Personal Presentation

Cat Martins (they/them) is a Professor of Arts Education at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Head of the Ph.D. in Arts Education, and a Researcher at the i2ADS – Research Institute in Art, Design and Society. Coordinator of LABEA (Laboratory of Research in Arts Education) where they recently co-created the group of anti-discriminatory practices in education. Their work is focused on the history of the present of arts education and, currently, develops research about the historicization of the idea of creativity and childhood, from the end of the 18th century until the present, through a governmentality and decolonial approach. They are involved in activist work in the field of gender identity auto-determination, and develops research on the topic of Trans and Non-Binary identities histories.

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