Marianne Goldberg is a visual artist, choreographer, and a writer. She has worked and studied across the United States in Manhattan, Chicago, Santa Cruz, Kentucky, and on Martha’s Vineyard Island in Massachusetts and internationally in Italy and France. Her work has been performed and published in books and journals by Routledge, Women and Performance, Drama Review, Artforum and many others. Her performance work has integrated invented dance movement and language. Her Bachelors Degree in Aesthetic Education Dance from Santa Cruz, her Masters in Fine Arts Choreography from Smith College, and her Doctorate from Tish School of the Arts in Manhattan inform her work. Her studies in philosophy of 20th century art brought her to Manhattan to study with many of the leading contemporary artists located there, and influenced her work in post modern dance.
Most recently, she has focused on her visual arts work with the various series of pieces such as Rivulets, New Face from Chicago (Angel), Ocea, and Prayer, Shalom. These works have been influenced and inspired by her Vineyard Home on the bluffs of Chilmark. At her home Marvel and Rose Morning Glory, she has designed two architectural installations. One a raised stepping pathway that floats above the ground around her home and studio, and the other, a stairway that continues the pathways down the bluff. There, she is currently founding the Pathways Projects Institutes which is an umbrella for creative arts source work and sea stewardship in protection of the southwesterly coastal areas of Chilmark.
