Critical Moment, a newsprint magazine working to provide a forum for education, debate, and dialogue around the political issues affecting communities in the Southeast Michigan area has used Amor Y…
In recent years I keep coming across the graphics and posters of Luba Lukova, and have been increasingly impressed with their clarity, directness, and graphic efficiency. Lukova edited and designed…
I came across these designs, by Chrysa Koukoura, while researching campaigns for the upcoming Justseeds Portfolio-Resourced. We are hoping to pair each participating artist with an organization/campaign to create a…
This seems to be the year of political art calendars. I just came across this one, which looks great: New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) has just released Dulce Pinzon’s…
The 800 individual letters (in solar-panel font) that I helped to print for Katherine of SEA Change Gallery here in Portland were stitched together and made into banners in several…
Since I was unable to make my own opening in Chicago because of Lake Effect Snow (poor me), I have decided to upload another academic text I recently published in…
Tim Groves, the Toronto-based founder of the Missing Plaque Project, just sent me a link to a great video interview he did for RBNonline in December. In the interview, he…
“This is an altar created by young people in the Chicago neighborhoods of Humboldt Park and South Chicago. Altars like this one, memorializing an untimely violent death, are an all-too…
Our friend Kei from the Irregular Rhythm Asylum in Tokyo designed the very cool 2010 CIRA Japan calendar (CIRA is Japan’s largest anarchist archive). This years calendar has a theme…
by Jesus Barraza & Melanie Cervantes A year ago, early New Year’s Day in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police murdered unarmed, 22-year old, Oscar…
For Immediate Release- Chile Estyle: A Group Exhibition of Chilean Urban Art, Curated by Pablo Aravena Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art Opening Reception: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 7-10 PM Exhibition…
Mark Vallen has some really incredible posts up on his blog. While Art Basel, in Miami Beach, is being cleaned up and repackaged to go home, I read “200 One…
For the past week Chris Stain and I have been living, working, and teaching on a small island in Norway called Halsnøy! We’re at the Sunnhordland Folkehøgskule (a small arts…
I have decided to start a new blogging series about art and culture I have appreciated recently. I can’t promise it will be a series actually but at least there…
My friend Zoeann just sent me a link to this site Americans Who Tell the Truth. It’s a series of painted portraits of lefties from the US by Robert Shetterly,…
Sunday, November 15th 1:00 – 4:30pm Eastside Cultural Center, 2277 International Blvd. (at 23rd Ave.) Oakland, CA 94606 FREE. Donations accepted. Creating Radical Graphics is a one-day mini-conference for Bay…
Here’s a couple of shots of a large piece I am working on for the Justseeds show at Sea Change Gallery in Portland. The show opening is on first Thursday,…
Out good friends at the Groundswell Design Collective havee been having some computer troubles as of late, but they are now fully back online. If you’ve never checked them out,…
Our friends and awesome t-shirt makers Liberation Ink are struggling to survive at the moment, and need our help! Liberation Ink is an Oakland-based artist and activist run shirt shop…