Mário Linhares

Mário Linhares likes to link art with community projects. In drawing, he enjoys embedding influences from the masters of the past and learning how those methods and techniques can be used nowadays. Linhares has a B.A. in Design, an M.A. in Visual Arts Education and a Ph.D. in Fine Arts, with specialty in Drawing. A professor in Lisbon, he belongs to the Fine Arts Research Center and Studies at the University of Lisbon. Linhares started Urban Sketchers Portugal in 2009, joined the international executive board in 2011 and served as the nonprofit’s education director until 2019. Linhares is the author of several books, articles and essays, contributes drawings to exhibitions and delivers lectures worldwide.