tag:www.justseeds.org,2009://41 2009-06-30T06:34:07Z Movable Type Enterprise 1.5 tag:www.justseeds.org,2009://41.3711 2009-06-30T01:17:41Z 2009-06-30T06:34:07Z

Colin Matthes ALI screenprint $27

Colin Matthes Colin Matthes ALI $27 This print of Muhammad Ali is based off an illustration I completed for an upcoming Justseeds book published by Microcosm Publishing. The text reads, "NO! I'm not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters over the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end, I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here." - Muhammad Ali 2 color-screenprint 25"x19" acid free 100% recycled cover weight paper signed/numbered edition of 97 ]]> tag:www.justseeds.org,2009://41.3684 2009-06-28T09:08:22Z 2009-06-28T09:41:47Z

Pete Yahnke Study Screen Print $30

Pete Yahnke Justseeds CR10 portfolio project. When presented with the prospect of designing an image that spoke to the topic of the prison industrial complex I was at a loss as to how to approach it with out falling back on the traditional images that come to mind (bars, shackles etc). As with most of my work I try and make images that are not going to hit the viewer over the head with dogmatic opinion but ones that allows the viewer some room to make the connections on their own. Obviously this image can have meaning for many topics but in the context of the portfolio it was designed for, and the other images it was packaged with, it may require one to take a moment and decipher why this image is part of the whole. The idea came for this piece as I was sitting through one of the many courses I have been taking in a graduate program in education. Repeatedly I was bombarded by statistics of how in the U.S. literacy rate directly correlates to the U.S. prison rates. Now this information leads to many other questions, but for me, sitting in grad education classes, this directly leads to the issue of funding education vs. funding the prison industrial complex. Overall this is about the enjoyment of reading, the education we can get on our own from reading, and how the right books can impact our lives and open up new worlds, inspirations, ideas and possibilities. This is a screen print from the original linoleum block print. 2 color screen print acid free paper 19" x 19" signed/edition of 50]]> ]]> tag:www.justseeds.org,2009://41.3660 2009-06-27T12:46:09Z 2009-06-29T18:25:07Z

Temporary Conversations: Jean Toche/Guerrilla Art Action Group Temporary Services booklet/zine $3

Josh M. www.justseeds.org Temporary Conversations: Jean Toche/Guerrilla Art Action Group Temporary Services with Jean Toche $3 This booklet provides some extremely hard to acquire information, numerous illustrations, and is one of very few interviews given by Jean Toche of the Guerilla Art Action Group. An excerpt from the introduction: "It’s easy to imagine that 75 years ago, Jean Toche came into the world kicking and screaming – not just throwing a fit like a baby, but courageously and creatively articulating what was wrong with doctors, the health care system, the staff who were indifferent to his and other babies’ concerns, and every other injustice that might have been readily observable. Artists don’t come a whole lot angrier or less compromising, but that’s not all there is to Jean Toche. Surely, in between the piss and the pus, and the shit and the spit, spectators in the neonatal ward would have been able to observe not just an exhilarating, fighting spirit in baby Jean. There would have been more than a couple giggles, a quickly developing delight in the absurd, and an excess of kindness and generosity toward those who care deeply for the rights of other human beings. Okay, so to be truthful, Jean Toche’s radicalization took perhaps a little longer to percolate – though not too much longer. Jean Toche, along with Jon Hendricks and Poppy Johnson, is a founding member of the Guerrilla Art Action Group (GAAG). The three formed the group on October 15, 1969 in New York City. Jean’s wife Virginia Toche, and Joanne Stamerra were also involved in multiple aspects of GAAG’s work. Toche and Hendricks still issue statements as GAAG from time to time, but for all intents and purposes, the group’s primary years of activity were from 1969-76. The bulk of their actions took place, in rapid succession, between 1969 and 1971. What follows is a highly selective and greatly abbreviated chronology of GAAG’s work. Because their work is so dependent on their many written statements and accounts of their actions, the reader is urged to track down a library copy of Printed Matter’s 1978 book on their work, GAAG: The Guerilla Art Action Group, 1969-1976: A Selection. Photographer Jan Van Raay, who documented many of their actions in great detail, also has a website at www.otherthings.com/janvanraay, which includes many images and goes a long way toward showing the visual side of their work. Toche and Hendricks first met at the Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village in Manhattan on the south side of Washington Square Park. The church had, and continues to have, a long history of making space available to artists for art exhibitions, rehearsals, and performances. Hendricks worked at the church as its gallery director. Toche began participating in events at Judson in 1967, two years after arriving in New York with his wife Virginia. GAAG began at a time when artists were increasingly challenging the conduct of museums and other institutions on grounds that included sexual and racial inequality in collecting and exhibition practices, the need for free admission days so that the poor could see art, and the involvement of museum board members in corporations that were enabling the Vietnam War." This booklet is part of the Temporary Conversations series. offset metallic ink cover (with die cut), digitally printed inside 8.5"x5.5", staple-bound, 32pp Edition of 475 ]]> tag:www.justseeds.org,2009://41.3659 2009-06-26T12:45:11Z 2009-06-26T13:09:32Z

Temporary Services Public Phenomena book $15

Josh M. www.justseeds.org Temporary Services Public Phenomena $15 From Half Letter Press: This book is the result of over ten years of photographic documentation and research on the variety of modifications and inventions people make in public. From roadside memorials to makeshift barriers, people consistently alter shared common spaces to suit their needs, or let both man-made and natural aberrations run wild. The result is a new kind of public space – with creative and inspiring moments that push past the original planned design of cities. Images and text by: Temporary Services, Polonca Lovšin, Joseph Heathcott & Damon Rich, Boštjan Bugaric, Ana Celigoj, Maša Cvetko, Marko Horvat, Meta Kos, Darjan Mihajlović, Danijel Modrej, Maja Modrijan, and Sonja Zlobko Full color offset book with color cover 5.5"x8.5", 152 pp Published by Half Letter Press, 2008 in an edition of 1750 ]]> tag:www.justseeds.org,2009://41.3668 2009-06-25T06:51:42Z 2009-06-25T07:04:42Z

Roger Peet Reasons for Weapons Blockprint and 2-color stencil $45

Roger Peet click here for larger image Once more into the maw of extinction, friends. Here we have Bluebucks, a South African antelope, never common, wiped out after the European colonization of the Cape region. The Bluebuck got its name from the blue sheen of its coat, which provided much impetus for hunting but faded in death to an unremarkable grey. That's an oft-repeated refrain; the beautiful thing, so fleet and glorious in life, becomes a sad rag after processing for cultural categorization. Look at the horns of the Bluebuck. You might think that such an array of weapons would raise a flag of possible defiance to the encroaching human, with its solitary machete. You'd be wrong. Those weapons were built by life, for the struggle to breed: to clash with rivals and win a mate. The machete was built to take life and convert it to abstractions, therefore wealth. Heat. Light. Money. The horn is no defense against the onslaught of culture, the root of all weapons of mass destruction. Blockprint with two color stencil 19"x25" Hand-printed Mulberry paper 1st signed edition of ten]]> tag:www.justseeds.org,2009://41.3642 2009-06-23T12:37:00Z 2009-06-24T18:32:50Z

Cody Hudson Make Art Not War 1 color offset poster $2

Josh M. www.justseeds.org Cody Hudson Make Art Not War $2 We recently tracked down some boxes of long lost Justseeds stock from a couple years back, and in them were a bunch of these posters which were part of the Clamor Magazine "Make Art Not War" poster set. We're offering them at a super super cheap rate, so pick up a copy or two. These are likely the last of these posters around... 1 color offset poster 11"x17" unsigned/unnumbered ]]> tag:www.justseeds.org,2009://41.3689 2009-06-21T22:07:51Z 2009-06-21T22:51:51Z

Pete Yahnke go and ask the trees screen print and stencil $150

Pete Yahnke Pete Yahnke go and ask the trees $150 Inspired by the song "Shed the World" by Lungfish: "By coincidence I was bystanding Interrogated by the familiar When a squirrel said in a dialect Don't shun the world, shed it I walked along a public path I observed the birds taking a bath They sung in code Their message clear: Don't shun the world, shed it I had a drink at the concession stand There was a dog digging through a garbage can He whispered low But I could understand: Don't shun the world, shed it I watched the ships as they arrived The waves lapping at the harborside Like a sleeping choir they gently cried: Don't shun the world, shed it There is nothing left to do But go and ask the trees About this shedding of the world Do you agree? Their leaves rustled in the breeze And they replied authoritatively: Don't shun the world, shed it If anyone you meet does not believe it You tell them the talking trees have decreed it" This is a screen printed version of the original linoleum block print of the same size. A second color (light blue) is a screen print from a line drawing. It's finished off with a very light spray paint stencil dusting of blue sky. 2 color screen print with spray paint stencil acid free paper printmaking paper 15.5" x 48" signed/edition of 10 ]]> tag:www.justseeds.org,2009://41.3636 2009-06-19T21:12:08Z 2009-06-20T19:03:46Z

Chris Stain Esperanza Stencil and Screen Print $50

Chris Stain Chris Stain Esperanza $50 Esperanza means Hope in Spanish. Stencil and Screen Print (2 color) 25" W x 19" H Archival Paper Signed/numbered/edition of 23 ]]> tag:www.justseeds.org,2009://41.3649 2009-06-18T12:48:51Z 2009-06-18T13:17:45Z

Ben Shahn/War Resisters League Gandhi 1 color offset printed poster $20

Josh M. www.justseeds.org Ben Shahn/War Resisters League Gandhi $20 Ben Shahn is an important point of reference for a number of Justseeds artists, so we are extremely excited to be able to offer this Ben Shahn poster for the War Resisters League. Produced by the WRL back in 1983 as a commemoration of their 60th anniversary, we have a small number of these original posters available. "I do not want merely to appeal to your head, I want to capture your heart." -Gandhi Ben Shahn (1898–1969) is one of the best known and most celebrated American social realists. He is most well known for his socially engaged and left-wing paintings, he also produced murals, illustrations, prints, essays and books. Some of his most powerful work is a series of paintings and drawings created in support of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. 1 color offset printed poster (brown ink on cream colored paper) 11"x17"' unsigned/unnumbered ]]> tag:www.justseeds.org,2009://41.3664 2009-06-17T12:23:31Z 2009-06-17T15:41:58Z

Justseeds Cooperative Which Side Are You On? exhibition catalog $7

Nicolas Lampert ]]> ]]> tag:www.justseeds.org,2009://41.3663 2009-06-16T12:39:36Z 2009-06-16T12:53:45Z

Nicolas Lampert Missing: 2.3 Million Americans silkscreen $20

Nicolas Lampert Nicolas Lampert Missing: 2.3 Million Americans $20 This is the print that I made for the Justseeds Portfolio Project in honor of Critical Resistance's 10 Year anniversary. It is a graphic that asks us to pay attention to the staggering number of people locked up in the US and its impact on the community. three color screenprint 12" x 24" heavy duty acid-free paper signed ]]> tag:www.justseeds.org,2008://41.3109 2009-06-15T21:29:46Z 2009-06-26T00:56:13Z

Dylan Miner, Favianna Rodriguez, Artemio Rodriguez, Melanie Cervantes & Jesús Barraza Immigration Poster Series set of 5 offset posters $35

icky Dylan Miner, Favianna Rodriguez, Artemio Rodriguez, Melanie Cervantes and Jesús Barraza Immigration Poster Series $35 for set of 5 posters (1 of each design) This series was created for use by international immigrant rights organizations. The posters are all printed in English and Spanish, some with additional languages. Dylan's includes Arabic, Nahuatl, and Ojibwemowin. Full-color offset 85 cm x 55 cm Unsigned/Unnumbered ]]> tag:www.justseeds.org,2009://41.3641 2009-06-15T12:30:14Z 2009-06-15T13:15:53Z

Freda Guttman Postcards from the Promised Land 8 full color cardstock postcards $6

Josh M. www.justseeds.org Freda Guttman Postcards from the Promised Land $6 This amazing object doubles as both a seemingly innocuous accordian-style folded postcard set you would buy in any number of tourist locations and a biting and powerful conceptual art project. Guttman has collected eight images of the transformation of the Abu Ghniem Mountain in Palestine from an open and forested mountainous area into an enclosed and fenced off illegal Israeli settlement. Each card shows the steps through which the mountain disappears and settlement grows. On the back of the cards is a chronology of events and the story of the land as told through Israeli government documents. Guttman is a longtime Montreal-based activist and artist. 8 full color cardstock postcards attached in a single strip unsigned ]]> tag:www.justseeds.org,2009://41.3648 2009-06-14T12:55:48Z 2009-06-25T15:04:44Z

Peg Averill Capital Punishment 2 color offset printed poster $20

Josh M. www.justseeds.org WIN. 2 color offset printed poster 16"x20" unsigned/unnumbered (although we only have a limited number of copies)]]> ]]> tag:www.justseeds.org,2009://41.3561 2009-06-13T12:23:39Z 2009-06-13T13:39:38Z

Chris Stain Someday (2 color) Screen Print/Hand colored $25

Chris Stain Chris Stain Someday (2 color) $25 Screen Print/Hand colored 8.5"x11" Archival Paper Signed/Numbered edition of 23 ]]>