This Friday September 12, Justseeds is part of a one night art show at Liberty Hall in Portland. This show should be good, the walls will be filled with the block prints and stencils of ASARO, Taring Padi, and Justseeds artists. This show is part of the opening of Portland Grassroots Media Camp.
Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca: ASARO is a collective of young artists who came together during the widespread popular movement in response to political turmoil in Oaxaca. They have dedicated themselves to making accessible popular art, plastering the walls of Oaxaca’s capital city with prints, posters, graffiti and stencils that reflect the demands and vision of the popular movement.
TARING PADI: Taring Padi, translated as Fangs of Rice, is self-described as an “independent non-profit cultural community based on the concept of peoples’ culture.” Squatting an abandoned art school campus, they arose in the midst of major social uprising and political reformation in Indonesia in 1998 when the corrupt dictator President Surharto was forced out of office.