Legendary 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….
Since early 2014, I’ve worked closely with a small, incredibly dedicated group of folks to launch the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum down in Matewan, WV: an independent people’s history museum…
For the past year Jesse Purcell and I have been working on a giant screenprinted book. What we ended up with is Capture the Flag. A meditation far…
This autumn I was invited to exhibit two projects that I’ve made in the past decade as part of “Checks & Balances”, curated by Murray Horne at SPACE in downtown Pittsburgh….
From Apogee Journal: “The ongoing struggles of the Standing Rock Sioux community and the multitudinous tribes that have joined in protest in North Dakota has inspired Apogee Journal to facilitate…
The most recent production from submedia.tv: This week we bring you a special sedition on the anniversary of one of the most bad-ass and sophisticated revolutionary organizations in the United…
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 living and working along the Schelde (river) in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The eighth of the Endangered Species Murals is now complete! I’ve just returned to Portland from Knoxville, Tennessee, after finishing up the largest mural I have ever had the pleasure…
While collecting books from the African Writers Series published by Heinemann (I’ll be featuring those books in a future post), I stumbled upon what I first thought was a small…
This week’s focus is on the South African published house Ravan Press, which was founded in 1972 by Peter Randall, Danie van Zyl, and Beyers Naudé. On second glance, you’ll…
Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas in June 1865, now celebrated, more generally as the emancipation of African American slaves, on…
For months I’ve been working on a complete rewrite of the post I originally did here about the design of the book Black Power, and other related Civil Rights-era publications…
I’m staffing Interference Archive today and listening to an archived episode of DJ Devon E. Levins’ Morricone Island. It’s a really great show called “The Greatest Soundtrack Tribute,” with a…
This week I don’t have a new focus. Instead I’ve gone back into a number of old posts and corrected mistakes, improved the writing, added new covers, and/or added better…
I’m excited to be headed to Lawrence, KS tomorrow to talk at the launch of the Kansas People’s History Project, a new poster endeavor loosely modeled on my Celebrate People’s…
The latest It’s The End Of The World As We Know It And I Feel Fine from subMedia.tv. This week we take a look at the economic and political crisis…
For my first entry in Aniibiishaaboo miinawaa Makade-mshkikiwaaboo – Tea and Coffee, I want to reflect on my exhibition that is currently on view at Artspace in Nogojiwanong (place at the…
Over the last few years, life seems to have gotten the best of me. While I have been quite busy on artistic and community-based projects, as well as teaching and…
Let Them Eat Reality Bed-Stuy Brooklyn. April 23, 2016 Written on the construction wall at the former site of Cascade Laundry across the street from the Marcy Projects. Most people…
Tomorrow evening I’ll be representing Interference Archive at the following panel discussion at BRIC, in Brooklyn, NY. It is part of the programming for the current exhibition, Whisper or Shout,…
I spent a week in Nebraska earlier this month, as a guest artist at the University of Omaha, at the invitation of professor Jave Yoshimoto. I spent most of my…
Call for art and article submissions: Sustaining Movements The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective (www.certaindays.org) is releasing its 16th calendar in the Fall of 2016. Over the…
Halliburton convoys in western Iraq. Halliburton convoys in western Pennsylvania. —Iraq War veteran and Pennsylvania citizen, Kevin Basl As part of the Lycoming College Spring Symposium on Veteran Issues, I…
As part of their monthly “Artists in the Library” series, the folks at the Braddock branch of the Carnegie Library in southwest Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh) have put up the Celebrate…
Back in December the Ace Hotel in New York invited Interference Archive to fill a display case in their lobby. We decided we wanted to use the opportunity to place…
Last month I got to give a talk at the Maine College of Art in Portland, which was great in and of itself, and had the added bonus of giving…
The later at From subMedia.tv: In this sedition of ITEOTWAWKIAIFF we look at the growing class unrest in Hong Kong that kicked off a massive rebellion in the lunar new…
The University of Connecticut recently acquired a complete set of the Celebrate People’s History Posters, and already has them on display! They’re up at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center…
Legendary punk performer Vi Subversa died today, aged 80. Vi fronted the equally legendary British punk group the Poison Girls, bringing an elder perspective to the turmoil of youth culture,…