Ana Sousa is an invited professor and also a fibre artist. She was born in Lisboa, in 1980, and grew up in Faro, where she attended secondary school in the visual arts, as well as music and drama classes, until 1998. With a BA in Painting (2003), an MA in Arts Education (2007), and also a PhD in the same field (2016), from the Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (FBAUL), her main research interests focus on global contemporary art practices and the buliding of visual arts curricula. She also has been interested in the connection between the conceptions of visual arts arising from the experiences that the 'prospective teachers' lived as students and the way they intend to teach. Since 2009, she has been working in teacher education, covering the teaching of visual arts and its didactics from pre-school to secondary school, at the FBAUL and other higher education institutions, such as the Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, where she currently also teaches. Since 2018, she has been teaching at the PhD in Arts Education at the Universidade de Lisboa. She is currently mentoring 12 PhS students. Ana Sousa was coordinator of the Arts Education Research Group at the CIEBA (The Artistic Studies Research Center) between July 2019 and January 2023. She is an integrated resercher at the CIEBA and a foreign collaborator in the Research Group Art in Education, Teacher Training and School Curriculum (GPARTEDU), University of São Paulo.