"The project "What has always been called art" aims to develop a collection of images about ideas of art from the collection Fábrica de Arte Marcos Amaro and the dialogue with the public. Through drawing and stencil workshops, we intend to establish a device for dialogues and exchanges between the public of the space and the neighborhood, generating a collection of images about the idea of art with paintings on fabrics, papers and a mural painting, besides a documentation in video and photography of the whole process, with testimonials and material that enables and stimulates the continuity and reapplication of the project. The development of the drawing and stencil workshops is also focused on holding debates on art, diversity, inclusion, culture and the right to the city and memory. The idea is to create a series of conversations and workshops that, through artistic production, may promote the creation of propositional images for a critical reflection on representation, history, belonging and art.

Mônica Nador, through JAMAC, has been developing, since 2003, socio-cultural activities in Jardim Miriam, a suburb of the city of São Paulo, with the general objective of socializing knowledge about arts and humanities, proposing activities that explore the observation, reflection, creativity and artistic potential of those involved; stimulating the recovery of their memories and valuing local culture, becoming a space for human development and citizenship. Developing activities from open ateliers, it promotes free workshops and meetings related to art for the communities of the territories where it operates, having as its main public young people and adults. Based on the actions developed by the projects, a variety of local initiatives of a socio-cultural nature have flourished, organised and appropriated by the region's residents.

The transversality between the various cultural languages is one of the characteristics of JAMAC, since the themes addressed arise from the local to the universal reality, promoting the junction of art and society and contributing to social transformation. This project has, as a premise, to requalify the bond of the participants with art and their own trajectories and communities, strengthening the sense of belonging and responsibility over them, from the collective listening, elaboration and dialogue. Participation in the stencil and drawing workshop process enables the development of motor skills and notions of colour and shape, which may be applied in everyday work, but also in a subjective development of approximation and criticism based on the history of art. It also has, as a power, the training of the public in a technique that will allow them to paint from dishcloths to museum walls, always with their own designs".

Mônica Nador is an artist, graduated in plastic arts from the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado - FAAP, in São Paulo, in 1983. Her oldest work dates from the 1980s. She obtained her master's degree from ECA/USP for her work "Paredes Pinturas" (Painting Walls), under the supervision of Regina Silveira. In 2003, Mônica Nador founded the Jardim Miriam Arte Clube (JAMAC), in the Jardim Miriam neighbourhood, in São Paulo, where she lives.

Jardim Miriam Arte Clube (JAMAC) is a cultural space in the south area of São Paulo, created in 2004 by the artist Mônica Nador. JAMAC's main goal is to build educational processes that stimulate encounters between art and life, aesthetics and politics. The space hosts activities such as workshops, exhibitions, conversation rounds and open classes, always focusing on diversity, citizenship education and the right to the city and memory.