The new Justseeds Poor People’s Campaign portfolio is just one example of artists getting involved with this self proclaimed “new and unsettling force.” Over the past several weeks the campaign...
Last month justseeds artist, Jess X. Snow, and friends Layqa Nuna Yawar and Tani Ikeda created “A Monument for Survival”–a mural installation for @werise_la for the movement Survivor Love Letter. #Survivorloveletter...
In order to not wait months between posts, I’m going to just share some individual books I’ve picked up over the last couple years that are extraordinary in some way....
The fifteenth Endangered Species Mural is complete! This one is located on the corner of Washington and Tenth streets in the small town of Cottage Grove, Oregon, at the southern...
from the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NYC (thanks Josh!) Looking back over the thumbnails on the DIYDPW blog channel page of all of these posts over the last few...
From the end of April through June, the French left daily newspaper l’Humanité has been publishing a full color political poster in each issue. The poster project is the work...
Earlier this year I was humbled to get the chance to interview the amazing political artist Jane Norling. One powerful project Jane was involved in was the San Francisco based...
Three of the most significant social realist printmakers working in the US in the second half of the 20th Century were Leonard Baskin, Antonio Frasconi, and Ben Shahn. While all...
I’d like to share an inspiring new documentary film with you. The film is called, “Our Bodies Our Doctors” a feature-length film that tells the rarely-discussed story of what it...
I left Portland at about eight o’clock on a Thursday night, after a cruise through the art shows downtown. The sun had set by the time I reached Celilo Park,...
“Until there is equal accountability for murder, it is totally fair to KILL COPS.” Williamsburg Bridge, Manhattan, NY April 26, 2018 Police are rarely charged even less convicted of murder...
Gardening is a large part of my practice from April through November. We’ve got a greenhouse where we have maintained rosemary through the winter to harvest for homemade bread, and...
While there is a fair amount of literature out there on the “paperback revolution” and the sea change in publications created by the Pocket Books imprint in the US (founded...
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a...
Hey! I wanted to share with you some information about a great project from two friends of mine, please support it if you can: Up on the Mountain is...
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a...
Erin Yanke and I completed the first two episodes a new podcast about harm reduction called Bright Spark. With this podcast we will focus on people doing creative work in...
For well over a hundred years, peeps around the world have called in sick and caused some major fucking rukus on May Day. From Chile to France, ninjas take the...
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-beehive#/ “I began to realise that if I was getting into so much trouble—owning my own house and a newspaper—what hope would a pensioner have?” Juanita Nielsen, 1973. The Beehive will tell...
Safe Among The Stars is a short film directed by justseeds artist Jess X. Snow about a queer Asian American woman (starring Poppy Liu and their mom, Leah and Vera...
In February of this year I had the good fortune to travel to Jacmel, Haiti, to teach a class on screenprinting at a small community arts center called Jakmel Ekspresyon....
I had a lot of fun helping out at the Poor People’s Campaign NYC art build at the Union Theological Seminary, a couple weekends back. Below are a couple of...
Problems with tenants. Kill Yer Landlord. Bedford Ave & Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY March 30, 2018 I found the original advertisement offering eviction services much more offensive when I passed...
Last month Princeton Architectural Press published Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest, a timely collection of political posters responding to today’s issues and struggles. It’s a beautifully produced book, and...
I recently was invited by the rad Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis to decorate one of the tables they’ve set up in their new cafe and restaurant over-looking the bookstore....
Each year we carry the Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar by the Certain Days Collective, and each year they sell out fast. They’re broadcasting their call for imagery and writing...
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a...
Chip Thomas inspires. Powerful short documentary video on Chip Thomas (Jetsonorama) that was produced by KQED Arts. Street Artist Reflects Native American Dignity at a Monumental Scale When images of...
MonicaTrinidad at Do Not Resist exhibition. Photo by Love & Struggle photos. A growing number of artists have been responding to social issues and making political work. Yet, fewer have been...
I’ve been thinking a lot about flags lately. What will be the symbols of our movement in the future? Here’s one offering. I’m inspired by the Third World internationalism of...
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a...
EPIC Bee was inspired by the logo for Upton Sinclair’s EPIC movement (End Poverty In California) from the 1930s. Sinclair’s plan called for a massive public works program, sweeping tax...
–Photo by Hazael R., www.flickr.com/photos/tuitstar On September 19 of last year at 1:14 pm, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit central Mexico, affecting the states of Puebla, Morelos, Mexico State, and Mexico...
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a...
Jane Norling is an artist activist with an inspiring past. For fifty years, as a painter, graphic designer, and public artist, she’s created community murals, graphic designs for social and...
In the rapidly-gentrifying and deeply self-satisfied cultural landscape of Portland, OR, there are few political institutions with any lengthy history of integrity. One of those is our colleague Charles, who...
In early March I helped to organize a banner-painting Propaganda Party at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, over three lunchtimes in the school’s central atrium. I’m the Cultural...
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a...
There are a couple really sweet spots (for me) where book cover design starts to feel sublime, and one of these is the “Green Period” of the Penguin crime series...