Alec Dunn
Portland, OR, United States
Alec is a printer and illustrator living in Portland, OR. He is a nurse who works in critical care and harm reduction. He co-edits Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture along with Josh MacPhee.
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Other Media
Firebrands: Activists You Didn’t Learn About in School
Justseeds Collaboration
$14.95
The City is Yours
$10
Imaging Nursing
$20
Signal:06
$14.95
Commonwealth: Water for All
Justseeds Collaboration
$120
Signal:05
$13
War Is Trauma
Justseeds Collaboration
$300
Signal Combo Pack
$60
Signal:04
$13
Signal:03
$14.95
Maggots & Men
Alec Dunn & Interference Archive
$15
Signal:07 Editors’ Roundup
August 26, 2021
Way back in the summer of 2019 Josh MacPhee and I started putting together the new issue of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture, our seventh in…
Creating Graphics for Health
March 30, 2021
I’ve been working in both medicine and harm reduction for a decade now and have been trying to bridge my art/design background and my practices in street medicine and harm…
It Did Happen Here
November 13, 2020
It Did Happen Here is an independently produced podcast that documents the organizing and unapologetic street battles against racist white skinheads as various anti-fascist activists in Portland, Oregon struggled to defend…
Interview with Pilar Emitxin
September 10, 2020
I encountered the liberatory and feminist graphic work of Pilar Emitxin through instagram, where we exchanged some mutual likes and had some of the same people in our networks. I…
Rebel Archives in the Golden Gulag
July 23, 2020
Two UCLA grad students in information studies have assembled an online archive of struggles around justice and prison abolition in California, called Rebel Archives in Golden Gulag (a nod to…
April Drawings
April 20, 2020
It’s been hard to know to make graphics and art that responds to the terrible and evolving situation that we are in. Our realities shift so quickly that an idea…
Bright Spark #5: A Podcast About Harm Reduction
May 23, 2019
Erin Yanke and I recently finished up a recent edition of our newest podcast about harm reduction. In this episode we interviewed Michael Gilbert- a public health technologist and harm…
Up on the Mountain
May 16, 2018
Hey! I wanted to share with you some information about a great project from two friends of mine, please support it if you can: Up on the Mountain is…
Bright Spark: A Podcast About Harm Reduction
May 9, 2018
Erin Yanke and I completed the first two episodes a new podcast about harm reduction called Bright Spark. With this podcast we will focus on people doing creative work in…
Signal:06 Editors Round-Up
February 19, 2018
Fresh from the printers is the sixth and latest issue of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture. Signal is edited by Josh MacPhee and I and it…
Help send Pangrok Sulap to Spain!
April 28, 2017
Pangrok Sulap is an activist print-arts collective based out of Sabah, Malaysia. They are an amazing group that does movement based art works with local communities, particularly on issues of…
Imaging Nursing
February 1, 2017
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,…
Land of the Free
December 7, 2016
“Up above the land, in the clouds, borderless.” A new short video from long-time Justseeds friend and comrade, Portland based filmmaker Vanessa Renwick.
Apartheid IsRael
April 10, 2016
Here’s a link to an article about a cool political art project that took place on the London subway. The action was conducted last month by London Palestine Action: We…
Sign Painting
November 5, 2015
I made this sign for the local needle exchange and learned three things:
Erik Ruin’s “Prisoner’s Song” reviewed in the New York Times
October 16, 2015
The review is here.
Signal:04 Editors’ Round Up
June 7, 2015
Signal is journal of international political graphics and culture and is edited by Josh MacPhee and myself (Alec Dunn). We produce Signal because we believe that art and culture…
Wolf Patrol Online Exhibit
March 9, 2015
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…
Pittsburgh, PA, November 2014
January 24, 2015
Wheat paste found in Pittsburgh, PA, picture taken last November.
Shahn and Bryson Post Office Murals, The Bronx
January 22, 2015
Last summer I was in lower Manhattan and had 6 hours to kill before a meeting Washington Heights. l took the opportunity to visit the Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson…
Harm Reduction Healthcare Graphics and Information
Healthcare for All!
Care Package #1
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 128.96 MB
Format: mixed
Healthcare for All (Sunrise)
Liberating Learning
Operation Recovery
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 9.90 MB
Format: PDF zine
Travis Bishop
Stop the Deployment of Traumatized Troops
Resourced Portolio
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 39.01 MB
Format: PDF
We Agree! No LNG!
Portrait of Yuri Kochiyama
John Brown in Kansas
Odo’s Prison Letters
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The Day Before the Revolution
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We Are All In This Together: exhibition catalog
Justseeds Collaboration
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Commune
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Commerce II
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The Idea
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Portrait of Yuri Kochiyama
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Ghost Ship
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The Flood
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