Education
She attended elementary school in Santa Cruz do Piauí and Picos, and high school in Fortaleza.
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She started university in Teresina. In 1976, she moved to Brasilia, where she began painting professionally. The same year she moved to Recife, where she lived for five years.
lieutenant was here that Naza began developing her style, and made his first solo exhibition.
In 1982, started working for the Bank of Brazil and took the job in the city Picos. While living in that city, Naza always traveled to make presentations and painting portraits in Fortaleza, Brazil, Recife, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro.
First they went to Saint Thomas, and then to Dalton, Ohio. From there, she went to live for three years at Fort Kobbe, a United States. military base in Panama.
In Panama she was hired to paint portraits of high society in the country.
Among her clients were General Noriega and his family. She moved to Arlington, Virginia, in 1988. The current phase of the artist is the result of research while living in Arlington.
The painting "Losing the Fear of Red", was a cornerstone and a major shift in her artistic direction.
In 1990, she moved to Barbados, where she lived a few months. In 1993, she moved to the city of Boca Raton, Florida, where she opened a studio (Naza Art Studio) at Palmetto Park Road.
She became intensely involved with the local community. In 1998, the journalist Suzane Jales wrote and published the book "O Figurativo Abstrato de Naza (Abstracted Realism by Naza).
Naza moved to Deerfield Beach in 2003, and in 2005, began to create clothes and other products inspired by her paintings.
Her art was at the mansion of Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, attended by several celebrities, including Debbie Gibson, David Carradine and Dan Haggerty. Since December 2007, the artist has lived most of the year in Brazil, where her clothes are being manufactured. In 2013 Kjetil Breien Furuseth opened the first Naza Art & Fashion store, in Porto de Galinhas, Ipojuca, PE, Brazil.
Naza is also a resident of Boca Raton, Florida, and San Francisco, California, by the year.
Membership
She was an active member of several local organizations, including, Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce, Women in Visual Arts, Boca Raton Professional Artists Guild, American Pen Women, Soroptimists International.
