PAPS member Beatriz Albuquerque is a Portuguese artist with a Master of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and now is taking a Ed. D. at Columbia University, New York with a Fulbright Scholarship.  She is an interdisciplinary artist that has been developing an intense activity in performance, frequently using video, photography and drawing as a way of documentation and creation. She has been presenting her work in several international shows and festivals. In 2005 she was awarded with the Distinction Prize Ambient Series, PAC/edge Performance Festival, Chicago and in 2009 was awarded the Myers Art Prize the category of media mix, Columbia University, New York. 

This month Beatriz is participating in two events in New York. On September 9, between 8pm-10pm she is showing the video ACTivism in a Portuguese and Brazilian Film/Video Art screening called TESOL International Film & Art Exhibit: Atlantic Ocean. (www.wix.com/tesolinternational/filmandartexhibit). At the same time she shows drawings in an exhibition entitled La Loteria that goes from 10th September to 22 October in the Arts Space Observatory (543 Union St # 1E \ Brooklyn, NY. 11215). Next year she will have a solo exhibition at Gallery Reflexus in Porto.