Signs for a Strike
September 19, 2024
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…
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Victory at Intel
July 2, 2024
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…
Big Props for Nakba Day 76
May 22, 2024
Papier-maché symbols of solidarity with Palestine I was helping to organize a march and rally in Portland to commemorate Nakba Day, the 76th anniversary of the Catastrophe which marks the…
Support Needed for Palestinians Fleeing Gaza: A reflection on the last 97 days of horror
January 11, 2024
Once again unable to sleep, I write this blog on a cold rainy Portland morning, as today, in a historic move towards Palestinian freedom, South Africa takes Israel to the…
Justseeds artists in the streets for Palestine
November 26, 2023
Justseeds artists have been producing art in solidarity with the people of Palestine in cities across North America; painting banners, placards, flags for actions and interventions, and silkscreen-printing posters, picket…
Graphics for the UPS strike
July 14, 2023
The Teamsters union is about to go on strike against UPS. If they do, it would be the largest strike against a single business in the history of the USA….
Harvesting the Wisdom of our Ancestors
December 28, 2022
With Visioning Colibrí, I set out to visualize the future of Hummingbird Farm, an urban agriculture project created and stewarded by PODER, an environmental justice organization growing out of the…
Unionizing Starbucks in Portland
June 3, 2022
Across the USA, a wave of union activity is hitting the ubiquitous storefronts of the Starbucks brand. The baristas and “partners” calling for union elections are on the frontline of…
Justseeds X NRDC on Vocalo Radio
April 26, 2022
We are thrilled to share a brief audio spotlight from Vocalo Radio‘s reporter Ari Mejia on the recent Justseeds collaboration/installation in Chicago including short visits with Elizabeth Corr of the…
Banner for a City Hall Strike
January 10, 2022
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…
Recent Victories Against Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
December 4, 2021
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,…
Endangered Species Murals #26: The Mexican Blindcat
October 27, 2021
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…
Early 2021 Projects
February 5, 2021
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…
Rebuild Rogue Climate
January 10, 2021
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…
Port Blockade banners for Portland Rising Tide
November 7, 2019
I recently had the pleasure to design a couple of banners for an action taken by colleagues at Portland Rising Tide. Climbers and kayakers from PRT and Mosquito Fleet chained…
CTU-SEIU 73 Art Build: Art Tactics for the #RedforEd Movement
November 3, 2019
The October 2019 strike for education justice by CTU (Chicago Teachers Union) and SEIU 73 strike ended with a new agreement after eleven-days on the picket line by more than…
Nicolas Lampert and Paul Kjelland at University of Connecticut
October 7, 2019
Justseeds members Nicolas and Paul recently spoke at the University of Connecticut about Art Builds. They also led a screenprinting workshop, where we printed climate strike images onto muslin fabric…
Call for designs for massive Chicago Art Build for Public Education
September 14, 2019
Join Justseeds and the Art Build Workers in supporting Chicago teachers, students, families, and public service employees by making designs for a massive Chicago Art Build for Public Education. Chicago…
A week of art builds at the NEA Conference in Houston
July 8, 2019
The Milwaukee-based Art Build Workers just spent a full week working on two large-scale art builds in Houston for the NEA (National Education Association) annual conference. This was our second…
PGCEA Art Build
March 8, 2019
Here is a video by Joe Brusky documenting the recent Prince George County Education Association art build in Maryland.
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