Portland, OR, United States
Roger Peet is an artist, printmaker, muralist and writer living in Portland, Oregon. His visual 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. His writing addresses the politics and history of social relationships with the natural world. He is a founding member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative 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/. Contact: toosphexy at gmail or @toosphexy on most social media.
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Here’s a recap of some tools for protest and organizing that I’ve produced over the last couple of months. Most of the organizing I do these days happens under the…
We will be tabling at the NWTSJ at Parkrose Highschool in sunny, war-torn Portland Oregon this Saturday October 18th. More info about the conference (a must for regional radical educators)…
I spent two weeks in August in Japan; ten days in Hiroshima as part of an art exhibit at a space called Gallery G, and then a few days in…
Earlier this year I was invited onto the podcast “Art in Action”, hosted by Justseeds fellow-traveler Stefan Christoff on Free City Radio in MontrĂ©al, Canada. It was a very interesting…
In April I had the honor of showing the body of work that surrounds the big Shinkolobwe map in an exhibit entitled “Dig Up The Sun” at Watershed Arts and…
I have two things out on CounterPunch Media this month- an article on the website and an appearance on CounterPunch Radio, the in-house podcast. On the CounterPunch website: I wrote…
I recently spent two weeks in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, collaborating with the artists of Taring Padi on a new artist book about the legacy of the political genocide of 1965. Taring…
I wrote an article for the Counterpunch website about my recent experience attending and participating in the 8th Lubumbashi Biennial. I was invited to participate by the Picha Art Collective,…
In May of this year I drove out from Portland to the small town of Condon, OR, to paint a mural. The subject was steelhead, a large and beautiful species…
New Seasons Labor Union confronts the boss at the “nicest grocery in Portland” In August one of Portland’s newest independent unions approached me with a request: they wanted some signs…
Late last year the computer-chip manufacturer Intel announced that it was planning a $25 billion expansion of its factory at Kiryat Gat in Israel, just miles from the border of…
I picked 8 images from our free graphics packages and had them reproduced on newsprint by a local web press. 2000 of each, so 16000 total posters! I’ve been shipping…