SL Alimentos welcomes students for an art workshop in Mauá da Serra - Paraná

Initiative is part of the “Raízes” project and promotes a connection between art, education, and industry

Approximately 40 children from the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades at Sandra Maria Municipal School, in Mauá da Serra (Paraná), were welcomed on Friday, May 8, at the headquarters of SL Alimentos for a workshop with visual artist Thiago Vilela. The students are part of the “Arte Por Toda Parte” project, supported by SL in the municipality’s public schools, in partnership with the municipal departments of Education, Tourism, and Culture, as well as the Arte Por Toda Parte Institute.

The event, which began at 9:30 a.m., was part of a broader SL project called “Raízes” (“Roots”), whose narrative follows the company’s journey and conveys the strength of shared growth between the corporate world and the community. Activities for the “Raízes” project began in late March with a graffiti painting of an oat branch — the company’s raw material — on one of the faces and sides of SL’s new mill, which is just over 40 meters tall. The artistic expression represents the field-city connection.

The children participating in Arte Por Toda Parte visited the company’s industrial site, located at km 289 of Rodovia do Café. They then went to the training center, where they listened to artist Thiago speak about graphic art, techniques, and processes used to create the artwork on the mill, which is part of the expansion of the manufacturing unit, launched in 2024 and expected to significantly increase the company’s production capacity.

The visit by the students from Sandra Maria Municipal School concluded with a workshop near the graffitied mill. The children received canvases, brushes, and paints, materials needed for them to reproduce and express their points of view about the art on the mill on their own canvases, guided by Thiago and the school’s educators.

“Arte Por Toda Parte” Project

The Arte Por Toda Parte Project began in 2023 in Mauá da Serra, a municipality in Northern Paraná and an important hub for oat cultivation. In the city, it has the support of SL Alimentos and has already served around one thousand students from the Maria Baueb (2023), Yukio Uemura (2024), Paulo Haruo Sato (2025), and Sandra Maria (2023 and 2026) municipal schools, as well as Apae (2024).

The Arte Por Toda Parte Institute has promoted access to culture and art education for children, adolescents, and adults with special needs in diverse social contexts through the Federal Culture Incentive Law. According to the project’s founder, visual artist Patrícia Muniz, more than 3,000 art workshops have already been held in eight Brazilian states, directly benefiting more than 26,000 children and adolescents. The project was awarded by UNESCO in 2016.

One of Latin America’s largest processors.

Founded in 1988 and based in Mauá da Serra, in Northern Paraná, SL Alimentos is part of the holding company SL Administração e Participações. With 38 years of history, it is considered one of the largest oat mills in Latin America and is recognized in the market as a producer and supplier of ingredients and end products for the food industry, based on winter grains. Today, it has more than 700 employees and processes more than 100 metric tons of grains per year.