Over the course of a decade, the APOTHEKE Painting Studio program has been dedicated to a wide range of activities, including workshops, micro-practices, lectures, open classes and artistic-pedagogical residencies. These activities are aimed not only at the academic community, including undergraduate and graduate students, but also at the general public interested in the pictorial language. With a special focus on the exploration and development of this language, the "Apotheke Painting Studio" offers a space that intensifies the learning and experimentation of pictorial techniques and processes. This environment is conceived as an investigative laboratory, supported by the pillars of teaching, research and extension, emphasizing the construction of critical and reflective processes through practice, action and artistic sensitivity. The research is also dedicated to the development of experimental practices, which configure the teaching and learning process in the Visual Arts, in these contexts of teaching, research and extension. This research focuses on the practice conceived in the painting studio at UDESC/DAV/PPGAV and points to a research approach based on art or artistic practice, which proposes a transition between artistic practice and pedagogical practice, or even art as experience, intensified by John Dewey's theoretical-methodological configuration.

As a central question, the program investigates in its projects how the painting studio can be conceived simultaneously as a space for artistic creation and teaching and learning in Visual Arts, and how the studio can become a true place of study. The projects and actions carried out within the scope of the program also result in the consolidation of significant academic productions, such as theses and dissertations supervised by the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts - PPGAV/UDESC, reinforcing the group's commitment to promoting free, quality public education.