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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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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
“Up above the land, in the clouds, borderless.” A new short video from long-time Justseeds friend and comrade, Portland based filmmaker Vanessa Renwick.
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…
I made this sign for the local needle exchange and learned three things:
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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…
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…
Wheat paste found in Pittsburgh, PA, picture taken last November.
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…
Rockwell Kent has been a big influence on more than a few of us here at Justseeds. He was a prolific draftsman whose illustrations dominated book design and advertising in…