Laura Ana "Tita" Merello was a prominent Argentine film actress, tango dancer and singer of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–1960). In her 6 decades in Argentine entertainment, at the time of her death, she had filmed over thirty movies, premiered twenty plays, had nine television appearances, completed three radio series and had had countless appearances in print media. She was one of the singers who emerged in the 1920s along with Azucena Maizani, Libertad Lamarque, Ada Falcón, and Rosita Quiroga, who created the female voices of tango. She was primarily remembered for the songs "Se dice de mí" and "La milonga y yo".
Diana Bellessi is an Argentine poet.
Manuel Espinosa was an Argentinian painter.
Jorge Muscia is a plastic artist and ‘fileteado’ instructor with over 30 years of experience in his field. Muscia, also known as the Fileteador of Tango, distinguishes himself for being a force in the revival of this old style of painting and for being a renowned instructor and promoter of the art of the filete in Argentina and the world.
Rogelio Polesello was an Argentine painter, muralist and sculptor. He was best known for making Op art known in Latin America. He won two Konex Awards; one in 1982 and another in 2012. He was born in Buenos Aires.
María Obligado de Soto y Calvo was an Argentine painter who worked in a variety of genres.
Professor Clara Passafari de Gutiérrez was an Argentine ethnologist, anthropologist, writer and poet.
Jorge Luis Farjat is an Argentinian producer of audiovisual works and also literary works, mainly dedicated to the divulgation of his theory about the audiovisual art, which is understood to be the language aesthetics that combines fixed images (photography) with sound, specially music, in a whole organized by a montage and shown under the same conditions than the cinema. His audiovisual works comprise several periods and amount to twenty-six productions of mean and long duration, mostly documentaries. His literary work includes seventeen books which belong to the Audiovisual Art and Memory Collection, and which are about his audiovisual theory development, the immigration history, and philosophy, such as Migraciones y supervivencia or, art in general, such as La crisis y deshumanización del arte en el siglo XX. Su manifestación en la música The crisis and dehumanization of art in the 20th century: its representation in music. The books in this collection were declared of cultural interest by the Government of the Province of Buenos Aires.
Irina Podgorny, Ph.D is an Argentine anthropologist, a historian of science at the National University of La Plata, permanent staff at CONICET, professor ad honorem and Director of the Archive of History and Photographs at the Natural Science Facility and Museum of the National University of La Plata, and winner of the Bernardo Houssay Young Researcher Award. She has held numerous professorships and scholarships and has worked for CONICET since 2013.
Paulina Vinderman is an Argentine poet and translator.
Laura Yasán was an Argentine poet.
Alicia D’Amico was an Argentinian photographer. She was born in Buenos Aires, where her family had a photographic business. She ran a very productive studio with Sara Facio for twenty years. She published photography books and for the last twenty years of her life she focused on feminist issues and personal projects about the role of women in photography. She dedicated her entire life to photography, and she became a leading figure in Argentinian photography.
Julia Wernicke was a painter and engraver from Argentina. She is known as the first animalist painter from Argentina, and was unique at the time in incorporating exotic animals into her paintings. She paved the way for female artists in Argentina through many firsts, especially within the discipline of engraving. Wernicke was one of the first women to have an individual exhibition of works in Buenos Aires, in 1897; and the first person to have an individual exhibition of engraved etchings in Argentina, in 1909.
Andrea Graciela Giunta is an Argentine art historian, professor, researcher, and curator.
Ana Arzoumanian is an Argentine lawyer, writer, poet, and translator.
Dora Beatriz Barrancos is an Argentine researcher, sociologist, historian, feminist, and politician. She is currently a national senator-elect for the city of Buenos Aires.
Fabiana Barreda is an Argentine photographer, performer, installationist and multimedia artist. Her work specializes in the body, desire and politics of gender. She has participated in national and international exhibitions, being the most important ones in places such as Museum of Modern Art, New York University (USA), International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (Netherlands), Telefonica Foundation of Madrid (Spain) and Museum of Monterrey - MACO (Mexico).
Silvia Rivas is an Argentine visual artist known for her multi-channel video installations. In Latin America she is considered a precursor in the area of expanded video. Her work is characterized by the crossing of materialities and technologies in which she uses both electronic devices and ancestral techniques. Her production is organized in thematic series of video installations, drawings, photographs or objects. Interested in revealing the metaphorical power of different materialities, she uses the electronic medium and the moving image to record stillness, the imminent and the subjective perception of time.
María Antonia Ruth Sautu is an Argentine sociologist and methodologist.
Rosa Faccaro was an Argentine art critic, painter and university teacher who specialised in Contemporary art, Pre-Columbian art and textile art. She received several awards for her work, was curator of multiple art exhibitions and was a jury member of many international and national awards. Faccaro collaborated to the artistic section of the newspaper Clarín from 1979 to 2000.
