Being the direct result of two great passions shared between Lara Seixo Rodrigues, Pedro Seixo Rodrigues and Elisabet Carceller, one for Graffiti / Street Art and other for Covilhã and its history closely related with the textile industry, WOOL | Covilhã Urban Art (*), appeared in 2011 as the first event with these characteristics in Portugal.
For the global project IOP - Inside Out Project, by French artist JR (France), who intends to discover, collect and share hidden stories through the world by using enlarged black and white portraits, we decided to ‘tell the story’ of former workers and entrepreneurs of the almost extinct textile industry.