Seymour Simmons III, Ed.D. is Professor of Fine Arts emeritus at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, where he taught art education and studio art, primarily drawing. Prior to moving to South Carolina, he taught at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and did research on the arts in education at Harvard Project Zero. His research focuses on drawing instruction in relation to semiotics, Multiple Intelligences, cognitive and holistic development, cross-curricular learning, and the cultivation of creativity and imagination.

Lino Cabezas Gelabert, has a Ph.D. in Fine Arts; currently he is a professor of the Departamento de Dibujo de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Barcelona. Previously he was professor at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña. In these institutions he taught classes of perspective, technical drawingand descriptive geometry. He participated and now collaborates in Ph.D and Master couses, conference cycles and meetings organized in several universities and institutions.

Deborah Harty, is an artist and senior lecturer at Loughborough University (UK). She is co-director, with Russ Marshall, of the online journal TRACEY drawing and visualisation and the Drawing Research Network. Harty also acts as Chair of the Drawing Research Group at Loughborough University. She completed her practice-led PhD drawing//experience: a process of translation at Loughborough University in 2010. She lives and works in Loughborough UK.

Filomena Silvano’s, interests, which relate the issues of collective and individual identities to the study of space, Home, Migration, Objects and Expressive Culture, and, more recently, Consumption, Dress, Fashion and the Use of Drawing, have continued over time and have been the subject of work within the framework of various research projects and books. She collaborated with film directors João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata and did ethnographic research in the atelier of fashion designer Filipe Faísca.

Paulo Luís Almeida, graduated in Fine Arts — Painting, in the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. He was Research Fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology in 2006, and obtained his PhD from the University of the Basque Country in Spain in 2009, with a thesis on the interferences of performance-based methodologies in contemporary pictorial practices. Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in the University of Porto and an integrated researcher in the Research Institute in Art, Design and Society (I2ADS).

Sónia Vespeira de Almeida, is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology – Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH). She obtained her PhD at ISCTE-IUL (2008). Currently, she is developing research on artistic practices and ethnographic archives. Within the institutional framework of CRIA, she is Vice-President of the Executive Board since 2021. Between 2018-2021 she was a member of the Executive Board with the coordination of Heritage and Science & Society Activities, among others.