Justseeds Member Projects
Tonight! Wildcat at Mead at Interference Archive
Posted May 16, 2013 by jmacphee in Events
Wildcat at Mead
Thursday May 16th, 2013, 7pm
Interference Archive, 131 8th St. #4, Brooklyn NY 11215
Wildcat at Mead is a 1972 documentary about a seven-week wildcat strike at Mead Packaging Corp. in Atlanta, during which almost all of the majority-Black workforce stayed out and won significant community support. The film was made by the October League, a communist group that played an important role in the strike.
Jim Skillman, who served on the October League (ML) Atlanta District Committee and who helped rally community support for the 1972 strike, will be present for the screening.
Uprisings: Images of Labor Opening in Windsor
Posted May 10, 2013 by mary_tremonte in Events
Uprisings: Images of Labor, the new set of large-format silkscreen and relief prints that Justseeds created at Union Art Gallery at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, is opening tonight at Broken City Lab's Civic Space, in the heart of downtown Windsor. In addition to the prints, we'll have bandanas and posters that I facilitated printing as part of Mayday, and some prints, posters, and bandanas for sale. All my events in town are part of Windsor's Mayworks festival, a celebration of labor through art. Check out the full events listing and updates HERE.
You can also check out Broken City Lab's site, for ongoing updates on my activities, HERE, including a video of me printing bandanas at the Mayday march!!
Opening Reception
Friday May 10th
7:00-10:00
Civic Space
411 Pelissier
Windsor, ON
Closing Danceparty with DJ Mary Mack
Friday May 17th
7:00-12:00
Counterfeit: A Congo Diptych
Posted May 8, 2013 by roger_peet in Art & Politics
A doomed past doesn't mean a doomed future. The weight of history doesn't bear down forever- people shrug their burdens off. I've got two new prints (here and here) up on the site right now inspired by the time I spent last year in one of the world most dangerous and damaged countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo. They're attempts to talk about the history and the present of the Congo in the same breath- to mash together Congo's terrible colonial history of enslavement and exploitation with its contemporary struggle to rise above the shattered landscape and become a place of possibility for all.
I thought I'd share a bit of the process of making these prints, specifically where some of the imagery came from, and a bit of the thought process as well.
Strike Then, Strike Now! Opening tomorrow!
Posted May 2, 2013 by jmacphee in Events
Strike Then, Strike Now!
An Exhibition & Event Series About Work Stoppage
May 3- July 31, 2013
Opening Reception: May 3rd
7-10pm
I'm stickin to the Union! Shut It Down! "F*** Work! Si Se Puede! For as long as there has been work, workers have been withdrawing their labor in protest. Interference Archive is excited to present Strike Now, Strike Then!, an exhibition and programing series exploring the use, power, and viability of this tactic, and how it has shifted over time. Over the next three months, we will look at how work has been imagined and represented, how workers have both self-organized and been led, how economic conditions have shifted worker identities, and how “the boss” has been targeted, imagined, ridiculed, and transformed.
Justseeds Silkscreening at Windsor Mayday!!!
Posted May 1, 2013 by mary_tremonte in Events
Join Broken City Lab and me as we silkscreen print bandanas and posters at Drouillard Park, in the heart of Ford City, with Dylan Miner's silkscreen bike, which he created with urban indigenous youth at the Turtle Island Aboriginal Education Center in Windsor, and with Latino youth at the Garage Cultural Center of Art and Creativity in Detroit, at the end of the Mayday march. BCL took a bunch of photos at the print party we hosted at Civic Space last night, as did I. Take a peek HERE!
Justseeds/Mary Tremonte at Mayworks Windsor
Posted April 30, 2013 by mary_tremonte in Justseeds Member Projects
Justseeds will be in Windsor, Ontario for the next three weeks doing a residency at Broken City Lab during Windsor's Mayworks festival, a celebration of art and labor.
I am conducting a number of public programs, including silkscreen printing workshops and showing Uprisings: Images of Labor, the new large-scale prints that Justseeds made in Milwaukee in March.
Check out details on Broken City's blog HERE
Check out a full schedule of Mayworks events HERE
Art and Social Justice Panel
Posted April 23, 2013 by jmacphee in Events
Tomorrow!
Art and Social Justice: Panel with the Artists Meredith Stern, Marshall Weber, and Josh MacPhee
Wednesday 24 April, 5:00 p.m., CFA Hall, Wesleyan University
More info HERE.
Free and open to the public.
This panel the exhibition Artists Take Action: Protest Posters Today, currently on view at the Davison Art Center.
Process of "Mass Incarceration is a Labor Issue" Part 2
Posted April 23, 2013 by meredith_stern in Justseeds Member Projects
Last week I started a thread about the creation of this print on our website called "Mass Incarceration is a Labor Issue."
The first stage of creating this print involved research and sketching. After completing the sketches, I draw directly on the linoleum.
Here is an image of the pencil sketches on the linoleum.
Save the Date! Strike Then, Strike Now!
Posted April 17, 2013 by jmacphee in Justseeds Member Projects
Process of "Mass Incarceration is a Labor Issue" Part 1
Posted April 16, 2013 by meredith_stern in Justseeds Member Projects
While Justseeds was in Milwaukee, I took process shots of the print I created, to show the process of creating this print. Here is the final print:
The first step in creating this print was researching labor and prison issues, including reading The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander as well as this article from The Nation
Visiting Booklyn- My Monday, April 8
Posted April 9, 2013 by k_c_ in Books & Zines
I always enjoy my visits to Booklyn. I had to deliver copies of Occuprint and the Justseeds Migration Now Portfolio and knew I'd get to stay for more. Marshall Weber, an Artist and Curator at Booklyn is always happy to show me new materials. Here's a sample of what I saw.
Pete Railand show opens April 12 in Albuquerque NM.
Posted April 4, 2013 by pete in Events
Here's the flyer for my upcoming show in Albuquerque New Mexico. If you are in the area please stop by. This is a 2 night show only. I will have some preview photos here on the blog soon.
Justseeds SGCI shadow conference photos
Posted March 22, 2013 by nicolas_lampert in Justseeds Member Projects
Our shadow conference talks continue on Saturday at the Union Art Gallery (9am-5pm). Also check out the opening of our second show at Reciprocity at the Sweet Water urban farm in Bayview. Opens March 23 5pm-8pm.
Punks Against Apartheid
Posted March 14, 2013 by Jesse_Purcell in Events
Tonight join Imaging Apartheid at Rock Against Racism MTL #3 - Punks Against Apartheid
An evening to celebrate and build punk rock solidarity with Palestine
Une soirée pour célébrer et bâtir la solidarité entre le punk et la Palestine
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jeudi, le 14 mars
Katacombes, 1635 St-Laurent, Montréal
$6-10 (selon vos moyens/sliding scale)
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Video Experiments and Weird News
Posted March 13, 2013 by roger_peet in Justseeds Member Projects
Part of the month I spent at the Caldera Arts Center was taken up by attempts to fashion some music videos out of the clips I shot while traveling in Congo. Lacking an enormous amount of video editing experience, I ended up doing a bunch of dragging-and-dropping in IMovie while trying to sync things up with some of the recordings of choral groups from the tiny village I was staying in. I think they turned out pretty well! I showed some of them at a couple of presentations I did in Portland last week. Just prior to the first presentation I had some crazy news: the crashed plane that I and some Congolese colleagues found in the forest near Obenge had been tentatively identified by some people at the Aviation Safety Network.
A Mural in the Autonomous Community of Comandanta Ramona
Posted March 11, 2013 by santi
In mid December of 2012 I was lucky to travel to Chiapas to collaborate with a number of Autonomous organizations and projects with an amazing group of committed graphic workers and a videographer, our friend Jason Michael Aragon who works with the PanLeft productions collective in Tucson, AZ.
The trip involved many projects and collaborators though for this specific project we were able to join forces with the ongoing Zapantera Negra, which is a project linking the Black Panther Party and the Zapatista struggles through art collaborations, talks, and bringing people involved with Autonomous struggles in Mexico and Emory Douglas together.
Susan Platt on the War is Trauma portfolio/exhibition
Posted March 8, 2013 by nicolas_lampert in Justseeds Member Projects
Art historian Susan Platt has recently helped organize the War is Trauma portfolio exhibition at the M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery at the Seattle Central Community College. She contextualized the project with the following text:
"A dramatic exhibition of original prints addressing some of the traumas that soldiers and veterans experience opened February 26 at the M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery, Seattle Central Community College. It continues until March 21.
A portfolio of thirty-two handmade prints produced by the Justseeds Collective in collaboration with Iraq Veterans Against the War includes many crucial issues affecting veterans, including sexual assault in the military, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
The artists come from many parts of the United States, many of them are formerly active duty military. In some cases the veterans were artists themselves. In other cases, the veterans worked with an artist to present their story.
The art work ranges from a simple block printed text “Remember the Vet who can’t forget” by Michael Rakowitz in Chicago, to pure imagery such as “Battle Cross Over Iraq” with a repeated pattern of the rifle holding up a helmet, referring to a deceased soldier and the map of Iraq, in various vivid pastel shades.
Feminist Art Conference in Toronto
Posted March 7, 2013 by mary_tremonte in Events
I am showing the This Is An Emergency portfolio and speaking about Politics and Social Change Through Art on a panel as part of the Feminist Art Conference in Toronto on Saturday.
Registration is full, but if you come early in the day you may be able to get a spot from a cancellation.
This Is An Emergency will be on display again later this month at the EveryBody Conference in Guelph, Ontario. More info HERE
More information about FAC HERE
Feminist Art Conference
Saturday March 9
12:00-8:00
Foundary Coworking and Events
376 Bathhurst St.
Toronto, ON
Warlords, Sorcery, and Wildlife
Posted February 25, 2013 by roger_peet in Justseeds Member Projects
A really nice interview with me was just released on international conservation website Mongabay.com. I talked with journalist Jeremy Hance about my experiences in Congo, some of the history of the projects I was involved in while there, and the wild and crazy world of contemporary Congolese conservation. In addition, Bonoboincongo.com just published a post that I wrote about our expedition in search of the crash of an enormous Antonov AN-12 freighter in the forest near Obenge. Lots of good pictures! If you're in Portland, mark your calendar for March 7th- I'm giving a free talk at the Waypost Bar on N. Williams at 8pm. I'll be showing videos like the one above, playing some sound recordings of amazing Congolese music, and teaching a short class on how to build a drop-snare for an elephant.
New Website for Interference Archive
Posted February 21, 2013 by jmacphee in Justseeds Member Projects
We're excited to have just launched a new website for Interference Archive! To celebrate, we've got a guest post from Sean Stewart (of the amazing Babylon Falling website and author of On the Ground: An Illustrated Anecdotal History of the Sixties Underground Press in the U.S.) pulling out and annotating ten covers of important 60s underground newspapers, you can read the entire thing HERE. (The one to the left is from Liberation News Service, no. 469, 1972.)
All this is lead up to our opening tonight:
Rebel Newsprint: Underground Press
February 21 – March 24, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 21 , 2013, 7 – 10 pm
Interference Archive, 131 8th St. #4, Bklyn, NY 11215
Process: Labor Creates All Wealth
Posted February 18, 2013 by roger_peet in Justseeds Member Projects
It's week three of my arts residency in the high Cascade mountains of central Oregon. I'm at the Caldera Arts Center, in the burnt pine woods uphill from the town of Sisters, and I'm getting a lot done. One reason for this is the studio that I have available for use while I'm here. It's huge.
I'm working on several projects at the same time, but today I'm going to do a short process post about just one of them.
In March the members of Justseeds will be at the Southern Graphics Conference in Milwaukee, doing a bunch of live printing and giving some talks about the stuff we do. The theme for the art we're going to make while there is "Labor". Since my art usually has an ecological thrust to it, I tried to figure out how I might bend that theme to my interests. I reasoned that if there's any labor that's undervalued, it's the labor of the small beasts that keep our world running. Ants perhaps, or bacteria. Or maybe bees. I'd been wanting to make an image of bees for a while, and I recalled that I'd also wanted to try to make an image of a sunflower, tracing the Fibonacci spirals within the seed-head. I decided to combine the two.
Rebel Newsprint!
Posted February 17, 2013 by jmacphee in Justseeds Member Projects
Toronto: Migration Now! Panel Discussion & Reception
Posted February 11, 2013 by mary_tremonte in Events
We had to reschedule the opening due to OCAD's snow day. Please see below for details.
Justseeds: Migration Now! And More Graphics for Social Change
February 8-14, 2013
at OCAD University's Graduate Student Gallery, 205 Richmond St W.
All events free and open to the public. Accessible space.
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2013. 6:00-10:00 pm
OPENING RECEPTION with music by DJ Teach, refreshments, print sale, and live silkscreen printing with Radical Design School
7:00 PANEL DISCUSSION with No One Is Illegal Toronto, Justice for Migrant Workers, The Beehive Collective, and Radical Design School. Moderated by Mary Tremonte of Justseeds.
Migration Now!, the limited-edition portfolio of handmade prints addressing migrant issues from Justseeds & CultureStrike, is debuting in Toronto! The exhibit will also feature a selection of graphics from No One Is Illegal Toronto, Voices from Outside, the Justseeds prison portfolio, Radical Design School, and the Imaging Apartheid poster project, based in Montreal. Programming will highlight the knowledge and experiences of activists and organizers from Toronto, and how art and social justice can impact one another. migrationnow.com http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org
Justseeds Interview on Prison Radio Guelph
Posted February 8, 2013 by mary_tremonte in Art & Politics
I was interviewed yesterday on Prison Radio Guelph, at CFRU 93.3 fm, discussing the Justseeds: Migration Now! exhibit currently on view at OCAD University's Graduate Gallery at 205 Richmond St. W.
Check it out on their archive page HERE and tune in at 43:00 to catch me. You can also hear a bit of the so crucial A Tribe Called Red (pictured here, lifted from a great article in Now magazine), who I got to DJ with last night at the Art Galley of Toronto.
War is Trauma portfolio show in Cupertino, CA
Posted February 4, 2013 by nicolas_lampert in Events
Bay Area friends: Check out the Justseeds-IVAW "War is Trauma" portfolio that is on exhibit at the "War and Healing" exhibition at the Euphrat Museum of Art at De Anza College in Cupertino in the Bay Area. The show features a great line up of veteran artists and artists in support of GI rights:
Combat Paper Project with co-founder Drew Cameron, Joyce McEwen Crawford, Thomas Dang, Mike Dooley, Pantea Karimi with Daniel Konhauser, Linden Keiffer, Rolf Kriken, Sanaz Mazinani, Giuseppe Pellicano, Ehren Tool, Elizabeth Travelslight, Diego Marcial Rios, the Justseeds Artist Collective / Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Xiaoe Xie.
War & Healing
February 4 - March 21, 2013
Open Monday - Thursday, from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. during exhibits
Process: The logo for the Rebellious Nursing Conference
Posted February 2, 2013 by icky
I recently had the opportunity to design logos for two great organizations, Fight Back Pittsburgh and the Rebellious Nursing Conference. The creation of a logo is really difficult process! Both of these groups have different needs (based on their activities and intentions) but there were a few ideas that I thought both logos should have:
Congo stories
Posted January 31, 2013 by roger_peet in Justseeds Member Projects
I've been slowly updating the tumblr about my Congo trip, dropping in some photos and telling some small stories about them. There's so much to tell! The total chaos and weird glory of the world of Congolese nature conservation is so strange that it seems like a dream. My friend Dino, a Congolese researcher, told me a story about walking into a dense, wet forest in the Northeast searching for okapi, the elusive forest giraffe. He and his team ran into a group of heavily armed rebels, who agreed to escort them for a fee. They crossed over two ridges, and a scout came back saying that there was an army post ahead. The rebels stopped to clean and oil their Kalashnikovs and the rocket launcher prior to attacking the army post, assuring Dino that this was covered by the fee he had paid. DIno waited until they were engrossed in their task and hurried his porters and fieldworkers ahead towards the army post. The army let them pass, in exchange for another fee, and they went on through the forest, looking hard through the dappled madness of foliage for the delicate camouflage of the okapi.
For the next month I'll be in Eastern Oregon, at the Caldera residency, staying in a fancy A-frame cabin in the snowy high-altitude pine forests between Three-Fingered Jack and the obsidian monolith of Black Butte. While I'm there I'll be working on some big blockprints and preparing some drawings to make into big screenprints. Probably I'll focus on Congo, but I've got a bunch of other ideas in the pipeline as well. I'm going to be writing a good deal too, trying to craft a narrative from the stack of journals I filled up while in DRC. Stay tuned!
Migration Now! Portfolio finished!
Posted January 18, 2013 by roger_peet in Justseeds Group Projects
After a year of hard work, the Justseeds/Culture Strike "Migration Now!" portfolio is finally finished! It's a collection of 37 handmade prints from the artists of Justseeds and Culture Strike, addressing the full spectrum of migrant issues, from the drug war to deportation. The portfolio was co-organized by Favianna and Roger, and printed at Mullowney Printing in San Francisco and Flight 64 studio in Portland. Check out the project website for images of the individual pieces, all of which you can download at high-resolution. The portfolio is for sale now in the Justseeds store.
The Lomami Bandanas: Bear Deluxe article and other press
Posted January 4, 2013 by roger_peet in Justseeds Member Projects
I've been back from Congo for nearly a month now, which seems crazy. It was very odd to travel from a place like Obenge, the Congolese village where I stayed two months, and where it is almost impossible to buy anything, to the United States in the throes of the annual Christmas conniption. I'm slowly putting together some writings and posts about my time there, seeking out a little press, and starting to process some of my experiences into art. One of the prints that I cut while in Congo is up on the Justseeds store today, check it out.
You can follow posts specifically about the bandana project (as well as some of my recordings from Obenge) on the tumblr I set up for it. I also recently wrote a guest post for bonoboincongo, the blog written and curated by Terese Hart for the conservation project with which I was volunteering, about the tomb that I helped to build for a dead park-guard. I wrote an essay about the bandana project for Portland's environmental arts journal Bear Deluxe, which you can read here. Lastly, there's an Antonov-load of photos from my trip on my flickr page. There's more to come!
Slideshow: Guns vs. Butter (Pittsburgh)
Posted December 18, 2012 by shaun in Justseeds Member Projects
Back from the Congo
Posted December 17, 2012 by roger_peet in Justseeds Member Projects
Ten days ago I returned to the US after three months in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I'm still adjusting to being back, waking up at 4 in the morning, grumbling at the cold rain. I've been wanting to write here about my experiences but have had trouble figuring out where to start.
I spent two and a half of those months in Obenge, a village of about 350 people far up in the midreaches of the Lomami river, Orientale province, eastern DRC. I was volunteering with a project called TL2, named after the three rivers that drain the area, big rivers winding torturously north towards the mother river, the Congo.
This is an Emergency! Portfolio Review
Posted December 11, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
Great review by Ana Alvarez in Brown University College Hill Independent
To read the article on the Brown University College Hill Independent click here.
My print for the Munch Gallery Show
Posted December 8, 2012 by icky in Justseeds Member Projects
This is my print for the Sowing the Seeds of Love show at Munch Gallery in New York. It's four color reduction print (four shades of grey!) turned into a GIF. It's a riff on a WPA print about the Philadelphia port done by Robert Muchley in 1936.
Sowing the Seeds of Love at the Munch Gallery, NYC
Posted December 7, 2012 by k_c_ in Justseeds Group Projects
Here's a couple of install shots to whet your appetite for tonight's opening reception at the Munch Gallery in NYC.
Come out
Friday December 7th, 7-9 p.m.
245 Broome St
NY, NY
Justseeds Exhibition NYC Opening Reception this Friday!
Posted December 6, 2012 by k_c_ in Events
‘Sowing the Seeds of Love’ by collective group, Justseeds, is the newest exhibition in conjunction with Munch Gallery. Each artist has created a unique piece specifically for the gallery, and all original work will be accompanied by limited edition work. The exhibition will also include a site-specific collaborative mural. We are excited to present the first Justseeds group exhibition in New York City.
Artists include: Jesus Barraza, Kevin Caplicki, Melanie Cervantes, Santiago Armengod, Alec Dunn, Molly J Fair, Thea Gahr, Nicolas Lampert, Josh MacPhee, Fernando Marti, Colin Matthes, Dylan Miner, Roger Peet, Jesse Purcell, Pete Railand, Favianna Rodriguez, Shaun Slifer, Chris Stain, Meredith Stern, Mary Tremonte, Bec Young.
Exhibition runs December 7-23, 2012
Check out the Facebook event
Guns vs. Butter exhibition (Pittsburgh)
Posted December 5, 2012 by shaun in Justseeds Member Projects
Presented at Future Tenant (downtown Pittsburgh), Guns vs. Butter is a new exhibition of anti-war graphics that brings together the contemporary print work of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative alongside posters from the historical collection housed in the Interference Archive. The exhibit contextualizes the work of current socially-motivated graphics alongside a history of posters as an integral element of popular grassroots movements against war, colonialism, and military occupation. Highlighted is the 2011 portfolio project “War Is Trauma”, a collaboration between Justseeds, Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), and the Booklyn Artists’ Alliance. (details below)
"This is an Emergency!" Portfolio Review
Posted December 4, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
Review in The Daily Campus at University of Connecticut
Here is the direct link to read the article on their website.
Erin and Laura Rosenthal's print for "This is an Emergency!"
Posted November 27, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This print is from "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy of the portfolio, you can click HERE.
To check out the website for this project, click HERE.
Arley Rose Torsone's print for "This is an Emergency!"
Posted November 20, 2012 by meredith_stern in Justseeds Member Projects
This image is printed in "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy, you can click HERE.
To check out the website for this project, click HERE.
Interview with Ken Rinker
Posted November 15, 2012 by meredith_stern in Justseeds Member Projects
This is an interview with choreographer Ken Rinker, which is printed in the hand sewn zine of "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy, you can click HERE.
To check out the tumblr website for this project, click HERE.
12 years of cultural production comes to Brooklyn!
Posted November 14, 2012 by k_c_ in Art & Politics
La Persistencia de los Sueños/The Persistence of Dreams-
Sublevarte Colectivo Retrospective: 1999-2012
November 16-December 31, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, November 16, 2012, 7-10 p.m.
As student movements around the world inspire us anew, Interference Archive invites Sublevarte Colectivo, a group born of the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, to produce a retrospective exhibition of their thirteen years of graphic production. In La Persistencia de los Sueños, they will bring their graphic street interventions into the gallery to highlight the various social movements and uprisings in which they participated and supported.
Sublevarte Colectivo believes that the graphic arts should be a vehicle of expression and communication in society, and that these days the power of the visual image is stronger than words. They have brought this vision to their work with the Zapatistas, the flower sellers of Atenco, the striking teachers of Oaxaca, and dozens of other social struggles in Mexico.
Interview with Heather Booth of the Jane Abortion Service
Posted November 13, 2012 by meredith_stern in Justseeds Member Projects
This is an interview of Heather Booth which is printed in the hand sewn zine of "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy, you can click HERE.
To check out the website for this project, click HERE.
Sublevarte Colectivo is in the USA
Posted November 10, 2012 by k_c_ in Art & Politics
Interference Archive and Sublevarte Colectivo are pleased to announce the following events as part of our upcoming exhibition La Persistencia de los Sueños/The Persistence of Dreams (November 16-December 31, 2012), featuring thirteen years of public-art interventions by Sublevarte Colectivo:
Friday, November 9, 4:00-8:00 pm
Dia de los Muertos
Sublevarte Colectivo members will join the "Understanding Violence and Politics" panel at 6:00 pm
Ya-Ya Network
224 W 29th St.
14th floor
NYC
Raise Your Fist!
Posted November 9, 2012 by shaun in Film & Video
One of my favorite consequences of posting video work on the internet is the possibility that someone might take the time to tweak your project in a new direction. Over at submedia, they've already got a remix up of the All Power To The People! video I posted just a month ago - and they've reworked the image flow a bit and added a hardcore techno score: "Raise Your Fist" by Angerfist. Nicely done! Now I'm holding out for a remix to the tune of Loretta Lynn's "Fist City"...
Delia Kovac's print for This is an Emergency!
Posted November 8, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
"This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy, you can click HERE.
To check out the website for this project, click HERE.
This is an Emergency! Essay: Elizabeth Esris
Posted November 6, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This essay was written by Elizabeth Esris, for the hand sewn zine in "This is an Emergency!"
To purchase a copy, you can click HERE.
To check out the website for this project, click HERE.
Mary Tremonte's print for "This is an Emergency!"
Posted November 4, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This print is from "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy, you can click HERE.
To check out the tumblr website for this project, click HERE.
Virginia Reath interviewed by Molly Fair
Posted November 1, 2012 by meredith_stern in Justseeds Member Projects
Molly Fair interviewed Virginia Reath RPA MPH. Virginia has spent the last 30 years as a practicing clinician and educator in the field of Gynecology and sexual/reproductive health for women. She is a committed feminist and activist as well as a practicing visual artist. She is at a crossroads creatively and professionally, having recently ended her GYN clinical practice to focus on art making. In the future she plans to open a different model of health practice to provide health counseling and consulting with an integrative approach on a wide variety of women's health concerns.
To purchase a copy, you can click HERE.
To check out the website for this project, click HERE.
Josh MacPhee talk at GSVU, Nov. 1st
Posted October 31, 2012 by jmacphee in Events
I'm giving a talk at Grand Valley State University in Michigan tomorrow night, November 1st, for anyone in the area. I've put together a new presentation, digging through a bunch of history related projects I've been involved in over the past decade. I've been here since Sunday working on a 5 color reduction wood block print, which has been a ton of fun! The image to the right is an in-process shot...
An Evening with JOSH MACPHEE
Thursday November 1, 2012
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Padnos Student Gallery, CAC
Grand Valley State University
Thea Gahr's print for "This is an Emergency!"
Posted October 30, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This print is from "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy, you can click HERE.
To check out the tumblr website for this project, click HERE.
Sam Merritt's image for "This is an Emergency!"
Posted October 25, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This print is from "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy, you can click HERE.
To check out the tumblr website for this project, click HERE.
Celebrate People's History Poster Exhibition in Tokyo
Posted October 23, 2012 by jmacphee in Justseeds Member Projects
Meatscapes: the radio interview
Posted October 23, 2012 by nicolas_lampert in Justseeds Member Projects
Last week I was interviewed by an Australian radio program about my "Meatscapes" collage series. Here's a link to the five-minute interview:
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/content/2012/s3609364.htm
Olivia Horvath's image for "This is an Emergency!"
Posted October 23, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This print is from "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy, you can click HERE.
To check out the tumblr website for this project, click HERE.
Graphics Fight Torture
Posted October 22, 2012 by jmacphee in Justseeds Member Projects
I'm in Chicago doing some events. If you can, come out tonight!
Graphics Fight Torture, A screen-printing workshop with Josh MacPhee
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor
Part 1: Monday, October 22, 4:15–7:30 p.m.
Part 2: Wednesday, October 24, 4:15–7:30 p.m.
Reception: Friday, September, 14, 4:30–7:00 p.m.
This two-part workshop features artist, printmaker, author, and activist Josh MacPhee from the Justseeds Cooperative and the Interference Archive in Brooklyn, New York. This workshop is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Opening the Black Box: The Charge is Torture" now on view in the Sullivan Galleries, and is a Chicago Torture Justice Memorials project.
Molly Fair's image for "This is an Emergency!"
Posted October 18, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This print is from "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy, you can click HERE.
To check out the tumblr website for this project, click HERE.
RadioActivity! Movie Screening at Interference Archive Oct.18
Posted October 15, 2012 by molly_fair in Film & Video
RadioActivity! Movie screening: Oct. 18th, 2012, 7:30 PM
Interference Archive, 131 8th St. #4 Brooklyn, NY, 11205
This screening is part of the exhibit RadioActivity! Anti-nuclear Movements from Three Mile Island to Fukushima, a collaboration between Interference Archive and Todos Somos Japon which runs until Nov. 4. These movies highlight feminist resistance, direct action, and the creative interventions of collectives in the anti-nuke movement. The event is free, but donations are welcome!
Bec Young's print for This is an Emergency!
Posted October 15, 2012 by meredith_stern in Justseeds Member Projects
This image is printed in "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy, you can click HERE.
To check out the website for this project, click HERE.
Wisconsin Uprising(s)
Posted October 15, 2012 by nicolas_lampert in Justseeds Member Projects
Dylan AT Miner recently wrote a short catalog essay for the work that I created in collaboration with Paul Kjelland for the 2011 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship for Individual Artists Exhibition in Milwaukee. I asked Dylan to write the essay because of his talents as a writer and a critical thinker, and our shared interest in radical art and radical sports. Below is his writing.
Sewing Freedom
Posted October 14, 2012 by jmacphee in Justseeds Member Projects
Jared Davidson (from Garage Collective, and designer of the Red Feds Celebrate People's History poster) just put out a great looking new book on anarchism in NZ called Sewing Freedom. It's got a bunch of new illustrations in it by my Signal partner-in-crime Alec Icky Dunn. Alec's been showing me drafts and images from the book in process for months, so I know it looks great. Can't wait to get my hands on an actual book!
All Power To The People! (video)
Posted October 12, 2012 by shaun in Film & Video
I've finished up a video that I was collecting images for at the Interference Archive during the end of this last August (right after gathering for our Justseeds planning retreat). Partially an inside joke about predictable tropes in movement posters (born of my years working with political print-makers), and partially a serious meditation on the power of icons and symbols, the basic idea was to scour the archive for all the instances I could find of a raised fist on a poster, print, zine, or book cover, and then string them all together in a rapid-fire looping video...
Meredith Stern's image for "This is an Emergency!"
Posted October 11, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This print is from "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy, you can click HERE.
To check out the tumblr website for this project, click HERE.
Melanie Cervantes' print for "This is an Emergency!"
Posted October 9, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This print is from "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy, you can click HERE.
To check out the tumblr website for this project, click HERE.
The Milwaukee Commandos - exhibition at INOVA
Posted October 8, 2012 by nicolas_lampert in Justseeds Member Projects
Paul Kjelland and I recently collaborated on a new series of prints and the jerseys of an imagined team uniform inspired by the Open Housing Marches in Milwaukee in the late 60s, the Commandos, and by Father James Groppi, their advisor during their formative years. The work is now on exhibit at INOVA in Milwaukee as part of the 2011 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship for Individual Artists Exhibition. Stop by and see our work - plus 6 other artists - from Wed-Sunday 12-5 (Thur 12-8) at 2155 N. Prospect Ave in the Kenilworth Building. The show runs from October 5th - December 9th.
Lois Harada's print for "This is an Emergency!"
Posted October 2, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This print is from "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy, you can click HERE.
To check out the tumblr website for this project, click HERE.
Justseeds + Dark Dark Dark + Sweet Water Organics
Posted September 28, 2012 by nicolas_lampert in Justseeds Member Projects
Justseeds is participating in the BAY VIEW GALLERY NIGHT in Milwaukee tonight. If your in town, stop by Sweet Water Organics - a large scale urban aquaponics farm housed inside a warehouse - and see a new install of prints by Pete Railand, Nicolas Lampert, and Colin Matthes. And join us for a magical night of art, dance and music. Urarider (Naomi Joy & Clare Hubbard) will be performing before a special dance performance from the Friction Dance Company, immediately followed by a performance from Dark Dark Dark with Hello Death supporting.
Doors open at 4pm. Performances began at 8pm.
**There will be a separate requested donation for the Hello Death / Dark Dark Dark performance.** Performance at 9pm from Friction Dance Company.
Print Lottery Benefit for AS220 Community Printshop!
Posted September 27, 2012 by erik_ruin in Art & Politics
Hey all- we're in the final few days of Print Lottery 2012, an uniquely structured benefit for AS220 Community Printshop. Members of the public can purchase a $100 ticket, guaranteed to win a print at the culminating event on this Saturday September 29, 2012. In the interest of fun, artwork in the show is won by way of a blind lottery. Yes, you can order long-distance and have your prints shipped to you!
Prints have been donated by a wide variety of folks, including Justseeds members Meredith Stern, Melanie Cervantes, Jesus Barraza, Mary Tremonte, Bec Young and of course myself, as well as a bunch of other friends/favorite printmakers like Swoon, William Schaff, Amos Paul Kennedy, Kyla & James Quigley (AKA Gunsho), Dennis McNett, Emmy Bright, Xander Marro, Pippi Zornoza, the list goes on! the AS220 Community Printshop makes printmaking accessible & affordable to a lot of folks, myself included, and deserves yr support!
For added inspiration, check out this sweet video about the shop-
Communal History from Timothy Whitney on Vimeo.
The Bridal Fair by Susan Simensky Bietila
Posted September 27, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This comic is printed in the hand sewn zine of "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. It was originally printed in World War 3 Illustrated.
To purchase a copy of the portfolio, you can click HERE.
To check out the website for this project, click HERE.
Kristina Brown's image for "This is an Emergency!"
Posted September 25, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This print is from "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy of the portfolio, you can click HERE.
To check out the website for this project, click HERE.
Katrina Silander Clark's print for "This is an Emergency!"
Posted September 20, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This print is from "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy, you can click here. To check out the tumblr website for this project, click here.
Stain Mural in Charlotte, NC
Posted September 18, 2012 by jmacphee in Justseeds Member Projects
A month back I spent five days in Charlotte, NC with Chris Stain, helping him out with his install at the McColl Center for Visual Art. This included making a rad zine, and helping him paint out a huge mural, which you can see above and below...
Ian Cozzens from Secret Door Projects print for "This is an Emergency!"
Posted September 18, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This print is from "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy of the portfolio, you can click HERE.
To check out the website for this project, click HERE.
Interview with Gina Glantz
Posted September 13, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This interview is printed in the hand sewn zine of "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy of the portfolio, you can click HERE.
To check out the website for this project, click HERE.
A New Species of Monkey in DR Congo
Posted September 12, 2012 by roger_peet in In the News
I'm currently in DR Congo, in the capital Kinshasa, to be precise, waiting for a dawn flight to Kisangani in the Northeast. I'm volunteering with a team of scientists led by Drs. John and Terese Hart, who are leading a push to establish a new national park in the east, straddling the borders of Maniema and Orientale provinces. The Harts announced today the discovery of a new species of monkey in the forest where I'll be working for the next few months. It's an exciting announcement, the first new monkey species described for 29 years. The story of this little beast, known as the Lesula, is pretty poignant- a team of Congolese field researchers working for the park project noticed an unusual monkey coming ashore off a pirogue from a remote upstream region in the arms of the local schoolmasters' daughter, Georgette (pictured above).
Favianna Rodriguez's print for "This is an Emergency!"
Posted September 11, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This print is from "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy of the portfolio, you can click HERE.
To check out the website for this project, click HERE.
Interview with Peg Johnston by Sarah Reiter
Posted September 6, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This interview is printed in the hand sewn zine of "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy of the portfolio, you can click HERE.
To check out the website for this project, click HERE.
"The Meek Shall Inherit" NYC Exhibition
Posted September 4, 2012 by meredith_stern in Events
Opening: Saturday, September 8, 6 - 8 PM here
421 Hudson Street Greenwich Village, NYC. Show runs until October 6.
Information about the opening can be found HERE.
This is an Emergency! Introduction
Posted September 3, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This is the Introduction to the reproductive rights and gender justice print portfolio, "This is an Emergency!"
To purchase a copy of the portfolio, you can click HERE.
To check out the website for this project, click HERE.
Emmy Bright's print for "This is an Emergency!"
Posted August 31, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This print is from "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy of the portfolio, you can click HERE.
To check out the website for this project, click HERE.
Interview with Judith Arcana of the Jane Abortion Service
Posted August 28, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This interview with Judith Arcana, written by Sam Merritt, appears in the hand sewn zine "This is an Emergency!" To purchase a copy, you can click HERE.
To check out the website for this project, click HERE.
Photos from the Justseeds Retreat at Interference Archive
Posted August 28, 2012 by nicolas_lampert in Justseeds Member Projects
mixing up collective work and play...
This is an Emergency! Project Release!
Posted August 21, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
“This is an Emergency!”
A reproductive rights and gender justice portfolio
A collection of 17 Artist Prints and 9 Inter-generational Essays
I am pleased to announce the release of a project which brings together the voices and artwork of over two dozen people on reproductive rights and gender justice. This collection highlights the visual art and stories of people most affected by these issues- women, queer identified, and transgendered artists and organizers. Reproductive rights and gender justice are in a state of emergency. This is a collection of responses to this crisis through visual art and interviews.
Gathering Moss in a Decommissioned Pool
Posted August 21, 2012 by shaun in Justseeds Member Projects
On an invitation from curator Amanda Donnan, I initiated a collaboration with friend and local field botanist Jessica McPherson as part of Project: Lido - a temporary collection of installations in the decommissioned Leslie Park Pool in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. After some initial on-site conversations with Amanda and Leslie Pool Collective member Susan Englert, I got the idea that, in the context of several other large-scale sculptural projects that other artists were planning for the pool grounds, it would be intriguing to research and highlight the pool's diminutive bryological communities - patches of moss whose thriving presence is a welcome contrast to the pool's chlorine-scrubbed past...
Interview with Judy Kashoff by Meredith Stern
Posted August 18, 2012 by meredith_stern in Art & Politics
This interview is printed in the hand sewn zine of "This is an Emergency!" a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights.
To purchase a copy, you can click HERE.
To check out the tumblr website for this project, click HERE.
Monotype workshop at Anderson Ranch with Enrique Chagoya
Posted August 9, 2012 by nicolas_lampert in Justseeds Member Projects
After ten years of teaching college art I decided to experience life from the other side - as a student, a much better side I might add. Favianna Rodriguez's inspiring post on the Justseeds blog last year about her experience taking a class with Enrique Chagoya at the Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, Colorado inspired me to sign up for the same course this year. So a few weeks back, I loaded up the truck and headed West with the goal of learning new printmaking techniques and experimenting with new forms of image making.
Ecole de la Montagne Rouge: Àvenir-opening reception, Thursday, August 9th
Posted August 7, 2012 by k_c_ in Events
Ecole de la Montagne Rouge:
Àvenir [Future]
August 9- September 20, 2012
Opening Reception:
Thursday, August 9th, 7-10pm
Interference Archive
131 8th St #4
Brooklyn, NY
The École de la Montagne Rouge (EDLMR)—an initiative of young, socially-engaged artists who are mainly from the bachelor of graphic design program at École de Design - UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal)—is collaborating with the Interference Archive to experiment with ways of using the spaces of the gallery as sites for gathering, place-making, production and exchange on students protest in Québec and all around the world. Through its actions, thoughts and research in the area of graphics, EDLMR offers a unique aesthetic approach to revolutionary movements and an alternative way of helping the Quebec Spring makes it mark:
“We and thousands of other students across Quebec believe that education is a right, not a privilege reserved for the well-off. The tuition increase jeopardizes access to higher learning for our generation and future generations. Sensing that an unlimited general strike is looming, many protest movements and pressure tactics are being organized across Quebec. This is an opportunity for all students to show solidarity, defend our points of view and get involved so that we can create a balance of power in relations with the government. Our victory depends on the daily efforts made by each and every one of you.”
Lomami Bandanas: Kickstarter
Posted July 17, 2012 by roger_peet in Justseeds Member Projects
I've finished the drawing for my project in DR Congo this fall- I'll be printing the image at right (click to embiggen) onto about four hundred big bright bandanas and taking them with me to hand out to the people who live near the new Lomami National Park in eastern DRC. It's an exciting project to be a part of, conservation from the ground up! I've started a Kickstarter campaign to help me fund it, please take a moment to go check it out! Rewards aplenty. I'm pretty excited that the project was featured on the fantastic conservation news website Mongabay, and the write-up has a little interview with me.
DO ANYTHING Exhibition
Posted July 12, 2012 by mary_tremonte in Events
Queering the TreesitRealTree camo hanky collaboration with Shaun Slifer
Here is a sneak peek of the hankies I have been busily designing and printing for the Do Anything exhibition, opening July 13 at Space 4 Art in San Diego. The show is curated by my friend Chris Kardambikis, one of the forces behind Encyclopedia Destructica (who created the Secret Pockets book with me), and features work by individual artists and collectives who focus on do-it-yourself publishing and print projects. Employing alternative methods of production to create and distribute books, zines, and video work, the exhibiting artists work with a variety of themes to actively engage a wide audience. The exhibition takes place at two San Diego locations: San Diego Space 4 Art and Double Break. The show coincides with the San Diego Comic Con.
Acid Rain TV: The Grey Stare
Posted July 11, 2012 by shaun
I've got a video featured in July's Acid Rain public access television series, curated by Jerstin Crosby. You can see it online, but my intention was to create something that would operate in the channel-surfing realm - timed to (roughly) coincide with the cable television and DVD release of "The Grey" (2012), a Liam Neeson survivalist blockbuster...
photos/press from "Zone of Contention: The US/Mexico Border"
Posted July 5, 2012 by nicolas_lampert in Events
For those interested in art that addresses border issues the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC Greensboro is currently exhibiting "Zone of Contention: The US/Mexico Border." Dan S. Wang and I contributed our collaborative-made letterpress print Caution Migrant Workers. This time around we enlarged it and wheat pasted it to a sheet of plywood to better mimic the look of a broadside.
The image itself voices our opposition to the Arizona Immigration Bill SB-1070 and references the look and the phrasing of a 1851 Broadside poster that was created in resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 that was hung in Boston that alerted fugitive slaves and citizens to have a “Top Eye” open for the police who were empowered to detain all “suspected” escaped slaves so that they could be returned back to slavery in the South. Our print rejects SB-1070 law and the climate of xenophobia in Arizona and beyond and stands in solidarity with migrant workers the world over.
This Is An Emergency Print Process
Posted July 4, 2012 by mary_tremonte in Justseeds Member Projects
This is my print for This Is An Emergency!, a portfolio about Reproductive Rights and Gender Justice organized by Justseeds' own Meredith Stern. The lineup of artists is impressive, and these graphics so urgently needed. In this blog post, I will discuss my process in designing and printing my piece.
Slideshow: Commission for Treasonous Strategies
Posted July 3, 2012 by shaun in Justseeds Member Projects
Click below for a slideshow of images from a recent exhibition I opened with Tesar Freeman in Pittsburgh, PA. I have some more materials on each of the projects I did on my site here (slideshow doesn't show captions or details, unfortunately).
Lomami Bandanas: first sketch
Posted June 29, 2012 by roger_peet in Environment
I just finished the first sketch of the image for the Lomami National Park Bandanas! What are those, I hear you cry. Well, they're going to be a pile of brightly colored bandanas with a refined version of the above image screenprinted on them. I'm making them to take with me to DR Congo this fall, where I'll be volunteering with a group that is working to set up a new national park in the east of the country, in one of the last patches of unbroken forest left in the country. What's really great about this project is that the idea of the park is being promoted from the ground up, agreed upon by the people who actually live there, instead of being decreed from on high by those with political clout. The bandanas are intended to be useful objects that also carry information about some of the species the park will protect. It's my hope that people will see a lot more of these than they would of a poster hung in an office somewhere. Something that occurred to me while drawing this is that I seem to be designing a logo for a national park. In Congo. The mind boggles slightly. I'll be running a Kickstarter campaign in July to help fund the project, please do stay tuned for that. Also, below the jump: the cover for the Justseeds/ Culture Strike "Migration Now" portfolio, which should be done in mid-July. Busy times!
Commission for Treasonous Strategies (Pittsburgh)
Posted June 18, 2012 by shaun in Justseeds Member Projects
Commission for Treasonous Strategies is a collaborative exhibit between Justseeds member Shaun Slifer and Tesar Freeman, a presentation of sculptural work which reflects upon the history of the United States and raises questions about the perceived authority of objects and relics when housed in sanctioned museums.
CPH in NZ pt2
Posted May 19, 2012 by jmacphee in Justseeds Member Projects
Jared Davidson, of Garage Collective and organizer of the recent exhibition of Celebrate People's History posters in New Zealand, sent me these great photos of the posters on display in the Young Adults section of the Upper Riccarton Community and School Library (for more info on the show, click HERE).
New CPH Posters Hot of the Presses!
Posted May 11, 2012 by jmacphee in Justseeds Member Projects
If you haven't checked out the Justseeds store lately, you might have missed the cascade of new Celebrate People's History posters that have been coming out. I'm excited to announce that a half dozen have been printed, and another half dozen are on their way in the next couple months. These are the first new posters in the series in over a year—there are some great ones, and they are still only $4 a pop! Check out:
Wisconsin Workers Uprising by Sue Simensky Bietila
Jane Jacobs by Sabrina Jones
Major Taylor by Janet Attard
Vieques Libre by Dave Buchen
Jamaican Maroons by Damon Locks
Sacred Ground by Aaron Samsel
Agit-Prop and Intervention Exhibit at Neurotitan
Posted May 4, 2012 by k_c_ in Justseeds Group Projects
Here are some flicks of the Justseeds exhibition Agit-Prop and Intervention, currently up at Neurotitan Gallery in Berlin, Germany.
Punk & Metal Record Covers 05: Antimaster
Posted April 13, 2012 by santi in Justseeds Member Projects
This week’s cover is Antimaster. I had previously posted on the blog the Silkscreen printing process of this cover, but this is what it looked like originally.
I had done a couple designs for them previous to this gatefold cover and they were really open and receptive to any advice I could provide. So when it came down to illustrating it was super quick and easy.
Occuprint Broadsheets Have Arrived!
Posted April 12, 2012 by jmacphee in Justseeds Member Projects
We just received the biggest propaganda drop-off in my lifetime here at the Interference Archive! Occuprint MayDay materials arrived today, including 30,000 broadsheets, 8,500 posters (18"x24"), and 55,000 stickers! Holy crap!
Guidebook to Alternative Nows Kickstarter
Posted April 12, 2012 by mary_tremonte in Justseeds Member Projects
A Guidebook of Alternative Nows is a collaboratively created book that illuminates ways contemporary artists, activists and others are devising more socially, economically, and ecologically just versions of “now.”
I am designing the cover as well as some special "Alternative Now" badges, and both Justseeds and member project Howling Mob Society have contributions to the book, as well as a host of other amazing projects. Read on for more info.
Drago video of Chris Stain's release party
Posted April 6, 2012 by k_c_ in Books & Zines
Official book launch for Chris Stain's latest project and Drago's newest title - LONG STORY SHORT - at Wooster Street Social Club in NYC on March 14th, 2012.
Buy the book on dragolab.com:
http://www.dragolab.com/en/books/catalogue/Long-Story-Short
Punk & Metal Record Covers 04: Condenada
Posted March 30, 2012 by santi in Justseeds Member Projects
Condenada is an all lady hardcore punk band from Chicago, IL. They definitely draw inspiration from Los Crudos and 90’s latino bands from the area, but they not only address issues of race and class here. Gender is their main focus.
They were on tour in Mexico a couple times but I never got to see them. Nor actually meet them nor was I ever in touch with them. My friend Alejandra booked their tour and had a sex education booth set up at their shows, and gave all kinds of workshops. Alejandra was the one who asked me to do this cover for a Discography that would be sold to support their Mexico tour.
Endangered Species Condoms released!
Posted March 26, 2012 by roger_peet in Justseeds Member Projects
The second round of Endangered Species condoms have been released! I was commissioned by the Center for Biological Diversity to produce five original paper-cuts for the series, which also incorporates the panther image from my "Ecology of Fear" print. The packages were nicely laid-out by graphic designer Lori Lieber, and will be distributed by thousands of volunteers around the country starting on Earth Day. Click through to see all of the images!
Reproductive Rights and Gender Justice Project
Posted March 21, 2012 by meredith_stern in Justseeds Member Projects
Hey there! A new Kickstarter Project just launched featuring several Justseeds artists including Melanie Cervantes, Favianna Rodriguez, Molly Fair, Thea Gahr, Bec Young, Mary Tremonte, Meredith Stern, and several artists. Please check out the kickstarter video for info, and HERE is a link to the page!
Punk & Metal Record Covers 03: Profanator
Posted March 16, 2012 by santi in Justseeds Member Projects
Profanator is a Thrash Metal band from Queretaro. Like most thrash metal bands they wanted the grim reaper to be their main focus of the album.
The first draft of this image included an hourglass but I decided to not use it in the end. There was too much stuff going on as it is. And they really wanted the image to have lots dark or black preferably.
Last Three Days & Previews of Witches & Mad Prophets
Posted March 13, 2012 by erik_ruin in Art & Politics
We're in the last 3 days now of my Kickstarter campaign to fund a portfolio project i'm curating & publishing on the theme of heresy.
Witches & Mad Prophets will feature offset prints of original work by 13 amazing artists- AMTK, Bec Young, Charlotte de Sédouy, Corina Dross, Dylan Miner, Ian Cozzens, Katrina Avocado, Lee Relvas, Mandy Katz, Santiago Armengod, William Schaff, Xander Marro, and myself. The fundraising's been a runaway success, the band the Mountain Goats tweeted about it, we hit our goal in a day and a half and right now we sit at 240% of our funding goal with three days to spare! There's still 40-something portfolios available for pre-order, so if you want to make sure you get one (for only $40!), get them here! See below for previews and more info...
Chris Stain Book Release Party
Posted March 13, 2012 by jmacphee in Justseeds Member Projects
This Wednesday (tomorrow) is the long awaited book release for Chris Stain's Long Story Short, which has been in the works for over two years. Join us in celebrating from 8-11pm at the Wooster Social Club, 43 Wooster St, Manhattan. (Click on the flyer to the right for a bigger version.)
Endangered Species Condoms
Posted March 8, 2012 by roger_peet in Justseeds Member Projects
Some exciting news for me- I'm going to be working with the Center for Biological Diversity to develop art for the next round of Endangered Species Condoms. The condoms are a part of the Center's work to bring the subject of human overpopulation to a wider audience, a goal I wholeheartedly share.
Discussions of human population are hair-triggers for many on the left who feel that any mention of overpopulation is code for racist eugenics programming. Simultaneously, those on the right looking for a backdoor into the environmental movement have tried to make immigration-related "population control" an issue. All demagoguery aside, however, the exponential increase in human population is a fact, and a fact that brings with it a raft of consequences impossible in a world with fewer humans. Humanity monopolizes an enormous percentage of the world's surface, as well as the products of that surface, and whether rich or poor, more humans means less room for anything else. It's past time for a non-ideological discussion on population that cuts through the hate and fear and gets to the heart of the matter: other species live on this planet as well, and they need to be able to get away from us. As our numbers increase, that is becoming impossible. This project aims to make the link between the dwindling numbers of so many distinct forms of life and the swelling of one big, rude one: humanity.
Ante la Destruccion Ambiental, Organizacion! San Cristobal, Chiapas
Posted February 15, 2012 by santi in Events
This Friday 17th of February we will be opening a graphic art show in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas.
These posters are a collection of silk screens that were created to use as a tool to bring attention to the Climate Crisis, Natural Resource extraction.
So if you are near San Cristobal please join us at the opening of this exhibit at 8:30pm.
The show will be at:
El Paliacate: Espacio Cultural.
5 de Mayo # 20 Col. La Merced
San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas
Witches & Mad Prophets: A Portfolio of Heretics on Kickstarter!
Posted February 14, 2012 by erik_ruin in Art & Politics
Hey all- I'm trying to raise funds right now for a really exciting portfolio project on the theme of religious heresy featuring Justseeds artists Bec Young, Dylan Miner, Santiago Armengod and myself alongside other luminaries like William Schaff (be sure to watch to the end of the video for his bit!), Xander Marro, AMTK, Charlotte Desedouey, Corina Dross, Ian Cozzens, Lee Relvas, Mandy Katz and Katrina Avocado.
Click here for more info and to contribute!
For only $40, you get the whole thing shipped to you (in the U.S.)!
Realizing a Class Struggle Penny Crusher?
Posted February 9, 2012 by shaun in Justseeds Member Projects
For several years, I've had the idea to create a souvenir penny-crushing machine which would imprint pennies with designs relevant to working class struggles for social justice in Western Pennsylvania's past. Unfortunately, I've hit a number of dead-ends in the process of trying to make this project a reality. In it's current incarnation, the machine would incorporate an updated, slimmed-down, somewhat mobile design based on that of former Westinghouse engineer Bill Ball, constructed by Stuart Anderson and myself, and incorporating illustrations by Pittsburgh labor history artist and political cartoonist Bill Yund. Although my inclination is to keep the scope of the project regional, I'm open to reinterpretation if it influences the possibility of realizing the finished project. In its ideal state, this machine would be mobile enough to migrate to several museums and other relevant venues. Please get in touch if you have serious funding ideas or other relevant leads!
Panther Lunch Club
Posted February 2, 2012 by mary_tremonte in Art & Politics
Alec "Icky" Dunn, Josh MacPhee, and myself each designed a place mat for Edith Abeyta's Panther Lunch Club, part of the Food For Thought exhibition at Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamunga, CA, on view now through March 23rd.
Painting 2 Banners in Acteal; 14 Years of Impunity
Posted January 19, 2012 by santi in Art & Politics
For a while I’ve been going to Acteal in the municipality of Chenalhó, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Acteal is a small Tzotzil community who were victims of the 22nd of December 1997 massacre by a PRI party sponsored Mascaras Rojas paramilitary group.
I have encountered lots of people who mistake Acteal as a Zapatista Community. One key difference is that Las Abejas (The Bees) is a pacifist and religious organization. Despite those differences, Las Abejas have vocally expressed their support for the EZLN and their demands. It was this link with the Zapatistas which led to the massacre of 45 members (4 of them pregnant) of Las Abejas. The members were murdered inside a small church praying, in an environment filled with fear of the EZLN growing stronger.
Dara Greenwald's Video Work
Posted January 13, 2012 by shaun in Inspiration
Video was only one medium in Dara's amazing body of work, but every bit of her brilliance, sharp social and political critique, and raucous sense of humor comes through in the videos she made. Last November, Dara and Todd Chandler spent an afternoon going through her hard drives and consolidating over 20 videos in an effort to catalog them online. They're going up on a Vimeo page - right now there are 16 pieces on there and the rest will be uploaded soon. Please watch, share, and screen widely.
Old Yeller's Dance
Posted January 13, 2012 by shaun in Justseeds Member Projects
I worked up a new video recently, an ominous treatment of that crucial scene in Disney's Old Yeller (1957) wherein Yeller battles the rabid wolf that's been terrorizing the Coates family. I think it's best with headphones if you've got 'em handy.
An interview with Santiago Armengod and The 555 Collective
Posted January 5, 2012 by santi in Art & Politics
The Following is an Interview I did with the 555 Collective. You can visit their web page here and the Interview here
Santiago Armengod is an artist residing in Mexico City. His works embody a striving for justice and a sense of hope. HIs answers to our five questions reflect a rare mixture of compassion and intellectual bravery.
Big Collaborative Blockprints
Posted January 4, 2012 by roger_peet in Justseeds Member Projects
The two big blockprints from the We Agree project are finally available today in the Justseeds store; one made by three Justseeds artists, and the other by the Taring Padi cooperative of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Each one is 3 feet by 9 feet, printed on heavy canvas. Read more about the project here. Click through for images, and click over to the store to check out the prints.
Organizers sold out!
Posted December 21, 2011 by roger_peet in Justseeds Member Projects
Uh, the entire run of 2012 Justseeds/Eberhardt Press organizers has sold out. I'm sort of shocked. I sincerely apologize to anyone disappointed, the rate of movement was quite beyond what I expected. Thanks very much to everyone who bought them; this means we will have to print more next year!
Organizers sold out!
Posted December 21, 2011 by roger_peet in Justseeds Member Projects
Uh, the entire run of 2012 Justseeds/Eberhardt Press organizers has sold out. I'm sort of shocked. I sincerely apologize to anyone disappointed, the rate of movement was quite beyond what I expected. Thanks very much to everyone who bought them; this means we will have to print more next year!
Posters for the Port Shutdown
Posted December 17, 2011 by roger_peet in Justseeds Member Projects
Last Monday, people in cities up and down the West Coast came out to try to shut down the ports. My friend Chris and I put together some posters for the event here in Portland, which had pretty great turnout and succeeded in actually shutting down several terminals at the port for the day, as well as Schnitzer Steel. The call to shut down the port in Portland was directed primarily at SSA Marine, an unscrupulous union-busting subsidiary of Goldman Sachs that operates the terminals here in PDX. Tendrils of solidarity were also extended to ILWU workers struggling at the nearby port of Longview. While the local ILWU leadership eschewed any notion of endorsement of the shutdown, rank-and-file workers showed up with pizza for the occupiers.
Work Visit at the Interference Archive
Posted December 13, 2011 by mary_tremonte in Justseeds Member Projects
Alec "Icky" Dunn, Shaun Slifer and myself recently visited the NYC Justseeds crew to put in a work day at the Interference Archive. We designed and installed lighting, Shaun installed sweet vinyl on the door, and we prepped for the archive's first exhibition, highlighting Riot Grrrl and 90's feminist punk.
A project that grew out of the personal collections of Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, the Interference Archive explores the relationship between cultural production and social movements. The archive consists of many kinds of objects that are created as part of movements: posters, flyers, publications, photographs, t-shirts, moving images, audio recordings, and other printed matter. Through public exhibitions, a study center, talks, screenings, publications, workshops, and an on-line presence, we use this cultural ephemera to animate histories of people mobilizing for social transformation.
Interference will be having an open house this Friday. Stay tuned for more info, and for more photos, see the set on our Flickr, HEREFor more information, interferencearchive.org
Morning Crush: "Immigrants Know Your Rights" Poster Pack
Posted December 8, 2011 by colin_matthes in Justseeds Member Projects
I really like these two posters and this seems like a cool project. 
English Translation:
Neither Discrimination Nor Abuse, We have Rights, Rights to a Lawyer.
(I can) read the writing on the wall-18
Posted December 2, 2011 by k_c_ in Justseeds Member Projects
Pepper spraying cop on the Bowery, November 2011, NYC, NY
Look at Pepper Spraying Cop for more.
