Proudly serrana (those who are native of mountainous regions), born in Covilhã in 1979, Lara claims that the constant curiosity that drives her comes from having grown up between two sets of cultures and customs. It was precisely this, her curiosity, that led her to Lisbon and Barcelona to study Architecture (FA-UTL and UPC-ETSAB). It also played the leading role in Lara’s interest in other artistic areas, including one that will last forever: Urban Art. After a decade dedicated to classical architecture, she combined that passion with her pride in being serrana and created WOOL | Covilhã Urban Art in 2011, the first festival dedicated to these artistic expressions in Portugal. Since then, she has given rise to a succession of other formats, geographies and audiences, examples being LATA 65 – Urban Art Workshops for the Elderly (2012 - ...), FAZUNCHAR (Figueiró dos Vinhos, 2019 - ...) and ESPORO | Cultural and Artistic Dissemination (2022).  Throughout her journey, her interest in the Arts in general remains, reflected in the curatorship and production of various initiatives, among which stand out the curatorship of Portuguese entourages in projects of international prominence, TOUR PARIS 13 (France) and DJERBAHOOD (Tunisia), the curatorship of GTM – Sustained Route (Gaia, 2017), the exhibition Transformed Book (Coimbra, 2021) and the public art installation Blue Circle (Estarreja, 2021). Lara was also responsible for the curatorship and organization of the ATTERO exhibition by the artist Bordalo II (2017), which welcomed more than 27 000 visitors.  To manage all these facets, she founded MISTAKER MAKER | Platform for Artistic Intervention (2014), whose mission is to explore new paths in the production of content and the creation of artistic products that add social, cultural, tourist and/or economic value to communities and territories.  She integrates the driving group of the Red Iberoamericana de Arte Urbana, the work group Periferias Centrais and since 2018, the Reflection Group on the Future of Portugal, composed of 45 Portuguese cadres born after 1974, without party affiliation, in close and exclusive dialogue with the President of the Republic, Professor Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. Above all else, Lara is someone passionate about what she does.