PIN. Portuguese Association for Contemporary Jewellery

In order to achieve its aims, PIN has set out plans:
- To promote training courses and other pedagogical activities;
- To organise conferences, seminars, masterclasses, artistic residencies and exhibitions;
- To undertake actions that appeal to new audiences;
- To set up partnerships and projects for artistic and cultural interchanges;
- To publish articles, books, catalogues and videos;
- To disseminate the work and activities of PIN members as well as others of interest, and to provide technical and consulting support.

In September 2004 PIN was born within the community of jewelers who, for a long time, longed for an association where they could create projects, develop exchanges and launch new platforms for a discipline that increasingly calls for encounters with other arts. Many of the people who dedicate their lives to jewelery, to their study and teaching are present at PIN - Associação Portuguesa de Joalharia Contemporânea .
As a cultural association, PIN aims to promote contemporary jewelery, triggering on a collective basis the exchange of information and experiences, the realization of theoretical and practical projects in the scope of the arts, with a special focus on jewelery.

Like a pin, PIN is concerned with the promotion of workshops, training activities and other activities of a pedagogical nature related to contemporary art and jewelery, with the organization of meetings, debates, seminars, artistic residencies, exhibitions and other initiatives cultural, national and international.

At the heart of what is the dissemination of its actions, PIN also wants to establish new audiences for contemporary jewelery, and also wants to establish and promote partnerships and exchange projects, particularly through national and international networks of cultural and artistic scope.

The founding members of PIN - Portuguese Contemporary Jewelery Association Cristina Filipe, Marília Maria Mira and Paula Paour are all known for their history as names of designer jewelery, with a prominent role in the movement of the new national jewelery of the 80s and 90s. Along with her personal work, from an early age who started teaching the Jewelery course in Portugal.

PIN is a member of the Conselho Consultivo de Ourivesaria [Jewellers Consultative Council] and Imprensa Nacional–Casa da Moeda [the Portuguese Mint and Official Printing Office – Essay Office]
 
Honorary members of PIN:
Ar.Co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual
Designer Fernando Brízio
Professor Amélia Cavaco
Clube Português de Artes e Ideias
Art historian and curator Leonor d’Orey
Art historian and curator Rui Afonso Santos
Jewellery artist and professor Tereza Seabra
Jewellery artist and professor Filomeno Pereira de Sousa
Full professor and art historian Gonçalo de Vasconcelos e Sousa
Art historian Madalena Braz Teixeira
 
Social Entities – Triennium 2020–2023
 
General Meeting
President: Madalena Braz Teixeira
Secretary: Ana Albuquerque
Secretary: Dulce Ferraz
 
Direction
President: Cristina Filipe
Secretary: Luís Torres
Treasurer: Isabel Ribeiro de Albuquerque
 
Fiscal Council:
President: Elisabete Ruivo
Secretary: Natália Olarte
Secretary: Filomeno Pereira de Sousa