Memorial ilustrado de uma professora-pesquisadora-artista-etc.

Abstract

This academic memorial is a narrative of the twenty-seven years in which I have dedicated myself to education and the visual arts at the Federal University of Uberlândia. With it, I aim at being promoted in the teaching career, to take up a chair at the Institute of Arts as a full professor of the Visual Arts Course. I chose, as the axis of this report, the research in art. It is from thinking and making art that makes me the teacher I am. Here, where 'artist research' is the engine and a 'free, public university of quality' is the vehicle, the graduation of ever-new generations of students is the purpose. The many roles I took on when deciding to pursue my academic life were by no means planned, but they were requirements of the path I have taken. This narrative is emotional because it is filled with extraordinary friends and good colleagues - from inside and outside UFU - who worked with me and taught me how to work, debate, discuss, stand up for education, art and the university. It presents a trajectory that includes my own doctoral education, enabled by the university, and the critical emancipation of young undergraduate and graduate students as researchers, teachers and artists. It describes the opportunities the university has given me to contribute to the arts field, through editorial management, course and department coordination, as well as the creation of the Poetic Image Research Group, the Postgraduate Program in Arts and of the University Museum of Art. It points to projects that I still intend to carry out and the ever-increasing need to strengthen quality public education.