The Guacamaya Project uses art as a bridge between expression and civic awakening.

Its mission is to unite artists, thinkers, and citizens across borders to champion freedom, democracy, and human dignity through creative activism.

By transforming beauty into engagement, the project seeks to inspire awareness, dialogue, and collective action toward a more just, conscious, and compassionate world.

To create a global laboratory of creative activism—a living platform where art, culture, and civic engagement converge to strengthen democratic values, protect freedom of expression, and reimagine humanity’s shared responsibility toward each other and the planet.

The Guacamaya Project was born from a question:

What divides us, and what, despite everything, still unites us?

It began as a search for meaning: an inquiry into polarization, democracy, and the sense of belonging. Conversations that once connected families across continents began to reflect the same fractures that divide nations. Voices that shared a common history, the same matriarchal roots, suddenly found themselves on opposite shores of the same truth.

In one of those long exchanges—across digital distance and nostalgia—three bright macaws appeared, sent as simple stickers in a chat, yet carrying something far deeper. The macaws of Caracas, radiant and free, have become a silent emblem of the Venezuelan diaspora. For the millions who left, their wings fill the skies that once resonated with human laughter. They perch on our balconies, inhabit our memory, and remind us of the beauty and fragility of freedom.

It was at that moment that the idea took flight.

The Guacamaya Project emerged as a bridge—between art and activism, grief and creation, exile and reunion. It brings together artists across all disciplines—painting, sculpture, photography, poetry, music—inviting them to create works inspired by the macaw, a being that embodies resistance and hope. Each artwork becomes a gesture of creative resistance, a dialogue between nations, and a reminder that democracy and freedom are living organisms: fragile, radiant, and worthy of defense.

The inaugural exhibition, GUACAMAYA: A Collective Flight for Freedom, will debut at Arte Capital, Mexico City (November 13–17, 2025). It represents the first gathering of this movement: an invitation to reflect on the meaning of freedom, the cost of silence, and the role of art as a vehicle for civic awareness.

From this first flight, the project envisions the creation of a foundation—a laboratory of creative activism—that connects artists, thinkers, and citizens across borders. Through partnerships with cultural, community, and civic movements from Los Angeles, throughout the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, and all of Latin America, and with future collaborations alongside global networks of art, bioart, and environmental innovation, the Guacamaya Project seeks to transform beauty into engagement, and engagement into transformation.

The macaw, with its vibrant feathers and untamed voice, embodies the spirit of a people who refuse to surrender their colors. In Venezuela, it has become a symbol of freedom—even giving its name to acts of courage and liberation. But its message transcends borders: it speaks to all who have known exile, silence, or the wound of division, and who still believe that art can heal, dialogue can rebuild, and humanity can rise again in a collective flight.