Sakura Tango Festival

　Beti Alonso

She was born in Boka in Argentina where the cradle of Tango. In his early ages, she started painting as a tool of selfexpression. She studied art in la escuela nacional de Bellas Artes Prylidiano Pueyrredon. She has been holding her individual shows in Argentina and abroad. Also, she has been trained the younger generations at her atelier over 30 years.
At present, she has been working on the portraits of the Argentina historiacal heroes by the commission of the Argentina ministry of culture.

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　Shinya Mori

Born in 1953 in Nagasaki Prefecture. He experienced oil painting for the first time while studying at Doshisha University. For the following 10 years, he worked in Fukuoka, Kyoto, and Tokyo. In 1983, he moved to Barcelona, Spain to studytraditional painting techniques; such as drawing, sketching (San Lluc), and lithograph (Llotja Catalunya State University of Arts). At the same time, heexperimented paintingwith a pigment that was popular in Barcelona by melting it with an acrylic solvent. In 1987, he returned to Spain. As previously, he focused on studying sketching and lithography, returning to Japan in 1990. In 1995, heonce again went to Barcelona, Spain until 1998. During that time, his works again mainly focused on sketching and lithography. In addition, along with acrylic painting, he embarked on a series of walks around Roman ruins, Romanesque churches, murals, ruins, etc.
After 1998, Mori returned to Japan.
Currently, Mori makes solo exhibitions based in Fukuokaand works as an abstract paintinginstructor at the Asahi Culture Center in Fukuoka. In addition, Mori has had solo exhibitions at Tokyo Ginza, Gallery Shunju, Span Art Gallery, Yufuin, Watakushi Museum, etc.
Also, he has created the Mujer(female) andHiroujin series respectively. Presently, he runs his own abstract painting atelier inhis home.

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　Angeles Herrera

Independent, Visual Arts Professor; Plastic Arts Artist, Art Educator and Creator of Mosaics.
In 1965 he was born in Princeton, USA and is a resident of Argentina.
He studied at the School of Fine Arts “P. Pueyrredón ”she graduated from Professor of painting, later she took the University Equivalence Seminar at IUNA, where she was an assistant professor of painting. She works independently as a plastic artist, teacher and mosaicist, an activity that led her to collaborate with different architecture studios. She worked for Unicef in Mozambique, Africa, as an art-educator for the post-war educational project "El Circo de la Paz" She also collaborated with Fundación Tiempo Iberoamericano, Fukuoka-Shi, Japan, as coordinator of the Art section ; She is a teacher of drawing, painting and visual experimentation; Manager and Curator of the art gallery "El Taller"; and as a stage director for artistic events.
She has always been interested in the intersection of art with different disciplines: education through art in Mozambique and support from the visual in areas such as gender research defending women's rights.
As of 2014, he participates in "The night of the museums" with the Department of Mathematics of the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of La Plata, collaborating for the dissemination of mathematics with the work "Several complex variables and multiple derivations ”.
In 2016 she directed an artistic group for the realization of the performance "The gestation of ELA" in the context of the colloquium "The body of Delights" carried out by the Dept. of Philosophy of the University of La Plata.
She has always given classes in her workshop to children, youth and adults, using different techniques for expression: mixed techniques in drawing and painting, construction of wire objects, cartapesta and mosaicism among others.
She was a plastic arts teacher at Grand Bourg College and directed a pottery workshop at Bayard College.
She held individual and collective exhibitions in Argentina and abroad.

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　Guillermo Monteleone

The monteleone studio has a long trajectory in the creation of the image that defines a brand: images of people, fashion, architecture, entertainment, models, portraits, products, corporate life. produced in interiors, exteriors or in our own studio, working with all the professional photographic formats. Besides, we count with teams of production, make up, coiffure, casting, clothes design, stage design, graphic design, styling, photofinishing, digitalization and our own laboratory of black and white processing.
"Being conected to the enterprise and fashion worlds has led me to corporate photography, where I set up with each group for a while and register pictures of their offices, places and each one´s functions, registering them in casual and directory meetings, with services that they offer to clients, on internal assignments, in portraits, receptionists; where it is worked in each case on situations that characterize people´s spontaneity"