El arte comunitario en la construcción de paz: experiencia de la Fundación de Artes Empíricas de Villa del Rosario, Norte de Santander

Abstract

The empirical arts foundation was born from a personal life project of Mrs. Martha Mora, from Cartagena, mother of two children, poet and victim of the internal armed conflict in the 1990s. In order to overcome her situation as a victim, Martha rethinks her life and is dedicated to the well-being of young people in Colombia. To do this, she identified the artistic talents of her children and the young people in her neighborhood (Buena Vista 2- houses given by the government to victims of the armed conflict in Villa del Rosario, Norte de Santander) and decided to bring them together to teach them arts. Despite not having any academic degree, she began this work 7 years ago through small artistic projects that supported people and social organizations. The process has been positive over time, leaving a mark on the formation of these children who today are young with a clearer approach to life. The various activities carried out by the foundation have not only transformed the lives of the young people that make it up, but have also been replicated in other territories at the national level and have had a great social impact, despite this these experiences have not been systematized. In this sense, this article seeks to publicize the foundation's main experiences in building peace through art. For this, the methodology of systematization of experiences that seeks to collect, organize and analyze the processes given in the foundation will be used. Finally, the main artistic pedagogies and methodologies that contribute to peacebuilding are exposed in order for them to be replicated and valued in the national territory.