La Minga Indigena
I’m in Medellín, Colombia, for a six week residency at Casa Tres Patios, an arts center connected to the University of Antioquia. I’m here with my partner Erica Thomas, and…
I’m in Medellín, Colombia, for a six week residency at Casa Tres Patios, an arts center connected to the University of Antioquia. I’m here with my partner Erica Thomas, and…
It’s been amazing to see the involvement of Justseeds artists in the organizing, labor, and image generation at the large-scale art builds happening in Wisconsin around immigration and California around…
I’m excited to be included in this exhibition currently up at the Foreman Gallery at Hartwick College. Curated by Richard Barlow, Telling Tales: Illustration, Narrative, Communication is an eclectic group show…
Cleo Barnett, the Deputy Director of Amplifier Foundation, recently invited a number of Justseeds artists to participate in a migration-themed exhibition she curated at Design In Public in Seattle. The…
Thanks to the generous donation from amazing artists like Ehren Tool, Jesse Albrecht, Yvette M. Pino, Sarah Seamstress, Josh MacPhee, Melanie Cervantes, Eric J. Garcia, Dan S Wang, Amber Hoy,…
I recently finished a residency at the Arrowmont School of Art and Craft in eastern Tennessee. This was different from the residencies I normally do- instead of working on print…
Freedom. Brooklyn, October 2015. Sometimes, not on the wall, but read on the ground. Was someone writing their name? Or is the land screaming to be liberated?!
If you’ve found yourself at the levers of a small, even tiny, community project or non-profit, you’ve probably had to confront the uncomfortable reality of needing to pump people…
The painful reality of this political moment is personal for many of us. As Kavanaugh becomes our new Supreme Court justice, let the survivors of the world know that not…
The publisher of our Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture, PM Press, is having a big sale this month, where you can get 40% off all issues…
“Nothing cuts off self-determination more efficiently than eradicating its language. Replacing it with misdirecting prattle… is a magnificent coup for those who would like to keep us wary of one another.”…
This past Sunday I organized (along with Monica and Interference Archive’s Radical Playdate) a kids flag making workshop in connection with For Which It Stands, an exhibition at the Old…
This is the second in a series of posts about a visit to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Eastern Washington state, and the fate of the uranium ores found in…
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights portfolio created by Meredith Stern is on display for the month of September at 159 Sutton Street in Providence. There is a gallery opening…
The sixteenth of the Endangered Species Murals is finished! This big wall is located near the Convention Center in downtown El Paso, Texas, and features five endangered species from the…
This past week my daughter and I visited fellow Justseeds artist Chip Thomas on the Navajo Reservation. We traveled there for multiple reasons: to spend time with Chip, to see…
Much of my art is created for use by activist organizations, most of it is individually created, things like poster designs, block prints or etchings. I’m happy in this work….
I’ve spent the last six days on the Pacific Ocean, in transit from San Diego, CA to Astoria, OR aboard the R/V Falkor, the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s big research vessel….
This is the first in a series of posts about a visit to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Eastern Washington state, and the fate of the uranium ores found in…
“They saw this region as affected by a colonial influence from the larger urban areas, extracting resources from Central Appalachia historically, for over a hundred years, and not giving anything…
The fifteenth Endangered Species Mural is complete! This one is located on the corner of Washington and Tenth streets in the small town of Cottage Grove, Oregon, at the southern…
Gardening is a large part of my practice from April through November. We’ve got a greenhouse where we have maintained rosemary through the winter to harvest for homemade bread, and…
In February of this year I had the good fortune to travel to Jacmel, Haiti, to teach a class on screenprinting at a small community arts center called Jakmel Ekspresyon….
I recently was invited by the rad Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis to decorate one of the tables they’ve set up in their new cafe and restaurant over-looking the bookstore….
I’ve been thinking a lot about flags lately. What will be the symbols of our movement in the future? Here’s one offering. I’m inspired by the Third World internationalism of…
EPIC Bee was inspired by the logo for Upton Sinclair’s EPIC movement (End Poverty In California) from the 1930s. Sinclair’s plan called for a massive public works program, sweeping tax…
In the rapidly-gentrifying and deeply self-satisfied cultural landscape of Portland, OR, there are few political institutions with any lengthy history of integrity. One of those is our colleague Charles, who…
In early March I helped to organize a banner-painting Propaganda Party at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, over three lunchtimes in the school’s central atrium. I’m the Cultural…
I recently returned from about three and a half weeks of travel through the southwest and beyond, including three days spent at the 4th annual March to Save Oak Flat….
I just got a copy in the mail of the Korean edition of my Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution! It has been in the works…
It’s been really exciting to work the past year with the Sidewall Mural Project in Pittsburgh to produce a series of six Celebrate People’s History posters as 8 ft tall…
March 29th Jenna Valoe and I have an opening at Ripon College in Wisconsin for a show we are calling “A Time of Expectant Hopes”. I was approached by Ripon…
Baby, can I get your number My name is not baby Brooklyn, NY. January 14, 2017
Over the last few weeks I’ve been collaborating with Klamath artists Ka’ila Farrel-Smith and Asa Wright to produce some big banners for a rally against Liquefied Natural Gas export in…
In 2012, I created an exhibition of prints and baseball jerseys in collaboration with Paul Kjelland that honored the Milwaukee Commandos, who among many things, helped protect the Civil Rights…
I’ve been working as the Curator/Exhibition Designer for the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Matewan, WV since our project was still an ambitious idea in a vacant storefront in…
Engaging Community Through Art for the Close Rikers Campaign from Amplifier on Vimeo. Check out this short video just released by the Amplifier Foundation about the T-shirts I designed and…
Justseeds’ artists Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes, and Josh MacPhee are all included in Get with the Action: Political Posters from the 1960s to Now, the new survey of political posters…
The fourteenth Endangered Species mural is finished! This one is located in the Laurel District of Oakland, CA, and is a little different in theme and execution form the other…
Interference Archive is moving, building, and growing—and we really need your support to make our new, long-term home a reality. In August, we received a notice that we had to…
Jess Chen and Roger Peet collaborated on an illustration early this year for a campaign entitled To Immigrants, With Love- an outreach and letter-writing effort designed to breach the feelings…
“no one is an expert in everything, but everyone is an expert in something” For the past couple years I’ve been facilitating Total Essential Knowledge events that use conversation and drawing…
A couple weeks back I finished up a long draft of an article I’m writing for the upcoming issue of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture, edited by Justseeds…
Rachel Elizabeth Jones just published an insightful article about the Fauna penny press project over at Hyperallergic! She hits on some key points about the underpinning motivations behind the project… “In…
I recently completed the 11th in the ongoing series of murals about endangered species that I coordinate, and this one is a bit out of the ordinary- it’s installed in…
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….
Steven Heller interviewed Justseeds member/Interference Archive co-founder Kevin Caplicki, along with archive members Jen Hoyer, Bonnie Gordon and Louise Barry, for PRINT Magazine’s website. The Interference Archive in Brooklyn, New…
I teamed up with Kayrock screenprinters here in Brooklyn to evolve my Strike flag design (downloadable graphic HERE) into a Spring-themed shirt for their Political Action wing. The proceeds from…
There’s a new project space that opened in Santa Fe recently called Biocultura. They had an inaugural event April 23rd where they were one of several organizations to partner with the…
Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina is one of the country’s oldest and most respected schools of craft. Opened in 1929 by Lucy Morgan who focused her initial…
by Diana Kirk (from The Progressive) April 11, 2017 Chip Thomas Dr. Chip Thomas, also known by his artist name Jetsonorama, lives in Tuba City, Arizona, on Navajo land. For thirty…
I just finished off the 12th in the Endangered Species Mural Project, at the corner of Lombard and Atlantic in North Portland, OR. Painted with Portland artist Sarah Farahat, the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Post-Election Organizing: Call for Art & Designs Interference Archive is hosting a propaganda party on the weekend of January 14/15 to produce and disseminate artistic material to be used during…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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 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…
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…
Since May, Interference Archive has been hosting an exhibition of the collaborative work of Mobile Print Power (MPP). MPP is a mobile screen printing collective largely made up of immigrant-youth…
Many Justseeds-related publications are included in the current “flash exhibition” Protests in Print at the New York Public Library. Signal, the Librarians and Archivists to Palestine zine, and some Interference…
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…
A couple months ago I spoke with Brooke Schuman, one of the folks from the audio working group at Interference Archive. Our discussion, regarding Justseeds & our portfolio projects, was…
TOUR Join award-winning queer Asian-American poets, Kit Yan and Jess X. Chen (justseeds artist) on the Queer Heartache Summer Tour. Combining oceanic laughter, the violence of heartbreak, and the sorrow lost…
The 9th of the Endangered Species Murals is recently completed in the town of Berea, Kentucky- featuring the first plant in the series, the beautiful and strange White Fringeless Orchid….
So for this second installment of Behind Design, I thought I’d talk a bit about what went into my recent screenprint poster, Producing the City. Back in April, my friend…
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…
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’ve been wanting to start this up for awhile, but finally pulled together a little time to do it! “Behind Design” will hopefully be a new blog post series about…
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…
I’ve collaborated, with my pal Alexander Dwinell, on an installation for the final exhibition at ABC No Rio. The current building at 156 Rivington St will be torn down in…
Between the months of April and May of this year we(Kill Joy, Stinkfish and Mazatl) had the pleasure of being in Honduras for four weeks to work on the first…
Fuck Your Phone Keep Your Head Up Williamsburg, Brooklyn. May 15, 2016 What I just learned, while doing some online research on my smartphone, is that we spend 90-120 minutes…
Last weekend I went to Astoria, a small city at the mouth of the Columbia River, for a party celebrating what seems like a final victory over the forces that…
Dump Hillary War Criminal. Long island City, Queens. May 8, 2016. Plenty of graffiti and street art being produced this primary election cycle. This was painted in the shadow of…
Justseeds member Jess X. Chen, and Diné artist Demian Dineyazhi, are going on an eco-feminist poetry tour across America between May 5-May 17th 2016! Stops include: Los Angeles, Tucson, Gallup,…
Justseeds artist Jess X. Chen just completed a really impressive mural project at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex in LA as part of the Endangered Species Mural Project. Working with…
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…
Here is a recap of the Art Build that took place in Milwaukee from April 16th-20th. The event was organized by myself and Susan Simensky Bietila and revolved around a…
Interference Archive is included in the current exhibition Agitprop! in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. I have to say that the show is…
It’s a Justseeds art explosion in the art-build space above Company Brewing in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood for the next three days. Justseeds artists Paul Kjelland, Pete Railand, Nicolas Lampert and…
GIVE YR PRADA TO THE POOR. NO MA$TER$ NYC. March 2012.
Here’s Justseeds member Mazatl, painting two murals at the Wahaca restaurant in Brighton, England, and talking about what influences the subjects of his current print and mural work. …
Justseeds artist Jess X. Chen has been hiding in a hermit hole writing poems exploring eco-feminism, environmental resilience and love amidst diaspora, violence and trauma. Here are some of her…
A couple weeks back I got to do a live interview, about Justseeds, with Yodet Gherez of Circled A Radio in the UK. You can give it a listen below…
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…
ArtSlant and the Night Library just published a cool piece featuring Interference Archive. Seven volunteers of the collective chose items in the archive that they felt spoke to the issue…
No More Deaths/No Más Muertes has turned Justseeds member Fernando Marti’s contribution to our most recent Justseeds/CultureStrike portfolio—We Are The Storm—into a benefit t-shirt. Go to the No Mas Muertes…
I wasn’t able to pull together a Judging Books by Their Covers post this week, in part because I’m guest posting all week on the Our Comics, Ourselves tumblr site!…
I’ve spent the last month or so in collaboration with Asian-American filmmaker Tani Ikeda, Immediate Justice, and the Center for Biological Diversity leading a weekly stencil and mural workshop to…
San Ignacio, Belize. February 2016. Knowledge Kills HIV. These will not transmit HIV, Mosquito, Shower. These will transmit HIV, razor blade, needle. AIDS does not discriminate, Why do we? I…
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…
Free Art. Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico. February, 2016. Two things I’ve always loved about art made in public is that it can be produced by anyone, willing to take 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…
We Be Darker Then Blue, a mural by Chip Thomas (Jetsonorama) and Jess X. Chen This mural, installed at the BRIC art space in NYC, portrays a poetic sisterhood spanning…
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 Charles at Eberhardt Press (who prints the fabulous Justseeds Organizers each year, and the new 3-Year Garden Journal) just sent me a small box of cool notebooks he…
No war, Promote Peace and Love. Caye Caulker, Belize. Feb 2016. Belize is a small country, of 300,000 people, on the Carribean Sea bordered by Mexico and Guatemala. It has…
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 Interference Archive’s youngest volunteer (and Justseeds’ newest sprout) Asa Michigan MacPhee showing off the awesome new book/catalog that came out of the “Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation…
Audio Interference is a podcast by Interference Archive in Brooklyn, NY, a volunteer-run archive of material culture produced in social movements. Interested in the capacity of audio to capture oral…
You Are Not What You Own. May 2011 You Are Not What You Own. August 2012. Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY. 2011, 2012
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…
[.45 ACP bullet casing, from Thompson submachine gun, recovered from Crooked Creek Gap area of Blair Mountain battlefield, collection of Kenny King] Since early 2014, I’ve worked closely with a small,…
In 2002 I published a zine called Mine: An Anthology of Women’s Choices. It was a compilation of stories of people who had had an abortion. In 2004 I released…
I’ve been scheming with my longtime friend and cohort Stuart Anderson to build a penny smashing machine since some time back in 2007 or 08. At that time, we’d just completed…
REVOLUTION its ready when its ready. Give or take 500+ years. In the Broadway stop of the G train. Brooklyn, NY. December 2014.
Here’s a teaser video for the upcoming exhibition at Interference Archive! Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation in Comic Art January 21—April 17, 2016 Opening January 21st, 7–10pm Interference…
The fifth of the Endangered Species Murals is taking shape in Tucson, on the side of the Solar Culture complex in downtown. The mural is being painted by local artist…
1. Create Now Question Later 2. Fortune favors the Bold 3. Do it with Love Seen on a wall in Brooklyn, NY. August 2013.
I recently wrote a short essay on the 1960’s San Francisco-based antiauthoritarian group The Diggers, and how they both relate to my way of navigating the world, but also how…
I’m reviving my old photo series “read the writing on the wall.” To kick it off again here’s a flick I took while hiking Breakneck Ridge, New Years Day…
Interference Archive is hard at work on its next project, a survey of comics from alternative perspectives entitled Our Comics, Ourselves. We’re putting out a publication to document and go…
I’m excited to announce that we have released our 16th if a song could be freedom mixtape. A series of political playlist that accompanies the Interference Archive exhibition if…
John Trudell, a poet, recording artist, actor and speaker, passed away on December 8th. Trudell (Santee Sioux) was a spokesperson for the Indians of All Tribes occupation of Alcatraz Island…
On the morning of December 11 a number of direct actions took places in cities around the world, in solidarity with the work giong on in Paris to force attention…
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 made this sign for the local needle exchange and learned three things:
This summer, right on the heels of the public opening of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, Zach Furness (author: One Less Car, editor: Punkademics) set up a long-form email interview with…
I’m at an arts residency in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25. It’s pretty amazing here- the vast dun high plains full of turkeys and deer, the blue Bighorn Mountains off to…
We’re excited to get some press for our recent exhibition Armed by Design. You can read more at The Guardian.
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…
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 Doors open 7pm Silent Barn 603 Bushwick Ave. Brooklyn (NOT AT INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE!) $5 – $10 (sliding scale)** As part of the Interference Archive’s if a…
Last Saturday, after two years of organization and building renovation, the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum finally opened it’s doors to the public on May 16th!
A couple weeks back Chris Stain and I (Josh MacPhee) painted a new mural at Houston and 2nd Ave. in Manhattan for Lower East Side History Month. It was great…
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…
Signal:03 got a really nice review a couple weeks back on Dubdog.com. Check it out HERE. And you can always pick up a copy of Signal from us HERE. And…
WolfPatrol.org is having an online benefit for their organization which “works on the ground to document and report on wolf hunts and illegal poaching, in the face of the removal…
We’re moving forward with the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum over in Matewan, WV. This community-driven, people’s history museum opens to the public on May 16 (in the midst of…
The nice people at Portland Rising Tide asked me to design a t-shirt logo for them- and the above graphic is what I came up with. Fossil fuel exports are…
In 1965, ten years before I was born, my father faked his death in a scuba diving accident on the north coast of Wales, in order to abscond from the…
For a couple weeks in November, I hammered out a four by eight foot version of my “Teach History From Below” print (from our Liberating Learning Portfolio) for the Sidewall…
Since this past spring, I’ve been honored to be working with a group of folks down in Southern West Virginia to launch an exciting people’s history project: The West…
I just opened a solo show of prints, installation, sound, and video in the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Gallery 214. It’s up until the end of November, so if…
This past Saturday, Stuart Anderson and I dragged the penny smasher prototype out into public for the first time for a “soft” debut before the Flood Tide screening at the…
I’m deep in preparation for my upcoming solo show at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland. The show is called “Traps, Flows, Echoes” and it opens Nov 6th,…
This fall, I’ve been working with long time cohort Stuart O. Anderson to develop a customized souvenir penny smashing machine (also known as a penny crusher, penny press, or…
I wrote this article for Bitch Magazine in the leadup to the recent People’s Climate March, thinking about futility and frustration and the reasons we do the work we do….
The ongoing blog series where I ask Justseeds members for five things that have been inspiring them lately. This one from Josh MacPhee in NYC:
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….
In the weeks leading up to the recent Justseeds retreat in scenic McMinnville OR, Mazatl and I painted a mural on the front of the Alleyway Bar on Alberta St….
Canadian magazine the Peak has their September issue out and it’s articles are complimented by some artwork of Justseeds’ members. You can read the issue below.
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…
I just got back from a week in the Marble Mountains wilderness of Northern California with the wildlands education and residency organization Signal Fire. Ten artists and activists, from a…
Last autumn, I finished up a design for a new poster in the Celebrate People’s History series, and it’s just now hot off the presses (you can get it here)!…
Emma Goldman was born, June 27, 1869, Kovno, Russian Empire. She was an Anarchist known around the world for her writing, political organizing and speeches. Here are just a couple…
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…
I wrote a new post for the blog about my Congo trip today, covering a conversation I had with the chief of the tiny and isolated village of Lole about…
The ongoing blog series where I ask Justseeds members for five things that have been inspiring them lately. This one from Shaun Slifer from Pittsburgh:
I recently worked on a big project with Philadelphia Mural Arts, designing materials connected to a mural they are doing around issues of mass incarceration. A half dozen meetings were…
The ongoing blog series where I ask Justseeds members for five things that have been inspiring them lately. This one from Bec Young of Pittsburgh:
Paul Robeson was born today, 116 years ago,in 1898. Above is the Celebrate People’s History poster in homage to him. Also belated Happy B’day to Biz Markie!
I’ve been busily printing and pasting and organizing away on my MFA thesis show for Ontario College of Art and Design University. The 60-page written paper is in, now for…
The organization I’ve been working for in Congo, TL2, performs many of the functions that people in western countries would consider to be the responsibility of the state. From road-building…
For the last six weeks or so, I’ve been in the Democratic Republic of Congo, volunteering with a project that is trying to develop a new national park in the…
Heading to California in a few days for book tour and to re-connect with old friends and to meet new ones. The art and activism conversation will take place in…
The ongoing blog series where I ask Justseeds members for five things that have been inspiring them lately. This one from Kevin Caplicki from NYC:
I’m in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the next two months, working on a conservation theater project in and around a new national park in the east of the…
I’m pleased to announce the release of Obenge Recordings- a compilation of music I recorded in the now-vanished village of Obenge in Democratic Republic of Congo in the fall of…
diagram of a Living Water Garden Here is another excerpt from my book A People’s Art History of the United States. This excerpt is on Betsy Damon – an environmental…
The brand new issue of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture was just printed, and is now available on Justseeds. We’re really excited about it, and think…
I’m just back from three weeks in Mexico, most of which I spent traveling with Mazatl in Chiapas, the southernmost state and home to the Zapatista movement and its system…
This week I will be on the East Coast presenting talks on the People’s Art History book and radical art. This Wednesday night (January 8th) I’ll be at the Interference…
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…
REVOLVE Keynote Presentation: Favianna Rodriguez from PhillyCAM.
Chris Stain grew up writing graffiti in his hometown of Baltimore, and kept at it in spite of a handful of arrests…
Justseeds member Meredith Stern plays music with Hilary Jones and Rebecca Mitchell in a feminist band called “Whore Paint” and today is their video release of the song “This Body”…
Amazing!, the blog series in which I ask members of Justseeds to make a list of five things that have been inspiring them as of late. This time we get…
This year I put a ridiculous amount of time and energy into making a solar powered remote control car demolition derby (Green Mini Demo Derby). From asking numerous businesses if…
Eight years of research and writing has led to my first book –A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social…
Third round of Amazing! the blog series in which I ask members of Justseeds to make a top 5 list of things that have been inspiring them as of late….
Second round of Amazing!, in which I ask members of Justseeds to make a top 5 list of things that have been inspiring them as of late. This time we…
If your in Madison this Saturday, stop by Print and Resist. Justseeds will be tabling.
Welcome to the inaugural edition of a new series in which I ask the Justseeds collective members to list five things that have inspired/amazed/blown-them-away in the last month or so….
Yup, I’m in Iowa City for a week, doing a bunch of events, and I’d love it if anyone in the area wants to swing by and say “hello” at…
A couple weeks back, I participated in “Crowdsourced”, an exhibition organized by Robert Razcka at SPACE here in Pittsburgh. Robert has been doing these time-restricted projects for about ten years…
I’m excited to finally have completed the first car for my upcoming Green Mini Demo Derby. I have sponsors that will have their own hand painted cars. After many tests,…
I’m not a huge reality TV fan, and although I’m vaguely aware of the show American Idol, I had no knowledge of its Middle East equivalent—Arab Idol. Turns out that…
There isn’t just graffiti on the walls here. In many places, particularly refugee camps, there are also murals. Some are made with naive charm, some professional skill, and few…
Most days Ramallah feels like the world’s biggest construction site. Buildings are going up everywhere you look, the street leading up to our hotel didn’t have a sidewalk when we…
While in Nazareth we took a tour with British journalist Jonathon Cook, who lives with his family in Israel/Palestine. He brought us to the remains of the Palestinian town of…
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…
When I was in school, it took two years of organizing to get our college library to build their collection of books about prisons from a dusty shelf of old…
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…
There is a way that the occupation of Palestine seems to have frozen in time certain aspects of life in certain places, creating strange anachronisms. In the old city of…
‘nuf said.
There is a lot of amazing graffiti here in Palestine, but I think this might be the best thing I’ve seen so far. This hand is so pretzeled to make…
I barely got used to seeing the pay-to-ride CitiBikes around New York City before I left town. Although these bike programs seem to now be a prerequisite for any city…
There is a lot of graffiti here in Palestine, but almost all of it is in either Arabic or English, with a very, very small smattering of French. It was…
I was recently commissioned by Dissent magazine to provide some illustrations for their special issue on climate change. Check out the magazine here and consider a subscription! You can see…
This is the largest key in the world. It sits at the entrance to Aida Refugee Camp, which sits on the edge of Bethlehem, pushed right up against the Israeli…
While being here we’ve heard so many stories of oppression and repression of Palestinians by Israeli Jews (about 25% of Israelis in pre-67 borders are Palestinians, who are “citizens” of…
This is an eight track railroad crossing in Lyd, a historically Palestinian city within pre-67 borders Israel (called simply “48” by most Palestinians) which is very poor and is undergoing…
As many of you know, I’m completely infatuated with books, and book design. Being here in Palestine visiting libraries is a bit like being in a candy shop, with an…
The walls have so much texture here. This image is from Ramallah, and a good example of walls that have been painted over, and over, and over again for years….
Molly and I (Josh) are in Palestine for two weeks as part of a librarians and archivists solidarity trip. Today was our first day, and we visited a half dozen…
Opening this Friday at the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Colombia College Chicago, you’ll find Justseeds work in the new exhibition Word on the Street: Image, Language, Signage….
University of Nottingham professor Adam David Morton offers up a nice little vignette of commentary on the significance of the Zapatista movement, using my “Aqui Seguimos” print as a springboard….
I was recently commissioned to design a poster for the law firm Meyer, Glitzenstein and Crystal to commemorate their 20th anniversary. MG&C has spent the last twenty years aggressively defending…
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…
In the past two days both the New York Times and the New Yorker have featured the book bloc exhibition at Interference Archive, with a focus on the book shields…
IN HONOR OF MAY DAY INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE OPEN CALL FOR MEMES For an upcoming exhibition about work stoppage—Strike Then, Strike Now!—we need your made and found memes depicting labor, bosses,…
While Justseeds was in Milwaukee, I took process shots of the print I created, to show the process of creating this print. Here is the final print: The first step…
Our shadow conference talks continue on Saturday at the Union Art Gallery (9am-5pm). Also check out the opening of our second show at Reciprocity at the Sweet Water urban farm…
Part of the month I spent at the Caldera Arts Center was taken up by attempts to fashion some music videos out of the clips I shot while traveling in…
Art historian Susan Platt has recently helped organize the War is Trauma portfolio exhibition at the M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery at the Seattle Central Community College. She contextualized the project…
We’re excited to have just launched a new website for Interference Archive! To celebrate, we’ve got a guest post from Sean Stewart (of the amazing Babylon Falling website and author…
It’s week three of my arts residency in the high Cascade mountains of central Oregon. I’m at the Caldera Arts Center, in the burnt pine woods uphill from the town…
I recently had the opportunity to design logos for two great organizations, Fight Back Pittsburgh and the Rebellious Nursing Conference. The creation of a logo is really difficult process!…
I’ve been slowly updating the tumblr about my Congo trip, dropping in some photos and telling some small stories about them. There’s so much to tell! The total chaos and…
I’ve been back from Congo for nearly a month now, which seems crazy. It was very odd to travel from a place like Obenge, the Congolese village where I stayed…
Ten days ago I returned to the US after three months in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I’m still adjusting to being back, waking up at 4 in the morning,…
Great review by Ana Alvarez in Brown University College Hill Independent To read the article on the Brown University College Hill Independent click here.
This is my print for the Sowing the Seeds of Love show at Munch Gallery in New York. It’s four color reduction print (four shades of grey!) turned into a…
Review in The Daily Campus at University of Connecticut Here is the direct link to read the article on their website.
Sublevarte Colectivo is currently installing a retrospective exhibition at Interference Archive, that opens tomorrow, Friday, November 16th. Here’s a peek of them at work. All photos taken by Irina Arellano-Weiss
This is an interview with choreographer Ken Rinker, which is printed in the hand sewn zine of “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights….
This is an interview of Heather Booth which is printed in the hand sewn zine of “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To…
The Kindle Project recently did a really nice piece on Josh: Josh MacPhee is an understated artist with a loud series of movement building messages. Through his prints he conveys…
This essay was written by Elizabeth Esris, for the hand sewn zine in “This is an Emergency!” To purchase a copy, you can click HERE. To check out the website…
Molly Fair interviewed Virginia Reath RPA MPH. Virginia has spent the last 30 years as a practicing clinician and educator in the field of Gynecology and sexual/reproductive health for women….
Last week I was interviewed by an Australian radio program about my “Meatscapes” collage series. Listen to the Interview
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 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…
Jared Davidson (from Garage Collective, and designer of the Red Feds Celebrate People’s History poster) just put out a great looking new book on anarchism in NZ called Sewing Freedom….
I’ve finished up a video that I was collecting images for at the Interference Archive during the end of this last August (right after gathering for our Justseeds planning retreat)….
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 comic is printed in the hand sewn zine of “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. It was originally printed in World War…
A month back I spent five days in Charlotte, NC with Chris Stain, helping him out with his install at the McColl Center for Visual Art. This included making…
This interview is printed in the hand sewn zine of “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy of the portfolio,…
I’m currently in DR Congo, in the capital Kinshasa, to be precise, waiting for a dawn flight to Kisangani in the Northeast. I’m volunteering with a team of scientists led…
This interview is printed in the hand sewn zine of “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy of the portfolio,…
This is the Introduction to the reproductive rights and gender justice print portfolio, “This is an Emergency!” To purchase a copy of the portfolio, you can click HERE. To check…
This interview with Judith Arcana, written by Sam Merritt, appears in the hand sewn zine “This is an Emergency!” To purchase a copy, you can click HERE. To check out…
mixing up collective work and play…
On an invitation from curator Amanda Donnan, I initiated a collaboration with friend and local field botanist Jessica McPherson as part of Project: Lido – a temporary collection of installations…
This interview is printed in the hand sewn zine of “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy, you can click…
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…
I’ve got a video featured in July’s Acid Rain public access television series, curated by Jerstin Crosby. You can see it online, but my intention was to create something that…
This is my print for This Is An Emergency!, a portfolio about Reproductive Rights and Gender Justice organized by Justseeds’ own Meredith Stern. The lineup of artists is impressive, and…
Commission for Treasonous Strategies is an exhibition by Claire & Tesar Freeman and Shaun Slifer: 707 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (June 22-August 19) slifer-freeman.tumblr.com
I just finished the first sketch of the image for the Lomami National Park Bandanas! What are those, I hear you cry. Well, they’re going to be a pile of…
Commission for Treasonous Strategies is a collaborative exhibit between Justseeds member Shaun Slifer and Claire & Tesar Freeman, a presentation of sculptural work which reflects upon the history of the…
If you haven’t checked out the Justseeds store lately, you might have missed the cascade of new Celebrate People’s History posters that have been coming out. I’m excited to announce…
This week’s cover is Antimaster. I had previously posted on the blog the Silkscreen printing process of this cover, but this is what it looked like originally. I had done…
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…
Official book launch for Chris Stain’s latest project and Drago’s newest title – LONG STORY SHORT – at Wooster Street Social Club in NYC on March 14th, 2012. Buy the…
Condenada is an all lady hardcore punk band from Chicago, IL. They definitely draw inspiration from Los Crudos and 90’s latino bands from the area, but they not only address…
The second round of Endangered Species condoms have been released! I was commissioned by the Center for Biological Diversity to produce five original paper-cuts for the series, which also incorporates…
Profanator is a Thrash Metal band from Queretaro. Like most thrash metal bands they wanted the grim reaper to be their main focus of the album. The first draft of…
This Wednesday (tomorrow) is the long awaited book release for Chris Stain’s Long Story Short, which has been in the works for over two years. Join us in celebrating from…
Some exciting news for me- I’m going to be working with the Center for Biological Diversity to develop art for the next round of Endangered Species Condoms. The condoms are…
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…
For several years, I’ve had the idea to create a souvenir penny-crushing machine which would imprint pennies with designs relevant to working class struggles for social justice in Western Pennsylvania’s…
(above: “On Behalf of the Lynx”, detail) Video was only one medium in Dara’s amazing body of work, but every bit of her brilliance, sharp social and political critique,…
I worked up a new video recently, an ominous treatment of that crucial scene in Disney’s Old Yeller (1957) wherein Yeller battles the rabid wolf that’s been terrorizing the Coates…
The Following is an Interview I did with the 555 Collective. You can visit their web page here and the Interview here Mazatl is an artist residing in Mexico City….
The two big blockprints from the We Agree project are finally available today in the Justseeds store; one made by three Justseeds artists, and the other by the Taring Padi…
Uh, the entire run of 2012 Justseeds/Eberhardt Press organizers has sold out. I’m sort of shocked. I sincerely apologize to anyone disappointed, the rate of movement was quite beyond what…
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…
Alec “Icky” Dunn, Shaun Slifer and myself recently visited the NYC Justseeds crew to put in a work day at the Interference Archive. We designed and installed lighting, Shaun installed…
My friend Daniel Tucker is working on a new research project about art and activism called “Never the Same: Conversations About Art Transforming Politics & Community in Chicago & Beyond.”…
MoMA, NYC, 2011 It took awhile for me to realize that there was handwriting on the wall text, then I had to laugh at myself. Not a laughing matter is…
2008-present Brooklyn, NY
Oof. It’s finally summer out here in the Best Coast, and I find myself caught up in a veritable storm of art-activities. When it rains, it pours, you know? Except…
The Bushmeat Food-cart debuted at the Mall last Saturday; people seemed to enjoy it, in a way. Here’s some flicks from the opening!
Here’s a new project: a bushmeat food-cart. The project is called Viande de Brousse, the French translation of bushmeat, meaning simply wild meat hunted from the forest, or bush, as…
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…
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…
Happy Valentines Day! Brooklyn, NY 2011 Why the media (and particularly Wiki leaks) is important Publishing improves transparency, and this transparency creates a better society for all people. Better scrutiny…
Brooklyn, December 2010.
4th Avenue, NYC. Winter 2010. This is a terrible cellphone picture. I took it cos I like the interrogation and think it is incomplete and should end with “…the way…
I recently had an article published in the Portland-based environmental journal Bear Deluxe about the international bushmeat trade and the effects that it’s having on the populations of our closest…
When I was a mini-proto-krusty-skater-travel punk, in the 90’s, I went to a handful of DIY punk and hardcore shows. The self-produced culture and autonomy involved always intrigued me. Growing…
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…
Signal has gotten a couple nice mentions on the web (don’t forget to pick up a copy HERE.): —A review at Dotrad, which calls Signal “a beautiful chronicle of political…
Williamsburg Bridge, Brooklyn, NY. July 2010.
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. I made this flyer…
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,…
Swooph Paris, 2007
I had a long phone conversation with writer Daniel Fuller this winter – he had driven to town from Philadelphia specifically to find the Howling Mob Society historical markers after…
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….
ABC No Rio’s bi-annual building-wide show is opening this Friday! There is a contribution from Justseeds member Kevin Caplicki, in the computer center on the 5th floor, check the flicks…
From now until February 14th, I’m more than happy to be the Artist in Residence at Providence’s multifaceted AS220. I’ll be working exclusively in their letterpress print shop, taking 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…
by Jesus Barraza & Melanie Cervantes A year ago, early New Year’s Day in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police murdered unarmed, 22-year old, Oscar…
Williamsburg Bridge, NYC. 2009 Today on NPR they reported that 10% unemployment is raising hopes. While so many people are living in precarity, no real solutions to the economic crisis…
Here’s a couple of photographs from an epic day of screen-printing, Roger of Justseeds and Heather of Flight 64 cranking out hundreds of individual letters for Katherine Ball’s (of SEA…
For the past week Chris Stain and I have been living, working, and teaching on a small island in Norway called Halsnøy! We’re at the Sunnhordland Folkehøgskule (a small arts…
Paris, France. 2007 “Anarchy” is from the Greek, prefix an (or a), meaning “not,” “the want of,” “the absence of,” or “the lack of”, plus archos, meaning “a ruler,” “director”,…
I don’t live in an idyllic state park like fellow Justseeder Meredith, but I keep my eyes peeled all the same. Last night I discovered that a stump at the…
Park Slope, Brooklyn. 2008 But sometimes someone else decides to censor it- the buff. About other kinds of censorship: National Coalition Against Censorship they like free speech and kids ability…
Valparaiso, Chile 2007 This is from a set of street slogans I shot during a visit to Chile a few years ago. There’s a set of them on the Justseeds…
No More Corporate Bullshit-Fuk Wall St Gowanus, Brooklyn. 2008 This was an artists response to last years economic crisis and collapse. Below is a more recent photo of the response…
*Fuck Gentrification Somewhere, in the world. If it only were pleasurable and easy to fuck something like gentrification, maybe we’d be able to move beyond the boom and bust capitalist…
Showered with Lies LES, NYC. Walking down the street after my acupuncture appointment, I looked up and was reminded of the barrage of messages on TV, in magazines, and on…
My pal Erok & I sent some copies of Favianna Rodriguez and Josh Macphee’s book Reproduce and Revolt down to Chile about a year ago. Like many of the punks…
Bushwick, NY I have been taking a bunch of flicks of the Read fire extinguisher tags, here’s one of em. You may see Boans, Reader, Read More, or other stuff….
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…
Its been a year since the Federal Government started bailing out countless financial institutions. The banks and investment have preserved their wealth and avoided their own crisis, and postponed the…
Like Colin’s weekly drawings, I decided, to post a weekly photo up here on the Justseeds Blog. I got glasses when I was in first grade, but I’ve always been…
Here’s some photos from Paper Politics Richmond at the Ghostprint Gallery. It opens TONIGHT!
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…
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…
Ever since Chris & I finished the installation and hung his show I’ve been taking in LA. I wanted to post a bunch of photos and links right after the…
This winter I’ve started learning the nearly-lost art of typesetting and letterpress printing with friend and cohort Artnoose. I have a lot of ideas relative to my current video work…
My friend Erin Yanke (Life During Wartime/Circle A Radio) and I just finished a zine about the life of James Chasse Jr. Chasse was a schizophrenic man living in downtown…
Just a quick post to share a recent project. My friend Matt Meyer has compiled a giant collection of writings about the struggle to free political prisoners in the US,…
Swoon‘s second solo exhibit with the Deitch Projects will open this Sunday, September 7, 6-10pm. At 4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City In the early evening on Sunday, September 7th,…
Friday was the debut of “Meet the Made” here in Pittsburgh, the latest in the Mattress Factory’s “Gestures” series and a project of the Robot 250 program. Curated by Ian…
Sara Meister and I have finally finished work on a collaborative poster we started this spring as part of the Celebrate People’s History poster project. During a visit to Sara’s…
Joshua David Stein has written an article titled Ghost Riders about the Ghost Bike Project for New York Magazine. Really beautiful photographs by Christopher Griffith accompany the article. I disagree…
Readers Digest takes a look at the Ghost Bike Project in their June 2008 issue, and the “your america” section online. The memorials continue to garner attention in the media…
I recently spent three weeks collaborating with 15 other people from the Miss Rockaway Armada on a “mezzanine” hallway at Mass MoCA. The project was really fun, and I’m proud…
Photo by Fred Askew The 3rd Annual Memorial Bike Ride went as planned on Sunday, January 5th. There were around 250-300 cyclists that attended the rides that eventually converged on…
It’s been 18 days since Eric Ng was killed. It doesn’t seem possible. Time moves strangely; every day I get the news again. I’m finding it hard to write about…
Yesterday, members of Visual Resistance and Time’s Up installed two ghost bikes for 23-year old filmmaker Derek Lake, killed June 26 on Houston St, and Dr. Carl Nacht, killed June…
Tod Seelie sent us a link to his photos of the May 14 memorial ride in the Rockaways for Andre Anderson, a fourteen year old who was killed by an…
In the past few weeks, ghost bikes have appeared in at least three new cities across the world. Chicago, Illinois The Chicago Ghost Bike project created a memorial at the…
In the past several weeks members of VisualResistance have installed two more Ghost Bikes. Thus far this year has witnessed 21 deaths in the NYC bicycling community. Each loss profoundly…
The ghost bike we created this weekend for Jen Shao, a 65-year old grandmother killed last Friday morning by a hit-and-run bus has been removed. A few of us went…
An article by Elizabeth Hays about the Ghost Bike project appears on the Daily News website: Memorial outlines bike death BY ELIZABETH HAYS DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER A 10-speed bicycle,…
In memory of Liz Padilla, a 28-year old bicyclist killed last week, VR members created a small and somber memorial in Park Slope. The night before a memorial ride led…