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 Musical Program

Antonín Dvořák
Miniatures for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 75a (1887)
I. Cavatina, paired with artwork by Maria Servellon
II. Capriccio, paired with artwork by Abby Neale

Zenas Hsu and Annie Rabbat, violins
Jason Fisher, viola

Maria’s work gives a feeling of colors floating through space, with layers of translucency and opacity. Glimpses of semi-abstract images embedded in her graphic work show a mysterious, dream-like tone to her collections. Similarly, Dvorak’s Cavatina brings a sense of elevation and richness of textural variety through his layering of the three instruments. Your senses are guided and elevated along with each phrase.
— Zahirah Nur Truth, Visual Arts Curator

Maria Servellon

Artwork paired with Dvorak: Cavatina from the Op. 75a Miniatures 

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 and Japanese from the University of Massachusetts 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, drawing, and design. Maria's work often explores synesthetic relationships between art, music, and dance. Her work has exhibited and screened in Boston, New York, California, Oregon, UK, and Mexico thus far.

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Abby Neale

Artwork paired with Dvorak: Capriccio from the Op. 75a Miniatures 

Abby Neale is an artist and educator based in Jamaica Plain. She teaches BPS students through the Eliot School of Applied Arts. She is interested in how nature is a metaphor for social justice movements as she creates zines, printed matter, and interactive installations. She also loves raccoons.

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Abby’s work is pulled from nature with bold illustrative lines using printing techniques while using vibrant color and tone. Her hand applique styles are associated with sewing. She combines matters of empathy, crafting, nature, and provides a voice for those not always heard or seen. Her works often hold some poky and satirical components with a whimsical flair. Abby’s pieces are playfully paired with Dvorak’s Miniature, “Capriccio.” These two contrasting artists - New World and Old World, living centuries apart - yet both with a sense of social conscience and a mischievous sense of humor.
— Zahirah Nur Truth, Visual Arts Curator