Meet the Teachers  at School Of The Nations (Lago Sul, Brasília, Brazil)

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Diana Bracarense
Diana Bracarense, an artist from Minas Gerais, explores the knowledge obtained in her degree in fine arts through photography and digital art by making moments and emotions eternal. She has a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Multidisciplinary Studies and a certificate in educational leadership from the international graduate program for educators at SUNY (State University of New York). She has got a postgraduate degree in art, education and contemporary technology from the University of Brasília (UNB) and ... read more
 
Fiona Murphy
Fiona Murphy is an Irish artist who lived in Cuba for 12 years and moved to Washington in 2008. She left her native Ireland for Florence in 1993 in a search for art and life that took her to Brazil and Ecuador. She has a B. A. in Fine Art Painting from the Limerick School of Art and Design and a Higher Diploma in Interior Design from the Limperts Academy of Design in Dublin and an MA in education through SUNY University, USA. She acquired a passion for mural painting in the North East of Brazil and develope ... read more
 
Michelle Watkins
Michelle Watkins, half Welsh, half Brazilian, all love for Arts. Studied Fine Arts at Universidade de Brasília then went to Birmingham, England, where she engaged in the courses of Industrial Design and Multi-Media Design. When she returned to her homeland, Brasília, she got interested in creative development and it's role in society. She then pursued her interest and gave it dimension when she took two Art Therapy courses - one based on a Jungian point of view and the other, a Gestalt approach focused on children. She has taught children of all ages - as young as 10 months old - and uses the Art Therapy principle of a safe environment for individual expression as the core for her class work.
 
Nina Coimbra
Nina Coimbra graduated in fine arts at State University of New York and studied Restoration and Conservation of Art at Lorenzo de Medici, Firenze, Italy. She is an active artist and designer in the city of Brasilia, having shown her work in major galleries and museums, such as Museu da República in Brasilia and Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP). Her work is part of the permanent collection of CCBB Brasilia and FUNARTE Brasilia, where it has been decreed by IPHAN part of Brasília historical and cultural patrimony.
Her work as an art educator is experience centered, where in the use of multiple materials and supports children learn to express themselves while experimenting with different senses and techniques.
 
Sophia Yoshida Arns
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