Molly Bianca Gross is an Artist, Poet, and
Curator .
About
Gross is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, cultural producer, and career coach. She is a board member of The Poetry Project and the author of six chapbooks: “The Whisperer”, "Crisscross," “Shape”, "Between My Teeth," "Perpendicular," and "Glass, Maybe." Her work has been published and anthologized by "Diagram" and she was one of the featured readers in The Poetry Project’s 2020 New Year’s Marathon Reading.
Currently Gross is producing Public Programs at The Academy of Natural Sciences with Marina McDougall and Ryan Strand Greenberg. We are working to bring an arts lens to the incredible work of the Academy, which was established in 1812
From November 2022 through April 2023, with Strand Greenberg, Gross co-curated Heart on Your Sleeve, a winter-long poetry and public art initiative focusing on care and renewal for Philadelphians, taking place at all four Elixr Coffee locations in Philadelphia. The project included poems by Sojourner Ahebee, Dilruba Ahmed, Husnaa Haajarah Hashim, Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, Ursula Rucker, and Eleanor Wilner as the centerpiece of the six takeout coffee sleeve series created by designer Jonai Gibson-Selix and printmaker Hester Stinnett. For the duration of the project, artist Destiny Palmer’s “A Breath” was installed at the Elixr on S. Sydenham Street in Center City, Philadelphia.
In 2021 Gross conceived of The Poet’s Table, an afternoon of free one-on-one readings, during which poets recited a poem to each person who visited their table, for which she received a NYC City Artist Corp grant. And she co-produced "Calling The World," 2020, a dial-a-poem project with the Poetry Society of America. Other collaborative projects include installing movie-related haiku at Nitehawk Cinema, NYC and distributing “Lost Poem” flyers at the O, Miami Poetry Festival.
After completing New York University’s Career Coaching program, Gross has been coaching artists, arts workers, and anyone looking to evolve their ways of working. Learn more about her practice here.
She studied Electronic Media Art at the Die Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig [HGB] in Leipzig, Germany and lived in Germany (Berlin, Leipzig, Boehlen, and Aachen).
She lives with her husband Craig Howarth and cat Momo in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia.