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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This conversation with A3BC (Anti-War, Anti-Nuclear, and Arts Blockprinting Collective) took place over zoom on April 27th, 2022. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding…
This conversation with Judy Seidman took place over zoom on March 9th, 2022. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding with political graphics producers under…
This conversation with Sandy Kaltenborn took place over zoom on February 16th, 2022. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding with political graphics producers under…
We recently received a note from Amer Shomali, artist and designer who is a participant in the Imaging Apartheid Project. A version of his Visit Palestine poster used in Austria…
This conversation with Tomie Arai took place over zoom on November 3rd, 2021. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding with political graphics producers under…
For the past 3 years I’ve been working on an artist book about the red flag, and in particular the song of the same name, written by Jim Connell during…
I just received some great documentation by Mark Williams of my ¡Graphic Liberation! exhibition and workshop at Colgate University. I’m going to use his photos to walk everyone through the…
This conversation I had with Daniel Drennan ElAwar (Jamaa Al-Yad) took place over zoom on September 29th, 2021. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding…
My friend Tinashe Mushakavanhu (co-founder of the fabulous Reading Zimbabwe project) was recently on the WISER podcast “discussing the coup of November 2017 in Zimbabwe, the death of Robert Mugabe,…
Last week I got a great message in my inbox, a summer playlist by the Trust Your Struggle crew. It immediately made me think we should pull a playlist together…