Another image that is part of Essential Knowledge: a series of instructional drawings teaching basic skills for success in challenging situations. I made this one after leaving rural Ireland and thinking about what…
This week is a bit of a divergence from my usual book cover fare. Instead of focusing on a publisher, author, or designer, I want to look at likely the…
Screening: NetWorks 2016 Artist Video Portraits October 30, 2016, 1:30 – 3:30 pm Metcalf Auditorium NetWorks Rhode Island, a project devoted to showcasing work of selected contemporary Rhode Island visual…
Just this morning, justseeds artist Jess X. Snow & public artist, Lunar New Year lead a free community public art and mural workshop at Urban Word’s annual Preemptive Education Conference at New…
In Issue 63 of The Media, Katy Otto interviewed 13 parents about balancing artmaking with parenting. Among those interviewed was Justseeds member Meredith Stern. These are the thoughts of a parent…
Dump Trump. Brooklyn, NY. September, 2016.
Here are a handful of images from the opening last month of Up Against The Wall, at Booklyn. The exhibition, which includes portions of the Iraq Veterans Against War portfolio…
Art Exhibition Saturday, September 17, 2016 to Thursday, October 13, 2016 Fine Arts Building, Fine Arts Gallery at San Francisco State University From their website: “This exhibition is the first…
A recent image that is a part of Essential Knowledge: a series of instructional drawings teaching basic skills for success in challenging situations. I got obsessed with bear attacks when we were…
Justseeds is a community partner with the Milwaukee Film Festival again this year. We are partnering with the film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, which I am really looking forward to…
Colleague Shieko Reto has been making some awesome retro GIFs addressing aspects of trans life and everyday politics in Malaysia. Here’s a selection of some of my favorites along with…
In 2011 and 2012 I was living on on the barren Atlantic coast of Ireland where the weather is an ever present and dominating factor in peoples’ daily lives. From…
Favianna Rodriguez spoke with Van Jones about creating art about climate justice for KQED on Friday, Jun. 3. Here is a link to the article and the video.
New release available from Justseeds! Wellspring, Justseeds’ newest portfolio, is made up of 12 original Risograph prints, enclosed inside a handprinted fabric bandana, each exploring our contemporary relationship to water….
For years I’ve been hunting down issues of Black Orpheus (which I featured in my last post, #241), and books from it’s spin-off publishing-wing Mbari. I honestly can’t remember how…
This time from submedia.tv an amazing episode from some incredibly inspiring folks working inside prisons and on the outside on Turtle Island. Learn about them and show your solidarity! In…
2017 sees the release of the 16th annual Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar. Many Justseeds’ artists have contributed art to the calendar over the years, this year includes…
WHEN Opening Reception Aug. 30th, 7-10PM Exhibition Runs Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016 – Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2016 WHERE Booklyn | 37 Greenpoint Avenue, Suite E4G / Box 23, Brooklyn, NY…
After being out of print for almost 20 years, Ad Astra Comics is reprinting Seth Tobocman’s seminal Lower East Side squatter graphic novel War in the Neighborhood. I remember getting…
Black Orpheus: A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature is likely the most important literary journal to emerge out of Africa, and one of the most important in the world…
In the Great Lakes, there is growing concern over the safety of Enbridge Line 5, an aging pipeline that runs beneath the Straits of Mackinac. Similar to the images that Dylan Miner created in…
Standing in solidarity with Standing Rock and the struggle to stop the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline. #noDAPL #standingwithStandingRock #WaterIsLife #Rezpect We are selling a limited number of posters…
Over the last two days, Justseeds’ member Dylan Miner put together some graphics in solidarity with Standing Rock resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. You can read about Native support here at Indian…
Over at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, we’ve just launched the first issue of our new print newsletter, In These Hills. Chuck Keeney, founding museum board member and the…
Since May, Interference Archive has been hosting an exhibition of the collaborative work of Mobile Print Power (MPP). MPP is a mobile screen printing collective largely made up of immigrant-youth…
Many Justseeds-related publications are included in the current “flash exhibition” Protests in Print at the New York Public Library. Signal, the Librarians and Archivists to Palestine zine, and some Interference…
The Worcester Artist-Activist Residency is an opportunity for creative activists and/or politically-minded artists (defined broadly to include writers, musicians, fabricators, event organizers, etc, in addition to visual artists) to make…
If you haven’t been to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to check out their latest exhibit you need to get down there before it cloeses August 14th! The…
I was processing a donation of books at Interference Archive yesterday that contained this book, The Secret. It came in a package from a friend that volunteers at the Inside…
I believe we are at a critical moment in the history of the United States. Earlier this year former US President Jimmy Carter spoke at the Human Rights Defender Forum….
Alec and I are very excited that our latest issue of Signal is back from the printer and available here on Justseeds! We made a little promotional animation/video, and hope…
A couple months ago I spoke with Brooke Schuman, one of the folks from the audio working group at Interference Archive. Our discussion, regarding Justseeds & our portfolio projects, was…
In her recent book Sociología de la imagen, Aymara sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui writes that ‘la descolonización solo puede realizarse en la práctica.’ Rivera Cusicanqui maintains that the only way…
Peace Seekers by Kabul Knights Yesterday, I opened my email to read about the deadly attack on the Hazara demonstration on July 23rd in Kabul, Afghanistan. I had received a message…
TOUR Join award-winning queer Asian-American poets, Kit Yan and Jess X. Chen (justseeds artist) on the Queer Heartache Summer Tour. Combining oceanic laughter, the violence of heartbreak, and the sorrow lost…
The 9th of the Endangered Species Murals is recently completed in the town of Berea, Kentucky- featuring the first plant in the series, the beautiful and strange White Fringeless Orchid….
Dancer Asimina Chremos and I have been collaborating (alongside my audio-visual band the Ominous Cloud Ensemble) on a performance rooted in the work of poet Paul Celan, esp his work…
On Saturday night, I took the redeye flight from Detroit to Santiago. I am hanging out in Chile for a week, where I am co-convening a Working Group at the Tenth…
So for this second installment of Behind Design, I thought I’d talk a bit about what went into my recent screenprint poster, Producing the City. Back in April, my friend…
Update from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This past month has been busy with work outside the realm of printmaking and graphics. Instead it has involved circular saws, cordless drills, and dirt. This…