“To be honest, I carry all of them with me now. I’ve spent as many hours studying their features as I did studying their histories, and I feel a responsibility...
The incoming tide of fascism in Brazil is breaking on the shores of Rio. The government of the state of Rio de Janeiro shut down today an art exhibit at...
I recently finished a residency at the Arrowmont School of Art and Craft in eastern Tennessee. This was different from the residencies I normally do- instead of working on print...
January 1st 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the EZLN (Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional-Zapatista Army for National Liberation) uprising in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas. Their struggle for...
I came across this on Twitter last week: a newly compiled version of Ed Mead’s 80’s text adventure “The Warden Game“. Ed was a member of working-class anticapitalist urban guerrilla...
Spruce St Kingston, NY
SLOW Chester, NY
There is power in a union. There is power in solidarity. And there is power in art. Last weekend these themes were on full display during a three-day art build...
Freedom. Brooklyn, October 2015. Sometimes, not on the wall, but read on the ground. Was someone writing their name? Or is the land screaming to be liberated?!
No Parking On Sidewalk Hoyt St, Brooklyn, NY
Communism is just a sticker away England. October 27, 2013
If you’ve found yourself at the levers of a small, even tiny, community project or non-profit, you’ve probably had to confront the uncomfortable reality of needing to pump people...
Tré Seals is a designer who is working to create fonts out of the letters on Civil Rights era protest signs. I interviewed him via email. How did you get...
The painful reality of this political moment is personal for many of us. As Kavanaugh becomes our new Supreme Court justice, let the survivors of the world know that not...
The publisher of our Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture, PM Press, is having a big sale this month, where you can get 40% off all issues...
GO OUT SIDE —- PLAY Williamsburg, NY July 21, 2018
Be Quiet Curb Yuor Dog Watch our Kids This is Your Block Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
“Nothing cuts off self-determination more efficiently than eradicating its language. Replacing it with misdirecting prattle… is a magnificent coup for those who would like to keep us wary of one another.”...
This past Sunday I organized (along with Monica and Interference Archive’s Radical Playdate) a kids flag making workshop in connection with For Which It Stands, an exhibition at the Old...
Our friends at AK Press just let us know that there are still about 20 Sue Coe prints that are available FREE with a pre-order of Coe’s new book Zooicide!...
Fotos: Andalusia Knoll Soloff Hace un año, en el 19 de septiembre 2017, tocó un fuerte temblor en las zonas alrededor la Ciudad de México que causó mucho daño y perdida...
In 2016, I was humbled to be asked to teach at Stateville Prison with the Prison & Neighborhood Arts Project (P+NAP), a program that connects teaching artists and scholars to...
This is the second in a series of posts about a visit to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Eastern Washington state, and the fate of the uranium ores found in...
This is an audio dispatch from No Borders Media. Earlier today, the Supreme Court of India issued a unanimous decision, overturning section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalized...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights portfolio created by Meredith Stern is on display for the month of September at 159 Sutton Street in Providence. There is a gallery opening...
The sixteenth of the Endangered Species Murals is finished! This big wall is located near the Convention Center in downtown El Paso, Texas, and features five endangered species from the...
Animal X-ing/Cars Stop! Campbell Hall, NY People Xing/Cars Stop! Campbell Hall, NY
This past week my daughter and I visited fellow Justseeds artist Chip Thomas on the Navajo Reservation. We traveled there for multiple reasons: to spend time with Chip, to see...
Slow Down! Fawn, Rosendale, NY
People create all sorts of signage and barriers when its time for block parties. Park Slope, Brooklyn
I was surprised to stumble on this really nicely designed book by and about the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, published in 1971 by Collier, a major publishing house. It’s...
No More Pollution Please Overflows to the Gowanus Canal Brooklyn, NY August 15, 2018 Most of NYC’s 150 year old sewage system is combined with stormwater runoff, according to Swim...
Much of my art is created for use by activist organizations, most of it is individually created, things like poster designs, block prints or etchings. I’m happy in this work....
Park Slope, Brooklyn. DIYDPW is a frequent blog post highlighting global examples of Do It Yourself Department of Public Works projects. These are defined as any examples of municipal signage...
The world entered the nuclear age with the A-bombing of Hiroshima at 8:15 A.M. on August 6, 1945. Ever since then, there has been a growing desire by humankind for...
I’ve spent the last six days on the Pacific Ocean, in transit from San Diego, CA to Astoria, OR aboard the R/V Falkor, the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s big research vessel....
I found this amazing Canadian manual for printmaker safety earlier this year. The design is by Karen Patkau, and wonderfully captures the kind of overlap I find so visually enjoyable...
This is the first in a series of posts about a visit to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Eastern Washington state, and the fate of the uranium ores found in...
I excited that I’ve just had a piece I wrote on the social and design histories of Heinemann’s African Writers Series published on the Lapham’s Quarterly website. I’m planning on...
From the mid-1990s through the early 2000s, young radicals in the U.S. really only had one choice for a day planner, the Slingshot Organizer. I always had a love/hate relationship...