Capture the Flag!
December 6, 2016
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…
Making a Boat (Essential Knowledge post 7)
November 30, 2016
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 pulling all the salvageable electrical out of…
Mural at Standing Rock
November 29, 2016
I had been planning a mural in Asheville, NC for months, had a ticket, ordered paint, and was all set to fly out and start painting on the 7th and…
244: Philip K. Dick
November 28, 2016
I used to work hard at doing one of these Judging Books by Their Covers posts a week, but I’ve fallen of, and recently realized I’ve been doing more like…
Art tent at the Oceti Sakowin camp at Standing Rock
November 24, 2016
There are many ways to support the Water Protectors at Standing Rock. This is one that relates specifically to art. Months ago an art tent was constructed that is open…
Subscribe to Community Supported Art for 2017!
November 23, 2016
Hi Everyone! This year’s election will radically transform many people’s political activity, but defending what we have and fighting for change is not just a reaction to the current regime….
Trump: What How What from subMedia.tv
November 17, 2016
From submedia.tv “In the wake of the election of Donald Trump, many peeps are freaking the fuck out. Well, step back, take a breath and watch our analysis. What can…
Interference Archive Ephemera Auction
November 16, 2016
As part of its 2016 Benefit Party, Interference Archive is holding a silent auction of over 35 pieces of social movement ephemera. The auction runs from now until 11pm on…
Encoding Messages (Essential Knowledge post 6)
November 16, 2016
Another image that is part of Essential Knowledge: a series of instructional drawings teaching basic skills for success in challenging situations. This one was influenced by some weird rightwing militia audiobook. It is…
Live Printing at the Art Museum
November 7, 2016
I was recently invited to do a live-printing demo at the Portland Art Museum, as part of their programming around the big Warhol show they have up. It was a…
Advertising Shits in Your Head Fundraising
November 3, 2016
Dog Section Press is currently crowd-funding for the printing costs of their next book: Advertising Shits In Your Head. You can back the project and help them get it to…
Calming Your Newborn (Essential Knowledge post 5)
November 2, 2016
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 trying to learn as much as possible…
Screenprint Biennial Opens Tonight/Josh MacPhee Talk Tomorrow
October 28, 2016
I’m really excited to be heading up to Troy, NY today to see the opening of the 2nd Screenprint Biennial, and then to give a talk tomorrow at the Collar…
New (Old) Work: Checks & Balances sculpture exhibition in Pittsburgh
October 28, 2016
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….
Apogee Journal seeking art and writing by October 31
October 25, 2016
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 Revolution Has Come from submedia.tv
October 21, 2016
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…
New Project to Support: Confront the Climate: Flowchart of the Peoples Climate March
October 19, 2016
Justseeds extended community: Brooklyn artist and activist Rachel Schragis (who was one of the main arts organizer for the People’s Climate March) is seeking funding support for an inspiring project…
Mass Exodus (Essential Knowledge post 4)
October 19, 2016
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…
Worker’s Unite! Film Festival: Call for Submissions
October 18, 2016
My friend Sam recently sent me this call for submissions. I’m not a filmmaker, but I know some of you out there are!: Submissions Are Open for Season 6 of…
Justseeds is Moving! But Not Too Far…
October 13, 2016
After several years operating out of a quiet office in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Justseeds is pulling up stakes today and moving into a new building! We’re staying in…
Breaking Down a Door (Essential Knowledge post 3)
October 5, 2016
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…
243: 50 Fists
October 3, 2016
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 2, 2016
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…
Creating Home & Place Through Public Art
October 1, 2016
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…
Interview with Meredith Stern by Katy Otto
September 30, 2016
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…
read the writing on the wall – 34
September 22, 2016
Dump Trump. Brooklyn, NY. September, 2016.
Up Against The Wall at Booklyn
September 21, 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…
When I Remember I See Red: California Native American Contemporary Art
September 21, 2016
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…
Grizzly Attack (Essential Knowledge post 2)
September 21, 2016
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…
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes at Milwaukee Film Festival
September 18, 2016
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…
Shieko Reto’s GIFS
September 15, 2016
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…
Essential Knowledge: a series of instructional drawings teaching basic skills for success in challenging situations
September 14, 2016
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…
Van Jones & Favianna Rodriguez Put Artists of Color at Heart of Environmental Movement
September 13, 2016
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 Justseeds Portfolio, Available Now!
September 12, 2016
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….
242: Mbari Publishing
September 12, 2016
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…
Burn the plantations from Submedia.tv
August 31, 2016
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…
Certain Days 2017
August 31, 2016
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…
Up Against the Wall opening tonight at Booklyn
August 30, 2016
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…
Help Reprint War In the Neighborhood
August 30, 2016
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…
241: Black Orpheus
August 29, 2016
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…