Programmes

FULL PROGRAM PAINTING 2024/2025

Heads of Department: Marcelo Costa

Full three-year programme aiming at the development of the technical and conceptual/authorial dimensions in painting. A diversified learning process leads to the widening of the participants’ cultural, technical, and artistic horizons. Practical and thematic exercises promote the development of the students’ observation and representation skills, while encouraging an experimental attitude regarding ways of making and the use of materials (oil and acrylic paints, gouache and watercolor, chalk and pastel, India ink, etc). Individualized modes of expression should translate the participants’ gradual familiarity with the main questions concerning contemporary artistic creation. Personalized attention is paid to each student’s progress, followed in a continuous manner by teachers and confirmed in formal evaluations with the head of department. In each of the three levels of the course, the main objective is to produce an abundant personal portfolio.
Options for further development: Individual Project, Advanced Course in Visual Arts or other.

Staff: Alexandre Camarao, António Marques, Gonçalo Robalo, Hugo Bernardo, João Catarino, João Miguéis, Madalena Parreira, Manuela Braga, Manuela Falcão, Marcelo Costa, Margot Vilaça, Nuno Martinho, Pedro Calhau, Pedro Sousa Vieira and guests.

Dates 7 Oct 2024 to 27 Jun 2025
Duration Annual
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa

Fee 10 x 210€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments up to 15th september)

Admission No requirements. Informative interview.

Disciplines

Notes

Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees


School year is divided in two semesters. Exceptionally, students may enter the year’s course in the second semester (through interview).

Attachments schedule

Dates 7 Oct 2024 to 27 Jun 2025
Duration Annual
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa

Fee 10 x 200€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments up to 15th september)

Admission
Painting Level 2 or recognition of equivalent training (through interview). Presentation of portfolio.
The possibility of entering the program at a later date in the school year will only be considered exceptionally and after a selective interview with the Heads of Department

Disciplines

Notes

Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees

Attachments schedule

Dates 8 Oct 2024 to 26 Jul 2025
Duration Annual
Location Ar.Co Quinta de São Miguel, Almada e Ar.Co Xabregas, Lisboa

Fee 10 x 200€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (enrolments until 15th September)

Admission
Painting Level 2 or recognition of equivalent training (through interview). Presentation of portfolio.
The possibility of entering the program at a later date in the school year will only be considered exceptionally and after a selective interview with the Heads of Department.

Disciplines

Notes

Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees


At the end of Painting 3 the Certificate for the Full Programme in Painting is issued. Option of further development through application to Individual Project, Advanced Course in Visual Arts, or other.

Attachments schedule

Date 6 to 20 Dec 2024
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 80€ + 8€ (Enrol) + 0,75€ (Ins)

Schedule Fridays from 14h to 16h30

Type occasional

Program
On-premise classes
Execution of a medium format oil painting accompanied by experimentation and development of a small series of works where the pictorial nature of the decisions will become evident.

Teachers

Date 3 Jan to 7 Feb 2025
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 170€ + 7€ (Insc) + 2,50€ (Seg)

Admission No requirements. By order of enrolment.

Schedule Fridays from 14h to 16h30

Type occasional

Program
On-premise classes.
Experimental development of small series of work inspired by some art historical movements, from rococo to the various avant-gardes. We will appropriate ways of seeing and doing, attitudes, creative processes, types of image construction and of relationships between images.

Teachers

Date 8 Oct 2024 to 17 Jun 2025
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 10 x 140€ + 120€ (Insc) + 4,50€ (Seg) (for enrolments up to 15th september)

Admission Level 1: No requirements. By order of enrolment.

Schedule Tuesdays and Thursdays 20h to 22h30 + Wednesdays 20h00to22h00 (on-premise or on.line, every tolher week,)

Type annual

Program
Drawing and Painting I
On-premise.
8 Oct 2024 to 17 Jun 2025
Tuesdsays and Thursdays 20h00-22h30
Teachers: Hugo Bernado, João Catarino, João Migueis, Marcelo Costa and Margot Vilaça.
The Evening Course in Drawing/Painting follows the general pedagogical orientations of the standard daytime course, providing a more diversified training and a quicker widening of the students’ cultural, aesthetic and technical horizons. Teachers will likewise attend to the students’ progress in a personalized and differentiated way. Within this context, practical and thematic exercises help promote the students’ capacities for observation and representation as well as the development of their expressive skills. Emphasis on experimentation in what regards both working modes and materials (oil paint, India ink, gouache, charcoal, oil pastel, graphite, etc.) ensure that students will gradually acquire an awareness of the more relevant questions regarding contemporary artistic production. Progress is closely followed by teachers and confirmed in formal evaluations with the presence of the head of department. For each level of the Course, the main objective is the constitution of a portfolio that is both abundant and as personal as possible.
The Evening Course promotes the development of technical and artistic skills in the areas of Painting/Drawing. Further development options: Level 3 of the Standard Course in Painting or Drawing, Advanced Course in the Visual Arts, Individual Project or other.

Live Model Drawing I
On-premise classes.
15 Oct to 3 Dec 2024
Tuesdays 20h-22h
Teachers:João Catarino and João Miguéis
Live Model Drawing is the situation of observation drawing par excellence, where the study of the human body (in motion, at rest, posing, etc.) and the experimentation with different techniques, scale, lighting and modes of composition promote an understanding of the mechanisms of attention and of the gaze that lie at the very core of the drawing gesture.

Lab I (drawing/painting)
on-line + on-premise classes.
16 Oct 2024 to 18 Jun 2025.(every other week)
Wednesdays 20h -22h
Teachers: Marcelo Costa and/or guest teachers
Relevant themes within the context of the school experience will be discussed. Topically, practical exercises are proposed. The program also includes contributions by guest artists and theoreticians, guided tours and other activities, important for the development of a personal aesthetics and of an individualized style. Some sessions will be intimately related to, and articulated with, the program of Drawing and Painting I.


Live Model in Drawing II
18 Feb to 8 Apr 2025
Local: Ar.Co – Xabregas
Horário: Tuesdays 20h00-22h00
(on-premise)
Teachers:João Catarino and João Migéis
Live Model Drawing is the situation of observation drawing par excellence, where the study of the human body (in motion, at rest, posing, etc.) and the experimentation with different techniques, scale, lighting, and modes of composition promote an understanding of the mechanisms of attention that lie at the very core of the drawing gesture.


Artistic Residency
23 to 27 Jun 2025
Location: P28 - Associação de Desenvolvimento Criativo e Artístico, Pavilhão 31 - Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Av. do Brasil n.º 53, 1700-063 Lisboa
Horário: Monday to Friday 10h00 às 17h00
(on-premise)
This residency aims at the development of each student’s individual work, at the end of the school year and in a close relationship with the working place. The program will end with a public exhibition of the results obtained.

Notes  students will always be notified in advance in case of a change of date and/or time or attendance regime.

Teachers

Notes

Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees

Attachments Schedule

Date 9 Oct 2024 to 27 Jun 2025
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 10 x 140€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments up to 15th september)

Admission Drawing and painting night course 1 or interview.

Schedule see programme

Type annual

Program
Drawing and Painting II
On-premise
9 Oct 2024 to 18 Jun 2025
Wednesday: 20h to 22h30.
Teachers: Alexandre Camarao and João Miguéis
The Evening Course in Drawing and Painting 2 differs from the previous year in two fundamental aspects: a more specific orientation of the experimental dimension, promoting a growing individualization of the students’ work; a continuous studio practice, complementing the classroom sessions. As was the case in the previous year, evaluation of the student’s progress is at once continuous (the responsibility of teachers) and formally confirmed several times a year in the presence of the head of department. All throughout the year, participants are expected to build an individual, abundant and consistent portfolio.

Printing Workshop: Printing techniques
on-premise
24 Oct to 19 Dec 2024
Local: Ar.Co Xabregas
Thursdays from 20h00 to 22h30 (every other week)
The workshop will explore the techniques of etching, aquatint, and linocut. The technical work is preceded by the presentation and discussion of the works of contemporary artists-engravers and by the execution of drawings and preparatory studies.


Lab II
On-line + on-premise classes
17 Oct 2024 to 22 May 2025 (on-line + on-premise , every other week)
Thursdays 20h00-22h00
Teachers: Marcelo Costa, and/or guest teachers
The program includes sessions where relevant themes within the context of the school experience are discussed. Topically, practical exercises are proposed. There will be contributions by guest artists and theoreticians, guided tours and other activities, important for the development of a personal aesthetics and of an individualized style. Some sessions will be intimately related to, and articulated with, the program of Drawing and Painting II.


Workshop: Other Media
2 Jan to 12 Jun 2025
Location: Ar.Co Xabregas or on-line
Tuesdays 18h00-20h00
Teachers: Manuela Falcão, Alexandre Camarao e Nuno Martinho


Artistic Residency
(on-premise)
23 to 27 Jun 2025
Location: P28 - Associação de Desenvolvimento Criativo e Artístico, Pavilhão 31 - Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Av. do Brasil n.º 53, 1700-063 Lisboa
Horário: Monday to Friday 10h00 às 17h00
This residency aims at the development of each student’s individual work, at the end of the school year and in a close relationship with the working place. The program will end with a public exhibition of the results obtained.

Teachers

Notes

Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees

Attachments Schedule

Date 10 Oct 2024 to 26 Jun 2025
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 10 x 140€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments up to 15th september)

Admission Drawing and painting night course 2 or interview.

Schedule see programme

Type annual

Program
Evening Course in Drawing and Painting III
On-premise + on-line classes.
10 Oct 2024 to 16 Jun 2025
Thursdays 20h00-22h30 (on-premise) Mondays 20h00-22h00 (on premise or on-line, every other week )
teachers: Pedro Calhau and Pedro Sousa Vieira
Orientation of the students’ work is highly individualized, approaching the model of tutorials. Thursday classes are more dedicated to this type of orientation, promoting an informed and up to date attitude. Wednesday and Friday classes have a more theoretical character, aiming to stimulate and contextualize the individual work of each student.

Lab III (Drawing/Painting)
On-line + on-premise classes.
14 Out 2024 a 2 Jun 2025 (every other week)
Mondays 20h00-22h00
Observations: sessions take place in several different locations.
Observations: sessions take place in several different locations.
O programa inclui sessões de reflexão e discussão sobre temas pertinentes no âmbito da experiência escolar, propostas pontuais de exercícios práticos, convites a artistas praticantes e a teóricos, visitas guiadas e outras actividades relevantes para o desenvolvimento de um pensamento estético personalizado e de um estilo individualizado. Algumas sessões estarão intimamente relacionadas e articuladas com o programa da disciplina Desenho e Pintura III.

Photography workshop: Portfolio
(on-premise)
24 to 26 Jun 2025
Local: Ar.Co – Xabregas
Tuesdays to Thursday from 10h to 13h and 14h to 17h
Introduction to the photographic reproduction of artworks in studio environment, namely in what concerns lighting techniques. Approaching some of the editing and image treatment techniques. By the end of the workshop participants will have built a digital portfolio of their own selected works.

Notes students will always be notified in advance in case of a change of date and/or time or attendance regime.


The Evening Course promotes the development of technical and artistic skills in the areas of Painting/Drawing. Further development options: Level 3 of the Standard Course in Painting or Drawing, Advanced Course in the Visual Arts, Individual Project or other.

Teachers

Notes

Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees

Attachments Schedule