Humans have represented other animals through art, in every culture around the globe, for tens of thousands of years. We have used their image as mere decoration or as symbols and metaphors to examine and make sense of our own place in the world.  Despite them being so deeply embedded in our cultures, the dominant worldview still reduces other-than-human animals to mere resources or tools. The use of their image in art has been a major driver for our cultural speciesism, and continues to feed the notion of our human supremacy over all others.

We will discuss how art can still be relied upon to tell the TRUTH about the lives of our fellow animals, and its role as a tool in our collective liberation.