THE ARTISTS OF OUR VILLAGE

Industrial Designer, works developing furniture and products for companies and also for the brand itself. Post-graduation in Production and Product Development and Eco Design, in some products methods of reusing materials or reforestation wood are applied.

Graduated in communication in 1988, he has his first contact with advertising at JWT, where he attended Kodak, Philips and Warner Lambert. Moves to Curitiba where he worked at Exclam Comunicação, serving Volvo, Eletrolux and Carrefour. In 1997 Art Office opens, having as main client Philip Morris, Ambev, Nike, O Boticario internacional, Brastemp, Loccitane, Cartier, Canal Viva, Universal Channel and Unilever. Accumulates several awards such as Professional of the year for Rede Globo, Columnist Award, Brazilian Festival of Packaging and Design, CCSP, CCPR, POPAI, IF. He was elected in 2009 and 2010 Design Entrepreneur of the Year. He is a founding partner of the Paraná Creation Club and served as president in the 2010 and 2011 management. Currently he is dedicated to the DaVila education art project.

Alexandre Linhares Neto, stylist, eco-designer, performer, video-maker, costume designer, producer and Brazilian teacher. It is seen as a reference in thinking about fashion and an example of genuinely authorial work. Thifany Noelle Faria, is a Brazilian administrator, manager, stylist, performer, costume designer and makeup artist. She is a facilitator of meditation and Tibetan Buddhist studies, works as a designer for the brand " H-AL " alongside Alexandre Linhares.

Born in Curitiba, Paraná. She graduated in Painting from the School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná and attended the Painting Workshop at the Alfredo Andersen Museum. As a child, she learned to sew and since then she develops activities related to doing this.

Graduated in Industrial Design - Visual Programming at PUC-PR in 2000, he has drawing as the guiding line of his activities. As a designer and illustrator, he works focused on the cultural market, creating posters for theater, shows and cinema, CD covers and editorial projects. From the theater brings the experience of working with research groups. Theatrical languages that mix with Performance Art, Dance and Plastic Arts.

Conservationist visual artist of Danish origin and based in Brazil, whose favorite technique is the ballpoint pen. Since her youth, connected with nature, she worked as a speleologist at GEEP-Açungui exploring and registering caves in Paraná. He was also part of the archeology team at the Museu Paranaense in the 1980s. Trails, mountains, fauna and flora, the environment is at the heart of his art.

Carlos Eduardo Heller, 29 years old, graduated in gastronomy and his sister, Gabriela Heller, 26 years old, graduated in Administration, after an exchange, decided to take off the idea of his brand Buddies , which means friends / companions. The Curitibana brand takes the concept of casual, the joy of traveling.

Born in Porto Alegre, living in Curitiba for 45 years. Therapist and spiritualist. He started a rescue of grandmothers' recipes, reverencing food as sacred as it is! Cook with love and respect for Pachamama.

Civil engineer by training and always interested in the functionality of objects, he fell in love with creating and adapting utensils to facilitate everyday life. Multifaceted, along its trajectory it gathers its aptitudes to develop products that move between art and design. Aryaú Design by Cristina Yamada and Claudio Araújo, since 2009 in Curitiba, is dedicated to exploring all the possibilities of design. From graphics to service design, an area where in 2016 he was a finalist for the Service Design Network Award in Germany.

Graduated in Graphic Design at UFPR, she found in design and, in her oriental descent, a way to express herself and explore the aesthetic sense and the forms in order to portray beauty. His creations are inspired by everyday life, fauna and flora and bring together traces of various aspects of design. Aryaú Design by Cristina Yamada and Claudio Araújo , since 2009 in Curitiba, is dedicated to exploring all the possibilities of design.
From graphics to service design, an area where in 2016 he was a finalist for the Service Design Network Award in Germany.

He studied Performing Arts at PUC-PR, a carioca based in Curitiba. Capim was born like this: through the hands of a costume designer passionate about fabrics, textures, colors, and who collected every little piece that was left over. And who became a mother. The desire to create affective objects, inspired by the toys of yesteryear.

Born in Curitiba, she graduated from the School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná in 1984 and has taken specialization courses in engraving techniques with several artists since 1979. Advisor of the Lithography Workshop at the Lyceum of Arts and Crafts, a project by the Municipality of Curitiba, His works were seen in national and international exhibitions, group shows, official and individual shows in Brazil and in countries such as Switzerland, Japan, United States, Spain and France.

Technician in Furniture Design. Post-Graduation in Conservation and Restoration of Historical and Architectural Monuments. Post-Graduation in History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Higher Graduation in Sculpture at EMBAP.

Fereshteh Najafi is an Iranian artist who is dedicated to book illustration. Graduated in Graphic Design and Master in Arts and Illustration from Tehran University of Arts. He began exhibiting internationally in 2006 and has since participated in more than 20 international illustration exhibitions, including the prestigious Bratislava Biennial of Illustration, the Bologna Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition, the Nami Concours in South Korea, and countries like United Arab Emirates, Germany, Italy, Australia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Japan and India. Fereshteh has illustrated more than 25 titles, in Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, France, Italy and South Africa. Living in Brazil since 2015, in addition to editorial projects, Fereshteh has developed decorative pieces that bring the themes of stories it illustrates.

She works as an architect, partner in the Begônia Arquitetura office, in the areas of Sustainable Architecture, where she develops residential projects with the application of green technologies and renewable materials and in Interior Architecture projects. Creative partner of Ivis & Tuca, brand of prints for fabrics and decoration. Creator and curator of Festival da Aldeia, an annual cultural event in the city of Curitiba, which fosters the local creative and ecological economy.

The Typewriter was born from Juliana and Victor's desire to do things differently. Thus, a cultural publisher and producer emerges with the proposal to rescue and record the many stories and memories of Curitiba. Historians who use their creativity to make the most diverse cultural projects and original publications happen, Victor is the editor of Maquina and Juliana is the illustrator of A Fábula, a line of stationery with notebooks, notebooks, bookmarks and much more.

Ivana Lima started her painting studies at the age of 14. Bachelor of Engraving from the School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná, he works as a visual artist, developing illustrations, prints, paintings, photographs, videos, as well as graphic projects and scenography. He participated in several individual and group exhibitions. In 2012, she was selected for the Salão de Artes de Atibaia with three images from the Poem Without Face Series. In 2017, he held a solo exhibition at the Alfredo Andersen Museum, bringing together more than thirty works, where the catalog of this series was also launched. In addition to her personal productions, the artist gives private lessons in drawing and painting and develops workshops in art education.

With a degree in economics and fashion, Kulig also travels through fine arts and mixes all of this in his collections. Amid this mix it is possible to perceive a futuristic touch, which comes from the choice for technological fabrics. With his own brand for 20 years, he makes conceptual collections, with references to science, art, music and literature.

He studied painting at the School of Fine Arts of Paraná (2015-2019) and at the atelier of the Alfredo Andersen Museum (2014-2018). In his production he seeks to understand how contemporary issues, especially about the relationship between the subject and the place, can be approached in the languages of drawing, painting and installation.

Jussara Ceccarelli is a visual artist, whose skill in painting on canvas is Landscaping, also dedicated himself to Botanical Illustration, Mosaic and Fusing or Vidrofusion, (the latter passion that he recently learned) and decided to enter this world of glass and loved the experience. Her daughter Ana Carolina Ceccarelli, Biologist, with a postgraduate degree in Management and Environmental Law, adhered to the idea and turned to glass recycling, thus transforming a simple bottle into a work of art.

Katia Horn goes through several creative strands, from visual, performing arts, music and poetry. He has worked artistically in Curitiba since the 90s, participating in a multitude of cultural events and developing his poetic languages.

An active psychoanalyst, he started his experiences with ceramics at the Alfredo Andersen museum in 2015, continuing at Atelier Recanto do Barro and Casa do Ceramista in Curitiba. He participated in the Poética das Faces exhibition in 2018. "I would say that my curriculum in the field of arts is yet to be written, but it was inaugurated with the construction of the OLA brand, a piece of the word Caracola that, in addition to containing my name's initials, it also means: hi, hello, wave! This signifier resonates in childhood memories, especially those linked to the sea, and that take shape in the pieces modeled by hand in clay, coming to life in ceramics ".

Liane Mestrinho has her painting work on natural fibers, especially on silk and cotton in the most diverse textures. The result is an authorial fashion, exclusive in timeless modeling. Because it is a small studio, respect and ethics are present throughout the process. There are many possibilities for creating with the fabric, in addition to fashion you receive orders for pillows, domes ... everything for the comfort of space with exclusivity.

Born in Itararé (SP), 1952. Cartoonist, poet, retired publicist, founder of Academia Paranaense de Letraset, nefelibata, tachyphagic, soniloquist and taxidermist in his spare time. He has been trying to live in Curitiba for more than 40 years. He is the author of the pleonasm "If it's not fun, it's not funny".

The artist Luiz Rettamozo is a painter, composer, designer, illustrator and was one of the pioneers of comics in Curitiba. Creator of languages, such as “For the form / or for the form / the man / re-trans / f-makes”. Rettamozo was born in Rio Grande do Sul, in the city of São Borja, but has lived and participated in the art scene in Curitiba since the early 1970s. Since he was a child he was interested in painting and artists like Candido Portinari. In the 70s, he participated in the local comic book production movement that resulted in icons from the local comic scene, such as publications by Grafipar publishing house, in which "Retta" participated as a comic artist, and in the foundation of Gibiteca. In 1979, the anthology "Pra Mim Chega", by six cartoonists, coordinated by him, is published by the publisher Beija Flor.

Malka's Skirts are artistic, handcrafted and therefore original and exclusive skirts, designed and created by “costurista” (dressmaker + artist) Malka Vivern. “In January 2014 I started painting on pure silk and dyeing on organic cotton, mostly using vegetable dyes”, as I have also used all the patchwork with the art of patchwork to make new skirts, which reuses every little piece of fabric that “Left over” from the creation of the pieces, thus encouraging sustainable fashion ”.

Graduated in architecture from PUC-PR, Master in architecture from UFRGS, he works with architecture projects and Fashion Design. He was a professor at PUC-PR from 1991 to 2018, and at UP from 2000 to 2015, in addition to teaching in several fashion courses. Owner of MNOVAK .

Art-educator, researcher, photographer and ceramist. In recent years, he found his place of creation in ceramics. One aspect of his work is in the production of jewelry. The pieces, modeled one by one, are unique. They bring different techniques, colors and finishes, and carry the artist's signature, in the use of satin gold and copper tones.

Creative of the brand Cimento Urbano . She did 4 years of veterinary medicine but the course did not make her happy, so she decided to stop college and look for something else. He discovered cement, a raw material that if worked well can acquire incredible textures and tones, and it has become his passion. Gradually she discovered the world of accessories and fell in love with it too. He united the two and created Cimento Urbano , with unique, modern and timeless pieces.

Self-taught who since 1989 creates decorative and utilitarian pieces uniting the techniques of painting and decoupage on glass. Participates in fairs, pop-up stores, bazaars, and exhibits his work in various restaurants and bars in Curitiba. He currently develops collage projects and digital illustrations.

Creativity has always been present in the life of the designer from Paraná, Mel Bandeira, and the path to design happened in a natural way. The passion for the art of jewelry was intensified in his final project in the product design course when he created his first jewelry collection. The know-how in the jewelery area was being built through jewelery courses and specializations in the field. Graduated in Industrial Design and specializing in Jewelry Design, the designer has worked for more than fifteen years for companies in the sector both in Brazil and abroad, developing collections, participating in special projects and providing consultancy in the jewelery industry. Since 2016 he has signed his own jewelry line where he mixes traditional jewelery techniques with the newest technologies in the area.

Miran (Oswaldo Miranda), from Paraná, Paranaguá, lives in Curitiba. Known as editor of the magazine "Gráfica" already in issue # 95-96 and by the cartoons published in "O Pasquim" and in his individual book: "Miran. A boy with a fine line ”. Just like in the newspaper “Raposa”, which has become a national icon of international recognition for Brazilian graphic arts. He received about 450 awards, 75% of which are international, including 25 gold medals and 35 silver medals at the Clube de Criação in São Paulo. (...) From 2013 to 2015 he was continually awarded by several important international art magazines as well as the printing industry. The statuette “Benny” stands out, the Oscar of the International Graphic Industry at the Premier Prints Awards (USA) 2012, in partnership with Posigraf de Curitiba.

Graduated in Engraving and graduated in Visual Arts by the School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná. Specialized in Art and Special Education. He develops an authorial work with his images, where I work with illustration and watercolor. Develops an authorial line of ceramic paintings, where I apply my illustrations. His favorite themes are the animals

Octavio Camargo graduated in Music (1992) from the School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná - UNESPAR. Professor of Composition and Conducting Courses, Degree in Music and Instrument Superior at EMBAP / UNESPAR since 1994 where he teaches Harmony, Aesthetics and Composition. He concluded the Metrado in Letras by UFPR in August 2019 with the dissertation "Formulas for opening and concluding direct speeches in song 1 of Homer's Iliad and its translations by Odorico Mendes". He also works as a composer and theater director, engaged in interdisciplinary actions related to art and social activism, with artistic and academic participation in several countries such as: Los Angeles (USA), Munich (Germany), Berlin (Germany) Copenhagen (Denmark) Teran ( Iran), Thessaloniki (Greece) and Lisbon (Portugal).

Since 1974 Paulinho Maia has been developing works such as, Scenographer, Costume Designer, Theater Director, Art Direction and Actor. Graduated from the Teatro Guaíra Foundation's Permanent Theater Course. Experience in theater, dance, opera, cinema He received the APCA Award from São Paulo for his work as a set designer in “Alice in Wonderland”; Gralha Azul Awards as Actor, Costume Designer and Set Designer; At the same time, he has dedicated himself to work in digital media and illustrator, and experiences in art direction in cinema, digital media and in addition to work as a visual programmer.

Pharmacist by profession, but passionate about arts and textures since she was a child, she mixes handmade painting techniques on fabrics, natural fibers and colors to create accessories and decorative pieces or clothing. Watercolor, shibori, ebru-art, batik, ecoprint and natural dyeing are some of the resources used by the artist to create unique products, always painted manually, which gives each piece exclusivity.

Graduated in Graphic Design at PUCPR and Artes Plástica at FAP, she started her jewelery studies in 1999. Since then she has been exhibiting and developing her pieces using wax and jewelery modeling techniques. In addition to developing jewelry for everyday use, Salma Nasser also develops a conceptual jewelry language. In 2007 he participated in the exhibition Nova Jóia, at Galeria Zonad in São Paulo with the work “Coletora de Jóias”.

Sandra Kuniwake has a degree in Product Design and is naturally curious. He works as a freelance designer in the product, graphic and digital areas. He loves the creative processes and, after 12 years living in Japan, he recovered the 'manual making' where he explores the techniques of watercolor, kirigami (art of cutting on paper) and sculpture on paper. He seeks inspiration in his roots and in the elements of nature with visually delicate pieces and with special meanings. Participated in exhibitions in Paraná, São Paulo and Goiás. Member of ABUN (Artists & Biologists United for Nature) and Urban Sketchers.

Training in Buddha Medicine, Education Science Education (Paris VIII), Urbanism (Paris III) and Political Science and International Economics (SDSU-Calif). Woman, mother, entrepreneur (O Locavorista), researcher, lecturer and Buddhist Zen nun who after an illness and its cure strives to create a better world through products and services of Complementary Medicine for Well-Being and entrepreneurship in business of support to the local economy. Specialized in phytotherapy, aromatherapy, gastronomy and bio cosmetics. He served in management positions in different segments, civil construction, import & export, communication and retail.

Plastic Artist, Graphic Designer and Stylist SoraiaSo showcases her work on new surfaces. A few years ago, the artist developed canvas paintings in her atelier, most of which were research and study. As a result, he has canvases scattered in various locations, including an exhibition of 10 works inspired by Basquiat in 2017. In the midst of all this, he worked with Object Production and Art Direction for advertising and cinema scenarios. With this practice for many years, he came into contact with the most varied types of materials and painting techniques.

Stella, a healthy eating enthusiast, developed the recipe for curds in returnable packaging for 15 years. Since 1990 he works with food, seeking to unite gastronomic activity with sustainable production practices

Engraving artist of great importance for the history of Metal Engraving in the State of Paraná and in the city of Curitiba. Esther Maria Braga Côrtes was born in Apucarana in 1956 and came to Curitiba in 1961 where she studied until she graduated in Painting at EMBAP in 1984. She started in printmaking with master Fernando Calderari and later dedicated herself to to engraving with the guidance of the artist Uiara Bartira. He also studied with the great English artist Wilian Haiter in Paris in 1988 where he worked on color in engraving.

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Formada pela Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná EMBAP, em Superior de Gravura,1992/1995. Pós-graduada em História da Arte pela mesma instituição, 2002. Com monografia editada no I Fórum de Pesquisa Científica em Arte. Trabalhei até o começo da pandemia em parceria com Fundação Cultural de Curitiba. 39 exposições coletivas nos estados do Paraná, Santa Catarina, São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro e Argentina. 05 exposições individuais e 11 Salões de arte. Participação no Livro Sobre Gentes Artes 2020.Entrevista na Revista Toró em janeiro 2021- Livro da artista Diafaneidades, Revista Sucuru-Livro da Artista Díspares. Aprovação em 5 editais em 2020, sendo um deles na Funarte/RespirArte.

Born in Antonina and lives and works in Curitiba / PR. He graduated in Drawing at the School of Music and Fine Arts in 1992. Since then, drawing, painting and sculpture have remained on the margins of his professional life. In 2018 the artist resumed her old practices and since then they have dedicated themselves entirely to the arts, participating in art studios and collective exhibitions.