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

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