Maria Servellón is an award-winning filmmaker, multimedia artist, educator, and arts advocate from Boston, MA. Her expertise spans across various mediums, including film, media art, projection, installation, photography, and design. Maria's work explores the synesthetic connections between art, music, and dance as they contribute to the formation of self-identity.
Maria has garnered recognition through numerous screenings and exhibitions across Massachusetts, New York, California, Oregon, the UK, and Mexico. Among her notable works are the magic-realist short film, "Hyphen" (2018), the projection design for the Company One/American Repertory Theater play "Black Super Hero Magic Mama" (2022), and the immersive installation "Hibiskiss" (2022), showcasing the breadth of her creative work.
Maria's contributions to the arts earned her being named one of 2018's "Latinos 30 Under 30" by El Mundo Boston and a finalist for the 2019 New England Film Star Award. In 2020, she was honored as a "Latina Leader" by Amplify Latinx and an "Outstanding Young Leader" by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. She has been awarded grants, fellowships, and residencies from the Boston Mayor's Office Of Arts & Culture, Boston Arts & Business Council, Boston Public Schools, Boston Dance Theater, Danza Orgánica, Collective Futures, and Mass MoCA. Maria received her BA from UMass Boston, an MFA from Emerson College, and has been a faculty member at Emerson College, UMass Boston, and Northeastern University.
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 Industry
- Creative Writing
- Cultural Studies
- Culture
- Digital Media
- Directing
- Documentary Media
- Editing
- Experimental Film
- Film
- Interactive Media
- Intercultural Studies
- Liberal Arts
- Media Studies
- New Media
- Photography
- Poetry
- Pop Culture
- Post-Production
- Production
- Public Speaking
- Screenwriting
- Social Media
- Transmedia
- Video & Film
- Visual & Media Arts
- Visual Art
- Writing
Grants
Sustaining Practice Grant
2023Collective Futures
Sponsorship Program 2.0 Sponsee
2021NAAC ArtsBoston
Assets for Artists Grant
2020MASS MoCA
Boston Artist Opportunity Fund
2018Mayor’s Office of Culture & Arts
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
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