Maria Servellón is an award-winning filmmaker, multimedia artist, educator, and arts advocate from Boston, MA. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from UMass Boston and her Master of Fine Arts in Film and Media Art from Emerson College. Her focus is film and digital media, including projection, installation, photography, and design. Maria's work often explores synesthetic relationships between art, music, and dance within identity formation.
Maria's work has exhibited and screened in Massachusetts, New York, California, Oregon, the UK, and Mexico thus far. One of her most lauded works to date is the magic-realist short film, Hyphen (2018). In recent years, she was named one of 2018's "Latinos 30 Under 30" by El Mundo Boston; a 2019 New England Film Star Award finalist; a 2020 Amplify Latinx "Latina Leader" and a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Young Leader honoree; and she has won grants, fellowships, and residencies from the Mayor's Office Of Arts & Culture, Boston Arts & Business Council, Boston Public Schools, Danza Orgánica, and Mass MoCA.
About
- Department Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies
- Department Visual & Media Arts
- Since 2020
Education
M.F.A., Emerson College
Areas of Expertise
- Aesthetics
- Cinema Studies
- Creative Writing
- Cultural Studies
- Digital Media
- Directing
- Documentary Media
- Editing
- Entrepreneurship
- Experimental Film
- Film
- Interactive Media
- Liberal Arts
- Media Studies
- New Media
- Photography
- Poetry
- Pop Culture
- Post-Production
- Production
- Public Speaking
- Screenwriting
- Social Media
- Transmedia
- Video & Film
- Writing
Awards & Honors
SURGE: Coastal Community Artist Fellowship
2022Boston Dance Theater
We Create! Festival Fellowship
2022Danza Orgánica
Ten Outstanding Young Leaders
2020Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship
2020Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston
New England Film Star Award Finalist
2019NewEnglandFilm
Boston Latino 30 Under 30
2018El Mundo Boston
Grants
Sponsorship Program 2.0 Sponsee
2021NAAC ArtsBoston
Assets for Artists Grant
2020MASS MoCA
Boston Artist Opportunity Fund
2018Mayor’s Office of Culture & Arts
Creative Works
Altar to the Next Realm
2022Dance Film, Video Installation/Projection Art, & Choreography
Hibiskiss
2021Video Installation/Projection Art & Sound
Isolated Conversations
2020Video & Sound
wavy, remnants;
2020Video Installation/Projection Art & Sound
between u & i & them
2019Video Installation/Projection Art
Out of the Silhouette
2018Video Installation/Projection Art
Hyphen
2018Narrative Short Film