Hamburg G20 Protests- Call for Posters!
Got this in the mailbox from a crew of designers and shit-disturbers in Hamburg, Germany, where the next G20 summit will be held this 7 & 8 of July. Submit…
Got this in the mailbox from a crew of designers and shit-disturbers in Hamburg, Germany, where the next G20 summit will be held this 7 & 8 of July. Submit…
Serena Troshynski, a Library and Information Science student at St. John’s University, selected my Support GI Resistance poster for an assignment that was published on the Hidden Heritage Collections blog….
Daniel Drennan, a talented artist and founding member of Jamaa Al-Yad a Lebanese art collective, is requesting support for his Mothers’ Voices: A “Rematriated” Adoptee’s Art Residency. My goal for…
Some thoughts on my contribution to this year’s Justseeds CSA, “Earth Protectors: Global Movements against Climate Change.” I arrived in this country as a five-year old in the 1970s, and…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I’m excited to have a number of posters in a new exhibition entitled Agitadores de Conciencia/Agitators of Conscience. Organized by Ofelio Serpa, the show is currently on display at the…
At the end of March I was contacted by Aaron Huey of the Amplifier Foundation about participating in a project he was putting together—an experiment in mass production and distribution…
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…
Inkworks, one of the longest running movement print shops in the US, recently closed. Steven Heller wrote nice obit., and short interview with original collective member Lincoln Cushing, on Print…
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…
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…
I’m just back from Indonesia, and a slew of little art projects there. First up, a paste-up wall of Manta Ray screenprints and papercuts- I made these before I left…
Our friend Jamaa Al-Yad in Beirut just launched a new project: “Boycott, Divest, Sanction: On Campus” Originally designed for a campaign at the American University of Beirut, they’ve uploaded…
Sam Gould, one of the organizers of a new community art space and print shop in Minneapolis called Beyond Repair, recently asked me if I would help launch their new…
Here’s a photo of the first 3 prints from our Community Supported Art project getting ready to be mailed out to our wonderful subscribers. For our January shipment we have…
During the holidays, remember to write to those incarcerated and migrants in detention centers who are so far away from their homes and loved ones. Here are two amazing organizations…
It’s not too late to sign up for a Justseeds Community Supported Art membership for 2016! CSA members will have three freshly designed prints on the theme of Love and Justice…
In 2015 we successfully launched our first Print of the Month club, in which club members received one print a month from a different Justseeds artist. Artists and supporters were…
Everyone knows that art is an engine that drives transformation. The art we look at reminds us that other people feel like we do, and gives us something to believe…
I’ve been at a residency in the grassy hills of northeastern Wyoming for the past few weeks. I realized the other day that I had passed quite close to…
Justseeds will be tabling Prints Gone Wild during NYC Print Week, Friday, November 6th!
September 16–November 29, 2015 Opening Wednesday Sept. 16, 7–10pm Interference Archive, 131 8th St., Brooklyn, NY 11215 Interference Archive presents Armed By Design/El Diseño a las Armas: Posters and Publications…
I’m working on a big project to celebrate 100 poster designs printed in the Celebrate People’s History Poster Series over the past eighteen years. I’m working with Booklyn to put…
The American Friends Service Committee has been putting together cool traveling exhibitions of political posters (often in concert with the Center for the Study of Political Graphics) over the past…
Print & Politics: Lincoln Cushing & Favianna Rodriguez Wednesday April 29, 7pm Interference Archive 131 8th St., Brooklyn, NY 11215 A evening of discussion about print and politics, with Lincoln…
After a long hiatus, I am reviving my Rad Teen Print of the Week series as Rad Post-Teen Print of the Week, to share the amazing work from university students and other post-teens that I’ve been working with here in Toronto. I first forayed into this zone a few years ago with Lauren Jurysta’s Free Pussy Riot silkscreen.
Hi friends of Justseeds, we are super excited to get our new project here at Justseeds rolling: the Print of the Month Club. You can purchase a membership until January…
Hi friends of Justseeds, we are super excited to announce a new project here at Justseeds: the Print of the Month Club. Purchase a membership and get 12 months of…
A number of venues have been collecting the posters and graphics produced in solidarity with Gaza over the past couple months, and I thought it would be cool to share…
I just got some photos from this past weekend’s opening of the first annual Screenprint Biennial, in Troy, NY. My ______ Manifesto diptych was included, which I’m really excited about….
“August 6th 1945 was the day that the US air force dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan, striking Hiroshima and killing up to 160,000 of the city’s inhabitants, most…
On our way up to Cape Cod, Laurel and I stopped in for lunch with Meredith Stern and Peter Glantz. Here’s some flicks of Meredith’s studio and a print series…
Justseeds artists Santiago Armengod, Nicolas Lampert and Roger Peet each made a graphic for the recently released Public Energy Art Kit, which is a collection of posters addressing aspects of…
This old school image is from Kevin Caplicki: “I drew this illustration in 2006 for an anarchist football team that was traveling to the Mondiali Antirazzisti, an Anti-Fascist festival in…
From Nicolas Lampert: This factory image was made in 1993 in Ann Arbor, Michigan a year after I graduated college. The image was influenced by Zug Island in Detroit and…
The walls of Palestine are alive with messaging and communication, including layers of posters for cultural events, political martyrs, commercial advertisements, and election campaigns. While the martyr posters are mostly…
All of us in Justseeds have been making art for a long time, some of us for over 30 years. I thought it would be fun to dig up some…
Justseeds friend and frequent collaborator Paul Kjelland recently created a print about the grassroots movement that closed the Tamms prison. Kjelland writes: “This past week I collaborated with members of…
Subverting WPA posters has long been part of my design rubric. This time, I mined the “Civil Liberties During Wartime” WPA poster (a poster for a lecture by Max Lerner…
A doomed past doesn’t mean a doomed future. The weight of history doesn’t bear down forever- people shrug their burdens off. I’ve got two new prints (here and here) up…
Last week I started a thread about the creation of this print on our website called “Mass Incarceration is a Labor Issue.” The first stage of creating this print involved…
The printing of Josh MacPhee’s 2-color screenprint during Uprising: Images of Labor, a Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative exhibition at the SGC International in Milwaukee, WI
Our comrades in Quebec are working on a film about the Ecole de la Montagne Rouge, a graphics collective that formed during the student strike last year. They are fundraising…
I was interviewed yesterday on Prison Radio Guelph, at CFRU 93.3 fm, discussing the Justseeds: Migration Now! exhibit currently on view at OCAD University’s Graduate Gallery at 205 Richmond St….
Printmaker Antonio Frasconi passed away earlier this year. Frasconi was a Uruguayan artist that mastered the medium of woodblock printing. He produced artwork on a wide range of social issues…
For those in London, this seems well worth checking out. Wish I was in town to see it! See Red Women’s Workshop Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London…
“We don’t cross borders; borders cross us” is a 12 poster series organized by the Cross Border Collective. The objective of the posters is to invite an engaged audience to…
This print is from “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy of the portfolio, you can click HERE. To check…
This image is printed in “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy, you can click HERE. To check out the…
“This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy, you can click HERE. To check out the website for this project, click…
This print is from “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy, you can click HERE. To check out the tumblr…
This print is from “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy, you can click HERE. To check out the tumblr…
This print is from “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy, you can click HERE. To check out the tumblr…
This print is from “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy, you can click HERE. To check out the tumblr…
I’m in Chicago doing some events. If you can, come out tonight! Graphics Fight Torture, A screen-printing workshop with Josh MacPhee Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor …
This print is from “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy, you can click HERE. To check out the tumblr…
This print is from “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy, you can click HERE. To check out the tumblr…
I haven’t worked with teens in a few months, but my tireless totally teen education life partner, Heather White, passed this poster design along to me, from Libby at CAPA….
This print is from “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy, you can click HERE. To check out the tumblr…
Paul Kjelland and I recently collaborated on a new series of prints and the jerseys of an imagined team uniform inspired by the Open Housing Marches in Milwaukee in the…
This print is from “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy, you can click HERE. To check out the tumblr…
Hey all- we’re in the final few days of Print Lottery 2012, an uniquely structured benefit for AS220 Community Printshop. Members of the public can purchase a $100 ticket, guaranteed…
This print is from “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy of the portfolio, you can click HERE. To check…
This print is from “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy, you can click here. To check out the tumblr…
This print is from “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy of the portfolio, you can click HERE. To check…
This print is from “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy of the portfolio, you can click HERE. To check…
This print is from “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy of the portfolio, you can click HERE. To check…
“This is an Emergency!” A reproductive rights and gender justice portfolio A collection of 17 Artist Prints and 9 Inter-generational Essays I am pleased to announce the release of a…
After ten years of teaching college art I decided to experience life from the other side – as a student, a much better side I might add. Favianna Rodriguez’s inspiring…
I recently had Karen Fiorito’s Animal Liberation Front Celebrate People’s History poster printed. It’s one of the sharpest designs in the past couple years. It’s really great when artists are…
I’m still trying to eek out some words and images from CPH artists for this blog series, so in the meantime I’m going to re-post a Q & A Joshua…
Bec Young designed the Grace Lee and Jimmy Boggs poster back in 2008. This is what she wrote about it back then: I first became interested in moving to…
I’ve finished the drawing for my project in DR Congo this fall- I’ll be printing the image at right (click to embiggen) onto about four hundred big bright bandanas and…
Propaganda Prints by Colin Moore (London: AC Blackwell, 2010) Propaganda Prints is an ambitious project, attempting to present the full scope of “art in the service of social and…
John Isaacson sent in this brief write-up about his CPH poster: Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo gathered every Thursday afternoon in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires,…
This week we’re going to look at the Wisconsin Workers’ Uprising poster created by Milwaukee-based artist Sue Simensky Bietila. Sue has long been creating art for social movements, starting in…
This week lets take a deeper look at Damon Locks’ poster” Jamaican Maroons Fend Off the British!” Locks is a Chicago-based artist and musician, and a lot more of his…
I’ve now been organizing the Celebrate People’s History poster series for over 15 years, and have printed almost 80 different posters. In order to add another layer of depth to…
Here is an image that I made for the “Get-Out-the-Vote” effort for the Wisconsin recall election on June 5th. Feel free to recirculate the image through Facebook and other social…
Ecole de la Montagne Rouge (School for Red Mountain) is a group of graphic design students producing work for the student strikes currently happening in Montreal. Their designs and methods…
Jared Davidson, of Garage Collective and organizer of the recent exhibition of Celebrate People’s History posters in New Zealand, sent me these great photos of the posters on display in…
We just received the biggest propaganda drop-off in my lifetime here at the Interference Archive! Occuprint MayDay materials arrived today, including 30,000 broadsheets, 8,500 posters (18″x24″), and 55,000 stickers! Holy…
I’m very excited that I’m going to be able to be in the Bay for the opening of this exhibition. Michael Rossman’s collection is finally available to a broad public…
Hey there! A new Kickstarter Project just launched featuring several Justseeds artists including Melanie Cervantes, Favianna Rodriguez, Molly Fair, Thea Gahr, Bec Young, Mary Tremonte, Meredith Stern, and several artists….
We’re in the last 3 days now of my Kickstarter campaign to fund a portfolio project i’m curating & publishing on the theme of heresy. Witches & Mad Prophets will…
We at the Escuela Popular Martires del 68 are happy to announce that the 2012 portfolio is printed and ready to go! This year’s portfolio is centered around the defense…
Occuprint, a group I’m involved in that has been helping to organize, produce, and distribute posters and graphics for the Occupy movement since the early days of Occupy Wall Street…
Hey all- I’m trying to raise funds right now for a really exciting portfolio project on the theme of religious heresy featuring Justseeds artists Bec Young, Dylan Miner, Mazatl and…
Alec “Icky” Dunn, Josh MacPhee, and myself each designed a place mat for Edith Abeyta’s Panther Lunch Club, part of the Food For Thought exhibition at Wignall Museum of Contemporary…
In October, following the Justseeds installation in Slovenia, Shaun and I traveled on to Berlin and then Copenhagen. We had the opportunity to do artist talks at two art schools…
CPH Poster veteran and street artist Lindsay/Pivo recently used a collection of Celebrate People’s History posters in an installation she created inside an occupied investment bank in downtown London, dubbed…
Last Monday, people in cities up and down the West Coast came out to try to shut down the ports. My friend Chris and I put together some posters for…
I really like these two posters and this seems like a cool project. English Translation: Neither Discrimination Nor Abuse, We have Rights, Rights to a Lawyer.
Today we’ve posted the new Radical Printers Poster Set in the store – a series of five great offset prints highlighting radical luminaries who dedicated their lives to print! The…
A handful of us here in NYC have been hard, hard at work on an all poster edition of the Occupied Wall Street Journal, and it has finally hit the…
This is a reflection piece from friend and occuprinter David Spataro: On Wednesday evening I met Jesse and Josh at a diner a few blocks away from Zuccotti Park. Their…
Don’t Mourn-Organize!
For many political graphic artists, illustrators, and printmakers, the work of Frans Masereel is a huge inspiration. He pioneered the “novel without words”, books consisting solely of his woodcuts, a…
Here’s Justseeds collaborator Jesse Goldstein’s poster for Occupy Wall St. Click on it to get the bigger version. And here are his reflections on his experiences printing with folks: This…
Astra Taylor, Sarah Resnick, Mark Greif, and many, many others helped make a fun and awesome contingent (called “Artists and Writers Exhausted by Capitalism and Inspired by the Occupation”) in…
My friend Jared from Beyond Resistance Collective in New Zealand just sent me this cool short video featuring Reproduce & Revolt: A Graphic Toolbox for the 21st Century (you can…
Nicolas Lampert sent this graphic in, it’s high res, just click on it below, then drag the bigger image to your desktop (or left click on a pc)…
My friend Woody created these MTA/Occupy Wall Street posters, thought it would be good to share them with you all. They are high-res pdfs, so you should be able to…
I’ve been trying to synthesize some of the ideas (and add some of my own) coming out of Occupy Wall Street here in New York City in order to try…
At some point during the first 48 hours of the occupation of Wall Street (or to be more exact, the encampment at Zuccotti Park, north of Wall Street), people there…
Back in 2007 I curated an exhibition with my friend Zoeann Murphy at the Workforce Development Institute called Graphic Work: Imaging Today’s Labor Movement. It was a great show, and…
I’m not normally a big fane of Rock Poster art, but I’ve always had a soft spot for Jay Ryan, and I love this new poster for his show in…
A friend of mine recommended that I take a picture of the stencil armature I built for a print I just finished, and I figured I might as well write…
For forty years Berkeley activist Michael Rossman collected political posters, amassing likely the largest personal collection in the US. Michael was an amazing and generous guy, almost every trip I…
I was recently commissioned by the Portland chapter of Veterans for Peace to design some images for their convention in August: It was a fun assignment. These linocuts will be…
My colleague Jemila Hart, who is a fellow board member of the Flight 64 print studio in Portland, recently had a show in the space of a series of monotypes…
This was posted yesterday on the The Guardian UK’s website—a nice little piece on a May 68 poster maker/photographer. You can find it on the Guardian’s site HERE. Photographer Philippe…
If you are in Milwaukee this Friday (April 22) stop by Astrix Gallery (524 W National) from 6-9 pm. Come see an exhibition of posters from Josh MacPhee’s Celebrate People’s…
Today we released a new Swoon print, entitled “Ashley.” The proceeds from the sales of this print are going to Transformazium, an organization in Braddock, PA developing relationships that generate…
The Justseeds Resourced portfolio is up in the concert hall at Casa Del Popolo and will be there until July 31st. If you are in Montreal come check it out…
Josh MacPhee is in Pittsburgh this weekend, working on a new print at Artist Image Resource with help from Mary Tremonte. If you’re in town, come by our distro HQ…
Here are a bunch of photos of work at the Carlos Cortez show in Milwaukee. By Cortez
Judy Seidman is an artist that has been involved in the social movements of South Africa for almost 40 years. She was involved in the amazing Medu Arts Ensemble, which…
JustSeeds & Books Through Bars present, VOICES FROM OUTSIDE An Art Exhibit & Benefit Auction to send books to prisoners Saturday, March 19th, 7 PM Doors at 7PM, bidding ends…
I’ve been trying to work through some visual ideas around the Wisconsin struggle, and have come up with some beta designs I figure I might as well test here on…
A long time in the making, my collaborator Jesse Goldstein and I just finished a 10 color print called “Wild and Neglected Like Me“. The piece refers to line in…
Okinawa has long been a site of struggle against U.S. militarism and occupation. Recently activists have been fighting against a U.S. Army helipad. You can read about this struggle HERE…
This Fri, Feb. 25 in Oakland CA, there will be a massive Poster Jam celebrating the Oakland Museum’s recent acquisition of Michael Rossman’s AOUON (All of Us or None) Political…
For our readers in New Zealand. A nice new poster by Jared Davidson/Garage Collective.
There is a shortage of health workers across the globe today and as a result, health workers are migrating abroad at alarming rates. These workers are overwhelming women of color…
Mark Vallen has published a nice piece remembering the terror of the Reagan years, and has included a great collection of political flyers he made during the 80s. Here is…
For a while I’ve been doing illustrations for my friends punk band Antimaster. It has been really fun working with them and this time they asked if I could do…
I’ve got a new print on the site called “The Burning World”. It’s based on a graphic device called a radial tree of life, which is a method of depicting…
OPERATION EXPOSURE KANSAS PERCOLATOR Lawrence, KS Friday, February 11th 5-9PM (reception starts at 6PM) ONE NIGHT ONLY Operation Exposure: War is Trauma – a collaboration between the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative…
image by Sue Pezanoski Browne My home state of Wisconsin is in for some very difficult years — years that will make the current economic crisis in Wisconsin seem minor….
[click here to download poster] I first saw Laura Lopez in her cap and gown after following a twitter to this article. At the time, undocumented migrant students were conducting…
Justseeds is one of a crew of supporters for the upcoming Imaging Apartheid Poster Project. Please check out the call below, and submit poster designs! Call for Submissions As the…
Mary put up a short video last week, but here are a couple photos Shaun took of the exhibition/window display at Pittsburgh’s Future Tenant Art Space that they installed of…
I was recently sent this link for a kickstarter campaign for Radix Media, a new anarchist printshop in Portland, OR. In my mind there can never be enough political printers…
Check out this great video by Callie Mower of the install of a Celebrate People’s History poster show in the window and nook of Future Tenant in Downtown Pittsburgh! Stay…
It’s great to see that people involved in political poster making groups in the 1960s and 1970s and slowly starting to digitize their archives and get them up on-line. The…
Cannonball Press proudly presents: PRINTS GONE WILD 2010! The fifth-ever annual vernacular printacular mega-hairy Brooklyn affordable print fair! The ORIGINAL AND ONLY 50 bucks and under American print fair, November…
The Paper Politics exhibition in Pittsburgh just came down, but it was a great success. There has been a bunch of positive press on the show, including these three articles…
Lincoln Cushing has just published another great article on the history of social movement printing. This time he sets his sights on the Gestetner machine, an early photocopy technology that…
A lot of people have been excited recently about mobile silkscreen units, and the possibilities of setting up a simple silkscreen set-up most anywhere…I have done this in storefronts in…
The Justseeds 2010 portfolio-RESOURCED is included in the Make:Craft exhibition at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design. Bronya and Andy Galef Center for Fine Arts…
To oppose the rising tide of discrimination aimed at the undocumented in the U.S., from Arizona’s racist SB1070 anti-immigrant law, to efforts by members of the U.S. Congress to overturn…
I’ve really been enjoying Icky’s process posts on his excellent blog, Blackout Print, and I thought that I’d make one for this blog here. I use a variety of techniques…
I nice new block print from Sam and Katah at Dragon Dance Theatre:
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics has just uploaded a couple more online poster exhibitions, including Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. interventions Since World War II….
Here are some photos of the RESOURCED exhibit at Marketplace Gallery, 40 Broadway Albany, NY.
Today marks the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. Three days prior, August 6, 1945 the USA dropped the first atom bomb on Hiroshima. This flyer was made…
Jesse Goldstein, Molly Fair, and I got started on our install of the Resourced portfolio last night. Here’s some small deets. The space An Idea
News from the Beehive Collective: THE TRUE COST OF COAL is finished, printed, and ready for you to enjoy! It’s true! After 2 ½ years of discussions, feedback, eraser marks,…
Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative has released the highly anticipated project, RESOURCED, a portfolio of 26 hand-made art prints that explore the devastating effects of resource extraction and environmental devastation. The collection…
I recently completed this new print, entitled “The Process’, which is now available in the Justseeds store. It feels like something I’ve been trying to make for a long time,…
Poster archivist and expert Lincoln Cushing will be presenting on the posters of the Chinese Cultural Revolution at the end of the month. I’m sure it will be well worth…
Political print maker Doug Minkler has a great long-format audio interview up online from KPFA’s Against the Grain radio show. I don’t know how to embed it here, so head…
Act boldly for peace – We need your help to distribute The Peace Posters in your local area! The Peace Posters is a 32 page BROADSHEET NEWSPAPER which unfolds to…
I recently completed this installation titled “PACHAMAMA VS. CAPITALISM : PLANETA O MUERTE.” The installation was a part of the exhibition “Let’s Talk of a System” which was the inaugural show…
My friend Edd Baldry from Last Hours magazine and Hey Monkey Riot comic has really put my book fair poster making skills to shame! He’s come up with a totally…
Every year I’ve been posting photos of the EuroMayday posters that my friends at image-shift have been designing, but this year I’ve been so busy I let it slide…But, they’re…
I’ve been meaning to post this for awhile, it’s a nice follow-up to Icky’s post about Gerd Arntz. There’s a great article on the Council Communist Archive website about Frans…
Take a look at some of these photos of the printing session we had yesterday in rainy Portland. People came over to help jump up and down on the giant…
I have a new piece in the Justseeds Store. “MAQUILA” was originally developed for an exhibit, Rastros y Cronicas, at the National Museum of Mexican Art. The piece is about…
There is a large gallery of some incredible designs, responding to the Arizona legislation SB 1070, over at Alto Arizona and in their Facebook page. Arizona is on the verge…
This just in:
Maybe it’s the nearly 10 years I spent in the city of broad shoulders, but this just totally cracks me up. Ray Noland aka CRO, an artist in the Paper…
GEOMETRY OF SHELTER: A Benefit for Domes for Haiti Thursday, April 29, 8-10pm Sugarland 221 N 9th St (btn Driggs & Roebling) Brooklyn, NY This art auction / film screening…
Justseeds is in the middle of an ambitious project and needs your help. We are producing our second handmade portfolio: Resourced. Resourced is a collection of handmade prints tackling issues…
We got an email a couple weeks back from Eric García, a Chicano activist printmaker whose work really resonates with a lot of what we’ve been doing with Justseeds. He’s…
Here are some pictures from our Justseeds Earth Day exhibit. We used the occasion to preview 14 new designs for the upcoming Justseeds 2010 Portfolio: Resourced. The one night exhibit…
Lincoln Cushing has curated another great political poster show out in the Bay Area. For those in SF, Oakland, or Berkeley, check out Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Bay…
A short interview that Fiona Smith, a student-activist, filmed and edited addressing the current Justseeds exhibition ‘Celebrating and Collaborating’ at LookOut! Gallery, Michigan State University.
Harvey Milk posters! Yes that is a rainbow mustache!!! Shaun Slifer and I just wrapped up another partnership with Schenley High School’s Theory of Knowledge classes, the day before I…
As a follow-up to the review I recently posted of the book Vietnam Posters (Prestel, 2009), I wanted to share what I thought was one of the most interesting aspects…
The Palestine Poster Project Archives is an archive and website collecting posters produced in Palestine and internationally in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. The online archive now has 2,100 posters…
NYC Justseeds members have been hard at work organizing our second portfolio, Resourced. This will be our second theme based portfolio of handmade prints, following Voice From Outside: Artists against…
Here’s a little photo essay showing the printing process used by Indonesian print cooperative Taring Padi, including images from all stages of the process, from sketching to carving to printing….
Jess Baines, whom Dara and I were lucky enough to catch a pint with in London when we were there last Fall, has just published an edited version of a…
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…
Archivist Lincoln Cushing has been doing the painstaking work of combing through and cataloging the All Of Us Or None Poster Archive, and we’ll all be the better off for…
The we are the crisis collective has produced a print in tribute to Marilyn Buck, a person led by her convictions to struggle to end oppression for all people. Her…
I finally finished up a large print this week, and thought I would share some pictures of the process and the printing of the piece. I also took the opportunity…
Ricardo Levins Morales, one of the driving creative forces behind the much missed Northland Poster Collective, has opened up a new store and website. He’s got much of hiss material…
“Celebrate! Celebrate?” features four different poster series that visualize various people’s history and invites the viewer to contemplate the politics and the tactics of graphically celebrating people and events from…
Our good friends at Stumptown Printers (who have been the long time printers of the Celebrate People’s History posters) are the focus of a new short video put together my…
I’ll be in a 5-person group show at the Printmaking Council of New Jersey & paticipating in a panel discussion at the opening this Saturday. please come by if you…
After seeing one of the Garage Collective posters I put up here a couple months back (see below: a poster to announce an art show supporting creative resistance to the…
With all the occupations and protests going on in University of California system, particularly at UC Berkeley, I thought it would be interesting to throw up a couple of posters…
New animated print videos by my friend Nathan Meltz. These are amazing, defininitely take the 15 minutes to watch them!!!
While in Berlin a couple weeks back I got to hang out a bunch with my friends in Pony Pedro, a great screen print and design collective with a studio…
The Free Palestine Justseeds sticker I designed and we printed up earlier in the year has been remixed by an artist on DeviantArt. Check it out HERE.
Lincoln Cushing has just added a new essay, “Political Graphics of the Long 60s” to his Docs Populi site. The essay was also published in the new book New World…
I designed and printed this poster for Innercity Struggle’s 15th Anniversary, this is the second print I’ve designed for them an hope to make many more in the future. ICS…
I recently worked with Juan R. Fuentes on screen printed reproduction of one of his linoleum prints for the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. It was part of…
“Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) is a grassroots organization of Latina immigrant women with a dual mission of personal transformation and community power. Creating an environment of understanding and confidentiality,…
Just in time for the mayorial election on Tuesday! My friend Amos created this sweet silkscreen of Pittsburgh’s (good old) boy mayor, Luke Ravenstahl. This poster references Ravenstahl’s decision to…
washout area with papercuts by swoon, painted corner by josh tonies & leslie stem I am working on a new print I’m really excited about in a space that I…
This week’s rad teen print is another from the archives, by Hannah Thompson. Hannah created this two-color marmoleum-block print during RUST 2008, with the guidance of visiting Justseeds Artist Pete…
Art on Paper magazine has a nice article in the latest issue on the Center for the Study of Political Graphics: Keeping the message alive The Center for the Study…
BeyondMedia in Chicago has produced a couple great posters about women in prison. Check them out and buy them HERE.
Any fans of the Dead Kennedy’s, or critics of the ever miserable combination of god and capitalism, will be psyched to see that Paper Laboratories have just released a nice…
This year’s Posters for Peace & Justice Calendar features a piece by Justseeds artist Favianna Rodriguez. Check it out HERE.
A new Celebrate People’s History poster has just come out: Matzpen by Joshua Kahn Russell and Dan Berger. The Israeli Socialist Organization, better known by the name of its publication,…
Inkworks Press has released their latest online newsletter Hot Off the Presses, and this month Bay Area printmaker Doug Minkler is their Artist of the Month. Doug’s been making political…
While the G20 is meeting in Pittsburgh right now, the General Assembly has been meeting at the United Nations in NYC. This week, Sept 20-26 has been called Climate Week…
Another nice poster from Jared Davidson/Garage Collective in New Zealand. This one is an announcement for an upcoming art exhibition. Those in the NZ, check it out and let us…
I made this print in grassroots support of the public library system of Pittsburgh. Most of the posters I printed include the Pittsburgh-specific informational text at the end of this…
I was making out a list of books for a friend, and realized I could share it with all our blog readers. For those that don’t know, I’m both a…
“Our feelings will lead us to our theory, our theory to our action, our feelings about that action to new theory and then to new action.” – Kathie Sarachild of…
The Way it Was By Justyn Dillingham You might not know it to look at that small, trim-looking white building next to the School of Art, but inside those walls,…
Two artists with prints in the Paper Politics show, Patricia Dahlman and Michael Dal Cerro, are organizing an online art show of art works for health care reform. Here’s what…
There’s a really nice write up on the Richmond, VA Paper Politics show on the RVA Magazine website. RVA Mag is a cool art and culture publication focusing on Richmond….
The folks over at Arthur Magazine are building a cool online archive of printed papers created by the Diggers back in the mid-60s. For those new to them, the Diggers…
I just stumbled upon this great, easy to follow silkscreening how-to on the No Media Kings site. It’s written by artist Shannon Gerard and is a simple, straight-forward introduction to…
Here’s some photos from Paper Politics Richmond at the Ghostprint Gallery. It opens TONIGHT!
I just stumbled across the site Popsicles & Grenades, which is the platform for the work of artist Jorge Arrieta. He’s got a lot of recent political graphic work, including…
Our friends at Inkworks Press in Berkeley have produced another great issue of their online newsletter, Hot Off the Presses. This issue features Justseeds’ artist Favianna Rodriguez! There’s an intro…
A couple friends have sent along a link to a new collection of Counter Globalization Movement posters someone has put together in a online image album. It’s a great collection,…
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics has just put up some great new online exhibitions. You can go to their site and look through each of these exhibits…
Check out this new poster I’ve been working on…I have to say it took me a while to figure out what is going on in Iran and it seems like…
In the 70s and 80s there was an explosion of community and political printshops in the UK. One of the most active silkscreen poster shops was called the Poster Film-Collective….
I don’t think I ever posted this project here, and it just popped back up in my head, so I thought I’d share it. Back in early 2008 designer…
Sad news! Check out their site for a big, 50%-off sale. And check out Life After Northland for future endeavors… Northland Poster Collective is closing. As an organization that has…
A look behind Tim Simon’s new Celebrate People’s History Poster (taken from his blog Some News, Mostly Propaganda): I recently completed a two color poster for the awesome Celebrate People’s…
Lincoln Cushing has just published a new short article entitled “Meshed Histories: The Influence of Screen Printing on Social Movements” on the AIGA site. Here’s the first couple paragraphs, and…
After years of being out of stock, and people continually asking for them, I’ve started to reprint some of the older Celebrate People’s History posters. I’m excited to announce that…
Sex Education for All by Shira Rascoe More radical teen printmaking totally! Pittsburgh’s CAPA (Creative and Performing Arts) High School students in Shannon Pultz’s printmaking class visited the Signs of…
Our friend Sandy K. from Image-Shift sent us a communique of links and images to their recent poster project for Mayday Berlin. The project consisted of two sets of posters….
The Celebrate People’s History Poster Series is currently on display at the 56a Infoshop in London. 56A is one of the longest running anarchist social centers in London, I first…
I was flipping through various comics anthologies the other day (looking for wordless comics for a friend’s thesis project) when i rediscovered the work of Carol Moiseiwitsch. I remembered her…
Our friends at La Furia de las Calles in Mexico City just sent along this intense new Atenco poster. Click continue below the poster for a letter by Atenco political…
May Day: Youth Prepare from Betty Bastidas on Vimeo. In preparation for May 1st Immigrant Rights mobilization in Oakland youth gathered for a banner making party to paint graffiti banners,…
Inkworks, one of our favorite worker-owned print shops, has just release issue #3 of their Hot Off the Presses newsletter. And this issue’s artists of the month are Justseeds own…
Lincoln Cushing’s new book on American labor posters is finally out!: Agitate! Educate! Organize! American Labor Posters Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher $24.95, Cornell University Press, 2009 East Bay…
This week saw the culmination of a project I’ve been working on the last couple of months alongside Mary Tremonte (also of Justseeds), Pittsburgh artist (and beekeeper) Ashley Brickman, and…
Here’s a really nice write up on Favianna’s recent trip to Toronto, from the Rabble website. Click here.
I created this image in the last few hours of the Justseeds installation, at UW-Milwaukee. I’m kind of obsessed with current economic events. So I decided to make a poster…
Back in December the Paper Politics exhibition I curated was hung at the Red House in Syracuse. I got a bunch of photos from the show, but realized I had…
Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex America has more than 2 million people in prison, more than any other country in the world. Prison Nation addresses many critical…
Inkworks Press has just put up a nice write-up on Bay Area artist Hugh D’Andre, with a number of nice images of his work, including a half dozen posters he…
Chris from 56A Infoshop in London just sent me a hilarious conversation going on over at UK Indymedia regarding a poster which re-purposes my Durruti Column Celebrate People’s History poster….
I’m sure there are more political graphics nerds like me out there, as well as people smart enough to know that the history of our images gives us great insight…
Jared Davidson, the artist behind the Garage Collective in Christchurch, New Zealand, has designed the latest Celebrate People’s History Poster. His poster, Red Feds, is a celebration of early labor…
I wanted to announce the release of a new Celebrate People’s History poster! The Cherokee Writing System was designed by Frank Brannon, Jr., who runs his own letterpress studio SpeakEasy…
Roman from InCUBATE recently turned me on to a really cool project that recently came out of Cuba. Cuba since the Revolution has had an amazing culture of poster production,…
MasterPeaces: High Art for Higher Purpose June 6 – 27, 2009 Da Vinci Gallery Los Angeles City College 855 N. Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, California 90029 323.953.4000 In conjunction with…
In doing research for Signs of Change my friend Sabu Khoso sent me a great link to the Ohara Institute for Social Research, which has an amazing web page of…
Political graphics historian Lincoln Cushing has a new book coming out in the Spring called Agitate! Educate! Organize!: American Labor Posters. It’s a giant collection of over 250 labor posters…
I just finished this poster for my friend Pepe Urquijo for a documentary film he is working on about RC Tomilson, a reggae artist from Jamaica. He has been working…
Lincoln Cushing has written a great article on posters produced in the 30s and 40s by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and how they are being “borrowed” by designers and…
Jared Davidson from the Garage Collective in New Zealand has created a poster for a local protest in Christchurch, NZ. He’s also been blogging about the NZ response to Gaza…
I am working on a poster about Divestment in Israel as well as informing consumers what they can do to pressure Israel to change its policies. The poster is a…
There is a poster contest by ACLU, deadline on January 18th. The theme is RESTORE AMERICA. Their website reads: “Join the socially conscious design community in creating a poster that…
I designed this poster as the centerfold of the new Northeastern Anarchist magazine, which should be out in the next couple weeks. Figured I’d give everyone here a sneak peek:
In Solidarity with the National Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People I started working on this poster, I am linking two files that can be downloaded and printed on both…
Jared Davidson of the Garage Collective in New Zealand sent over this poster about a housing struggle in his local community, Christchurch. The suit in the image is Mayor Bob…
Many of you have likely heard that news that Illinois Governer Rod Blagojevich was caught trying to sell Obama’s old Senate seat! It’s good to know the Democratic party hasn’t…
thought people might be interested in the flyer for the Toronto showing of our Voices from the Outside prison print portfolio.
Here’s some photos of a poster a friend made about the CUNY budget cuts. “There’s only one thing left to do…STOP THE BUDGET CUTS!” From what I hear …the big…
Last year my friend Zoeann Murphy and I organized a show of 40 contemporary labor posters called Graphic Work: Imaging Today’s Labor Movement. The Workforce Development Institute (WDI) in Troy,…
Libros Latinos, a San Francisco bookstore specializing in Mexican, Latin American and Caribian books, has just put up an online portfolio of 40 different Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP) posters….
Back in the Summer Labor Fest 2008 was held in San Francisco, and Graphic Work: Imaging Today’s Labor Movement was hung at an SEIU labor hall as part of the…
Stumbled across a fairly new project the other day, the Radical Activism Visual Archive (the visual memory of radicality). An interesting ongoing blog/collection of political art images, posters and ephemera…
Amos Kennedy, Jr. is an amazing letterpress printer based in Alabama. I was introduced to his work while living in Chicago, show-card posters a la Hatch Show Prints, but often…
The print show, “Sustainable” will hang in the AS220 gallery in Providence Rhode Island (115 Empire Street in downtown) for the month of November. The show will consist of prints…
Swoon has released a print over at Paper Monster To celebrate the launch of Swoon’s fleet of ships on the Hudson river…All proceeds from this print will go to help…
Here’s a poster I designed for the RNC Anti-Capitalist bloc. Find out more about their activities here.
Our friends over at Jura Books, one of Australia’s longest running anarchist book shops and community centers, are holding a poster contest! On top of being a book store, Jura…
A couple months ago a friend and comrade, Michael Rossman, passed away. I first met Michael 3 or 4 years back while I was in the Bay Area for something…
Liam O’Donoghue has also posted a good interview with Favianna Rodriguez on the SF Bay Guardian website. You can check it out here.
This just in from Grupo Soap del Corazon in Minneapolis: Dear Friends, This September, the Republicans are meeting in Saint Paul, Minnesota, September 1-4, 2008, to nominate candidates for president…
I just got an email about two new Gee Vaucher prints that Hard Pressed Studios have put out. For those that haven’t heard of her, Gee Vaucher was the visual…
The great event and crew LA vs. War has some new prints for sale to help fund what they are up to. The one on top is by Brandy Flower,…
Calling All Artists! My friends in Troy are putting on a political print and poster show for Mayday, and you should send in your art! Check it out below: Second…
There have been a lot of activity around the current events in Tibet. A lot of actions focusing on the Olympics in China. One I came across today on the…
Check out this amazing poster project that celebrates radical queer history. The posters were created by the Chicago group “Chances Dances” and each poster features a portrait, a quote from…
Hey folks! Check out my friend Jean Cozzens and the website she is working on! She makes gorgeous prints and also has done some rad collaborative work- like building cardboard…
A nice short interview with political poster archivist and artist Lincoln Cushing just popped up on the PLAZM magazine site. It’s definitely worth the quick read, check it out here,…
Here is a call for entries from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, located in Los Angeles, California. “Reclaiming the F Word” Submissions Deadline: December 15, 2007 This…
Call for Entries: Deadline January 12, 2008 “Experiencing the War in Iraq” An Artist Curated, Multi-Media Exhibit of Art about the War in Iraq (Following text is copied from the…
Check out this great new book! “Visions of Peace & Justice is a full color book containing over 500 reproductions of political posters from the archives of Inkworks Press. Inkworks…
Josh McPhee’s radical art distribution project, Justseeds has a whole host of new work available, including two new posters by members of Visual Resistance. Josh is a good friend of…
Following the momentum of massive March 25th mobilizations, student walkouts, and April 10th’s historic day of action for immigrant rights, comes the call for El Gran Paro Americano (The Great…
Well, maybe not exactly. But he (borf) should! Graduate student workers at NYU have been on strike for two weeks now. In 2002, NYU Graduate Assistants (TA’s and RA’s) were…
From the Northland Poster Collective: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina we have produced a poster (by Northland artist Ricardo Levins Morales) that seeks to capture the sadness and the…
Brandon Bauer sent us a call from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics for poster art related to the prison-industrial complex. The CPSG is a great institution that…
A group of activists hit Fayetteville, Arkansas with stencils, spraypaint, and posters to protest Wal-Mart’s annual shareholders’ meeting. The good news is that the posters look great, and the action…
Copies of the 3rd issue of NYC Rat, the Radical Anarchist Tabloid, are available at locations around NYC or through the collective. (Email newyorkrat[at]riseup.net) The newest issue includes a wonderful…
Dont Buy Coke! The largest Coca Cola union in Colombia has called for an international campaign against Coke to stop its violence against workers, which has included a half-dozen murders…
The cruel absurdity of Bush’s November triumph will be hitting overdrive this Thursday. With military-grade security preparations and a series of celebrations with decidedly Orwellian themes, it’s seems appropriate that…
“Think globally, act locally. With this mantra in mind and living in a city that’s mostly supported by resources from every other corner of the world, I find it difficult…
Here is a poster that might come in handy for organizing against the inauguration. This poster was featured in the last issue of the Radical Anarchist Tabloid (RAT), a great…
Here are some graphics for the counter inaugural. Soy un pocho sin verguenza, notorious for messing up Spanish translations. If you find any mistakes in the bilingual flyer, please let…
"In my post-election rage I cranked out one piece…. You’re welcome to use it on the website, wheat pasting etc. There will be more to come… In solidarity, Nicole Schulman"…
"Beta Minus 0001 is an enemy of the state and the status quo. Through his art he attacks the time honored American traditions of nationalism, fascism, militarism, consumerism, sexism, racism…