Resume

Summary

Maria Marewski, MA, has been focused on youth development and media arts, critical thinking and creativity since 1994 when she founded the Children’s Media Project (now the Art Effect), an award winning media arts, technology and education not-for-profit organization. Since that time she has been engaged in designing learning experiences through the cinema arts.

 

Youth, Education, and Community Development Activities

2022                                                                                                                                   

Founder, CineLearn, Digital Textbooks for a Changing World

https://cinelearn.net/

2013 – 2021

Program Development, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA

2012-2013                   

Project Manager, JUMP Food, USDA funded initiative to develop healthy snack foods and marketing campaign for kids.

2011-2012                               

Project Consultant, Power UP (Collaborative Project with Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education,

Children’s Media Project, Arlington Central School District, SUNY New Paltz)

2010-2011                                 

Project Advisor, PAUSE, (Partnering to rethink, resee and reclaim urban space) Poughkeepsie, NY.

2009 -2011                                 

Mentoring Director, Children’s Media Project, Poughkeepise, NY

1998-2009                               

Co-Director, Community Fellows Program, human service field work program, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

2009                            

Presenter, Power Up! Filmmaking as a Tool for Learning, New England Consortium of Artist-Educator Professionals

Providence, RI

1994-2008

Founding and Executive Director, Children’s Media Project, Poughkeepsie, NY

Workshop and Curriculum Development Leader, media literacy and media production, in and out of school programs, K-12

Selected Public School Districts and Private Schools: Poughkeepsie City School District, Arlington Central School District, Dover Union Free School District, Dutchess BOCES, Marlboro Central School District, Middletown City School District, Poughkeepsie Day School, Monticello Central School District, Hyde Park Central School District, Beacon City School District, Ulster BOCES, Randolph School, Woodstock Day School, Red Hook Central School District.

Select After School, Weekend and Summer Programs: Radio Uprising, DROP TV Media Lab, Storytelling & Bookmaking, ACT for Youth Media Education Workshops, I Live Here, Take Another Look, Youth to South Africa Study Tour, Video Diary For Girls, TALKING WALLS: Transformation from the Inside Out

Selected Community Collaborators: ACT For Youth (Cornell Cooperative Extension), Dutchess County Children’s Services Council’s Children’s Health Initiative, Dutchess County Department of Health, and Dutchess County Workforce Investment Board, Grace Smith House, Mental Health America of Dutchess County, Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, Mill Street Loft, Miriam’s Well, Poughkeepsie Farm Project, Poughkeepsie Institute, the Poughkeepsie Public Library District, Rural and Migrant Ministry, and Upstate Films, Astor Services, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, The Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-kill, and Scenic Hudson.

2008                                 

Presenter, Bridging the Achievement Gap Using the Arts with Technology, New York State Alliance For Arts Education, Albany, NY

2007                   

Presenter, Shadowhood: A Hero’s Journey, National Association of Childcare Workers, Durban, South Africa

2006                                 

Presenter, Shadowhood: A Hero’s Journey, Educational Practices in Residential Child and Youth Care, Glasgow,Scotland

2002-04                                 

Panelist, Selection Committee, Electronic Media and Film, New York State Council on the Arts, NY, NY

2004                                 

Participant, Open Society Institute Youth Media Convening Panel, NY, NY

2003                   

Panelist, Individual Artist Selection Committee, Dutchess County Arts Council, Poughkeepsie, NY

2002                                 

Panelist, Selection Committee, New York Foundation for the Arts: Arts in Ed, NY, NY                               

Presenter, The Role of Art and Creative Expression in Human Services, International Conference; Practice &

Professionalism, SUNY New Paltz, NY

2001                                 

Panelist, Young and Engaged: Youth in Community Arts Programs, Grantmakers In the Arts, Annual Conference:

Culture Influencing Community Change, Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY                

1999                                 

Presenter, Coalition for Essential Schools, National Conference, Video Animation and Creative Curriculum, Atlanta, GA

Panelist, Selection Committee, Project Grants, Dutchess County Arts Council, Poughkeepsie, NY

1998                                 

Presenter, National Media Education Conference, Youth In Action, Colorado Springs, CO                

Chair, Selection Committee, Funded Members Grants, Dutchess County Arts Council, Poughkeepsie, NY                             

1996-1997                               

Panelist, Selection Committee, Funded Member Grants, Dutchess County Arts Council, Poughkeepsie,NY

1995                                 

Co-Producer, Video Exchange Project, Scholastic Network, national program, NY, NY

 

Film, Media, and Related Projects

2019, 2022                                 

Jury, Shorts, International Film Festival Boston

2012                                 

Pre-screener and Program Writer, Woodstock Film Festival, Woodstock, NY

1999-2009                               

Director, Video Report, Poughkeepsie Institute (consortium of SUNY New Paltz, Marist, Bard, Dutchess                             

Community and Vassar Colleges), produced annually

2008                                 

Executive Producer, Active Youth, Healthy Media, anti-obesity digital textbook

Executive Producer, L’Chaim, middle school social studies curriculum and digital textbook, perspectives from survivors

who experienced the Holocaust as children

1999-2008                                

Programmer and Project Director, Youth Media Program, Hampton’s International Film Festival, East Hampton, NY

2006                                 

Executive Producer, Youth focused Anti-Obesity PSA campaign, Dutchess County Department of Health, Poughkeepsie,

2006                                 

Executive Producer, Shadowhood: A Hero’s Journey, (Live action narrative DVD targeted to at-risk 14 to 21 year age

group), Emerging Workforce Toolkit for the New York State Department of Labor

Executive Producer, Anti-Gang PSAs, Dutchess County District Attorney, Poughkeepsie, NY

2005                                 

Executive Producer, He Said, She Said: Sexual Abuse and Violence Prevention, DVD Educational Packet targeted to high

school seniors and college freshman), U.S. Department of Justice, in partnership with Vassar College

2003-07                                  

Executive Producer, Drop-TV: Direct Revolution of Programming, youth produced regional video magazine, broadcast internationally (New York, (from New York City to Rochester) California, Connecticut, Michigan, Washington D.C., Washington state, Cape Town, South Africa, Auckland, New Zealand

2005                                 

Director, Salaam/Shalom: Children of Abraham, (youth produced video project) Vassar Temple and Mid-Hudson Islamic

Association, Poughkeepsie, NY

2002                                 

Producer, Please Stand Up Against (School) Violence, video and interactive CD-ROM for New York State Center for

School Safety, Project SAVE

2001                                 

Executive Producer, Smokescreens: From Tobacco Outrage to Media Activism, Media Literacy Textbook and CD-Rom

Teacher’s Guide for Middle School

1996-1999                               

Chair, Young People’s Shorts, Hudson Valley Film and Video Festival, Poughkeepsie, NY

1998                                 

Filmmaker, It’s A Particle, It’s A Wave, animation accompanied live by composer Brain Farmer Screened: Scored

Shorts, Hudson Valley Film Festival, Poughkeepsie, NY

1988                                 

Director, Writer, Producer, In the Name of the Father; 20 minute experimental documentary                            

Selected Screenings:                   

30th Annual American Film and Video Festival,

Global Village Documentary Film Festival, NY, NY

Joseph Papp’s Public Theatre, NY, NY

American Film Institute; Los Angeles, California

American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, Queens, NY, NY

Film Video Arts, Artsfest,NY, NY

 

Awards

2008              

• Golden Administrator of the Year, Association of Teaching Artists, New York State

• Hudson Valley 100, Socially Engaged Artists of the region, INSIDEOUT magazine, Hudson Valley NY

2007              

•Telly Award; Shadowhood: A Hero’ s Journey, Executive Producer

•Telly Award; Anti-Gang Public Service Announcement, Executive Producer

• Certificate of Merit: INTERCOM, Chicago International Film Festival, Shadowhood: A Hero’s Journey, Producer

• Best Series Award: DROP TV, Manhattan Neighborhood Network Youth Channel, NY, NY, Executive Producer

• Dedication and Commitment Award, Dutchess County HIV Planning Council, Poughkeepsie, NY

2006               

• Insight Award: Shadowhood: A Hero’ s Journey, National Association of Film and Digital Media Artists. Producer            

• Individual Artist Grant, Dutchess County Arts Council, Poughkeepsie NY

2005               

• America’s Community Partnership of the Year Award, Poughkeepsie Institute, National Society of Experiential

Education

2001-2004

• Open Society Institute, Youth Media Education and Exhibition grant

2000-2001              

• MacArthur Foundation, Talking Walls: Transformation From the Inside Out, Multidiscplinary Youth

Development media arts program gounded in the Hero’s Journey process and developed in collaboration with Green

Haven Maximum Security Prison Long Termer’s group, Poughkeepsie, NY

1998              

• International Televisions and Video Association Achievement Award

1988

• Red Ribbon In the Name of the Father, 30th Annual American Film and Video Festival, NYC, 1988. Writer, Director,

Producer

 

Teaching Experience

 

1999 to 2009              

Vassar College, Adjunct, Poughkeepsie Institute, Poughkeepsie, New York

2006                          

Vassar College, Senior Seminar, American Studies, Poughkeepsie, New York

1997-1999             

Vassar College, Representations of the City in Film and Photography, Poughkeepsie, New York

1994-2008              

Children’s Media Project, Curriculum Development, Teaching Team Leader, Poughkeepsie, New York

1987-1988             

Hunter College, SUNY, Introduction to Film, NY, NY

1983-1985

University of Maryland, College Park: Introduction to Film; Film Production, College Park, NY

 

Education

2022

Harvard Extension Graduate School, Neuroscience of Learning; Industrial/Organizational Psychology

1994                         

M.A., Cinema Studies, University of Maryland, College Park,

Awarded full teaching Assistantship

1980                         

B.A., English Literature, University of Maryland, College Park

Double minor German and Philosophy

1974-76

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

1973-74

Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

1971-73

Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana