Josh MacPhee
Brooklyn, NY, United States
Josh MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn, NY (InterferenceArchive.org). MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now and Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. He has organized the Celebrate People's History poster series since 1998 and has been designing book covers for many publishers for the past decade (AntumbraDesign.org). His most recent book is An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels (Common Notions, 2019), a compendium of information about political music and radical cultural production. He can be contacted via josh (at) justseeds.org
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AnarchismAnti-capitalismAnti-warCulture & MediaGlobal SolidarityHistoryHousing & CitiesLaborPolice & PrisonsRacial JusticeSocial Movements Associated Projects
Interference Archive, Celebrate People’s History Poster Series, Street Art Workers, Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture, Inaugurating Resistance, Firebrands: Activists You Didn’t Learn About in School, Imaging Apartheid, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, Pound the Pavement, Cut and Paint, Graphic Liberation!: Perspectives on Image Making and Political Movements
Toward Radical Futures: a Justseeds Coloring Book
Justseeds Collaboration
$15
Toward Radical Futures: a Justseeds Coloring Book Bundle of 10
Justseeds Collaboration
$120
Fuck Work (mini-prints)
$5
Give Vent to the Spirit of Liberty
$65
Let All Government Cease from the Face of the Earth
$65
Openness Requires Choice
$65
Hands Off Trans Kids
$12
Signal:08
$14.95
Undocumented and Unafraid
$65
Our Bodies Our Resistance Portfolio
Justseeds Collaboration
$150
No One Is Illegal Diptych
$50
Voices Across Borders
May 31, 2023
A mix for Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative This mix features mostly local Montreal artists, particularly musicians, who have been involved in the intersections of social movements and the arts. I have…
Free Download of Chris Stain’s Stencil Printmaking History & How-To
May 9, 2023
Chris recently sent over a link for a free download of his great stencil how-to book he’s used for multiple workshops and art courses. It’s got a nice overview of…
New Shirts!
February 7, 2023
After many years of people asking if I had any shirts of many of my graphics, I’ve finally launched a new shirt store! I’m testing things out on Bonfire, starting…
Graphic Liberation at the Opalka Gallery
October 31, 2022
Over the past six weeks my Graphic Liberation! exhibition has been housed at the Opalka Gallery at Russell Sage College in Albany, NY. A set of interchangeable and interactive projects…
Mission Gráfica: Reflecting a Community in Print
October 18, 2022
This just in! One of the key community print shops in the US—Mission Gráfica in San Francisco—is putting together a book documenting its 40-year history. Written by Art Hazelwood, a…
Justseeds Member Playlists: Summer 2022
August 2, 2022
Last week I posted a collective playlist compiled from Justseeds member favorite spins this summer. Today I’m posting the full lists ten folks sent me, so you can dive deeper…
Justseeds Summer 2022 Playlist
July 29, 2022
Music has always been important to us over here (there? everywhere?) at Justseeds. Many members are in or have spent considerable time with bands and other musical projects, others have…
Celebrate People’s History at Mt. Holyoke
July 7, 2022
A couple years back I was contacted by Amanda Maciuba, a printmaking professor at Mt. Holyoke College in Western Massachusetts. For a number of years she has been using my…
We Want Everything
June 6, 2022
My exhibition We Want Everything closes this Friday at the Reinberger Gallery at the Cleveland Institute of Art! I’m really proud of this show, in many ways it is the…
Graphic Liberation! at George Mason University
June 1, 2022
In January and February my Graphic Liberation exhibition was installed at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. It was part of a set of installs of an evolving body of…
It’s Right to Rebel
May 25, 2022
In late 2020 I was contacted by Brage Aronson, who runs the small Norwegian record label Plateselskapet No. 13 (“Record Company #13). He was working on a new release and…
Graphic Liberation! with Tings Chak
May 24, 2022
This conversation with Tings Chak took place over zoom on April 15th, 2022. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding with political graphics producers under…
Free Free Palestine
Gaza Ceasefire
Palestine will be free! Graphic Care Package
Justseeds Collaboration
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Justseeds Font Pack 12
Justseeds Vintage Sticker Grab Bag
Justseeds Collaboration
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There are Other Stories to Be Told
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I Don’t Respect This Law…
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Untitled
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Prisons are a Black Hole
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God Bless Graffiti
Daniel Tucker & Josh MacPhee
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Tierra y Libertad
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Security
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Rebirth
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The Readers (3)
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Are We Free Yet?
Abdulrahman Naanseh & Josh MacPhee
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