Lara Seixo Rodrigues^PT

Lara Seixo Rodrigues (b. Covilhã, 1979) proudly identifies as a mountain girl and explains that the fact of having grown up amidst two cultures and customs is, in itself, enough to account for the constant curiosity that drives her. This curiosity took her to Lisbon and Barcelona to study Architecture (FA-UTL and UPC-ETSAB), but it also sparked her interest in other artistic fields and intensified a long-standing passion: Urban Art.

Combining this passion with her pride in being from the mountains gave rise to WOOL | Covilhã Urban Art (2011–…) and, since then, a whole succession of other formats, locations and audiences, examples of which include LATA 65 – Urban Art Workshop for the Elderly (2012–…), ESTAU | Estarreja Urban Art (2016–…), FAZUNCHAR (Figueiró dos Vinhos, 2019–2023), ESPORO | Cultural and Artistic Dissemination (2022) and WOOL + | More Accessible Urban Art (2023–24), which was awarded the Acesso Cultura Prize – Mickaella Dantas 2024.

In 2013/14, she was invited to organise delegations of Portuguese artists to perform in internationally renowned projects, TOUR PARIS 13 (France) and DJERBAHOOD (Tunisia).

Throughout his career, he has consistently maintained an interest in the arts in general, as reflected in his curation and production of various cultural events and exhibitions. Examples include the integrated project FIO (Coimbra, 2016 and 2019), GTM – Rota Sustentada (Gaia, 2017), the exhibition Livro Transformado (Coimbra, 2021), the public art installation Círculo Azul (Estarreja, 2021) and the participatory creation “Glossário”, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the University of Aveiro (2024). She was also responsible for curating and organising the exhibition ATTERO by the artist Bordalo II (2017), which attracted over 27,000 visitors.

In April 2020, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, she launched the ‘Quarantine Workbook | 40 ideas to make the most of your time’. A compendium of illustrations compiled with contributions from 40 authors, proposing activities with encouraging and dynamic messages for the over-65s.

To manage all these facets, he founded MISTAKER MAKER | Artistic Intervention Platform (2014), whose mission is to creatively foster the production and promotion of Contemporary Art in all its forms of expression.

She is a member of the driving force behind the Ibero-American Urban Art Network, the Periferias Centrais working group, and between 2018 and 2022, she was part of the Reflection Group on the Future of Portugal, comprising 45 Portuguese figures born after 1974, with no party affiliation, in close and exclusive dialogue with the President of the Republic, Professor Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. In 2025, her career was recognised with the Cultural Merit Award from the Jornal do Fundão.

Above all, she is someone who is passionate about what she does.