Shweta Bhattad

Shweta is a founding member of the Gram Art Project, a collective of 150 farmers, artists, women, students, youth, and makers from eight villages in the Paradsinga area. On 16 acres of land, they practice agroecology while integrating socially engaged art into daily rhythms and community life.

Through a process of inquiry, inspiration, ideation, design, and implementation, the collective has developed alternative knowledge, innovative practices, and cultures of farming and entrepreneurship. Shweta and her team also create performance art that addresses the intersectional loss of agricultural and ecological biodiversity and the depletion of commons such as water bodies and forests—issues further compounded by the growing burdens of labor and violence on women and their bodies.