MENTORSHIP

I have been teaching art theory to adult learners for more than ten years in Brazil and the United States. In 2018, I created a course titled From Critical Theory to Creativity, which I continue to teach regularly and has 100% student approval. In my dual role as both artist and art historian, I see that we often separate between that which is "intellectual" (the meaning, theory, thinking) and that which is "active" (the making, touching, transforming materials). This new mentorship model is the opportunity to work one-on-one with other artists who feel the need to investigate their reasons for making art.

As a mentor of artists, I use theoretical thinking as a creative perspective, working to overcome the division between thinking and doing. It is not about "putting theory to practice," nor is it about learning "how to" use theory. It is about integrating the making and the meaning, recognizing the theoretical substrate that permeates the creative act. It is also about cultivating a fruitful theoretical experience, realizing the roots of our thoughts, making conscious choices about which kind of knowledge we grow with our artmaking.

The mentorship is a 5 meetings package to be used in 4 months. We meet twice in the first month of mentorship to establish your basic theoretical paradigms, and then we work in the following months on specific creative goals according to your own needs. With the mentorship, we intend to help you identify, evaluate and integrate your own theoretical perspective into your artmaking. This work elevates and nurtures the creative process, and overall, provides a container for intentional transformations.