Journal of Aesthetics & Protest #7
January 31, 2010
The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest #7 is out now, and chock full of material that looks both interesting and is by a bunch of solid people that have been…
Red de Espionaje
January 29, 2010
A little while back I got an announcement from Magdalena Jitrik, one of the Argentine artists that had organized the Taller Popular de Serigrafía (who had designed and printed for…
collage of the week (16)
January 28, 2010
Studio Time
January 28, 2010
This week has been great, I was able to spend most of the week in the studio working on a couple prints, one of Melanie’s designs and one of my…
Remembering Howard
January 27, 2010
Howard Zinn changed my life. In 1999, I first read “A People’s History of the United States” and read it cover to cover, fascinated by his words, his sense of…
Howard Zinn dies. (1922-2010)
January 27, 2010
Just heard the sad news, Howard Zinn died Wednesday of a heart attack. I know all of us here at Justseeds were inspired by this great historian. These are some…
Amor y Resistencia graphic on the cover of Critical Moment
January 27, 2010
Critical Moment, a newsprint magazine working to provide a forum for education, debate, and dialogue around the political issues affecting communities in the Southeast Michigan area has used Amor Y…
Drawing All the Time : Week 18
January 27, 2010
Hopeless
January 27, 2010
Our friend Klutch has recently expressed his dissatisfaction with the first year of Obama with this “Hopeless” print. To be hopeless assumes you once had hope, which might be a…
Finally, Some Street Art with Something to Say!
January 26, 2010
Last week, on Jan. 19th, two groups from St. Petersburg, Russsia, Autonomous Action and Anarchist Artists, carried out a large scale street art action on the outside of the State…
Boycott of Iran Film Festival
January 26, 2010
Iranian filmmakers have called for a boycott of this years Fajr Film Festival in Tehran, Iran in hopes of pressuring the government to ease up on repression and release political…
Women’s Lib Posters video
January 25, 2010
Dara recently found this very strange video on YouTube, it appears to be homemade music video for the 1960 song “Cantata della donna nubile” by Italian singer Edmonda Aldini. It’s…
PTP #8 Video Review
January 24, 2010
Billy da Bunny, of Loop Zine Distro, has started putting up very strange, yet engaging, video zine reviews on the We Make Zines website. He recently put up a set…
Luba Lukova at Qbox Gallery
January 23, 2010
In recent years I keep coming across the graphics and posters of Luba Lukova, and have been increasingly impressed with their clarity, directness, and graphic efficiency. Lukova edited and designed…
EXTENDED time limit for Freedom for all Political Prisoners /// Graphic Campaign Call for sumbissions – Presxs políticxs libertad /// Convocatoria Gráfica
January 22, 2010
Chrysa Koukoura-overfishing designs
January 22, 2010
I came across these designs, by Chrysa Koukoura, while researching campaigns for the upcoming Justseeds Portfolio-Resourced. We are hoping to pair each participating artist with an organization/campaign to create a…
ROAD DAWGS
January 22, 2010
This is a little slice-o’-life blog entry. the van, all done up in front of the ranch Justseeds Artists Cooperative have a collective wealth of skills beyond making radical prints….
Inaguración de la Exposicón Grafica Justseeds Cooperativa de Resistencia
January 21, 2010
Inaguración de la Exposicón Grafica Justseeds Cooperativa de Resistencia Visual en la Z.A.M. Con integrantes de Canada, Mexico y Estados Unidos. Jueves 28 de Enero 7pm
collage of the week (15)
January 21, 2010
The Mirage of Art Basel
January 20, 2010
Erick Lyle, longtime zine writer and journalist, of Scam Zine, On the Lower Frequencies, and more, spent the past month in Miami covering Art Basel and Take Back the Land,….
Drawing All the Time : Week 17
January 20, 2010
This week there is an install shot of a drawing that is up at the New Art Center in Newton, MA. That lump on the ground is me. And yes…
Queer positive street art
January 19, 2010
New drag queen stencils from San Francisco street artist Jeremy Novy. “This project is intended to bring gay imagery into a homophobic subculture, covering hateful and distasteful graffiti in our…
Radical Teen Print of the Week: Swan Sneakers
January 19, 2010
Welcome back to Radical Teen Print of the Week! This week’s silkscreen print is by Valerie Dowling, created during RUST 2009. Valerie combined three images of things she likes, using…
Anti-Colonial Indigenous VIsuality
January 18, 2010
Last week I uploaded my recent article on sneakers, masculinity, consumption and radical politics. Hopefully a handful of people trudged their way their the writing to uncover some insightful ideas….
New Gaia and NohJColey Mural in Brooklyn
January 17, 2010
These guys jusst put up a cool mural in Williamsburg, check out more info at BrooklynStreetArt.
Solidarity Forever!: Notes from the Winter Wonderland
January 15, 2010
Postcard image from Learning to Labor, Remembering to Resist. Solo exhibition at University Gallery, Saginaw Valley State University (February-March 2010). Note: to coincide with the release of my new Celebrate…
Racial Justice Poster Contest
January 15, 2010
The Akonadi Foundation’s mission is to support the development of powerful social change movements to eliminate structural racism and create a racially just society. Akonadi believes that racial justice movement…
collage of the week (14)
January 14, 2010
“Superheroes” Calendar
January 14, 2010
This seems to be the year of political art calendars. I just came across this one, which looks great: New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) has just released Dulce Pinzon’s…
Install Photos: Sailing the Barbarous Coast
January 13, 2010
Here are a few photos from the install of Sailing the Barbarous Coast. opens Jan 15, Newton Art Center, Newton (near Boston), MA. Cecilia Mendez and I installing.
Drawing All the Time : Week 16
January 13, 2010
This drawing is in the show Sailing the Barbarous Coast that opens at the New Art Center, Newton, MA on Jan 15.
Save the Gloo Factory!
January 12, 2010
My good friend Dwight, owner-operator of the Tucson multi-functional art/community/print space the Gloo Factory and allied enterprise Peace Supplies has been struggling against eviction from his crazy downtown space for…
Jan 15, Boston, Sailing the Barbarous Coast
January 12, 2010
If you are in the Boston area come by to see the exhibition, “Sailing the Barbarous Coast.” It is a two-person show with Anthony Smith and myself. The show opens…
Creative Violation: The Rebel Art of the Street Stencil
January 12, 2010
This popped up in the inbox today, you may recognize some Justseedsers. Creative Violation documents the exploding underground art form of the street stencil and explores its roots in political…
Mix-A-Day
January 11, 2010
I’ve been creating a mix of music & other auditory ephemera every day for the month of January 2010. They’re all posted here in downloadable form. This project is a…
Copenhagen Banners
January 10, 2010
The 800 individual letters (in solar-panel font) that I helped to print for Katherine of SEA Change Gallery here in Portland were stitched together and made into banners in several…
‘Provocations on Sneakers’ (Academic Text #3)
January 9, 2010
Since I was unable to make my own opening in Chicago because of Lake Effect Snow (poor me), I have decided to upload another academic text I recently published in…
300th Memorial Posted to GhostBikes.org
January 9, 2010
Photo by Philipp M. Rassmann/NYC Street Memorial Project Pablo Pasarán Saturday, August 8, 2009 Age: 26 Location: 35th Avenue and 21st Street Astoria Queens , NY United States Pablo Pasarán,…
More from the Missing Plaque Project!
January 8, 2010
Tim Groves, the Toronto-based founder of the Missing Plaque Project, just sent me a link to a great video interview he did for RBNonline in December. In the interview, he…
collage of the week (13)
January 7, 2010
A double negative… or a critique of land use and popular culture. A devastated landscape mixed with an oversimplification of indigenous people as only belonging to the distant past and…