Building Power, Building Resistance
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Aaron Hughes
Chicago, IL & on the road ...
Aaron Hughes is an artist, activist, organizer, teacher, and Iraq War veteran based in Chicago. His multidimensional creative practice operates in a diversity of spaces and media as he seeks out connections, poetics, and moments of beauty in order to construct narratives and meaning out of personal and collective traumas. He uses these narratives in the development of projects that expose and deconstruct systems of oppression and dehumanization. In addition to his work with Justseeds, Hughes works collaboratively with a range of artists, veterans, activists, and art organizations and projects including Iraq Veterans Against the War, National Veterans Art Museum, Warrior Writers, emerging Veteran Artists Movement, Dirty Canteen, and Prison & Neighborhood Arts Project.
Other Media
Artist Interests
AnarchismAnti-capitalismAnti-warEcology & AnimalsEducationEnvironment & ClimateFeminisms & GenderGlobal SolidarityHealthHistoryIndigenous ResistanceLaborMigrationPolice & PrisonsRacial JusticeSocial Movements Associated Projects
Justseeds: Community Supported Art 2019 & IVAW: Operation Recovery / Operation Exposure
We Are All In This Together: exhibition catalog
Justseeds Collaboration
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Solidarity
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A Bird Knows No Barbed Wire
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We Are The Street Kids of Kabul. We Are Survivors.
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Welcome Home
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Take Down the Drones
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Wellspring
Sixteen years after the invasion of Iraq, it is time to start taking responsibility
March 17, 2019
The Iraq War and the “weapons of mass destruction” lies it was based on have long faded from the headlines. The resulting death, destruction and destabilization, however, are still a…
Sarah Ross and Dave Pabellon On Printing the Long Term and the Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project
September 14, 2018
In 2016, I was humbled to be asked to teach at Stateville Prison with the Prison & Neighborhood Arts Project (P+NAP), a program that connects teaching artists and scholars to…
Natalie Campbell and Nick Petr on the Poor People’s Campaign & the DC Public Library
June 22, 2018
The new Justseeds Poor People’s Campaign portfolio is just one example of artists getting involved with this self proclaimed “new and unsettling force.” Over the past several weeks the campaign…
Legacy of the Neighborhood Arts Program
June 10, 2018
Earlier this year I was humbled to get the chance to interview the amazing political artist Jane Norling. One powerful project Jane was involved in was the San Francisco based…
Monica Trinidad on Art, Action, and For the People Artists Collective
March 27, 2018
MonicaTrinidad at Do Not Resist exhibition. Photo by Love & Struggle photos. A growing number of artists have been responding to social issues and making political work. Yet, fewer have been…
Jane Norling on Women’s Rights, Human Rights, & Fifty Years of Art & Activism
March 17, 2018
Jane Norling is an artist activist with an inspiring past. For fifty years, as a painter, graphic designer, and public artist, she’s created community murals, graphic designs for social and…
Building a portfolio for the new Poor People’s Campaign
February 13, 2018
On December 4, 1967, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. announced plans for a Poor People’s Campaign and called for the nation to take dramatic steps to end poverty. In…
Daniel Drennan ElAwar on Kites, Collaboration, and the Jamaa Al-Yad Artists’ Collective
August 25, 2017
I met Daniel Drennan ElAwar from the Jamaa Al-Yad Artists’ Collective almost a year ago when we collaborated with Ethan Heitner, Stefan Christoff, and Kevin Caplicki on the Up…
Resources on Justice
March 18, 2017
1. Community The successful projects, organizations, and movements for justice that I know of have been deeply rooted in community. Communities defend, sustain, grow, inspire, and transform movements just as…
On Love & Transformation Despite the Violence: An Interview with Kabul Graffiti Artist Kabul Knights
July 25, 2016
Peace Seekers by Kabul Knights Yesterday, I opened my email to read about the deadly attack on the Hazara demonstration on July 23rd in Kabul, Afghanistan. I had received a message…
On Cutting up Military Uniforms in the San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building: An interview with Combat Paper founder Drew Cameron
July 13, 2016
Riparian Sheet created by Drew Cameron at the Veterans Memorial in San Francisco, 2016. On June 9th, the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries hosted a one-day public Combat Paper and…
Take Down the Drones
July 4, 2016
As I await the bombardment of fireworks for tonight’s 4th of July celebration, I can not help thinking about those living under US military bombardment and drone attacks abroad. On…
On Artists, Resistance, & Worker Owned Cooperatives: An interview with Ezgi Bakcay
June 20, 2016
While on a trip to Istanbul last December, I spoke with Ezgi Bakcay, a curator and member of Karşı Sanat, a local artist run space and cooperative. She told…
On Resource Wars: An Interview with Kevin Basl
March 14, 2016
Halliburton convoys in western Iraq. Halliburton convoys in western Pennsylvania. —Iraq War veteran and Pennsylvania citizen, Kevin Basl As part of the Lycoming College Spring Symposium on Veteran Issues, I…
168:01 Poetic, Political, & Useful
January 27, 2016
Wafaa Bilal’s new project 168:01 is one of the most poetic, political, and useful artworks of the last decade. Through the project he highlights and acknowledges the destruction of the…
Iraq Veterans Against the War: Drop the MIC & Save the VA
November 18, 2015
In the midst of what appears to be growing global violence Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) has shifted focus from ending specific wars to ending the rise of U.S. militarism and…
As Long As the Grass Shall Grow & the Rivers Shall Flow
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REVOLT
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DE•MIL•I•TA•RISE
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Now We Are Alive
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Learn As We Lead
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Muhammad Ali
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Solidaridad Sin Fronteras
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