Firebrands: Activists You Didn’t Learn About in School
Justseeds Collaboration
$14.95
Colin Matthes
Milwaukee, WI, United States
Colin Matthes, a visual artist and printmaker, works collectively with Justseeds and makes individual work about engineering the absurd. One of the banner images above is from Green Mini Demo Derby, a solar powered remote control car demolition derby at the 26th Annual Energy Fair in Custer, WI.
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Anti-capitalismAnti-warCulture & MediaEcology & AnimalsEducationEn EspañolEnvironment & ClimateGlobal SolidarityHistoryIndigenous ResistanceInspirationLaborMigrationPolice & Prisons Associated Projects
Celebrate People’s History Poster Series, Cut and Paint, 2022 Community Supported Art | Hope as a Discipline: Rest, Restore, Revolution, Firebrands: Activists You Didn’t Learn About in School, Street Art Workers, IVAW: Operation Recovery / Operation Exposure
Poncho Lean-To
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We Are All In This Together: exhibition catalog
Justseeds Collaboration
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Making a Horseshoe Pack
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Emergency Diapers
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Book Code
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Clearing a Building in Urban Warfare
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Escaping a Sinking Motor Vehicle
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Quick Weapons
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We Are All In This Together
Colin Matthes & Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment
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Numbers
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We Are All In This Together
$30
Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Justseeds Collaboration
$300
Resourced
Justseeds Collaboration
$250
War Is Trauma
Justseeds Collaboration
$300
Threesome
$15
Payday
$90
Justice at Smithfield
$10
Personal Continuous Evacuation Dwelling
$60
Every 30 Minutes
$25
WERKKAMP
$60
War Is Trauma
$7.50
The Most Destructive Project on Earth
$15
Eugene Cherry : War Resister
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Total Essential Knowledge: a collaborative graphic communication archive
July 25, 2017
“no one is an expert in everything, but everyone is an expert in something” For the past couple years I’ve been facilitating Total Essential Knowledge events that use conversation and drawing…
Packing a Go Bag (Essential Knowledge post 10)
January 11, 2017
Another image that is part of Essential Knowledge: a series of instructional drawings teaching basic skills for success in challenging situations. I made this one while preparing for the birth of my…
Starting a Fire (Essential Knowledge post 9)
December 28, 2016
Another image that is part of Essential Knowledge: a series of instructional drawings teaching basic skills for success in challenging situations. This is an early one. One person I met took a look…
Tying Knots (Essential Knowledge post 8)
December 14, 2016
Another image that is part of Essential Knowledge: a series of instructional drawings teaching basic skills for success in challenging situations. This is an early one. It is also available as part of…
Making a Boat (Essential Knowledge post 7)
November 30, 2016
Another image that is part of Essential Knowledge: a series of instructional drawings teaching basic skills for success in challenging situations. I made this one after pulling all the salvageable electrical out of…
Encoding Messages (Essential Knowledge post 6)
November 16, 2016
Another image that is part of Essential Knowledge: a series of instructional drawings teaching basic skills for success in challenging situations. This one was influenced by some weird rightwing militia audiobook. It is…
Calming Your Newborn (Essential Knowledge post 5)
November 2, 2016
Another image that is part of Essential Knowledge: a series of instructional drawings teaching basic skills for success in challenging situations. I made this one while trying to learn as much as possible…
Mass Exodus (Essential Knowledge post 4)
October 19, 2016
Another image that is part of Essential Knowledge: a series of instructional drawings teaching basic skills for success in challenging situations. I made this one while living and working along the Schelde (river) in…
Breaking Down a Door (Essential Knowledge post 3)
October 5, 2016
Another image that is part of Essential Knowledge: a series of instructional drawings teaching basic skills for success in challenging situations. I made this one after leaving rural Ireland and thinking about what…
Grizzly Attack (Essential Knowledge post 2)
September 21, 2016
A recent image that is a part of Essential Knowledge: a series of instructional drawings teaching basic skills for success in challenging situations. I got obsessed with bear attacks when we were…
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes at Milwaukee Film Festival
September 18, 2016
Justseeds is a community partner with the Milwaukee Film Festival again this year. We are partnering with the film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, which I am really looking forward to…
Essential Knowledge: a series of instructional drawings teaching basic skills for success in challenging situations
September 14, 2016
In 2011 and 2012 I was living on on the barren Atlantic coast of Ireland where the weather is an ever present and dominating factor in peoples’ daily lives. From…
Green Mini Demo Derby
June 13, 2016
The Green Mini Demo Derby, a solar powered remote control car demolition derby will be at the 27th Annual Energy Fair in Custer Wisconsin this weekend. Come by and say…
We are the Storm Portfolio at the Energy Fair, Custer, WI
June 11, 2016
The We are the Storm portfolio will be on display at the Energy Fair in Custer, WI (June 17-19, 2016). Come check it out and say hi. A little bit…
Muhammad Ali
June 4, 2016
Muhammad Ali passed away yesterday at age 74. A poet boxer, Ali publicly announced his conversion to the nation of Islam the day after he won the title of heavyweight…
A Call To Halt. Exhibition by Brandon Bauer
December 27, 2013
A Call To Halt: A multimedia installation and critical timeline of the Euromissiles Crisis, and of the nuclear abolition movement in the United States from 1977-1987 is a new project…
Green Mini Demo Derby – Championship on November 14th
November 6, 2013
This year I put a ridiculous amount of time and energy into making a solar powered remote control car demolition derby (Green Mini Demo Derby). From asking numerous businesses if…
Justseeds Sponsors Narco Cultura at the Milwaukee Film Festival
September 23, 2013
Justseeds is sponsoring a film at the Milwaukee Film Festival this year. It looks fantastic. Narco Cultura – USA | 2012 | 106 min. Director: Shaul Schwarz In Ciudad Juarez,…
Green Mini Demo Derby – in progress
August 9, 2013
I’m excited to finally have completed the first car for my upcoming Green Mini Demo Derby. I have sponsors that will have their own hand painted cars. After many tests,…
Drawing All the Time : Week 68
April 24, 2013
Care Package #1
Justseeds Collaboration
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Stand courageously … —Rev, Barber
Unity
Wellspring Portfolio
Justseeds Collaboration
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We Are The Storm Graphics
Justseeds Collaboration
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Making Saltwater Drinkable
People’s Climate March: Downloadable Posters
Justseeds Collaboration
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Solidarity Across Borders
Wisconsin Downloadable Graphic – Post Recall
Eugene Cherry
Closed For Democracy
Union Made (downloadable graphic)
Resourced Portolio
Justseeds Collaboration
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Format: PDF
Tar Sands: The Most Destructive Project On Earth
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Take a Punch
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Be the Change! a Justseeds Coloring Book
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What Will You Build/Resist Today?
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Good Cheap Coffee
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How to Survive a Black Bear Encounter
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Stand Courageously…
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Making a Boat From the Ruins of a Gas Station
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Starting a Fire
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Hotwiring a Car
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Breaking Down a Door
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Purifying Water
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Solidarity Across Borders
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Wellspring
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Workers of Wisconsin Unite!
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