Launch of Anuário

The Yearbook is a publication that documents the projects of the final-year students from the School of Arts and will be launched during Panorama #22.

This publication brings together and celebrates the 2022 graduates of the School of Arts at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. What unites them all is the way in which each of their final projects, which symbolically represent the conclusion of their journey at this university, expresses the diversity, freedom, and ongoing artistic experimentation—values that are central to the pedagogical and cultural mission of the EA.

The 2022 Yearbook not only celebrates the journey of the graduates at EA / UCP but also projects them into the future. Their experiences, their uniqueness, and the discoveries made during their time at this university, now captured in this publication, do not simply record their past nor archive their academic path.
They create openings in the time that lies ahead: a past that shapes the future and presents infinite possibilities.

Whether they become authors, artists, filmmakers, producers, creatives, curators, conservators-restorers, or pursue any other role in the vast world of art-related professions, EA has undoubtedly played an important part in the discovery of the place they aim to occupy in the world.
Discoveries that relate not only to the acquisition of specific knowledge and skills but also to those small, often anonymous and nearly imperceptible things that make up the whole of the experiences that found a privileged place here.

It is with the greatest admiration and satisfaction that we have witnessed, and now celebrate, the exemplary way in which each and every one of them has marked this creative community we call the School of Arts.
Their constant demand, critique, and inventive spirit pushed us to find differentiated ways to approach artistic research and practice and led us into a continuous process of invention.
These demands are essential for an art school whose distinctive features are rooted in constant restlessness, transformation, and intensity.

We extend our congratulations to all of them for what they have achieved over these years and our gratitude for having chosen this place as their own: without the marks that each one of them, individually, has left in this school, we would certainly be a poorer place.

Nuno Crespo
Director of the School of Arts at Universidade Católica Portuguesa