Tiago Cruz 2024 Portfolio

PORTFOLIO

TIAGO CRUZ

Educator, designer and artist, Tiago has a Bachelor’s degree in Education from the University of Brasilia and a postgraduate degree in Professional and Technological Education from the Federal Institute of EspíritoSanto , Brazil.

experience

ALUMIAR: Thoughts and experiences about education and images. (2015 – 2018)

Researcher and volunteer responsible for creating and coordinating workshops at Brazilian public schools where the main focus was examining society through a critical perspective. Additionally worked as a producer, photographer, vídeo maker/editor, writer, and designer.

BANK OF BRAZIL CULTURAL CENTER (2018 - 2021)

Educator and producer

2020 -2022: PEDAGOGICAL TUTORING

Focused on the intellectual, social, and motor development of children and assisted them in fulfulling their full cognitive and social potential.

& educational materials, objects, spaces and articles

materials Art

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“Spaces of Coexistance”

Collaboratively streamlined the concept, set-up and development of activities on these interactive spaces, inspired by the exhibitions we received at the Bank of Brazil Cultural Centre.

Chiharu Shiota – Lifelines (2020)

To-and-Fro (2019)

Dreamworks Animation (2018)

Articles about the activities (Only in Portuguese)

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Artistic and pedagogical

activities

workshops

“Quem é Curi?” (2019) “Who’scurupira?”

“Caminhos do folclore” (2019) “Folkloreroutes”

Stories created to address socioenvironmental issues of Brazil and explore other cultural references of the national folklore.

Ataldaabelha(2019)

“travellingbee”

A tale written by Tiago and Amanda Ehrarhdt that explores cultural and aesthetic knowledge of Brazilian indigenous populations and also highlights the relationship between childhood and ancestry

”The African drum”

Storytelling workshops at the educative program of the Bank of Brazil Center

Histórias sombrias (2019)

Shadowstories-storytelling

Libras Storytelling workshops (2018)

*LIBRAS is the abreviation for Brazilian Sign Language

“How many Africas can exist in an continent?”

(2018)

Painting workshop that invited the participants to think about their African references and expand their perspectives regarding African diversity.

Camera obscura (2019)

Laboratory to create a camera obscura and explore the history of photography.

Stop-motion workshop (2018)

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Linhografia” (2019)

Art object made from the subjects of the book “Travelling Bee”, exploring symetrical patterns from nature through paper folds and cuts.

Grass monsters (2019)

Character development workshop that allowed the children to create a doll filled with seeds that grows grass hair after being watered and sunbathed.

Brazilian ne(s)t (2019)

Collaborative construction of a hammock created with fabric and knots dolls named “Abayomis" during the exhibition "To-and-fro" (2019) at CCBB. It was made to reflect about the diversity of the Brazilian identity and the technology of Indigenous, African and Afro-Brazilian people.

Walking througt ancient Egypt(2021)

Educational resource using the game “Minecraft” to explain and interact with children and young teenagers about the exhibition “Ancient Egypt: from daily life to eternity”

(avaliable at: :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnZQMfz1Jq8&)

Tiny movie sessions (2021)

Collective short-films created by the public of the CCBB: teaching movie techniques such as writing a script, storyboard, photography and audio recording to children that became 6 short films exhibited at the museum theatre.