| Grant number: | 12/16169-1 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |
| Effective date (Start): | December 01, 2012 |
| Effective date (End): | November 30, 2015 |
| Field of knowledge: | Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Arts Education |
| Principal Investigator: | Marcos Ferreira Santos |
| Grantee: | Sonia Carbonell Alvares |
| Host Institution: | Faculdade de Educação (FE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
Abstract In Brazil, folk art refers to the artistic production of men and women who have never attended art schools, but who create objects of aesthetic value. These artists typically have limited incomes, and live in rural areas or poor areas surrounding large cities. For them the practice of art is an essential activity. Many of these subjects teach and disseminate their ways of doing art, spread customs and knowledge and mark the history of various regions of Brazil. Creators of styles and techniques, they multiply practices and artistic conceptions, and are recognized and revered in their cultural groups as bearers of traditional knowledge. It is important to give visibility to these authors, affirming their social action in their communities, showing not only their artistic production, but especially their creative and educational praxis. This objective of this project is to reveal and disseminate popular artistic practices and informal methods of transmission of traditional handicraft knowledge by brazilian artists, who remain in anonymity, but whose work performs an important social, cultural and economic function in their communities. | |
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