Day 11 - Monica Nador, Jamac at Jardim Miriam

Day 11 Thurs. June 5

* 1:00 pm group meets at hotel
* 1:15 pm Vans leave to meet Monica Nador, Jamac at Jardim Miriam near SP Zoo. (2-4:00pm)
* Travel to Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) 1662 for professional exchange Rua Alagoas 903 Higienopolis, Sao Paulo
* Optional: Farufyno (sambarock) unique music blend, live at 'Grazia a Dio' (late show- starts at 11:00pm)

Monica Nador
Jamac at Jardim Miriam

Book
The end of Painting
by Douglass

The point where she started her work when she realized that she was painting just for museums and it would not be alive in society. And she created an Art organization in the favela here in Sáo Palo and decided to live in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Brazil as the bus driver put it.

She states, "I was in Brazil. I am an Artist what can I do. I started creating walls on the street by painting houses. Drawing the stencils are made by the people I visit. I only use the drawings from the people I visit."

She made a mural of the stencils that the children made and now they are in a wall in Japan. In commemorating the 150 anniversary of Japanese immigrants in Japan.

She states, "I began to be more concerned with the social work than Art."

She was a very well established Artist and chooses to do that. She moved there at the same time with a political sociologist. The drawings were done in the school by drawings from teh students they learn her technique and keep it going.

One of the students working at her student was a young girl named Ema. She was doing stencils when we were there. She saw me and told me that she had a stencil that looked like me and if I like she can put it on my journal. She put it on my journal and we took a picture together. I got her email address and promised that I would send the picture to her. And I did and she sent me an email back showing me some of the graffiti art she does. She is really talented and I hope she goes far.