Community Workshops

Juan Pablo worked along with community groups to identify their necessities and interests and to organize and carry out the proposed solutions. Alongside the radical puppet theater group – Papel Machete-AgitArte – Juan Pablo used art to bring his colorful character, the “vejigante” to the streets as a symbol of resistance. By painting murals, enacting puppet theaters, making handcrafted masks, music, dance and community service, they were able to mix art expression with daily life, reaffirming his belief that art objects are more than mere decoration, but expressions of daily life’s struggles y realities.