Commonwealth Official Opening This Sunday
This Sunday, April 9th, from 3-6pm is the official opening of the exhibition Commonwealth: Water for All at the Queens Museum, in Corona, Queens, NYC. The show is installed on…
This Sunday, April 9th, from 3-6pm is the official opening of the exhibition Commonwealth: Water for All at the Queens Museum, in Corona, Queens, NYC. The show is installed on…
“Healing. . . Coming Home to Our Bodies.”
“Oceans Do Rise. . . Empires Do Fall.”
World Water Day focuses attention on the importance of universal access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene facilities in developing countries. The day also focuses on advocating for the sustainable…
“Democracy Spring.”
1. Community The successful projects, organizations, and movements for justice that I know of have been deeply rooted in community. Communities defend, sustain, grow, inspire, and transform movements just as…
“Take from the Greedy to Give to the Needy.”
For many Indigenous people, late-winter or early-spring (depending on your perspective) is the time to be in the Iskigamizigan or Sugar Bush. It is a period when everything and everyone…
Justseeds artists Jess X. Chen and Roger Peet recently collaborated on an image to promote the #toimmigrantswithlove campaign, an online effort to encourage people to reach out to the immigrants…
I recently returned from a holiday adventure to Trinidad Tobago with some friends, including Justseeds comrade Roger Peet. Our main motivation was a handful of days scuba diving in the…
The people at Creative Commons do good work- promoting a healthy relationship to copyright and intellectual property, and working to ensure that a public domain stays public in the most…
“Use Your Words.”
Political art is a powerful tool, but not every work penetrates the public imagination, and most fall far short. Sometimes, however, a single timely image captures precisely the attention of…
“Mother Courage and Her Children.”
Three or four years ago I was supposed to go to a big book sales with my friends that run Book Thug Nation here in Brooklyn, but I ended up…
“These Systems Are Failing.”
Art builds bring people together and create stronger coalitions. A few weeks ago over 150 people – artists, public school teachers, union organizers, activists, allies, and community members came together…
John Jennings’ Celebrate People’s History poster of James Baldwin has been turned into a 4 ft. x 8 ft. mini-mural as part of Pittsburgh’s Sidewall project. Sidewall is a mural…
“I told him of the dead coyote by the road. He said, ‘good.’ I wished his whole world view was instead lying there in the ditch.”
Seen in the door of Otherwild in Los Angeles, CA. February 10, 2017. All Are Welcome is a not-for-profit project aimed at providing businesses, schools and other establishments with a…
“Exxon lied, now temps are on the rise!”
‘To Allah we belong and to Allah we return’ is a rough translation of the dua said at someone’s death. Blessed is this temporary cycle. We are part of a…
In the last few months there’s been a real upswing in the number of images being posted to our downloadable graphics page. I’m also happy to report that there’s been…
In 2016, I was invited to contribute art to the re-opening of the Robert Morris University School of Nursing. It was a great opportunity to explore some ideas around nursing,…
Welcome to the first interview with one of the parents in Justseeds. I decided I needed to interview my fellow Justseeds parents as a way to reflect on my own…
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts, and troublemakers, had becomes, as they must, soldiers.”
Dalton, PA Taken right as a local resident was stepping out on the street to walk their dog. Ever since Shaun started this series, I’ve been noticing DIYDPW signs everywhere,…
Really inspired by the emergency demos against the Muslim Ban all around Turtle Island today. Even more excited to see some of the materials from our Inaugurating Resistance Propaganda party…
Dallas-based printmaker Viktor Ortix traveled to Standing Rock in September and then in early November where he stayed at the Oceti Sakowin camp for six weeks. He spent the majority…
In connection to tonight’s opening of Finally Got The News: The Print Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970–1979, Interference Archive has released a new episode of their podcast series….
I came across this great interview with Raven Chacon recently from Broken Boxes podcast and thought some of our followers would be interested in it. If you aren’t familiar with…
“We Just Lost the War on Christmas.”
Justseeds members Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza operate as Dignidad Rebelde, a powerful collaborative art duo centered in Oakland, California who believe that “art can be an empowering reflection of…
Thanks to Democracy Now! and The New Yorker for coming out to report about the Inaugurating Resistance Propaganda Party at Interference Archive. About 5:00 into the Headlines on DN!: And…
“The Iron Heel—Jack London”
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 while preparing for the birth of my…
“How You Gonna Be a Racist and a Christian?”
A little delayed, but here is the final episode of It’s The End Of The World As We Know It And I Feel Fine from subMedia.tv. The crew will keep…
Bay-Area arts organizer David Solnit has been making art for protest movements for decades, and has established a practice of simple, reliable techniques for amplifying messages in the streets. I’ve…
“Trump wrapped in the flag (not the Constition)—Pence carrying a (blasphemous) bible.”