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Jardim Miriam Arte Clube (JAMAC)

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The Jardim Miriam Arte Clube—JAMAC is a collective organized around a cultural space located in the southern zone of São Paulo. It was founded in 2004 by artist Mônica Nador and has since been managed collectively by artists from various fields, along with educators. Rooted in community-based practices, JAMAC brings together art, education, and social activism, promoting formative actions that intertwine art and life, aesthetics and politics.

The space offers workshops, open classes, discussion circles, and exhibitions, always focusing on citizenship, the right to the city, environmental justice, and cultural memory. Over the years, JAMAC has supported the emergence of other local initiatives and continues to work in network with different collectives and movements from São Paulo’s southern periphery.

JAMAC develops projects using a variety of techniques such as screen printing, stencil, artisanal graphics, and film, supporting diverse creative processes that are always free and open to the public. Its participatory and collaborative practices have contributed to rethinking urban space as a field for shared creation, resistance, and transformation.

A photo of an external wall in a deprived looking urban area. One side of the wall is painted orange with a repeating arrow pattern in black, around the corner it is painted white with the pattern in orange. The text “JAMAC Jardim Miriam Arte Clube” appears in green stencilled letters on the white wall.

Artist Events

15 November 2026, 13:00

Che Guevara on a dishcloth

Jardim Miriam Arte Clube (JAMAC) Amilcar Packer

A book launch and conversation with JAMAC: an insurgent art project in São Paulo who visually embed stories into drawn patterns used towards processes of community self-determination. They have done the set design for Episode 12.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
11 – 15 November 2026

Set Design

Jardim Miriam Arte Clube (JAMAC)

The São Paulo collective JAMAC visually manifests community histories and desires into patterns: for fabric, houses, ceramics, dishcloths… They have developed the set design for Episode 12 with participating artists and workshops locally.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas