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Stories, news and behind the scenes of Portuguese craft. What’s happening in the workshops, at the fairs and at Ra-Ro.

António Ramalho
Produtores em Destaque29.12.2024

António Ramalho

A ceramic artist and heir to one of the central families of the Barcelos figurative tradition, António Ramalho continues to produce handmade works that extend the legacy of Rosa Ramalho and Júlia R...

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AECT
28.12.2024

AECT

The AECT - Associação Em Contacto Tavira – is composed of psychologists, physiotherapists, activity leaders, and volunteers. They meet weekly with a clear purpose: to care for the local senior popu...

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A Oficina
27.12.2024

A Oficina

Located in the heart of Guimarães, A Oficina is a store, an art gallery, an artistic co-producer, a sponsor of creation grants, and an inclusive artistic community. A true contemporary cultural bea...

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Da Palma
26.12.2024

Da Palma

The coppersmith Nuno Palma works enveloped in the shine of copper and brass, seated on his bench in the Oficina dos Caldeireiros

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Andreia Pinho
25.12.2024

Andreia Pinho

With a Master's in Fine Arts from ESAD.CR and training at CENCAL's ceramics lab, Andreia Pinho set up her workshop in Leiria, a ceramics capital, in 2021. There, she took refuge from humankind to e...

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Musaz
24.12.2024

Musaz

An architect and researcher with a PhD in urbanism walks into a backyard with banana trees in the Azores. As a joke, this story goes nowhere; as an ecological project, it goes very far.

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Vago
23.12.2024

Vago

Luca D’Ortenzi is an Italian wood turner and sculptor who founded Projecto Vago after the 2022 fires in Serra da Estrela, where he lives and works.

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Alice Aranha
22.12.2024

Alice Aranha

Alice Aranha is the artistic name of Alice Albergaria Borges, a crochet jeweller who discovered her passion for textures as a child, learning to work with textiles at a very early age. Later, she a...

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Samuel Reis
21.12.2024

Samuel Reis

After graduating in Industrial Design from ESAD, in Caldas da Rainha - a city with a strong ceramic tradition - Samuel Reis stood out as a product designer, bringing new interpretations to ancestra...

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Ana Sincu
20.12.2024

Ana Sincu

Born in Moldova in 1992, Ana Sincu grew up tending geese by the Prut River, until her family moved to Portugal when she was 9 years old. In 2020, a few years after graduating with a degree in Fine ...

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Porfírio Mendes
19.12.2024

Porfírio Mendes

Curiosity, mischievousness and raw talent shaped Porfírio Mendes into the folk  cork sculpture he is today, without ever stepping foot in a formal art school.

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Helena Novelletto
18.12.2024

Helena Novelletto

Helena's journey with bulrush began with master craftsman Manuel Ferreira, from Santarém.

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