Learning to teach, teaching to learn — Guided Tour

This guided tour of the Learning to teach, teaching to learn with Elvira Leite exhibition, led by teacher and curator Lúcia Almeida Matos.

Lúcia Almeida Matos is a retired professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto, where she developed her academic career. In the late 1990s, while she was Director of the Soares dos Reis National Museum, she invited Elvira Leite to consult on the educational service. The two have been friends and collaborators ever since. In 2016, together with Susana Lourenço Marques, she organised the exhibition ‘Quem te ensinou? — Ninguém, revisiting the creative expression project conceived and implemented by Elvira Leite with the residents of Largo de Pena Ventosa in Porto following the SAAL extension. In 2020, she included Elvira Leite’s work ‘Aldeia Transmontana (1964)’ in ‘Vistas de Exposição – Major Exhibitions of ESBAP 1952–1968’. On this guided tour of the ‘Learning to teach, teaching to learn with Elvira Leite’ exhibition, Lucia Almeida Matos will share her discoveries about Elvira Leite’s remarkable work as an educator. She will also talk about the painting of a young student at the School of Fine Arts in the 1960s and her recent return to painting after fifty years.