Born in Brazil in 1965, Stela Barbieri is a plastic artist as well as an educator and story teller.

She is the director of the Project “Educational Action” of the Tomie Ohtake Institute where she also organizes and develops training courses for teachers, prepares the documentation for the exhibitions that take place at the Institute and organizes courses about the world of art, for the general public.

From 2000 till 2005, she took part in the NGO CEDAC project “The real school” where she developed special classes dedicated to improve the teaching of Art in Brazil’s state schools.

As a plastic artist she works with different material such as latex, glass, pigments, sand, clay and beeswax. Through her work, she transforms the original organic form into a new body.

She held her first exhibition in 1990, and since then she has been showing her works regularly in different cultural centres and institutions, in Brazil and abroad.
She has also been a guest artist at various exhibitions.

In addition she gives performances based on traditional stories as well as she acts in several plays throughout Brazil.

In 2006, she decided to try her hand at books together with Fernando Vilela and published “Bumba-meu boi” and “A menina do Fio” (Finalist in the Jabuti Literary Prize).

Stela Barbieri’s books in lazuli

http://www.stelabarbieri.com.br/en

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Collection Ways to Change the World (Coleção Jeitos de mudar o mundo), illustrations by Fernando Vilela:
  • A menina do feijão suculento (The girl and the juicy bean stew), Escala Educacional, Brazil, 2008.
  • Radija e os tapetes mágicos (Radija and the magic carpets), Escala Educacional, Brazil, 2008.
  • O reino dos mamulengos (The King of the Puppets-Show), Escala Educacional, Brazil, 2008.Ç
  • Satiko e o vulcão (Sachiko and the volcano), Escala Educacional, Brazil, 2008.
  • Na sombra do baobá (Under the shadow of the Baoba Tree), Escala Educacional, Brazil, 2008.
  • O gênio do poço encantado (The genius of the enchanted well), Escala Educacional, Brazil, 2008.
  • A ponte (The bridge), Escala Educacional, Brazil, 2008.
  • O amigo dos animais (The animals’ friend), Escala Educacional, Brazil, 2008.
• Pedro Malasartes em quadrinhos (Pedro Malasartes Comics) illustrations by Fernando Vilela, Moderna, Brazil, 2008.
• ABC do Japão (Japan’s ABC) illustrations by Fernando Vilela, SM, Brazil, 2008.
• Bumba Meu Boi (Bumba-meu-boi, the Holy Ox Party), illustrations by Fernando Vilela, Girafinha, Brazil, 2007.
• A menina do fio (The Girl’s Yarn), illustrations by Fernando Vilela, Girafinha, Brazil, 2006.