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January 28, 2016
You Are Not What You Own. May 2011 You Are Not What You Own. August 2012. Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY. 2011, 2012
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January 20, 2016
REVOLUTION its ready when its ready. Give or take 500+ years. In the Broadway stop of the G train. Brooklyn, NY. December 2014.
No Justice on Stolen Land from subMedia.tv
January 14, 2016
The latest from the stimulator! 2015 wrapped up with a bang, with dozens of militant actions carried out by anarchists under the banner of “Black December.” In Turkey, aspiring Fuhrer,…
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January 13, 2016
1. Create Now Question Later 2. Fortune favors the Bold 3. Do it with Love Seen on a wall in Brooklyn, NY. August 2013.
On the Diggers: Hippie Modernism
January 12, 2016
I recently wrote a short essay on the 1960’s San Francisco-based antiauthoritarian group The Diggers, and how they both relate to my way of navigating the world, but also how…
New if a song could be freedom mixtapes!
December 27, 2015
I’m excited to announce that we have released our 16th if a song could be freedom mixtape. A series of political playlist that accompanies the Interference Archive exhibition if…
Justseeds Encourages You To Write to LGBTQ Incarcerated Folks
December 26, 2015
During the holidays, remember to write to those incarcerated and migrants in detention centers who are so far away from their homes and loved ones. Here are two amazing organizations…
Rest in Power—John Trudell
December 15, 2015
John Trudell, a poet, recording artist, actor and speaker, passed away on December 8th. Trudell (Santee Sioux) was a spokesperson for the Indians of All Tribes occupation of Alcatraz Island…
Community Supported Art: a powerful way to show your support for Justseeds
November 23, 2015
In 2015 we successfully launched our first Print of the Month club, in which club members received one print a month from a different Justseeds artist. Artists and supporters were…
Amplify Palestine!
November 18, 2015
Adalah-NY teamed up with some cultural workers, and friends of Justseeds, to produce this video in support of the cultural boycott of the Israeli state. NY based artists are asked…
Sounds of the Week #18
November 18, 2015
Welcome back to Sounds of the Week, I’m going to try and pull this blog post out of hibernation and get back to sharing some of the musical inspirations floating…
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November 16, 2015
Everyone knows that art is an engine that drives transformation. The art we look at reminds us that other people feel like we do, and gives us something to believe…
American Cheetah: process
October 30, 2015
I’ve been at a residency in the grassy hills of northeastern Wyoming for the past few weeks. I realized the other day that I had passed quite close to…
Matondo – Kein Mensch ist illegal – Video
October 30, 2015
Heard this on the last couple episodes of Rebel Beat Radio. Super appropriate track for these days with forced migrations around the world. Kein Mensch is illegal- No one is…
Ucross Residency – Former Oceans
October 19, 2015
I’m at an arts residency in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25. It’s pretty amazing here- the vast dun high plains full of turkeys and deer, the blue Bighorn Mountains off to…
A Tale of Two Cities
August 6, 2015
How the atomic bomb destroyed the people and cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, 70 years ago. Little Boy, the first nuclear bomb used in war, was dropped at 08:15…
Shahn and Bryson Post Office Murals, The Bronx
January 22, 2015
Last summer I was in lower Manhattan and had 6 hours to kill before a meeting Washington Heights. l took the opportunity to visit the Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson…
Rockwell Kent Gallery, Plattsburgh, NY
January 20, 2015
Rockwell Kent has been a big influence on more than a few of us here at Justseeds. He was a prolific draftsman whose illustrations dominated book design and advertising in…
My Certain Fate
January 16, 2015
In 1965, ten years before I was born, my father faked his death in a scuba diving accident on the north coast of Wales, in order to abscond from the…
History From Below @ Sidewall (Pittsburgh)
December 17, 2014
For a couple weeks in November, I hammered out a four by eight foot version of my “Teach History From Below” print (from our Liberating Learning Portfolio) for the Sidewall…