This text refers to an ongoing research project that seeks to investigate the process of constructing meanings of women's work and its relation to gender categorization from the life stories of artisan women and from craft production produced by each participant. A participant group is formed by artisan women belonging to an art and craft popular cooperative and the other is formed by students of undergraduate courses of Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), specially of Pedagogy and Visual Arts courses. The initiative sought to build a craft production space, where memories are redeemed not only from orality, but also in craft concrete production, through what we call Collective Creation Workshops.
gender; art-education; life stories; female labor.