{"id":17869,"date":"2025-10-13T13:26:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/esadcr-en\/?p=17869"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:51:19","slug":"open-class-catarina-leitao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/esadcr-en\/2025\/10\/13\/open-class-catarina-leitao\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Class &#8211; Catarina Leit\u00e3o"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-container-3 wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-container-1 wp-block-column\">\n<div style=\"height:37px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/esadcr-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/10\/letao-RP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/esadcr-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/10\/letao-RP.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/esadcr-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/10\/letao-RP-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/esadcr-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/10\/letao-RP-150x145.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/esadcr-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/10\/letao-RP-264x255.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/esadcr-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/10\/letao-RP-390x377.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/esadcr-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/10\/letao-RP-559x540.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/esadcr-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/10\/letao-RP-284x275.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/esadcr-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/10\/letao-RP-195x189.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-column\">\n<h2><em>Catarina Leit\u00e3o<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>OPEN CLASS<\/strong><br>OCTOBER 21TH OF 2025, 11AM<br>ROOM 26 OF EP.2 \u2013 ESAD.CR<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Catarina Leit\u00e3o<\/strong>, artist and professor at the College of Arts of the University of Coimbra, will give an open lecture on her work. Her work is structured around drawing, sculpture, installation, and book. Processes of construction, adaptability, and hybridity integrate a practice through which Catarina proposes the idea that human and nature, artifice and nature, culture and nature exist in continuity. Between the twodimensional and the three-dimensional, the artificial and the natural, assembly and disassembly, her spatial vision sustains a language of sculpture using installation and drawing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Catarina Leit\u00e3o<\/strong> (Stuttgart, 1970) is an artist. Her favored mediums are drawing, sculpture, installation and the book.<br>Leit\u00e3o has been exhibiting her artwork since 1992. Among the awards and residences bestowed to her, stand out the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 2009, Center for Book Arts, 2007, Triangle Arts, 2006, Sharpe Foundation, 2004, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2003, Pollock-Krasne Foundation Grant, 2001, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Luso-American Foundation.<br>Leit\u00e3o has a PhD from Col\u00e9gio das Artes da Universidade de Coimbra, 2022, an MFA from the Hunter College City University of New York (2000), and graduated in Painting at the FBAUL, Lisbon (1993). 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