Harvesting the Wisdom of our Ancestors
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Here is a video by Joe Brusky documenting the recent Prince George County Education Association art build in Maryland.
Check out this video by Joe Brusky. It features an interview with Jasmene Miranda – an Oakland public school – during the OEA (Oakland Education Association) art build from January…
There is power in a union. There is power in the solidarity between teachers, students, and parents, and there is power in an art build. From January 18th to 20th…
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…
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…
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….
A week ago, five of us from Milwaukee traveled up to Minneapolis to work on a two-day art build during the NEA (National Education Association) Conference on Racial and Social…