The Mini Art Gallery of the United States Information Service (USIS): a space for promoting the visual arts of the United States in São Paulo

• Grant number: 24/09116-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2024
• End date: March 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Art Fundamentals and Criticism
• Principal Investigator: Dária Gorete Jaremtchuk
• Grantee: Giovanna de Souza Cavicchioli
• Host Institution: Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 22/12333-3 - Institutional geopolitics: art in dispute in international circulating exhibitions in Brazil (1948-1978), AP.TEM

Abstract

the United States more visible and, thereby, attract the sympathy of Brazilians. The Art Mini-Gallery of the United States Information Service in São Paulo (USIS), located in the Conjunto Nacional on Avenida Paulista, next to the United States consulate, was a visible and active space in the city of São Paulo. However, the space remains absent from analyses of the city's art circuits, a situation this project aims to reverse by recovering its history and mapping the exhibitions and other activities that took place there.