Portland, OR, United States
Roger Peet is an artist, printmaker, muralist etc. etc. living in Portland, Oregon. His work tends to focus on civilized bad ideas, predator-prey relationships, and the contemporary crises of biodiversity and Capitalism and what can and can't be done about them. He coordinates the national Endangered Species Mural Project, and helps to run the cooperative Flight 64 print studio in Portland. He collaborates with artists, activists and scientists globally and locally in the service of a more generous and a wilder world. Get t-shirts of some designs here: https://www.bonfire.com/store/toosphexy/
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A new entry in the ongoing Endangered Species Mural Project just wrapped up in the small village of Shoshone, CA, on the edge of Death Valley. The mural is on…
I’ve been at an art residency in Tanzania for a bit more than three weeks now, at an art space in the Mikocheni neighborhood of Dar es Salaam called Nafasi….
I wrote this piece to accompany the second edition of this print. If you’re like me, and sorry in advance, you have spent a lot of your life wondering exactly…
Last week my art-and-life partner Erica Thomas and I collaborated on a small banner for a potential upcoming strike at Portland City Hall. The city workers organized with District Council…
Seems strange to post about good news, but I will absolutely take it where I find it. This week, there were two victories in campaigns that I’ve been associated with,…
In the first weeks of October, 2021, I traveled to Del Rio, Texas to paint the 26th installment in the Endangered Species Mural Project, an effort to paint murals of…
I spent a few days last month in Barcelona, and had the opportunity to visit the impressive (formerly) squatted social and labor center Can Batlló, located in the city’s Sants…
This design is based on a linocut that I’m eventually going to make into a formal print on paper, but I haven’t quite managed to do so yet. In the…
During the pandemic I got to know my letterpress. I spent many of the smoke-filled, fire-blasted, locked-down and dark months carving and printing the blocks for my first artist book,…
The Civil Liberties Defense Council commissioned me to make a comic illustrating the ongoing struggle against oil-giant Chevron, and their attempts to avoid the consequences of massively polluting the Ecuadorian…
I’ve been working on a few poster designs for a commission from Aaron Huey of the Amplifier Foundation and National Geographic magazine. Each poster involves my interpretations of iconic photographs…
PM Press hired me to create a bilingual bandana for the powerhouse border organization No More Deaths. If you haven’t heard of them, NMD is on the frontlines of migrant…
This is the second video in a series of animated shorts that I’m helping to create for the good people at Mongabay.com. It’s an animated explainer that aims to describe…
I’ve just returned to Portland from a swing through the high plateaus of the southwest, escaping the Portland cloud and retaining social distance. Being away from the studio meant that…
Justseeds artist Kill Joy has coordinated a rush job of poster design, enlisting several artists from the cooperative to produce images for a push for rigorous climate action by the…
Over the past four or five years I’ve designed and produced a series of banners, signs, stickers and posters to support the ongoing struggle against the Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural…
I was invited by the Pequot Library in Southport, CT to give a talk about the Migration Now! portfolio, which I co-produced with Favianna Rodriguez. It was great to get…
This summer I worked on a really interesting project that was something pretty new to me: an animated explainer about the current situation of the endangered Sumatran Rhinoceros, created for…
I’ve been designing and painting some banners for upcoming rallies that will take place after the elexecution (not my joke) is over. It’s been pretty cathartic to imagine (with a…
If you’ve been following my research and writings here about the legacy of DR Congo’s Shinkolobwe mine (the source of the impossibly powerful uranium ore that made the Manhattan Project…