Maria Helena Macedo
Maria Helena Macedo is currently Vice-Consul, head of the Cultural and Educational Sector, at the Brazilian Consulate-General in Boston. She is also a fiction writer, and wrote the storybook “Contando Azulejos” (Máquina de Escrever Press), among other works, and held the artistic exhibition “Ayiti Anpil” (Brasilia and Recife in 2008/Curitiba, in 2014 – Brazil), and “Irã, Irão” (Curitiba, 2016).
She is interested in promoting Brazilian Art in USA and bilateral Art exchanges between USA and Brazil and has experience in the areas of Law, International Relations, Cultural Relations, and Technical and Educational Cooperation and Economic Negotiations. Maria graduated from the Law School of Curitiba (2003) and postgraduate program International Economic Negotiations by the Santiago Dantas Program, a partnership between the State University of São Paulo (Unesp), University of Campinas (Unicamp) and Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) (2004).
Since 2007, Maria serves as Chancellery Officer of the Ministry of External Relations. She has served in the United Nations Division, the Department of International Organizations and the Regional Office of Itamaraty in Parana. Between 2009 and 2011 she was assigned to the Human Rights Secretariat of the Presidency of Brazil where she served as International Advisor to the National Secretariat for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights. She has held assignments in Colombia, Haiti, Argentina, Paraguay, Guatemala and Iran.
The Art Administration Program helps to understand, both theoretically and in practice, the environment of the globalized Art World in all areas of interest (fine arts, architecture, journalism, literature, music, theater, etc.). The Program provides me with the opportunity to build a specialized relationship and network with tools to better understand management, legal issues and financial opportunities for the Art field.