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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

B.A., UMass Boston
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

2023

Collective Futures

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

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

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