Missy Arellano (b.1986) is a transdisciplinary Community Artist and arts educator in the Greater Boston area. With over two decades of experience in the arts, Missy has contributed to a wide range of creative initiatives, from facilitating and designing children’s programming in museums to managing artists at festivals, fundraising for public television, and teaching young children about contemporary art. She has exhibited work and facilitated arts workshops in California, Massachusetts, and Louisiana. 

Through analog collage and photography, her work focuses on identity, radical self-transformation, and creative placemaking and inclusivity in public spaces. She hosts analog collage gatherings to foster dialogue at the intersection of community, play, and creativity, prompting participants to envision, dream, and build more inclusive and vibrant urban spaces.

Over the last three years, Missy has been a Teaching Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Education, assisting with courses on arts education, arts policy, statistics, and public media. Missy helped to write a grant to implement arts wellbeing activities at HGSE, which was awarded and implemented in the Spring of 2026. For the last year, she has worked as a Teaching Artist with Dr. Lisa Wong on a course around the intersection of arts and health.

Missy holds a BA in Art History and French from California State University, Long Beach(2014), an MPA from the University of Southern California (2021), and an Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education (2024).

She creates, plays, and grows on the traditional and ancestral land of the Massachusett, the original inhabitants of what is now known as Cambridge, MA.