Rad Teen Art of the Week: Capitalism Train
Posted March 16, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Inspiration | Comments (0)
This week I'm bringing you rad art, rather than print...this drawing is from a project that students in Schenley High School's Theory of Knowledge course did a few years ago. Students were directed to illustrate a key quote from Marx. Shaun and I were totally captivated by these drawings when we spied them in a stack in the corner of the classroom---this was not a project that we had any hand in creating, rather, this was just part of their high school curriculum! You can peep more of them HERE. The text on this drawing reads: The state, an engine of repression, can never be made into an instrument of welfare. There are so many great details on this drawing...enjoy!
Signs of Change Portland, OR CLOSES Friday March 19th
Posted March 16, 2010 by dara_g in Art & Politics | Comments (0)
Just want to make a short post to let people in the Pacific North West know that the exhibit Signs of Change closes this Friday!
Here are the details:
http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/power-to-the-poster/Content?oid=2264175
Interview with Katie Kaplan
Posted March 15, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Interviews | Comments (0)
I have worked with Katie Kaplan since she was 15 and she and her bandmates came to a zinemaking workshop that I was hosting at the library. She participated in the F-Word, TTYL (Totally Teens Youth Lounge), RUST, and Youth Invasion at the Warhol, and was one of our first Youth Open Studio shop assistants at AIR. She is now a junior at Pratt and is accompanying Heather White and myself to Brazil at the end of March to do some silkscreen printing projects. We are self-fundraising for this trip with Brazilian dinners at my house and prints on paper and T-shirts. (you can buy Katie's print, Work Pants, HERE). I thought her having her first print for sale on Justseeds would be a nice opportunity to ask her some questions about her work. Here we go!
Tell me a bit about your background and artistic process. What influences and inspires you in your work? How do you go about creating your prints?
I was really lucky as a teenager. I was exposed to so many different art forms through different public programs, working at Artist Image Resource and the Warhol museum, and going to an arts high school. I was surrounded by really supportive and inspiring people at these places. My artistic process is really all over the place, which I guess my work reflects. People, places, materials, processes, events, history- I draw all the time, and always have many projects going at once. I usually start from a place of personal experience, and then that very naturally flows into my larger worldview.
Picturing Cooperation at AS220
Posted March 13, 2010 by bec_young in Inspiration | Comments (0)
Two weeks ago I finished a residency at AS220 in Providence, RI., where I spent a lot of time printing in the community print shop. This short video about the print shop was finished while I was there, and it's a great introduction to the shop and some of the people you might meet there.
During my residency, I lead a participatory workshop called "Picturing Cooperation." The premise of the workshop was that we don't see a lot of images of cooperation in the media, and if we are not so fortunate as to see it in our lives, how do we know what it looks like? And if we can't visualize it, how are we going to create it? During the workshop we brainstormed where cooperation happens, with what actions and by whom, and we took turns posing in groups while the other group sketched. After that we headed over to the print shop and made a giant collaborative print. Here's a photo of the workshop, and the print I made that was inspired by it. I am always interested in group process: how it can work, and why it doesn't sometimes; and I really enjoyed my sojourn to a new city to draw a group of strangers and friends into the outwardly dubious but ultimately satisfying project of getting along.
SDS Milwaukee Report from Rally/Meeting with Chancellor
Posted March 12, 2010 by nicolas_lampert in In the News | Comments (0)
(Readers of the Justseeds blog may be aware that SDS Milwaukee was the co-sponsor of the Justseeds exhibit "Which Side Are You On" that took place last Spring.)
3/12/10
From SDSMKE: "Over 70 students, professors and teachers assistants picketed outside the chancellor’s office, as four organizers met inside with the chancellor to demand that he drop the threat of academic punishment for the 16 student protesters who were arrested during the March 4 National Day of Action for Education Rights.
“15 police in riot gear were inside the building protecting the chancellor,” noted Students for a Democratic Society organizer Rachel Matteson who met with the chancellor. “We won two basic demands today, which were to have the chancellor participate in a public forum about the demands of the UWM Education Rights Campaign and to have more investigation into the excessive use of police force on March 4, but the academic punishment of the protesters is still uncertain and the much larger struggle for student and worker rights must continue.”
WFMU fundraising drive-til Sunday
Posted March 12, 2010 by k_c_ in Inspiration | Comments (0)
My favorite listener sponsored, freeform radio station is doing their annual fundraising drive. Its the best station out there. I've been listening since I was in High School, half my life! Help them out and listen to it at wfmu.org.
Women of Color HERstory Events
Posted March 12, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events | Comments (0)
Please join dynamic women of color activists, experts, innovators, artists and entrepreneurs at the "Kinks, Locks & Twist: Environmental and Reproductive Justice Conference 2010."
The third year of Kinks, Locks and Twists will be bigger and better than ever and we hope you will join us for this groundbreaking opportunity to achieve Human Rights for women of color in the Greater Pittsburgh Region at the intersection of two powerful social change movements.
Power Up girls will be attending the conference and assisting with live silkscreen printing in the afternoon. Saturday evening, celebrate Women of HERstory month and New Voices Pittsburgh's 6-Year Anniversary, with a celebration featuring music, art, performances and more...Justseeds artist Mary Tremonte joins others in exhibiting work in the silent auction.
for a full calendar of HERstory events and more information, look HERE
New Shirts on ThreadMe UK
Posted March 12, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds & Member Projects | Comments (1)
I was approached awhile back by a new fair trade lefty clothing outfit in the UK called ThreadMe about them using a couple of my poster designs on T-shirts. Well, it looks like that project has finally come to fruition, with two different designs now available for sale. The hipster fashion shots of the shirts really throw it over the top, they just crack me up so much, I love it! Buy a shirt from ThreadMe HERE.
collage of the week (22)
Posted March 11, 2010 by nicolas_lampert in Justseeds & Member Projects | Comments (0)
Another reason to protest Obama: His support for nuclear power plants.
Transformazium Music Video
Posted March 11, 2010 by k_c_ in Film & Video | Comments (0)
An endearing animation about a project some friends have been creating in Braddock, PA. I can't say I feel the same about Braddock. The sound of the steel mill and the polluted environment are thankfully absent. Regardless the folks involved are in a category of the most dedicated and hardworking peeps I know, and they know creative folks, watch it!
Transformazium Music Video from Joshua Tonies on Vimeo.
Transformazium: uses the creative process and locally identified resources to transform ideas into tangible social and economic benefits. Our collaborative arts programming and skill-building workshops connect communities stratified by class, race and age and expand upon existing community networks and resources, while rendering models of possibility for other post-industrial cities.
Drawing All the Time: Week 22
Posted March 10, 2010 by colin_matthes in Inspirations | Comments (0)
a detail, full image if you click below
15th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair
Posted March 10, 2010 by jmacphee in Events | Comments (0)
Justseeds will be tabling again at the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair, March 13-14th. A number of us will also be doing a panel at the book fair on Sunday, see the schedule for more info. Come by and say "Hi!" and pick up some awesome books and art!:
15th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair
Saturday, March 13, 2010, 10am – 6pm
Sunday, March 14, 2010, 11am – 5pm
San Francisco County Fair Building
Golden Gate Park, 9th Ave and Lincoln Way
For more information call 415.431-8355 or visit www.sfbookfair.wordpress.com
From Chile: Productora de Comunicación Social call for solidarity
Posted March 10, 2010 by k_c_ in Solidarity | Comments (0)
From some friends that create a really awesome anti-authoritarian video-magazine, Synapsis, in Chile.
CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY:
Dear comrades,
The situation of this region called Chile is already known, thus we believe more details about the earthquake are not necessary, as the Internet offers a lot of information about what took place.The group of individuals that make up the Productora de Comunicación Social* escaped physical damage, even though during the earthquake a couple of comrades from our organization were in Concepción, one of the most devastated regions - leaving the site where they were pretty much uninhabitable and losing some equipment used for the work of the organization.
In Santiago, our main workplace and where meetings were held, also home to a couple of our comrades - the Casa Volnitza - was partially destroyed. Currently, we are looking into repairing the site, since neither the Productora nor the Sociedad de Resistencia Santiago**, with whom we share the space, have another place to go to.
Justseeds Show in Philly
Posted March 9, 2010 by colin_matthes in Art exhibits/shows | Comments (2)
A few photos from a Justseeds show in Philadelphia. Justseeds shows opened last Friday at A Space and Studio 34 in Philly.
Avram Finkelstein: Silence=Death Project
Posted March 9, 2010 by jmacphee in Art & Politics | Comments (0)
My friend Chris Bravo just sent along this great short video/interview piece with Avram Finkelstein, one of the early AIDS activists in NYC and member of the Silence=Death Project. It's a really nice short piece where he explores the relationship between image making and negotiations with the power structure:
March 4th, 2010: Police Attack 880 Interstate Takeover
Posted March 9, 2010 by Jesus_Barraza in Art & Politics | Comments (0)
Some video footage from the shutdown of the freeways around downtown Oakland.
The City is Yours
Posted March 8, 2010 by colin_matthes in Justseeds & Member Projects | Comments (0)
Here are a few daytime shots of the Cut and Paint clay mural we put up in Philly last week.
LIST: Best 12 Books I Read in 2009
Posted March 8, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds & Member Projects | Comments (0)
I've been trying to organize some of us Justseed-ers to start posting top ten lists of various things, I've always thought they were fun to both write and read. To kick it off, here's my list of the best 12 books I read in 2009 (in alphabetical order by author):
1. A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason
2. Penguin by Design by Phil Baines
3. On the Wall by Janet Braun-Reinitz & Jane Weissman
4. Red Star Over Russia by David King
5. Bakunin by Mark Leier
6. Wobblies & Zapatistas by Staughton Lynd & Andrej Grubacic
7. Live Working of Die Fighting by Paul Mason
8. How to Make Trouble and Influence People by Iain McIntyre
9. Manituana by Wu Ming
10. The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
11. You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive by Seth Tobocman
12. Incognegro by Frank B. Wilderson, III
Eleanor Arnason, A Woman of the Iron People (William Morrow & Co, 1991).
It had been a couple years at least since I had read much science fiction before this past year, but my interest was re-sparked when I was invited to the Think Galactic political sci-fi convention this past summer in Chicago. I had never heard of Arnason, but she was one of the invited guests, so I went to the library and picked up A Woman of the Iron People, one of her most popular novels. Wow, what a great book! Like the best Le Guin, Arnason builds a new and interesting world, and instead of wasting it with one-dimensional relationships and dramatic battles, she uses it to explore the implications of very different political, economic, and scientific realities on the fabric of individual relationships and larger social relations. Don't let the terrible cover scare you (Arnason has great stories about the terrible covers her books have been saddled with!), pick this up and give it a read.
recent press release from SDS Milwaukee on March 4th Student Protests
Posted March 7, 2010 by nicolas_lampert in In the News | Comments (0)
SDS Condemns Repression of Education Rights Rally
Drop All Charges Against the Milwaukee 16!
Milwaukee Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is proud of the 250 students and workers who stood up for the March 4th National Day of Action to Defend Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).
The university administration is intimidated by the UWM Education Rights Campaign, an alliance that Milwaukee SDS helped create of over 20 organizations that are demanding to lower high-level administrative salaries, democratize the school, and establish just policies for workers and students.
Recent Press Round-up
Posted March 7, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds & Member Projects | Comments (1)
There's been a small flurry of press and features on a couple of my recent projects, the Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today book, and the Signs of Change exhibition in Portland. Check it out if your interested:
1. Paper Politics interview on ZNET
2. Paper Politics review on Alibi.com
3. Signs of Change review on Printeresting.org
4. Signs of Change review in the Portland Mercury
5. A great radio show on KBOO about Signs of Change (narrated by none other than Justseeds' Alec Icky Dunn and Dara Greenwald)
Logorama
Posted March 6, 2010 by k_c_ in Film & Video | Comments (0)
Clever, and nominated for the Academy Awards best animated short
[Oscars 2010 Mejor Cortometraje] - Logorama
Logorama short film Logorama is a 15 min animated short made using only Trade Mark Logos as characters and scenarios. It was made with 2,500 logos, by the French Animation Studiom H5 and Minuit Productions.
18 arrested at UWM National Day of Action for Education Rights
Posted March 5, 2010 by nicolas_lampert in In the News | Comments (0)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Milwaukee Students for a Democratic Society Condemn Police Brutality, Demands Justice, Continues the Struggle for Education Rights.
18 arrested, 250 rally for education rights at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for the March 4 National Day of Action for Education Rights.
March 4, 2010 – Milwaukee, WI - Students for a Democratic Society is an organization that stands for social justice, peace, and equality. In the face of massive budget cuts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, we helped form a campus-wide coalition for education rights, called the UWM Education Rights Campaign, consisting of dozens of organizations, including the professor and teacher assistant union.
The campaign organized a peaceful demonstration on March 4th, part of a national day of action to defend education (www.defendeducation.com). The local campaign organized a speak-out to bring attention to our demands. The rally ended in a march to Chapman Hall, to deliver petition signatures to a Chancellor that has thus far refused to meet with us, instead choosing to introduce us to more campus police and locked doors.
Montreal Artists Against Israeli Apartheid
Posted March 5, 2010 by Jesse_Purcell in Campaigns | Comments (0)
500 Montreal artists issue public call to support the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israeli apartheid…
Today, a broad spectrum of Montreal artists are standing in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and supporting the growing international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the Israeli state. Last winter, the Israeli state launched a violent military assault on the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip, leaving over 1400 Palestinians dead, including over 300 children. Despite the official end of military operations, the blockade continues to this day, with devastating consequences for Gaza’s residents.
Over 60 years from the beginning of the ongoing Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) in 1948, in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced from historic Palestine through Israel's creation, Montreal artists are united in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice.
The City is Yours
Posted March 4, 2010 by nicolas_lampert in Justseeds & Member Projects | Comments (3)
and the street art is made with red clay.
A number of Justseed's members are in Philadelphia this week installing three different shows at three separate venues across the city as part of independent projects associated with Philagrafika 2010.
Here are install shots from the Medium Resistance show at the Ice Box (Crane Arts) of our red-clay mud stencil! The image is by Alec Icky Dunn (included in the Cut and Paint zine), the technique was inspired by Jesse Graves, and the mud stencil crew was Nicolas Lampert, Colin Matthes, Josh MacPhee, Erik Ruin, Emily Abendroth, and the fine folks at Crane Arts who provided incredible assistance every step of the way.
All three Justseed's / Cut and Paint shows open this Friday. Information posted below.
6th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week
Posted March 4, 2010 by Jesse_Purcell
Israeli Apartheid Week in Montreal kicks of today.
Check apartheidweek.org for more information about events in Montreal and 46 other cities around the world.
This years I.A.W. trailer has some well done animations well worth checking out.
Al Jazeera English - Inside Story on I.A.W.
Swoon's Art for Bhopal pt1
Posted March 4, 2010 by jmacphee in Art & Politics | Comments (1)
Here's the first of a series of posts from Swoon:
Here are some photo collage pages I made about the amazing Sambhavna Trust Clinic in Bhopal India. This place is one of the most impressive independent community initiatives I have ever seen. It is run by doctors, scientists, volunteers, and community members, many of whom are themselves victims of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster. It is a beautiful and welcoming oasis in the middle of one of the world's worst industrial disasters. These photos will be a part of a show benefiting the Bhopal Medical Appeal, who still continue to fight for justice for the disaster victims, for whom Dow Chemical (Union Carbide's parent company) still refuses responsibility. For more info, check out these sites: Bhopal.org and Artforbhopal.tumblr.com
collage of the week (21)
Posted March 4, 2010 by nicolas_lampert in Justseeds & Member Projects | Comments (0)
Undocumented youth immigrants walk 1500 miles for their DREAMS. They need your support!
Posted March 4, 2010 by Favianna_Rodriguez
All Gaby Pacheco ever wanted was to finish college and teach music to disabled children. Brought to the United States by her parents as a young girl, Gaby has excelled in school, done extensive community service, and become an accomplished musician. But in spite of her hard work, she’s excluded from the workplace solely because of her immigration status. And she’s not alone. Her story is like those of thousands of other immigrant children who every day are robbed of basic opportunities to live and thrive in this country.
So on January 1, 2010, Gaby decided to walk. She and three fellow students, Carlos, Juan, and Felipe are walking 1,500 miles from Miami to Washington, D.C. to call on policymakers to fix a failed system that has kept them and millions of other immigrants in the shadows, with no pathway to a better life.
They call this their TRAIL OF DREAMS and they need your support. It easy, click on the link: http://www.Trail2010.org/action
After walking 600 miles, they recently entered the hostile territory in the Deep South. Last week they encountered an anti-immigrant rally led by the Ku Klux Klan. Today they walked straight into Gwinnett County, Georgia -- home of Sheriff R.L. “Butch” Conway, who is notorious for his anti-immigrant policies. Conway is known for being one of the most aggressive law enforcement officials to employ the 287g program, which authorizes local police enforcement to act as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
the Missoula Oblongata in Brooklyn tonight
Posted March 3, 2010 by kristine_virsis in Events | Comments (0)
Tonight the Missoula Oblongata will be performing their new play, The Moon, The Raccoon, The Hot Air Balloon (an hour long play set at the worlds fair with magic and palindromes!), along with an acoustic set by Laura Stevenson and the Cans.
Wednesday, March 3rd.
8:00pm
Dominic, Borth, And Angie's apartment
102 Ryerson st. #2
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$6 Suggested Donation.
Drawing All the Time: Week 21
Posted March 3, 2010 by colin_matthes in Inspiration | Comments (0)
Half brainstorming, half drawing. not sure where this is going yet.
Online Privacy Tips from Riseup
Posted March 3, 2010 by jmacphee in In the News | Comments (0)
Our friends at Riseup.net just sent out a new newsletter, which contained a short but useful section on online privacy. I've reprinted it below:
How to protect your privacy online ----------------------------------------------------Working on this issue is really a social problem, not an individual
problem. Asking individuals to spend a lot of time practicing 'privacy
hygiene' is both impractical and politically dubious. Creating privacy
online, in our opinion, should be done communally by supporting
alternatives.However, there are some things which we recommend that are mostly
'install and forget' measures, and don't require ongoing or tedious
maintenance.If you use Firefox, a web browser we recommend
(http://help.riseup.net/mail/#use_firefox), you can install various
extensions to use when browsing. Firefox is free software, and community
members have written software to add new features, and anybody can
download these extensions (see https://addons.mozilla.org/ for more
information about Firefox extensions.)Here are some Firefox extensions that we recommend:
* GoogleSharing (https://we.riseup.net/help/googlesharing)
* Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out (TACO) (http://taco.dubfire.net/)
* Adblock Plus (http://adblockplus.org/en/)You can also do web searches at https://ssl.scroogle.org/
Linoleum Cutting Workshop in Salt Lake City, Utah w/JS Artist, Favianna Rodriguez
Posted March 1, 2010 by Favianna_Rodriguez in Justseeds & Member Projects | Comments (0)
I will be in Salt Lake City, Utah this week visiting the University of Utah and the Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts. My art exhibit will be up from March 1 - April 4, 2010. Location is: 631 West North Temple, Salt Lake City. Sign up for my Community Linoleum Cutting workshop on Friday, March 5 @ 6 pm. Call 801-669-4224 to register. Workshop sponsored by M.E.Ch.A.
This poster is available for sale on this site as well. click here
First Solo Show in East Coast for JS Artist, Favianna Rodriguez
Posted March 1, 2010 by Favianna_Rodriguez in Art exhibits/shows | Comments (1)
I am very excited about this show which will feature a lot of my newest artwork around the themes of immigration reform, food security, climate justice and L-O-V-E. Been working round the clock for this exhibit. Please spread the word.
Exhibit Opening Night //
Friday, March 12, 2010, 7-11 PM
Global beats & local organic veggie refreshments
Closing Event //
Saturday, April 3, 2010, 7-11 PM
58 COLES STREET, JERSEY CITY, NJ 07302
DIRECTIONS: 58 Gallery is easily accessible from NYC by PATH train. Enter the PATH station on 6th Ave. at 33rd, 23rd, 14th, 9th, Christopher St., or World Trade in Manhattan and exit at Grove St. in Jersey City. Take a short walk up Newark Ave., make a right onto Coles St. The gallery is between 3rd and 4th. 58 Coles Street.
For more info, visit: Fifty8.com
About The Artist:
Favianna Rodriguez is an artist who has helped foster resurgence in political arts both locally and internationally. Named by UTNE Magazine as a leading visionary artist and changemaker,” Rodriguez is renown for her cultural media projects dealing with social issues such as war, immigration, and globalization, as well as for her leadership in establishing innovative institutions that promote and engage new audiences in the arts. Through her work we witness the changing U.S. metropolis and a new diaspora in the arts. In 2009, Rodriguez co-founded Presente.org, a national online organizing network dedicated to the political empowerment of Latino communities.
