Ana Muska Castro
Ana Castro, better known as Ana Muska, was born in 1990 in Barcelos. Since an early age, she became interested in art, attending the art course at the Secondary School in Guimarães, where she lived from 8 to 18 years old. In 2008, Ana Castro enrolled in the Communication Design course at FBAUP. In the last year of her graduation, she developed Circus as a final project of the course. This curatorial project, focused on illustration and urban art, had its first event at Maus Hábitos [Bad Habits] in 2012 and included an illustration exhibition, as well as the painting of a mural, artistic performances, music, and video-mapping. In that same year, she started a master’s degree in Multimedia at FEUP, where she developed her master’s thesis, entitled “Urban art: an exploratory study of its relationship with cities”. In 2015, together with André Carvalho, she launched the gallery, shop and co-work Circus Network in Porto’s city center. In the last decade, she has curated and produced dozens of solo and group exhibitions, having also developed several cultural activities in illustration and urban art, while also giving several lectures throughout the country.
Ana Castro is currently a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the University of Minho. She is developing interdisciplinary research, aiming to contribute to an area yet in development: communication and art. Through six case studies located in the North of Portugal, she intends to study and analyze, on the one hand, the communication strategies used by the agents who produce this type of art, and, on the other, its effects on communities and audiences.
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