville Times, “Somernova Art Project opens call for proposals”
2019  The Somerville Times, “Call to Arts engages candidates around arts and culture issues”
2019  Harvard Crimson, on the Art Ramble, “Karen Krolak and Nicole Harris Redefine Choreography Through Performance In Hapgood Wright Town Forest”
2018  Boston Magazine, “Has Boston Given Up on God?”
2017  WCVB Channel 5’s Chronicle, Religion: Millennials Looking Elsewhere
2015  The Boston Herald, “Finding Dance in Boston’s Unexpected Places”
2015  The Boston Herald, “Meet the Intimations Dance Troup”
2014  The Somerville Times, “Artisan’s Asylum: A Warehouse of Creativity in the Old Ames Envelope Building”
2013  The Boston Globe, “Finances set Green Street back on its heels”


Education / Training / Certifications
2022  Maine Association of Nonprofits Leadership Institute
2019   
University of Pennsylvania, Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy
2009  
New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, B.A. with Presidential Honors, Dance in Education as   Transformative Pedagogy
2006-2007  University of KwaZulu-Natal, Dance & Performance Studies and Economic Development
2017  Daring Leaders Training by Bréne Brown
2012  Master Gardener Certification
2011  72 Hour Permaculture Certification, Permaculture FEAST (for ecological and social transformation)
1989-  Study in a variety dance, movement and embodiment practices

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