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Renata Felinto

Renata Felinto is an Afro-diasporic woman and mother of Benedita Nzinga and Francisco Madiba; a visual artist, researcher, and teacher; and a Specialist in Curatorship and Education in Art Museums at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea/USP. She holds a doctorate in Visual Arts from the Instituto de Artes/UNESP. Felinto has been an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania; an Adjunct Professor of the Graduate Studies and Professional Master Programs in Visual Arts at the Universidade Regional do Cariri, Ceará; a Professor in the specialization in Contemporary Cultural Management of Escola Itaú; Curator of the 15a Biennial Naifs do Brasil (Miguel Arcanjo de Cultura, in the Visual Arts Category 2021 Award); Co-curator of the 15a Biennial Naifs do Brasil; Adjunct Curator of the Francisco Brennand Ceramics Workshop at the Ricardo Brennand Institute; Critic in the Brazilian Arts Critics Association; and a Member of the PIPA Award Nominating Committee in 2021 and 2023. Most recently she has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Center for Africana Studies. Recent solo exhibitions include: an invited show at the Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair, in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2022); Performando a vida (Performing Life), SENAC Scipião (2021); and As que me habitam (The ones that inhabit me), as an invited artist at the 29th Edition of CCSP Exhibition Program. She has participated in the group shows: Empowerment at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (2022); MAR Collection + Enciclopédia Negra, Museu de Arte do Rio (2022); Beethoven Moves, Kunst Historiches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria (2020); the 12th Mercosul Biennial (2020); Afro-Atlantic Histories, at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake/MASP (2018); and the 29° Exhibition Program of Centro Cultural São Paulo as an invited artist (2019). She has won numerous prizes, including the PIPA Prize, the Select Art and Education Prize, and the 25th Anapolino Salon Prize, all in 2020.

Ana Musidora

Ana Musidora has a degree in Dance from the Communication of the Arts of the Body/PUC SP and in Contemporary Cultural Management from Itaú Cultural & Instituto Singularidades. She is the creator of the performances Leite Derramado (2013), Ana Paula Padrão (2014), and Agome (2020). In 2021, she curated the project DA PELE PRA DENTRO, a cycle of original performances for the Mulheres na Travessa Festival. In November of 2020, on the invitation of Dona Ruth, she was responsible for mediating and providing pedagogical assistance for the actions for the Quilombo Artístico Pedagógico at the Black Theater Festival in São Paulo. On the invitation of the Audiovisual Production Course in the Escola Pública de Audiovisual at Vila das Artes, in Fortaleza, Ceará, she also taught the course “Spatialization and Image.” In 2018, she was part of the resident artists' group for the project "Obinrin – Ancestralidade, Residência Artística e Performance Negra Feminista” (Salvador, Bahia/the Caribbean). She guided the actions #PratoÀModaDaCasa in 2015, held at Restaurante Senzala, and #EuTrabalhadoraPeriférica in 2017-18 with the 8M na Quebrada Collective.

Priscila Rezende

Priscila Rezende is a visual and performance artist who develops works using video, installation, photography, and found objects. Her work primarily is driven by and raises questions about race, identity, and the place of Black individuals–especially women–in contemporary society. She draws from her experiences as a Black Latin American woman to expose the social limitations, discrimination, and stereotypes she has faced, and to establish a direct and clear dialogue with the public around these issues. Through her work, she seeks to confront the viewer with different realities in order to destabilize their positions of comfort and interrogate the structures that sustain them. Priscila has a degree in Fine Arts from Escola Guignard-UEMG (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) with a specialization in Photography and Ceramics. She has participated in exhibitions and presentations across Brazil in Amapá, Ceará, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco, Río de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, and São Paulo, as well as in England, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the United States. 

Lucimélia Romão

Lucimélia Romão is a visual artist, playwright, and performer. She is simultaneously pursuing degrees in Arts from the Federal University of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, and in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia. She has a degree in Theater from the Federal University of São João Del Rei in Minas Gerais, where she researched Black theater and performance. She is also an actress, having completed her training in 2013 in the Technical Theater course at the Maestro Fêgo Camargo Municipal School of Arts in Taubaté, São Paulo. She’s won awards at the 9th Showcase of Dramaturgy in Small Theatrical Formats at the São Paulo Cultural Center (2023); the 8th Edition of the Foco ARTRio Award in Rio de Janeiro (2022); and the 3rd Leda Maria Martins Award for Black Performing Arts in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.

Rodrigo Severo

An artist, researcher, and teacher, Rodrigo Severo operates at the intersections of performance, theater, and the Latin American movement (es)cena expandida. He holds a doctoral and master's degree in Performing Arts from the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo and a degree in Theater Education from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. He is part of the Laboratory of Performative Practices at the University of São Paulo and is a founding member of Coletiva Preta Performance, which investigates ethnic-racial relations in Brazil and creates decolonized and anti-racist aesthetic actions. His research interests encompass Black performance studies, the African diaspora, the Black body, decolonized aesthetics, Black authorship, and the contemporary stage.