Applications open for Postgraduate in Illustration
Artwork © Inês Viegas Oliveira
Applications are now open for the Postgraduate in Illustration, which starts in February 2025.
Coordinated by Luís Lima and Inês Viegas Oliveira, the Postgraduate Course in Illustration's main objective is to provide students with practical skills and conceptual tools for the creative exercise of illustration in its various variants. To this end, the School of Arts presents a multidisciplinary curricular plan, with a mostly practical focus, whose main components are units of illustration and field drawing techniques and technologies, to which are added units of writing, editorial design, editorial management , among others.
With an umbilical connection to the professional sector and the book market, the course also aims to stimulate students' contact with the world of work, presenting as teachers some of the most prestigious Portuguese illustrators such as Bernardo Carvalho (Planeta Tangerina), Inês Viegas Oliveira (Planeta Tangerina ), Carolina Celas (Orfeu Mini) or Catarinal Sobral (Orfeu Mini). In order to complement the study program, the course also offers a series of seminars and workshops in the areas of printing techniques, comics, animation, etc.
Applications can be submitted from this form.
School of Arts hosts exhibition “Transient Views”
Andantes Series © Joana Paraíso
The School of Arts will host the exhibition “Olhares Transitórios”, by visual artist Joana Paraíso, whose opening is scheduled for November 14, Thursday, at 6:00 pm.
The exhibition brings together a wide range of works closely linked to the resources, techniques and language of Drawing. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition as part of the artistic project “Lugar Habitado”, whose visual and conceptual research began with the implementation of a pedestrian route in Lisbon. Implemented in phases, this pedestrian route sought to involve the various aspects of public space (streets, avenues, squares, green spaces, etc.) and, for this reason, it also engages with the exhibition space — a transitory and passing space, a connecting line between spaces (meeting points).
Joana Paraíso (artistic name), 1983, Barcelos. Lives and works in Lisbon since 2005. Currently
is currently pursuing a PhD in Fine Arts, specializing in Drawing, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. His work is multidisciplinary and focuses on the concept of Territory, with an interest in issues related to displacement, dialogue and a sense of belonging.
Escola das Artes hosts international conference on media and decolonization
© Augusta Conchiglia
On October 11th, Escola das Artes will host part of the program of the international conference “The Birth (in Images) of African Nations: Media and Decolonizations”.
The program includes a talk by keynote speaker Mariano Mestman from the University of Buenos Aires, who will revisit the meeting “Estates General of Third Cinema”, held in Canada in 1974, where the “new cinemas” and their monitoring of political and cultural struggles in various locations were discussed. This will be followed by presentations by filmmakers Billy Woodberry, dedicated to the interaction with archive materials, and Luciana Fina, who will seek to reflect on Pasolini’s subversive relationships with television as a medium. Maria Emília Tavares, curator and researcher, will also present a presentation on Portuguese and Italian photography on 25 April 1974. Finally, filmmaker Rui Simões and José Manuel Costa, former director of the Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema, will discuss Portuguese political cinema after 25 April in the context of Internationalism, moderated by Maria do Carmo Piçarra.
Organized by Maria do Carmo Piçarra, professor at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa and researcher at ICNOVA, and Giulia Strippoli, researcher at IHC, the conference will take place between October 7th and 11th at Colégio Almada Negreiros, of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and at Escola das Artes - Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa.
At the same time, a film screening will be held at the Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema, based on representations of independence in Italian archives, as well as an artistic meeting on artivism and decolonization at Hangar – Centro de Investigação Artística.
The complete program can be downloaded here.
Applications open for Postgraduate in Interarts
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Applications are now open for the Postgraduate in Interarts, which begins in October 2024.
Coordinated by Luís Lima and Alexandra Martins, the Postgraduate Course in Interarts aims to provide students with practical skills and conceptual tools in the area of contemporary art, with artistic installation and performance as its main disciplinary anchors. Taking into account the growing relationship between art, body and technology, the curricular plan presents an interdisciplinary approach focused on expanded artistic production, bringing together curricular units of a laboratory and theoretical-practical nature.
With a strong connection to the professional sector, the course also aims to encourage students' contact with the world of work, featuring a teaching staff with prestigious Portuguese artists, as well as several emerging artists. In order to complement the study program, the postgraduate course also offers a series of seminars with guest teachers in the areas of art and technology. At the end of the course, each student must present the project developed throughout the year, under tutoring, in a collective exhibition, curated by the coordinators.
The teaching staff brings together artists and/or researchers Alexandra Martins, Ana Mira, António Poppe, Bárbara Paixão, João Pedro Fonseca, João Polido Gomes, José Marmeleira, Luís Lima, Tatiana Macedo and the duo Von Calhau!.
Applications can be submitted from this form.
Catarina Sobral, postgraduate professor in Illustration, wins National Illustration Award
Photography © Teresa Freitas
Catarina Sobral, professor at Postgraduate in Illustration from the School of Arts, won the 28th edition of the 2023 National Illustration Prize, awarded by the General Directorate of Books, Archives and Libraries, for the publication of the book “Ghosts, Bananas and Ostrizes”.
The book was published in 2023, as part of a literary collection for children, entitled “Mission: Democracy” and published by the Assembly of the Republic. Aimed at children, the book addresses the topic of laws and rules, why they exist, what they are for in society and their importance in relationships between people.