Checkpoint Street Theatre – The Occupation of Palestine at Middlebury College
January 22, 2014
One of the great aspects of going out on the road on a book tour has been learning about a host of activist art projects that had not yet crossed…
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Art & Politics
This channel is a bit of a catch all, since so much of what we do and are interested in over here in Justseeds engages in some way with both art and politics. 
Art and Feminism Wikipedia editing event
January 21, 2014
Women’s Studio Workshop is co-ordinating a day to improve the Wikipedia entries of Women Artists. I encourage folks to participate in this! You can spend just a few minutes to…
Attention: People With Body Parts Book Tour
January 20, 2014
Attention: People With Body Parts, a body-positive collective that focuses on bookmaking, empowerment workshops, movement, and collaborative art projects is doing a book tour! They recently released a second book,…
Signal:03 Out Now!
January 13, 2014
The brand new issue of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture was just printed, and is now available on Justseeds. We’re really excited about it, and think…
Zapatista Murals
January 10, 2014
I’m just back from three weeks in Mexico, most of which I spent traveling with Mazatl in Chiapas, the southernmost state and home to the Zapatista movement and its system…
A People’s Art History excerpt: Banners Designed to Break a President
January 3, 2014
Here is an excerpt from my book A People’s Art History of the United States. This excerpt details the woman’s suffrage movement in the late 1910s and their use of…
A Future Memorial for Nafta
January 2, 2014
More info here: http://www.naftamemorial.info/
Justseeds: Old School 11
December 26, 2013
This old school image is from Kevin Caplicki: “I drew this illustration in 2006 for an anarchist football team that was traveling to the Mondiali Antirazzisti, an Anti-Fascist festival in…
Dignidad Rebelde…Abolitionist Artists
December 21, 2013
The Abolitionist, a newspaper publication dedicated to the strategy and practice of prison industrial complex abolition has transcribed a presentation I (Melanie Cervantes) did on the collaborative space called Dignidad…
A People’s Art History of the United States excerpt: The Woman’s Building
December 13, 2013
Here is another excerpt from my book A People’s Art History of the United States. This excerpt details the feminist art movement in California and specifically the Woman’s Building –…
PAH book talk in Chicago: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Monday, Dec. 9, 2013
December 7, 2013
(SNCC poster, 1962 photograph by Danny Lyon) Chicago friends: I will giving a talk on my new book A People’s Art History of the United States at the Jane Addams…
Favianna’s keynote at Revolve: An Art for Social Change Symposium
December 6, 2013
REVOLVE Keynote Presentation: Favianna Rodriguez from PhillyCAM.
A People’s Art History of the United States excerpt: Become the Media 1930
December 5, 2013
Long before the Independent Media Center (Indy Media) and the “Become the Media” movement that arose out of the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle there was the Worker’s Film and…
Bust Magazine Interviews Whore Paint!
December 2, 2013
Jaime Lowe’s interview begins: “The first time I saw Whore Paint, a self proclaimed-feminist, Riff Rock/No Wave/Crooner Shred hybrid band out of Providence, RI, I was immediately 16 again and…
Stand with the Bad River Tribe: No Penokee Mine
November 25, 2013
A key environmental and Native rights struggle is currently taking place in northern Wisconsin. The Walker Administration has re-opened Wisconsin to mining interests making the proposed Penokee Mine a disaster…
Chris Stain interviewed on OBEY blog
November 22, 2013
Chris Stain grew up writing graffiti in his hometown of Baltimore, and kept at it in spite of a handful of arrests…
A People’s Art History of the United States excerpt: Artists Organize
November 20, 2013
Here is a short excerpt from Chapter 15 from my new book A People’s Art History of the United States. This chapter examines the role of the Artists’ Union during…
Whore Paint “This Body” Video Release!
November 13, 2013
Justseeds member Meredith Stern plays music with Hilary Jones and Rebecca Mitchell in a feminist band called “Whore Paint” and today is their video release of the song “This Body”…
People’s Art History of the United States excerpt: Bringing the War Home
November 13, 2013
Here is a short excerpt from my book A People’s Art History of the United States and the first installment of blog entries that highlight specific chapters. For this entry…
“Basin” install / Surface Tension exhibition opens Sept 20: Kitchener, Ontario
September 18, 2013
Raoul Deal, Lisa Moline, Lane Hall, and I spent the last weekend in Kitchener, Ontario completing a drawing installation for the Surface Tension: The Future of Water exhibition that opens…