The Victor Meirelles Museum is hosting a workshop on the life and work of Santa Catarina artist Valda Costa.

The Victor Meirelles Museum (Ibram/MinC) is hosting a workshop this Saturday, November 8, 2025, at 11:00 AM. Image compositions based on Valda Costa, which marks the last week of visits to the short-term exhibition. Deep ResemblanceThe activity is free and will be led by artist and curator Rita Oyakanmi and intern and artist Gustavo Scheidt. The program includes a conversation about the career of the Santa Catarina artist Valda Costa (1951-1993), followed by a practice of image composition using drawing or photography, encouraging sensitive observation and artistic experimentation.

No prior registration is required, but entry is limited to the auditorium's capacity. Young people and adults interested in Visual Arts, with or without experience, are welcome to participate. The workshop, lasting approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes, offers guided reflections and exercises that broaden knowledge about the work of Valda – a Black woman from the periphery and mother of six, who portrayed Black people in her paintings in spaces of celebration, resistance, and everyday life. All participants will receive a certificate.

Lecturers:

Gustavo Henrique Scheidt – Born in Petrolândia, in the Alto Vale do Itajaí region (SC), he currently resides in Florianópolis. A student of Visual Arts at the State University of Santa Catarina (Udesc), he has worked as an artist in the state capital since 2021. His research focuses on painting and the study of the transformation and fragmentation of the landscape. His work encompasses different media, including canvas, object-painting, installation, and urban interventions, exploring aspects of the sensitive, intimate, and political aspects of the landscape in which he finds himself.

Rita Oyakanmi – Black woman of Afro-Brazilian religious traditions and visual artist. Undergraduate student in Visual Arts at the State University of Santa Catarina and holds a degree in Letters from the State University of Northern Paraná (2007). Member of the CAPES/UDESC Pedagogical Residency Program in Visual Arts (2022–2024). Participant in the Arte Menor Research Group, coordinated by professor and independent curator Juliana Crispe. In 2024, she held a solo exhibition. Igbá Ketá, curated by Fran Favero and Bruna Granucci, at Galeria Mínima, a project supported by the Paulo Gustavo SC D+ Law Grant. She has participated in over 20 group exhibitions and screenings such as São Paulo Photography Festival (2024) IV International Exhibition of Art and Gender (2024) Young Artists from Santa Catarina (2024) Black Sacred Art (2025) and SuperOFF Festival (2025). She was one of the winners of the Academic Award. NUDHA/CEART of Afro-Indigenous Diversitiess (2024). Co-curator of the exhibition “Deep Resemblance - Portraits of Valda Costa”, in collaboration with Juliana Crispe. Her multimedia production articulates ancestry, corporeality, territory, and time under an Afro-diasporic cosmoperception.

  Start: 08/11/2025 11:00

  End: 08/11/2025 12:30

  Values: free admission.