The Maravilha Project’s educational program is organized into two main strands: initiatives and programs aimed at schools and teachers, and a tailored schedule for the general public. This public programming connects content related to the works of artists Anna Bella Geiger and Carlos Vergara with the environment, nature, sustainability, the city’s history, Sugarloaf Mountain as a geological monument, Guanabara Bay, Indigenous peoples, and other cross-cutting themes.

The program’s actions are designed to catalyze meaningful relationships between individuals and their ways of being in—and relating to—art, to one another, and to the world around them.

The Maravilha Project’s socio-environmental Educational Program takes contemporary art, nature, and our relationships with the environment as its starting point. But what kinds of relationships do we want to spark? Relationships grounded in respect and care for nature, promoting sustainable contexts with the environment, and cultivating sensitive states of affecting and being affected by art, by one another, and by both human and non-human beings. The program’s actions are intended to catalyze powerful encounters between people and their ways of being in—and connecting with—art, with others, and with the world around them.

Based on these principles and contents, across thinking, seeing, feeling, and experimenting, the Educational Program engages different audiences and groups: public schools in the city, the local community, children, families, and tourists visiting Sugarloaf Mountain, among other specific publics drawn to the Program’s various proposals and the Maravilha Project’s initiatives.

Bia Jabor — Educational Program Coordinator