Stela Barbieri is plastic artist, educator, story-teller and head director of Tomie Ohtake Institute’s “Ação Educativa” (Educational Action) Project. There, she organizes teachers training and formation courses, coordinates visitors and public relation services and develops educational and supporting folders for Tomie Ohtake Institute’s exhibitions, not to mention several courses about the multiple universes of Art for people in general. She has been working as an educator for Vera Cruz, one of the most important private schools in São Paulo, since 1988, and for Escola Castanheiras.

From 2000 to 2005, she took part in “Escola que Vale” (The Real School) Project, coordinated by CEDAC (Community Education and Documentation Center). There, Stela developed especial classes for improving the teaching of Art in public schools, in different parts of Brazil.

As a plastic artist, she works with a great deal of materials such as latex, glass, pigments, sand, beeswax and clay. She starts on the organic forms that – through her work – are transformed into a new body nature. Stela Barbieri had her first professional exhibition in 1990 and, since then, she has been showing her Art regularly in different institutions and cultural centers – either through her own projects or as an invited artist – in Brazil and abroad.  

She works making performances inspired by tales of the oral tradition and has taken part in several plays in many different places such as Sala São Paulo Theater (along with the Popular Chamber Orchestra of São Paulo), Itaú Cultural Institute (along with Benjamim Taubkin, Toninho Carrasqueira, Ari Colares and others), Sesc Vila Mariana and Sesc Pompéia.