ABOUT
Maclaine Lowery, AKA Stella Maclaine (she/they), works and lives at the intersection of many crossroads, primarily in Austin, Texas.
Artistically, Maclaine is an award-winning filmmaker, dancer, and actress, with her work centering on themes of vengeance, bodily sacrifice, causality, Gnosis, and possession through a feminine lens. Her stripper-slasher short film STILETTO, created in UT Austin’s Radio-Television-Film undergraduate thesis course, won “Best Student Film” at Boobs & Blood International Film Festival in 2021 and was nominated for Best Lead Performance at Nightmares Film Festival. Most recently, she worked as producer, writer, choreographer, and actress for the short film Art & Rot (March 2026) with director and writer Wesley Willgrubs, and in October 2024, created the hysterical dance tableau Augustine with photographer Peter McCain.
Professionally, Maclaine is a social media manager, content creator, and copywriter. During her time in New York City between 2022 and 2026, Maclaine worked with the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Martha Graham School, Xin Ying, Wanjiru Kamuyu, Hussein Smko, and Valentina Baché. For the Graham Company’s 98th Company season, she originated and project-managed FKA twigs’ guest performance of Satyric Festival Song at New York City Center.
Personally, Maclaine is an occultist, avid Simmer, maker of soups, admirer of insects; she is a Capricorn Sun, Virgo Moon, Pisces Rising; she loves the desert, the Moon tarot card, hearing other people’s dreams, patchouli, a thorned red rose, a very black cup of coffee. Circle these items around a red candle under the dark moon while reciting Ezekiel 25:17 to summon her at midnight.
Photo by Dr. Ash Marinaccio