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Marian Lopez Fernadez Cao (Marián Cao) (born 1964, Vigo) is a Spanish professor and researcher, specializing in art, feminism, art therapy and social inclusion. Since 1992 she has been a professor in the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, working as an educator and researcher in these fields. Besides, she is an expert on the artist Sonia Delaunay.
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Professional path
PHD at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid in 1991, MFA in Intervención Psicoterapeutica in 2009, BFA at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid in 1987. Member of the community of the editorial En Pie de Paz´s magazine since 1988 until its dissolution in 2001. She has been director of the Spanish Institute of Feminist Investigations (2007-2011) and she has been promoter and director of the Master in Art Therapy and Artistic Education for social inclusion (2010-2014) of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. As a researcher, she has been invited to teach and undertake research in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Brazil and Mexico, where she has tackled subjects of art, inclusion and equality and art therapy with an implication in social and gender.
She is now President of the Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV). She is directing an investigation group, Research Group EARTDI, she is the director of this group of reference in the field of art and the psycho-social inclusion. Divercity, a European Community project created by the Complutense University of Madrid in collaboration with other institutions such as the Museum Thyssen and Intermediae, on museums, city and diversity.
Marian Cao is promoter of the project on Gender and Museums that she created in 2009 from the conjoint work of the team of the Institute of Feminist Investigations of the Complutense University of Madrid, with the Spanish Ministry of culture, and the association mujeres-e, which it results in the web Museos en Femenino (www.museosenfemenino.es), to form the personnel of museums and be used in the education by itineraries that analyze the art from perspective of gender (Didactic 2.0 Museums in feminine), at Museo del Prado, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo Arqueológico Nacional y Museo del Traje, a tool to teach through itineraries that analyze art from a gender perspective.
Publications
She has published works related with art, inclusion, therapy and feminism. She is director of the collection 21 guías para Educación Primaria "Posibilidades de ser a través del arte", of the Editorial Eneida, that received in 2010, the Prize Rosa Regàs to educational material with co educative value.
Also, she is director of the magazine Arteterapia, Papeles de Arteterapia y educación Artística para la Inclusión Social (Service of Publications of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid) that spreads the possibilities of the art like road of psychosocial welfare.
Works
Collaborations in collective works
- De la función estética y pedagógica a la función social y terapeútica (arteterapia). Págs. 69-95. Marián López Fdz. Cao.
- Cómo hacer una sopa con piedras: el arte como herramienta de intervención y mediación social. Construyendo sociedades más creativas. Págs. 97-127. Marián López Fdz. Cao.
- El mundo del arte, la industria cultural y la publicidad desde la perspectiva de género. Págs.271-300. Marián López Fdz. Cao.
- Niños de cine: Apuntes sobre las películas dirigidas a la infancia tardía. Págs. 89-108. Marián López Fdz. Cao.
- De la creación de las mujeres. Apuntes sobre paz, feminismo y creación. Págs.151-158. Marián López Fdz. Cao.
Other projects
She has developed projects on art and feminism, art therapy and art and social intervention. Besides, she has coordinated and she made workshops with migrants and people in risk of social exclusion. She has shared the coordination of workshops of inclusion with the researcher Noemí Martínez Díez and several workshops on feminism with the artist Marisa González programmed by MAV (Women in the Visual arts).