Team

She holds a degree in German, English, and Spanish philology from the University of Cologne, Germany, and is a consecutive translator and interpreter, with a diploma from the UAB.

She grew up in Formentera, as the daughter of a painter and an art historian, and is the niece, cousin, and granddaughter of painters and sculptors, surrounded by artists and intellectuals. She has been active in the cultural world of Barcelona and the Balearic Islands for over 30 years.

In the 90s, she worked as an interpreter in the business and political world, as a translator in the editorial and comic book industry (Icària and Virus publishers, Makoki, Víbora, Comic Salon), and as a cultural manager and curator in the art world. She participated in the underground movement of the 90s in Barcelona, collaborating in organizing events such as Paleopoesia Urbana de Poble, and working on projects with Accidents Polipoètics, Rosa Pera, Joan Casellas, Xavier Sabater, among others.

In 1995, she founded the association Drap-Art with 13 other founding members, and has been dedicated to its management since then. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Cultural Council of the Balearic Government, and since 2022, she has been the curator of the Tardor d’Art de Formentera. In addition to her professional activity, she dedicates herself to the conservation, cataloging, and exhibition of the artistic-architectural heritage of her family, organizing, among other things, retrospectives of the work of her father, Hans Grass.

Germán de Souza was born in Buenos Aires and moved to Barcelona in the early 2000s. In his home country, he was the director of the street theater and circus magazine Newton Las Pelotas! and a promoter of circus, theater, dance, and music events, a project that brought him to Spain. In Barcelona, he created his multimedia design and development studio, Coreographix.

He is also responsible for projects such as the record label Folcore Records, Club du Monde Radi, Etnotròpic, and The Nü World Music. As a DJ and producer (aka Cherman), he has performed in several cities across Europe and Latin America.

He has actively collaborated with the alternative music blog Cassette Blog from Mexico. He is also a collaborator in the Remescla la teva Ciutat project. He works as Head of Production and Web Developer at Drap Art.

She holds a degree in General History and Geography with a specialization in cultural anthropology from the University of Barcelona. With 25 years of experience as a consultant for EuropeAid (the official international cooperation agency of the European Union).

She has been the European Director of several bilateral projects fighting poverty and gender-based violence in urban-marginal areas of major cities in Latin America.

She is also the Project Manager for European projects at the Institute for Lifelong Learning (IL3) of the University of Barcelona. Director of the Ideaborn Foundation in Barcelona, which focuses on defending human rights in Latin America and Africa. In 1998, she was responsible for integrating the city of Barcelona into the European Cities Climate Alliance.

She has served as Director of regional projects at the European Institute of the Mediterranean. President of the El Temple del Gòtic Association, working for 10 years on interculturality and social inclusion issues in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona.

Russell Howard has over 25 years of experience in cable and broadcast television, serving, among other roles, as SVP Communications Worldwide for National Geographic Channels, responsible for most high-profile events on the networks. As VP of Marketing & Communications at TEAM Services, he developed marketing campaigns for WWE, Universal Studios, Paramount Studios, and New Line Cinema. Previously, Howard managed news promotion, public relations, and community affairs at KDKA-TV2 in Pittsburgh, leading efforts like the media partnership for the launch of the Andy Warhol Museum.

Russell also served as president of The Three Rivers Film Festival while being part of the Board of Pittsburgh Filmmakers. His recent efforts included contributing his energies to Drap-Art, an international recycled art exhibition in Barcelona, and launching local community programs for the Woodstock Film Festival.

In his last position as Vice President of Special Events and Development for PDP (Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership), he developed signature events like PDP’s Light Up Night and the Peoples Gas Holiday Market™. Additionally, he ensured the financial success of PDP’s efforts by creating value-added sponsorship opportunities.

Other notable events he initiated include the Picklesburgh Festival and the Re:NEW Festival, organized in 2016, in collaboration with Drap-Art. Thanks to his recommendations, Drap-Art has had the privilege of repeatedly participating in cultural activities in Pittsburgh.

Founding member of Drap-Art, involved in the early years of the association in the production and technical direction of the Creation and Recycling Marathon of Barcelona. A trained goldsmith, he has worked for various jewelry workshops in Formentera, Germany, and Barcelona.

In the 1990s, together with Carlos Jovellar, he began collaborating with various performers such as Accidents Polipoètics, Oscar Abril Ascaso, and Steven Forster, providing technical support. They founded the EBA cooperative, offering services in prototype creation, robotics, and interactive devices for artists, theaters, and museums. He creates prototypes that act as external sensors to operate MIDI and PLC systems, used by multimedia artists. He has built various contraptions for Kònic thtr, Marcel·lí Antúnez, La Fura dels Baus, and Roland Olbeter.

He has also worked on the development of interactive elements for the Expo Agua in Zaragoza, the Spain Pavilion at the Universal Expo in Aichi, Japan, the Barça Museum, and Cosmocaixa.

He holds a degree in Philosophy and a Master’s in Contemporary Thought (UB). He is also trained in Community Mediation (Gentis) and in Programming, Dynamization, and Development of Cultural Actions (Pere Tarrés). He has actively participated in the artistic and cultural field for over twenty-five years, mainly as a creator of cultural content (exhibitions, discussions, magazine or book presentations, micro-theater, etc.). As an author, he has published poetry and essays, and premiered some of his theater works. Currently, he teaches courses and workshops on transversal skills and coordinates the Territori Drap-Art 01 project.

Born in Girona in 1977, Xavier Pons Inbernon is a multidisciplinary artist who, for years, has combined painting with the creation of sculptures made from various recycled objects, such as discarded plastics, abandoned dolls, paint tubes, and other materials. Once melted, cut, or stripped of their original function and meaning, these materials become the raw material for his work.

With pedagogical training and extensive experience as a workshop leader and instructor in courses on drawing, mural painting, comics, manga, etc., he currently teaches extracurricular classes with Drap-Art at various schools in the Ciutat Vella district as part of the Extra Extra activities of the Pla de Barris program.