Cat Martins
Cat Martins (they/them) is a Professor of Arts Education at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Head of the Ph.D. in Arts Education, and a Researcher at the i2ADS – Research Institute in Art, Design and Society. Coordinator of LABEA (Laboratory of Research in Arts Education). Cat holds a degree in Fine Arts – Painting, a Master in Arts Education and a Ph.D. in Education. Their work is focused on the history of the present of arts education and, currently, develops research about the historicization of the idea of creativity and childhood, from the end of the 18th century until the present, through a governmentality and decolonial approach.
Catarina Almeida
Catarina Almeida, 1985. Graduated in Fine Arts – Painting, in the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP) (2008), Master in Visual Arts Teaching (2011) and PhD in Arts Education (2015), in the same University. Professor at FBAUP since 2015, in the areas of arts education and methodologies and research in art. As an integrated researcher of i2ADS – Research Institute in Art, Design and Society, she collaborates in projects related to photo- and videographic documentation of artistic residencies as artistic research; projects dealing with the pedagogical materialities and history of artistic education in Portugal; training of visual arts teachers; the historicization of creativity and the creative child. She is interested in the knowledge, collection and activation of mediation devices in arts education, and in the way they relate the pedagogical field to that of artistic practices.
Pedro Ferreira
Pedro Daniel Ferreira is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto and a member of CIIE - Centre for Research and Intervention in Education. He holds a PhD in Psychology and his main research focus is the political participation and the political development of young people and adults. More recently, he is particularly interested in researching how digital contexts, digital technologies and digital media contribute to political subjectivation and political education. He has been a member of various national and international projects and he has coordinated national and international projects on these topics (JoSeES - ‘Serious Games in Higher Education: Impacts, Experiences and Potential’ (2016-2019, FCT), DISK - Digital Immigrants Survival Kit (2019-2022, ERASMUS+). He is a member of the Portuguese Society of Education Sciences (SPCE).
Tiago Assis
Tiago Assis graduated in Communication Design at Porto in the ESAD – School of Arts and Design, has a Master’s degree in Multimedia Production from the University of Barcelona, and a PhD from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. After various professional roles as designer, he taught at the Soares dos Reis Artistic School from 2001 until 2007. He has been teaching at the University of Porto’s Faculty of Fine Arts since 2008. He does research on technology at the level of power, culture, identity, and language at i2ADS. This work originated in 2001, in experiences with digitally excluded communities under the Identidades - Movimento Intercultural [Identities - Intercultural Movement] in Mozambique, Cape Verde, Brazil, and Portugal. The research increasingly focuses on the context of Arts Education.
Melina Scheuermann
Scholarship holder
Melina Scheuermann (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Arts Education at the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Porto. She holds a Master's degree in Cinema Studies from Stockholm University, Sweden, and a Bachelor degree in Cultural Studies (Major) and Arts-Media-Aesthetic Education (Minor) from the University of Bremen, Germany. Melina Scheuermann's artistic as well as research interests evolve around arts education, history of education, visual discourses, ecology as well as postcolonial, post-structural and feminist theory. Her profile is rounded off by diverse professional experiences in arts education, political education, social work and documentary film production.
Raquel Boavista
Scholarship holder
Raquel Boavista, 1989. Master in Image Design (2016-18) and a First Level Degree in Communication Design (2008-12), both from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. Completed high school at Escola Artística Soares dos Reis (2004-07), in the course of Communication Design, with specialization in Graphic Design. She is a graphic designer, with emphasis on editorial design, on a freelance basis. She is currently in her second year of the Master in Teaching of Visual Arts for Teachers of the 3rd cycle of Basic Education and of Secondary Education (FBAUP/FPCEUP), in an internship at Escola Artística Profissional Árvore, in the specific area of Design and Graphic Production. She likes writing more than drawing and has always felt on the "wrong" side of the arts because of this. She "suffers" from a certain impetus for making and a difficulty in idle.