Luísa Constantina

Luísa Constantina de Ataíde da Costa Gomes (30 August 1941 – 31 December 1990), better known as Luísa Constantina, was a Portuguese sculptor, arts administrator, and screenwriter. She worked on sculptures made of basalt from her native Azores. She was also director of the Ponta Delgada Academy of Free Arts and, from 1965 until 1975, director of sculpture and African ethnography at the .

Biography She was born on 30 August 1941 in Ponta Delgada, the daughter of the painter and granddaughter of .

Outside of sculpture, she also worked as an illustrator, working on a 1974 Chinese-language edition of Luís de Camões's work Os Lusíadas while in Macau, as well as a screenwriter, with one of her works being the RTP Açores film Etnografia da Costa Norte da ilha de San Miguel (1980).

She died on 31 December 1990 in Ponta Delgada. Her work is shown publicly at the Museu Regional Carlos Machado and Museu de Angra do Heroísmo, at the Legislative Assembly of the Azores, several other public places and banks in Azores, and the Banco Nacional Ultramarino in Macau.

Filmography YearTitleNoteRef. 1980 Etnografia da Costa Norte da ilha de San Miguel Screenwriter