Portland, OR, United States
Roger Peet is an artist, printmaker, muralist etc. etc. living in Portland, Oregon. His work tends to focus on civilized bad ideas, predator-prey relationships, and the contemporary crises of biodiversity and Capitalism and what can and can't be done about them. He coordinates the national Endangered Species Mural Project, and helps to run the cooperative Flight 64 print studio in Portland. He collaborates with artists, activists and scientists globally and locally in the service of a more generous and a wilder world.
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Over Christmas I visited my family and at dinner one night my stepfather was telling a story about his childhood, and how his father had made a living. They lived…
Last month I designed and built five big banners for a protest at the Oregon statehouse in Salem against the Jordan Cove LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) pipeline and terminal slated…
This is the second half of a little essay about the history of mining and human civilization. You can read the first part here. This is a work in progress,…
It was a real treat to return to Berea, Kentucky, to paint this mural celebrating one of the Southeasts’ most enigmatic and endangered plants- the White Fringeless Orchid, Platanthera integrilabia….
I recently had the pleasure to design a couple of banners for an action taken by colleagues at Portland Rising Tide. Climbers and kayakers from PRT and Mosquito Fleet chained…
516 Arts in Albuquerque just opened a massive show of artworks addressing the biodiversity of the area drained by the Rio Grande river, and the threats that it faces. It’s…
It’s the 21st installment in the Endangered Species Mural Project! This one happened in Silver City, New Mexico, a beautiful mountain town on the edge of the Gila National Forest,…
For the past few weeks I’ve been carving a 4 foot by 6 foot block of birch plywood, depicting a section of the Columbia River Gorge. I live about half…
I’ve just returned from a 6-week residency (along with my partner Erica Thomas) in Medellín, Colombia, as a guest of Casa Tres Patios; an arts organization affiliated with the University…
I was recently interviewed by Jeanne Dodds at the Endangered Species Coalition about the mural project I’ve been coordinating for the past four and a half years. See the full…
250 million years ago an extinction event wiped out 95% of all species on Earth, the greatest such winnowing ever to occur. It’s referred to as the Permian/Triassic extinction, or…
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…
For the next six weeks I’ll be in Medellin, Colombia, working with the people at Fundación Casa Tres Patios to create some projects with ex-fighters of the FARC, the Revolutionary…
The 20th of the Endangered Species murals is finished, this time in Yuma Arizona on the campus of Arizona Western College. This installment features the Sonoran Pronghorn, smallest and fastest…
The incoming tide of fascism in Brazil is breaking on the shores of Rio. The government of the state of Rio de Janeiro shut down today an art exhibit at…
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…
I came across this on Twitter last week: a newly compiled version of Ed Mead’s 80’s text adventure “The Warden Game“. Ed was a member of working-class anticapitalist urban guerrilla…
Tré Seals is a designer who is working to create fonts out of the letters on Civil Rights era protest signs. I interviewed him via email. How did you get…
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 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…