Collective dedicated to artistic and cultural research, management, and mediation, based in Costa Rica and composed of Marga Sequeira, Mariela Richmond, and Catalina Tenorio. Active between 2018 and 2023, the collective focused on the design, management, research, and mediation of participatory processes from a transdisciplinary perspective, integrating the arts, education, history, anthropology, management, among other fields.
Their research work centered on exploring poetic practices and the epistemology of the arts as tools for community organization and cohesion. They also approached festivity as a means of learning, collective making as a political gesture, and the archive as a form of human connection.
The collective carried out projects in Mexico, Chile, Germany, Costa Rica, and other countries. It was a recipient of the Catalizadora Grant, awarded by the TEOR/éTica foundation to Central American organizations dedicated to cultural and artistic management, and was part of the Empathetic Pedagogies Network.
Art educator, artist, designer, and university professor. Co-founder of LaRuidosaOficina. She currently teaches at the School of Dramatic Arts and the School of Visual Arts at the University of Costa Rica, and is also a researcher at the University's Institute for Research in the Arts. Member of the collective Mojojoy Agri-Cultura, where she develops the project #laescuelitadelatierra, and of the artivist group #colectivolashartas, with whom she received the National Visual Arts Award in 2022. She has been awarded the National Award for Set Design in 2014 and 2020, and, together with Teatro Abya Yala, received the National Award for Best Costa Rican Theater Group in 2012. Has participated in artistic residencies such as Espira-La Espora (2009, 2011, 2012), Alter Academia (2016), and the SeCUELA program (2022–2023). She studied Visual Arts with an emphasis in Graphic Design and in Art Education at the University of Costa Rica, where she also earned a master's degree in Performing Arts.
Researcher, curator, and university professor. Co-founder of LaRuidosaOficina. Her work in visual arts focuses on subaltern history and unofficial narratives, exploring ways of materializing research beyond the written text. Through curatorial exercises, visual memory projects, public space interventions, and collective research-creation processes, she seeks to position Central America as a site of knowledge production linked to activism, resistance, and critical pedagogies. She is currently developing "anarchives" on LGTBIQ+ memory in Central America and independent spaces for artistic education. She has received grants from TEOR/éTica, FFAI, and hablarenarte. She holds a degree in Art History from the University of Costa Rica, with additional studies in philosophy, activism, and gender. She also earned a diploma in the Anthropology of Art (LATIR Institute) and a master's degree in Visual Arts and Cultural Studies from Universitat Miguel Hernández (Spain).
Sociocultural manager, researcher, and artist. Co-founder of LaRuidosaOficina. Her work focuses on the design, management, and implementation of projects that promote community participation and access to rights, exploring alternative organizational models, solidarity-based economies, and socio-environmental justice. She collaborates with the Department of Sociocultural Management (MCJ-CR), where she has supported more than 40 community organizations—across urban, rural, and Indigenous territories—that have received public funding for the development of cultural projects. She was part of the team behind the Audiovisual Camp for Women and Territories (UCR) and has also independently developed her artistic practice through various audiovisual and performance-based projects. In 2021, she received an Honorable Mention at the National Culture Awards for her work as an art director. She holds an academic background in Social Anthropology, Performing Arts, and Non-Formal Education from the University of Costa Rica and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá.