The article analyzes the methodological procedures of the relational art project Terra Doce developed by gathering female artists from two different but close communities, UERJ and Mangueira. It aims to preserve and promote Mangueira’s artistic, natural and socio-cultural heritage in its dialogue with the university, which, in turn, encourages the interventions for relationships awareness and humanization, to transcend the technical and scientific environment enclosing and reducing it. As link between extension and research, the university’s ceramics laboratory became the center for meetings and discussing ideas and aesthetic ambitions, culminating with the art collective O Circulo de Arte da Terra, its most significant result. The group’s efforts include the art shows, the interferences in the university campus and the exchange and intimate living spaces, involving sharing life experiences and collaborative art practices