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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

B.A., UMass Boston
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

2022

Boston Dance Theater

We Create! Festival Fellowship

2022

Danza Orgánica

Ten Outstanding Young Leaders

2020

Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce

Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship

2020

Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston

New England Film Star Award Finalist

2019

NewEnglandFilm

Boston Latino 30 Under 30

2018

El Mundo Boston

Grants

Sponsorship Program 2.0 Sponsee

2021

NAAC ArtsBoston

Assets for Artists Grant

2020

MASS MoCA

Boston Artist Opportunity Fund

2018

Mayor’s Office of Culture & Arts

Creative Works

Altar to the Next Realm

2022

Dance Film, Video Installation/Projection Art, & Choreography

Hibiskiss

2021

Video Installation/Projection Art & Sound

Isolated Conversations

2020

Video & Sound

wavy, remnants;

2020

Video Installation/Projection Art & Sound

between u & i & them

2019

Video Installation/Projection Art

Out of the Silhouette

2018

Video Installation/Projection Art

Hyphen

2018

Narrative Short Film