Projeto Portinari

Her birth in Mato Grosso; preparatory studies; enrollment in the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes/ENBA; meeting Portinari; personal characteristics of Portinari as a student; Portinari’s artistic ambition; the course of Urban Systems at the Universidade do Distrito Federal/UDF; Celso Antônio and the sculpture "Homem Brasileiro"; the closing down of the UDF and the creation of the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro/UERJ; Lúcio Costa; her option for engineering and her family encouragement; feminist militancy; Berta Lutz; the women’s campaign to vote; the beginning of women’s liberation; Federação Brasileira pelo Progresso Feminino; her father - the "federalist"; Carmem joins a group in England for the rebuilding of bombed out cities in World War II; the English technology for the construction of temporary housing; on her return to Rio Carmem creates  the Departamento de Habitação Popular for the City Hall; studies and develops the issues of low-cost housing with Afonso Eduardo Reidy; low-cost housing in Pedregulho; Reidy feels the need to integrate architecture with other arts; Portinari and Burle Marx invited to participate in the Pedregulho project; Portinari sends drawings from Paris for the Pedregulho panel; the panel’s theme; Portinari’s affiliation to the Communist Party creates problems; Pedregulho project pioneering the construction of popular housing; her marriage to Reidy; the perils involved in a trip to wartime Europe; her desire to study the rebuilding of cities; Paulo Rossi Osir does not return Portinari’s original drawings for the Pedregulho project; project for listing the Pedregulho; the founders of the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro/MAM-RJ; Niomar Moniz Sodré; Portinari’s joy at the time he creates the "Israel Series"; her close friendship with Portinari ; the prize awarded to the painting "Coffee"; Portinari's own career development since the ENBA; the preparation of a huge Portinari retrospective at MAM shortly after his death; Maria foils the show’s realization; the creation  of the Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial/ESDI; Capanema; praises for Celso Antônio.