Reading Room Event:
November 4th 2-3pm
In this participatory experience, the artist invites you into a shared space of stories and passages that have shaped her practice and informed her way of seeing. Visitors are invited to bring a book—or an excerpt, in hand or in mind—to share, creating a space for reflection, conversation, and the exchange of ideas. Together, we explore how literature and text can illuminate both artistic process and personal perception.
Exhibit Description
Joetta Maue’s work is a meditation on the sublime within the everyday, where the banal and profound coexist. Through installations, images, and text, she explores traces of life—sunlight across a room, the residue of process, the quiet rhythms of domestic space—as evidence of our presence in time. The embroideries, Close-reads, reveal invisible research, language, and memory, while the sampler form references women’s historical labor and literacy. Sojourn, a wall installation, considers the temporary intimacy of place and process. Across all works, she aims to hold the ephemeral, offering objects that are vessels for time and attentive presence.
About the Artist
Joetta Maue is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans drawing, photography, and textiles. At the core of her practice is an engagement with the beauty of the everyday. Through ongoing series, she has explored themes such as intimacy, motherhood and invisible labor, the domestic landscape, light and its relationship to time, and the labor of artistic practice itself.
Her work has been exhibited widely in galleries and museums across the United States and abroad, including the Arts Complex Museum (MA), the San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, MK Gallery & Institution (UK), the Griffin Museum of Photography (MA), and the Weisman Museum of Art (CA). She has presented her work in major cultural centers from New York to Tokyo, and at numerous academic institutions including Harvard University.
A sought-after lecturer and educator, Maue has worked with leading organizations such as NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, the Japan Society (NYC), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (TN), the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (MA), and the Fuller Craft Museum (MA). Maue currently serves as a Lecturer at Northeastern University, Lesley University, and the University of Massachusetts, and is frequently invited to teach at programs and institutions nationwide.
Her artwork and critical writing have been featured in numerous publications, most recently Boston Art Review, Artists Magazine, Art Spiel, and The Boston Globe.
Maue lives and works in New England with her family.
The RSM Gallery is located on the main floor of the Bentley University Library , it is Building number 54; its clock tower sets it apart from the other buildings of the upper campus. Park in the La Cava Upper Parking Lot (L5, L6, L7) for best access if driving.