Por & Para – English

Eva Moraga Guerrero is a lawyer, a conflict mediator and the Director of Por & Para, www.porypara.es, a consulting firm that provides legal and professional advice, consulting, advocacy, coaching, training and conflict resolution for professionals and public and private organizations in the arts and cultural sector. She is the author of numerous reports on cultural policy/management, legal and advocacy matters regarding the arts sector, cultural policy and working conditions of artists and cultural workers. She appeared as an independent expert before the parlamentarian comission which drafted the «Estatuto del Artista» report in 2018 in Spain and wrote reports for cultural organisations which participated in the drafting process. She is currently advising numerous cultural organizations in the legal implementation process of the report.

Eva Moraga holds a B.A. degree in Law, a B.A. degree in Visual Arts, and a Masters in Art History all of them from Complutense University (Madrid – Spain). She also holds a Masters in Museum and Gallery Management from the Department of Cultural Policy and Management at City University in London (Uk), a B.A. in European Law from Rouen University (France) and a Masters in the same subject from Madrid's Complutense University. She is a conflict mediator registered at the Ministry of Justice.

Her experience as a lawyer and a consultant spans almost 30 years during which she has developed expertise on issues that include legal issues affecting profesional artists and cultural workers and organizations (decent work for artists, intellectual property, Social Security, tax, contracts, etc.) cultural management, marketing and communication in the cultural sector, fundraising, patronage and sponsorship, project management, international relations, mediation, advocacy, transparency and freedom of information, and career development.

She was the Coordinator of Pro Acceso Coalition, platform which promoted the adoption of the Spanish Law on Transparency and Freedom of Information. She was legal adviser at SEACEX (current AC/E Acción Cultural Española), coordinator of the Working Group on Transparency in the Arts Sector, and member of the Mediation Commission at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Spain as well. She was the representative and report editor (before the European Commission and the European Council) of the Working Group “Participatory Governance of Cultural Heritage” during Voices of Culture – Structured dialogue between the European Commission and the cultural sector.

She also gives lectures and runs workshops and courses about these issues from Por & Para and in Universities and education centers. She currently teaches “Digital Humanities and Intellectual Property” at the National Distance Learning University University, “Professionalization of scientific illustration” at the Basque Country University and “Law, ethics, transparency and good practices in the cultural sector” at the Complutense University. She has also taught intellectual property in the contemporary art sector at the Comillas Pontifical University, project management at the Higher Technical School of Architecture, and cultural management at the Complutense University.

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