We Want Everything
June 6, 2022
My exhibition We Want Everything closes this Friday at the Reinberger Gallery at the Cleveland Institute of Art! I’m really proud of this show, in many ways it is the…
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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. 
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…
Graphic Liberation! with Tings Chak
May 24, 2022
This conversation with Tings Chak took place over zoom on April 15th, 2022. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding with political graphics producers under…
Graphic Liberation! with A3BC
May 17, 2022
This conversation with A3BC (Anti-War, Anti-Nuclear, and Arts Blockprinting Collective) took place over zoom on April 27th, 2022. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding…
Downwinders
April 25, 2022
Last month I was honored to go support and learn from the Downwinders Consortium at the Trinity Site of White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. Twice a year…
Graphic Liberation! with Judy Seidman
March 11, 2022
This conversation with Judy Seidman took place over zoom on March 9th, 2022. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding with political graphics producers under…
Graphic Liberation! with Sandy Kaltenborn
March 8, 2022
This conversation with Sandy Kaltenborn took place over zoom on February 16th, 2022. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding with political graphics producers under…
Solidarity with BIPOC residents of the Hudson Valley
February 22, 2022
There was a small demonstration held in Woodstock, NY this past weekend, to show solidarity with BIPOC residents. The activity, promoted by Anti-Racist Catskills, was in response to a very…
Massive Attack on BDS Activists in Austria
January 26, 2022
We recently received a note from Amer Shomali, artist and designer who is a participant in the Imaging Apartheid Project. A version of his Visit Palestine poster used in Austria…
We Made This World – We Can Make Another
January 19, 2022
I wrote this piece to accompany the second edition of this print. If you’re like me, and sorry in advance, you have spent a lot of your life wondering exactly…
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…
Graphic Liberation! with Tomie Arai
December 20, 2021
This conversation with Tomie Arai took place over zoom on November 3rd, 2021. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding with political graphics producers under…
Musicians for Palestine
December 8, 2021
Friend and comrade of Justseeds, Stefan Christoff has launched a podcast along with the Musicians for Palestine, a series that explores musicians’ solidarity with Palestine. Musicians for Palestine is a…
We’ll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here
December 6, 2021
For the past 3 years I’ve been working on an artist book about the red flag, and in particular the song of the same name, written by Jim Connell during…
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,…
Graphic Liberation! at Colgate
December 3, 2021
I just received some great documentation by Mark Williams of my ¡Graphic Liberation! exhibition and workshop at Colgate University. I’m going to use his photos to walk everyone through the…
Racial Justice Not Recalls
November 12, 2021
It is not that uncertainty and precarity suddenly landed upon our lives in 2020 with the pandemic. It is that our coping mechanism, to ignore the uncertainty and precarity that…
Graphic Liberation! with Daniel Drennan ElAwar/Jamaa Al-Yad
October 28, 2021
This conversation I had with Daniel Drennan ElAwar (Jamaa Al-Yad) took place over zoom on September 29th, 2021. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding…
The End of Mugabe
October 27, 2021
My friend Tinashe Mushakavanhu (co-founder of the fabulous Reading Zimbabwe project) was recently on the WISER podcast “discussing the coup of November 2017 in Zimbabwe, the death of Robert Mugabe,…
A People’s WPA, a blueprint reimagining the role of artistic labor in rebuilding society.
September 21, 2021
In the spirit of the original WPA, The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture commissioned artists to produce posters that uplift the essential forms of labor needed in this historic…