This thesis will present the creation process and part of the history behind the Oficina-Escola de Artes de Nova Friburgo, a space dedicated to teaching art to the children and teenagers of Nova Friburgo, a town in the interior of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Held in a Graduate Program in Design, this research has acquired a very particular perspective, inspired by this field in which the activity is carried out through projects. The backdrop for this research was a study of the theories concerning the concepts of art/education, interdisciplinarity, project methodology, public policies, and memory. It based itself on such authors as Ana Mae Barbosa, Edgar Morin, Walter Benjamin, Lev Semenovitch Vigotski, Jorge Larrosa Bondía, Maurice Halbwachs, Ecléa Bosi, Rita Couto, and Sonia Kramer, among others, highlighting them as privileged interlocutors. As a result of this research, it was concluded that the Oficina-Escola de Artes de Nova Friburgo, whose purpose was to join culture and education in the work done, proved to be wider-reaching, as it increasingly valued the different experiences of all of those involved, in a constant dialogue between practice and reflection, making transformations in the research subjects’ expression and surroundings possible. The present study aims to contribute to the documentation and systematization of the Oficina-Escola de Artes de Nova Friburgos methodology, so that other such experiments may be carried out in analogous practices.