PIVÔ SALVADOR ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH THE ESTUFA PROJECT

Pivô Salvador announces a partnership with the ESTUFA Project, a pedagogical artistic occupation that seeks to reflect on the urgencies that permeate art, education, and contemporary social life. Funded by the Museu Escola Família Hees Fund and carried out by a partnership between Pivô Salvador and Multi Planejamento Cultural, the project operates within the Cultural Production and Design track of the Centro Estadual de Educação Profissional Formação e Eventos Isaías Alves (ICEIA), encompassing the Technical Programs in Visual Arts, Theatre, and Audiovisual.

The program is conceived by Coletivo Semeia, a collective formed by Northeastern Brazilian artists and cultural managers committed to collaborative art practices and social transformation: Virginia de Medeiros, Ana Paula Vasconcelos, Ieda Oliveira, Yayá Cavendish, Amanda Melo da Mota e Beth da Matta. . Working to bring together public school students, artists, and cultural institutions in Salvador, the program promotes an open-ended education in contemporary art grounded in listening, care, and collective creation.

The project brings together artistic practice, critical thinking, and cultural mediation through experiential activities, exhibitions, portfolio presentations, and reading circles, strengthening bonds between school, territory, and museum. With countercolonial methodologies and an ethics of care as its formative axis, the initiative expands repertoires, encourages youth protagonism, and supports the professional inclusion of low-income young people in the city’s artistic ecosystem.

In 2025, its inaugural year, ESTUFA traveled through territories and institutions such as Acervo da Laje, Casa das Histórias de Salvador, Galeria Mercado, and Museu do Mar. During these visits, beyond viewing artworks, the project engaged in discussions on memory, archives, and their disputes, activating conversations about belonging, justice, and the ways histories are narrated.

This journey inaugurated Cycle 1 – Nourishing the Creative Body, dedicated to cultivating roots, creating common ground, and strengthening the collective body. Between this cycle and the next, the Open Studio – Germinations revealed the students’ first creations, the result of the practice Sowing Words, which gave rise to the Sementário Estufa, a seedbed of word-seeds emerging from the body and from territories of origin. Artist Juliana Russo contributed with a drawing workshop that opened new clearings for experimentation—fertilizing the process, as Nêgo Bispo reminds us, with words that are always seeds.

In 2026, the project moves forward to Cycle 2 – Body in Bloom, when what has been nourished blossoms into experimentations, sharings, and collaborative processes. This is the moment when the artistic gesture projects itself into the world as critical thought, presence, and the invention of futures.

ESTUFA is continuity: a pedagogical garden where students, artists, school, museum, and community grow together, in a spiral movement, learning from the territory and flourishing through shared creation.
All dissemination of the ESTUFA Project will take place on the initiative’s official Instagram profile.