Focus on Arts and Ecology

La Via Campesina (LVC) is celebrating 30 years of collective struggles for justice, peace, life, and dignity. On this anniversary, we are presenting a virtual gallery titled “Artists for Food Sovereignty.” It is an exhibition capturing the activism, solidarity, and commitment of 22 artists from different countries and organizations around the world, whose works have been selected and curated following the international call for submissions put out by the movement in August and September 2021.

The many ongoing activities and mobilizations for food sovereignty, peoples’ agrarian reform, and peasant dignity serve as sources of inspiration and reflection for the artistic and activist creations presented in this gallery in formats such as songs, poems, video, paintings, puppetry, podcasts, and illustrations.

For LVC, communication and art are important tools for expression, training, memory, exchange, and resistance among the peasant and Indigenous cultures of the world. In this gallery, we present our struggles and reflections on food sovereignty, peoples’ agrarian reform, peasant agroecology, native seeds, women, and diverse peoples, along with the works provided by the artists. These are accompanied by teachers’ guides that can help you build awareness and organize to transform our lives. We hope the exhibition will motivate you to build new horizons and other paths based on solidarity, internationalism, education, and popular culture.

Globalize the struggle, globalize hope! Get out some paper, pen, colored pencils, and a headset microphone if you have one.

You can visit this gallery in a group or by yourself. You can also become an “exhibition guide” by sharing it with your community, organization, or region. The works exhibited are open-source and can be downloaded to your phone or PC.©

EN: https://bit.ly/3z3yKZf

ES: https://bit.ly/3uLNcCG

FR: https://bit.ly/3Pqeqqh