Acácia Azevedo (b. 1967, Recife, PE, BRA) currently (2019) attends a MFA at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUCC-SP) and holds two Post-graduate degrees, one in Visual Arts by Faculdade Futura (Futura Faculty, 2019) and in Arts Teaching Methodology by Instituto de Educação Ateneu (Ateneu Educational Institution, 2018), and a bachelor’s degree in Pedagogy by Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Pernanbuco (PUC-PE, 1993). She has, over the years, exhibited her work throughout Brazil and Internationally, including exhibitions in São Paulo (BRA), China, India, Turkey, Thailand, Spain and Portugal, since 2008.
Only in 2019, Acácia exhibited at the “International I Macsabal Silk Road Exhibition” in Turkey; at the “5th Hong Guang Zi Qi International Ceramic Week” in China and both in both the “Art for Peace Tower” and “Nothing is as it seems” exhibitions in India. In the same year she presented the exhibitions “Vestir Cerâmica”, “Tensionamentos” and “Metamorfose" in São Paulo (BRA).S he also has hosted two solo exhibitions in the same city.
Acácia, recently has been nominated as a member of both the International Academy of Ceramic (IAC, 2019) and the International Ceramic Artists Association (ICAA, 2018). And also, she’s is a founding member of the Cerâmica Contemporânea Brasileira (CCBras – Brazilian Contemporary Ceramics, 2010).
Currently, Acácia is the owner, creator and teacher at “AA Ceramic Studio” (Vinhedo, SP, BRA), which she founded in 2009. There she teaches electric wheel classes and works as a ceramic artist, producer, and researcher in the realms of electric wheeling, manual modeling, glaze formulation, and screen printing on ceramic.
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