Journal of Aesthetics & Protest #7
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Visual en la Z.A.M. Con integrantes de Canada, Mexico y Estados Unidos. Jueves 28 de Enero 7pm
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,….
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…
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…
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…
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….
These guys jusst put up a cool mural in Williamsburg, check out more info at BrooklynStreetArt.
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…
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…
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…
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.
This drawing is in the show Sailing the Barbarous Coast that opens at the New Art Center, Newton, MA on Jan 15.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…