Last month Princeton Architectural Press published Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest, a timely collection of political posters responding to today’s issues and struggles. It’s a beautifully produced book, and…
I recently completed this illustration for our ongoing collaboration with the excellent political magazine In These Times, in which Justseeds artists are providing the centerfold posters for their upcoming year…
Building Power, Building Resistance! We are happy to announce the launch of subscriptions for our 2018 Community Supported Art (CSA). Last year’s election radically transformed many people’s political activity in…
A couple months back the stalwart Chicago-based left magazine In These Times approached Justseeds about a collaboration, in which we would create artwork for a series of pull-out centerfold posters…
Here’s a story that happened while printing with Justseeds at the PrintJam in La Merced, Mexico City this past August.
About a third of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative recently traveled to Mexico City, (where three of our members live) for a week of collaboration with some of the amazing political…
“…two series of prints from the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative evidence smart and stylish design sensibilities.” The Justseeds/Interference Archive exhibition Commonwealth: Water for All, which is currently on display at the…
Some thoughts on my contribution to this year’s Justseeds CSA, “Earth Protectors: Global Movements against Climate Change.” I arrived in this country as a five-year old in the 1970s, and…
This Sunday, April 9th, from 3-6pm is the official opening of the exhibition Commonwealth: Water for All at the Queens Museum, in Corona, Queens, NYC. The show is installed on…
World Water Day focuses attention on the importance of universal access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene facilities in developing countries. The day also focuses on advocating for the sustainable…
Hi Everyone! This year’s election will radically transform many people’s political activity, but defending what we have and fighting for change is not just a reaction to the current regime….
After several years operating out of a quiet office in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Justseeds is pulling up stakes today and moving into a new building! We’re staying in…
New release available from Justseeds! Wellspring, Justseeds’ newest portfolio, is made up of 12 original Risograph prints, enclosed inside a handprinted fabric bandana, each exploring our contemporary relationship to water….
The We are the Storm portfolio will be on display at the Energy Fair in Custer, WI (June 17-19, 2016). Come check it out and say hi. A little bit…
Justseeds artist Jess X. Chen just completed a really impressive mural project at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex in LA as part of the Endangered Species Mural Project. Working with…
It’s a Justseeds art explosion in the art-build space above Company Brewing in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood for the next three days. Justseeds artists Paul Kjelland, Pete Railand, Nicolas Lampert and…
New York City Anarchist Book Fair to celebrate 10th anniversary, Sat., April 16, 2016 NEW YORK—In the decade since it debuted in 2007, the NYC Anarchist Book Fair has become…
Halliburton convoys in western Iraq. Halliburton convoys in western Pennsylvania. —Iraq War veteran and Pennsylvania citizen, Kevin Basl As part of the Lycoming College Spring Symposium on Veteran Issues, I…
No More Deaths/No Más Muertes has turned Justseeds member Fernando Marti’s contribution to our most recent Justseeds/CultureStrike portfolio—We Are The Storm—into a benefit t-shirt. Go to the No Mas Muertes…
As part of their monthly “Artists in the Library” series, the folks at the Braddock branch of the Carnegie Library in southwest Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh) have put up the Celebrate…
We Be Darker Then Blue, a mural by Chip Thomas (Jetsonorama) and Jess X. Chen This mural, installed at the BRIC art space in NYC, portrays a poetic sisterhood spanning…
One of the organizations, RAMPS, represented in our new portfolio We Are the Storm is fundraising to continue their efforts. Check out their campaign, support if you’re able, share cos…
Here’s a photo of the first 3 prints from our Community Supported Art project getting ready to be mailed out to our wonderful subscribers. For our January shipment we have…
It’s not too late to sign up for a Justseeds Community Supported Art membership for 2016! CSA members will have three freshly designed prints on the theme of Love and Justice…
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…
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…
The iconic American folk singer, Woody Guthrie, was born on July 14th, 1912. Publicly appearing with a guitar labeled “This Machine Kills Fascists” and writing songs about class inequity which…
Celebrate People’s History: Iraq Veterans Against the War Ten years of fighting for peace & justice One Night Only! Thursday August 13th, 2015 6PM – 10PM Mullowney Printing 931 Treat…
We’ve got a big show opening in Portland, OR this week! Check it out! For its inaugural exhibition at the new 511 Gallery at the new campus flagship, the Arlene…
“I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.”…
Muhammad Ali was born on this day in 1942 and has kicked ass ever since. A poet boxer, Ali publicly announced his conversion to the nation of Islam the day…
Last year we launched a set of new blank notebooks, co-published with the venerable Eberhardt Press (printers of our ever popular annual organizers, which are now only available from them)….
Dia da Consciência Negra, or Black Awareness Day, is celebrated on this day every year in Brazil. The date of the holiday was selected to honor Zumbi dos Palmares for…
In the weeks leading up to the recent Justseeds retreat in scenic McMinnville OR, Mazatl and I painted a mural on the front of the Alleyway Bar on Alberta St….
Here are some images of Justseeds publications in the Chicago exhibition Publisher! Publisher! organized by Amze Emmons of the Printeresting crew. More info can be found HERE.
A number of Justseeds artists are included in a fabulous exhibition entitled We Honor: The Art of Activism in Albuquerque, NM (more info HERE). Organized by Nani Chacon, the show…
Justseeds artists Santiago Armengod, Nicolas Lampert and Roger Peet each made a graphic for the recently released Public Energy Art Kit, which is a collection of posters addressing aspects of…
Jesse Purcell and I are up in Québec City installing a Justseeds exhibition at the Atelier Engramme as part of the Québec Biennale, or Manif d’Art 7. The show opens…
Starting tomorrow night (1/30) Justseeds will be tabling at the Los Angeles Art Bookfair! Come say “HI” to Meredith and Josh, and check out what looks to be a great…
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…
For years we’ve been talking about making blank/ruled/graphed notebooks with Justseeds art on the cover, and now we’ve finally done it! We’ve teamed up once again with Eberhardt Press (who…
A couple of weeks ago the AFL-CIO, the largest remaining union in the US, held its annual convention in Los Angeles. The centerpiece of the convention hall was a structure…
Meredith Stern: “My first protest poster made in 7th grade, to try to boycott plastics and styrofoam in the cafeteria. I started a petition campaign, and somehow got a ton…
Bec Young: “I created this flyer many years ago while I was living at the Trumbullplex housing co-op in Detroit. In typical fashion, I not only made all the flyers…
Fernando Marti’s first stone lithograph, from 1994!
A drawing from Mazatl when he was 8 years old: “This is a cartoon of former Mexican president Carlos Salinas, who prepared NAFTA for Ernesto Zedillo to seal the deal.”…
WAR IS TRAUMA a collaborative project by IVAW and Justseeds Saturday, August 10, 7 PM Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative 426 West Gilman Madison, Wisconsin, USA Please join us for a special…
From Nicolas Lampert: This factory image was made in 1993 in Ann Arbor, Michigan a year after I graduated college. The image was influenced by Zug Island in Detroit and…
From Alec Icky Dunn: “This may have been my first letter-press project, made in 1993 maybe? (notice how little progress I’ve made with registering prints in 20 years) I thought…
This is Meredith Stern’s first comic, which centers on mice and cheese. She began by drawing animals, and she’s still drawing animals!
Lesly Geovanni Mendoza’s mural painted on the front of the offices of Zapatista National Liberation Front in Mexico, circa 2004.
All of us in Justseeds have been making art for a long time, some of us for over 30 years. I thought it would be fun to dig up some…
“History is not the past. It is the stories that we tell about the past. How we tell these stories – triumphantly, self-critically, metaphysically, or dialectically – has a lot…
Jesse, Kevin, and Josh will be tabling for Justseeds at this year’s Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, this weekend Saturday and Sunday, May 25-26. Come say “Hello!” In addition, Kevin and…
Here’s a quick run-down of finished images of the prints we produced during our week at the Union Gallery at UWMilwaukee (concurrent with the Southern Graphics Conference). These will all…
The printing of Josh MacPhee’s 2-color screenprint during Uprising: Images of Labor, a Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative exhibition at the SGC International in Milwaukee, WI
Dan S. Wang reviewed the Justseeds install “Uprisings: Images of Labor” and the two-day series of talks at the Union Art Gallery in Milwaukee that coincided with the Southern Graphics…
Close to 20 of us from Justseeds are taking part in the SGCI print conference in Milwaukee this weekend. We created a “print factory” installation, creating new work on the…
Justseeds is on day 3 of our collective install in Milwaukee for the SGCI conference. Join us this Thursday for the “Uprisings: Images of Labor” opening (5-8), and Friday and…
The Milwaukee contingent of Justseeds, plus a few close allies, have begun printing for our upcoming exhibition/install during the SGCI print conference before the 15 plus other folks in Justseeds…
I was interviewed a few weeks ago about Justseeds and Migration Now! for York University’s CHRY105.5FM, definitely the most professional radio station I have ever been in. The interview will…
Over the last two months there has been a number of exhibitions on the West Coast featuring the “War is Trauma” portfolio. The next showing is at the Seattle Central…
It’s in flash, so I can’t embed it here, but there’s a cool slideshow of Justseeds prints and work set to music (none other than Rage Against the Machine!) over…
Every year 2000-plus printmakers descend on a city for the SGC International conference in mid-March. This year it is in Milwaukee and Justseeds will be present. In fact, upwards of…
I was interviewed yesterday on Prison Radio Guelph, at CFRU 93.3 fm, discussing the Justseeds: Migration Now! exhibit currently on view at OCAD University’s Graduate Gallery at 205 Richmond St….
Justseeds will be tabling at the first ever Los Angeles Art Book Fair in a week and a half. Meredith, Josh, and friends will be table-jockeying all weekend. It’s free!…
StreetArtNYC give a nice mention of Justseeds exhibition “Sowing the Seeds of Love” with some images on their blog. Thanks! Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative is “Sowing the Seeds of Love” at…
Once again, Justseeds members have been heavily involved in the art side of the always fabulous Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. This year Santiago’s art is on the…
When we first arrived in Berlin, and were brainstorming about what our installation should look like, we started documenting what was on the streets. I was drawn to the construction…
One of the most striking visual things about Berlin at street level is that there is still a thriving poster scene. While most of the posters are commercial, there are…
Our show in Berlin was paralleled by a smaller exhibition of German political posters and prints, collected by Heiko and Andreas (who helped bring us to town) from over a…
More photos of the Justseeds show in Berlin.
It’s taken me awhile, but I finally want to get all these images from the Justseeds trip to Berlin last month up here on the blog. Here are pictures from…
We’ve been making a lot of progress on the upcoming Justseeds/Culture Strike Migration Portfolio (Title TK) that I’m co-coordinating with Favianna Rodriguez. We’re producing nearly forty images by a broad…
Turns out that when Kevin and Santiago were here in Berlin in the Fall last year, they pasted up a big entryway in Kreuzberg with leftover prints from the Slovenia…
While here in Berlin we’ve been absorbing the visual atmosphere, which includes a significant amount of interesting political markings and messages. Here’s ten from my camera.
The exhibition schedule for the Justseeds-IVAW “War is Trauma” portfolio rolls on. Marc Fischer of Temporary Services recently presented the portfolio at the Speak Easy series in Kansas City. Will…
So there are five of us Justseeds members (and two fellow travelers) trouncing around Berlin, in preparation for our exhibition at Neurotitan gallery (see HERE!). We’ve been here for almost…
Recently IVAW member and field organizer Aaron Hughes sent a copy of the Justseeds-IVAW “War is Trauma” portfolio (plus copies of the 5 large silkscreen posters that Jesse Purcell produced)…
Justseeds is proud to release our third print portfolio – the Justseeds-Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) “War is Trauma” portfolio. Today’s date is significant. On March 19, 2003 the…
We’ve just released “Refuge: A Migratory and Momentary Guide to the City”, a bilingual (Slovene/English) publication on the heels of our installation for the 2011 Biennial of Graphic Arts in…
2011 was a busy year for Justseeds! Amidst all of the art-making, art shows, installations, posters, murals, occupying, teaching, protesting, de-colonizing, DJing, graphic making, illustrating, book designing, book writing, blogging,…
The Justseeds-IVAW portfolio “War is Trauma” has yet to be officially released (expect this to happen in late December) but that has not stopped a number of preview exhibitions from…
I recently designed a new pamphlet about the failures of REDD, the UN’s current carbon trading scheme. It is called No REDD Papers, vol. 1, was edited by Hallie Boas,…
I’ve been having fun designing a new pamphlet series for the Institute for Anarchist Studies called “Lexicon,” which consists of short essays by different authors laying out definitions of political…
If you missed it last week: the 2012 Justseeds/ Eberhardt Press organizer is out. I’m busy wiring them together as fast as I can, while Charles of Eberhardt stands behind…
The Justseeds-IVAW portfolio “War is Trauma” is coming along! Aaron Hughes and I have spent the last two weekends printing like mad and we have one more session to do,…
The 2012 Justseeds/Eberhardt Press Organizer is finished and on its way to HQ. It’ll be available for sale on Thursday. Click through for a preview of the inside!
Some months ago, while I was in Pittsburgh for the Justseeds exhibition part of the “Pittsburgh Biennial” at Carengie Mellon Shaun Slifer and I got to work on this mural…
Paul Kjelland and I finished the public art install at the Villard Square Library in North Milwaukee this past Saturday at 4:30am – 5 hours before the grand opening! The…
I just returned from Europe, having followed up the epic Justseeds Slovenia Install with some travel in Croatia and the UK. During my excursion to Croatia, I stayed on the…
Paul Kjelland and I have spent the past 8 months creating artwork for the interior of a new Milwaukee Public Library branch in North Milwaukee. Themes of social justice, community,…
Today was our first real day working on the installation for the Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana. Kevin and Mazatl have been in Slovenia for a couple days, while…
A month or so back Printeresting ran a great feature on a recent project Erik Ruin worked on called Neighbor Ballads. Check out the article HERE, it’s a really nice…
“From the Ashes: Works by Dylan Miner” Michigan Institute for Contemporary Art September 4 – 30 “We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old.”…
Today I put the final touches on the mural that’s been my summer job. It’s on the Citybikes Annex building at 8th and Ankeny in Portland, Oregon (Click here for…
Justseeds is busy at work on our third portfolio project! War is Trauma, due out in the mid-to-late Fall, is a collaborative portfolio project between Justseeds, Iraq Veterans Against the…
Oof. It’s finally summer out here in the Best Coast, and I find myself caught up in a veritable storm of art-activities. When it rains, it pours, you know? Except…
I got a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council to paint a big mural on the Citybikes Annex building at 8th and Ankeny in Portland; here’s a picture…
(more in-progress images here) Late Friday night we put the almost-finishing touches on our installation for the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University. The Biennial…
Kewana Duncan, a Maori filmmaker, put this short video together based on the first few days of the Emerging Indigenous Voices artist residency. Much love to all the artists involved…
We’re part of the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial, and our installation is going up at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University this week! The whole deal doesn’t open until September…
These photos are from Pete’s installation at Astrix Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.
OPENING THIS THURSDAY-Staring at the Cracks art installation by Erik Ruin with Brett Story and Dan Blacksberg at 4212 Chestnut, West Philly (below Scribe Video Center). (see below the jump…
On Friday Pete Yahnke Railand’s exhibition “Dream All the Days” opens from 6-10pm at Astrix Gallery.
I created this image a while back for my old friend Marie Mason, who’s currently serving out a 22-year prison sentence for charges related to two acts of property destruction…
When Anne Gochenour curated Graphic Protest (see the original posts here and here) at Central Michigan University, the gallery published a small catalogue. Gochenour wrote a solid essay placing the…
Justseeds “Resourced” Portfolio is on display in Providence RI. The show is reviewed here: http://providence.thephoenix.com/arts/120849-review-justseeds-resourced-focuses-on-ecolo/
Here’s a new project: a bushmeat food-cart. The project is called Viande de Brousse, the French translation of bushmeat, meaning simply wild meat hunted from the forest, or bush, as…
A little while back the Georgia-based DIA (Dignidad Inmigrante en Athens) contacted us for graphics to use in their new publication Nuestras Voces. The first issue just came out, and…
Watershed – Amy Mall and Sherwin Ovid from Laura Klein on Vimeo. This video, filmed and directed by Laura Klein, documents an art and ecology project by Amy Mall and…
Watershed – Xavier Tavera & Maria Cristina Tavera from Laura Klein on Vimeo. This video, filmed and directed by Laura Klein, documents an art and ecology project by Xavier Tavera…
Checking Militarism – Public broadcaster giving airtime to war I just completed this illustration for an article in The Dominion newspaper. For those or you unfamiliar it is a great…
Romantic love is dead, long live romantic love. DUMBO, Brooklyn. February 2010 I decided to visit this mural Chris & I painted last year, for No Longer Empty. I found…
Favianna Rodriguez is in Delaware visiting with students and faculty at the University of Delaware Art Department. Today she has a big lecture! Come check it out if you are…
Aaron Hughes of IVAW sent me a photo of my “Operation Exposure” image wheatpasted up in the streets of Lawrence, Kansas for a recent exhibition of the prints that Justseeds…
Hey people… for anyone interested, I was just interviewed in the latest blog on Craftland. Craftland is a local artist store owned and run by local RI artists. It started…
Here is Swoon’s lecture given at the TEDxBrooklyn conference late last year.
The install for the Watershed show in Milwaukee is getting closer to completion. Six days to go.. Here are some photos of the progress. The show opens Friday, January 28th…
My books and projects have gotten a nice batch of press lately: 1) Chloe Eudaley of Reading Frenzy in Portland, OR chose Celebrate People’s History! as one of her top…
Jesse Goldstein, Laura Scheinkopf, and I are part of a group show called FRACKING: Art and Activism Against the Drill. Exit Art 475 Tenth Ave, New York, NY December 7,…
Some recent press from the “Operation Exposure-War is Trauma” collaboration between Justseeds and IVAW in Chicago. 1. Two great articles by Fruzsina Eördögh. The second article shares our frustrations with…
All of us at Justseeds are excited to announce our brand new 2011 wall calendar we produced in collaboration with AK Press and Eberhardt Press!!! The calendar explores the theme…
Some early reviews and mentions are coming in from the blog-o-sphere about Celebrate People’s History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution: Beyond Resistance says “This book is simply amazing,”…
Justseeds just finished up a three day retreat in Chicago at Mess Hall in Rogers Park. The weekend meeting concluded with a exhibition of new prints about the IVAW campaign…
1) The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal published a cool write-up by Faythe Levine (former owner of Paper Boat Gallery) on her recent trip to Pittsburgh, including a stop at Justseeds World Headquarters….
The Justseeds 2010 portfolio-RESOURCED is included in the Make:Craft exhibition at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design. Bronya and Andy Galef Center for Fine Arts…
This past weekend I traveled with collaborator/Justseeder Mary Tremonte up to Meadville, PA to take part in the annual 8 Hour Projects exhibition at Allegheny College, curated by Darren Miller….
A couple nice articles have come out recently about my projects: 1) Beth Simpson is working up a new Champaign-Urbana-specific Celebrate People’s History poster project. There’s a nice write-up in…
Here are some photos of the RESOURCED exhibit at Marketplace Gallery, 40 Broadway Albany, NY.
The first issue of Signal is out now published by PM Press. Signal is a full color, 140 page book about international political art, graphics, and culture. The first issue…
I recently completed this new print, entitled “The Process’, which is now available in the Justseeds store. It feels like something I’ve been trying to make for a long time,…
The Taller Tupac Amaru is a collective art studio founded in 2003 by Xicana artists, Jesus Barraza and Favianna Rodriguez, who are also members of Justseeds. The mission of the Taller…
My third and final “report back” post from the Allied Media Conference and the US Social Forum ends with a series of photographs that I took walking around the D.
One of more memorable experiences for me in Detroit this past week was seeing how people reacted so positively to the mobile screen printing unit that Mary, Heather, and Ashley…
Nealy half of the Justseeds Artist’s Cooperative was in Detroit this past week at the US Social Forum and the Allied Media Conference. Both events were incredibly inspiring and will…
Colin and I spent the last week immersed in creating an installation at the 58 Gallery in Jersey City. Here are some photos from “Plausible Inventions: Works by Nicolas Lampert…
Here are a few install photos from “Plausible Inventions: Works by Colin Matthes and Nicolas Lampert” at the 58 Gallery in Jersey City. Show opens Friday,June 11, 7-11. 58 Coles…
Justseeds has moved our global distribution headquarters! In May, the Portland and Pittsburgh worker-members packed up all our prints, books, shelving, flatfiles, the computer, and the dehumidifier into a truck….
Plausible Inventions works by Nicolas Lampert and Colin Matthes Opening Friday, June 11th 7-11p 58 Gallery, 58 Coles St, Jersey City, NJ 07302 Plausible Inventions is a collaborative installation by…
Visit Meathenge
I’m excited to share some photos from the first exhibition of the Celebrate People’s History posters in New Zealand. Beyond Resistance and Garage Collective organized the show at the Eastside…
We’re very excited to announce the arrival of our first collectively realized book, Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas, on Microcosm Publishing. The book consists of illustrated profiles of 78 courageous…
Here’s more images from the Open City project here in Syracuse! Please come on by! Make a print! Drink some coffee! Help us build!
Recently, six “historical” signs that I created went up in Madison, Wisconsin through a project with the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. The signs honor former spaces in the city…
We’ve gotten a couple more hits around the blogosphere: 1) Justseeds interviewed (long-format!) on Arrested Motion, read it HERE. 2) Paper Politics reviewed in-depth by Eric Triantifillou in the Brooklyn…
If you failed to pick up your April 2010 issue of Artnews you missed an article on Swoon. What you would also miss is that we have prints of hers…
Here’s some flicks that I took of Chris Stain & Leon Reid IV, before I jumped on the bus for NYC. The installation opens today, Saturday, May 8th. The deets…
Chris Stain & Leon Reid IV have been working on Ain’t Goin’ Home Soon an installation that will open tomorrow at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore, MD. Saturday, May 8,…
There is an interview some Justseeds members did awhile back with art blog, Arrested Motion. Check it out at: Arrested Motion:Justseeds Interview. Justseeds are one of the leading and most…
Food not bombs.
Justseeds is uprooting our physical plant from its’ cookie-scented north Portland (Oregon) location and moving cross-country to Pittsburgh in mid-May. To commemorate this historic occasion (and in an attempt to…
family with meat
Here are some photos of my recent exhibition at Igloo Gallery in Portland, OR. It was a blast installing the show. I received a warm welcome and so much help…
NYC Justseeds members have been hard at work organizing our second portfolio, Resourced. This will be our second theme based portfolio of handmade prints, following Voice From Outside: Artists against…
Here’s some of my latest activity around the world of the web: 1. Realizing the Impossible got a nice plug on the Book Forum blog, HERE. 2. B. Cortez &…
I’ve recently returned from six weeks traveling in Indonesia, during which I spent a week with the artists of the Taring Padi cooperative in Yogyakarta, Central Java. I’ll be posting…
ABC No Rio’s bi-annual building-wide show is opening this Friday! There is a contribution from Justseeds member Kevin Caplicki, in the computer center on the 5th floor, check the flicks…
I was approached awhile back by a new fair trade lefty clothing outfit in the UK called ThreadMe about them using a couple of my poster designs on T-shirts. Well,…
Another reason to protest Obama: His support for nuclear power plants.
Here are a few daytime shots of the Cut and Paint clay mural we put up in Philly last week.
There’s been a small flurry of press and features on a couple of my recent projects, the Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today book, and the Signs of Change exhibition…
Here’s the first of a series of posts from Swoon: Here are some photo collage pages I made about the amazing Sambhavna Trust Clinic in Bhopal India. This place is…
I will be in Salt Lake City, Utah this week visiting the University of Utah and the Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts. My art exhibit will be up from…
The Pittsburgh contingent of Justseeds spent a grueling twelve hours tabling the Handmade Arcade early last December. The event was held in an armory in the middle of a well-off…
There’s an interview with Justseeds Member Mary Tremonte over at the Paper Trail Interview series site. interview with mary mack tremonte 02/18/2010 mary is a zinester, deejay, & artist living…
‘Learning to Labor, Remembering to Resist’ Print Media and Installations by Dylan Miner University Art Gallery | Saginaw Valley State University 15 February – 06 March 2010 I just finished…
Justseeds NW (Icky, Pete, and Roger) have been working on a large scale project challenging the building of a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) pipeline in Oregon. They have teamed up…
“Wherever she went, she drew what she saw and donated her art to the cause.” Rini Templeton was a prolific graphic artist and huge inspiration to artist like me who…
Alex Bodnar and Mark Ayala, art teachers Manual Arts Senior High School in Los Angeles, used Reproduce & Revolt, the book of copyleft images Favianna Rodriguez and I edited (check…
This week has been great, I was able to spend most of the week in the studio working on a couple prints, one of Melanie’s designs and one of my…
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…
Inaguración de la Exposicón Grafica Justseeds Cooperativa de Resistencia Visual en la Z.A.M. Con integrantes de Canada, Mexico y Estados Unidos. Jueves 28 de Enero 7pm
I’ve been creating a mix of music & other auditory ephemera every day for the month of January 2010. They’re all posted here in downloadable form. This project is a…
A double negative… or a critique of land use and popular culture. A devastated landscape mixed with an oversimplification of indigenous people as only belonging to the distant past and…
Here’s a recent sign of mine – installed just outside of Viroqua, Wisconsin.
I went back through our blog from this last year and picked out some stuff that had stayed with me. Sometimes it was just an image, other times an article…
Bike-powered and mostly waterproof.
Justseeds member Roger was caught on video printing letters for the Climate Change March in Copenhagen. Roger posted some stills from the project HERE a week back or so, but…
As I type this, our first-ever run of Justseeds promo t-shirts are quietly being disseminated by our Viral Street Marketing Team. Some of us are also just giving them to…
“Encroachment”
Justseeds tabled Arts vs Craft in Milwaukee this past Saturday in Milwaukee. Here’s a few photos. Much thanks to Faythe Levine and company for organizing such a great event each…
“The Burning” (subtitle: “The Thanksgiving Bonfire Bird Massacre”)
“Consumption Window”
Our friends Temporary Services have just launched a new project called Art Work, including a newspaper with a piece about Justseeds in it, as well as something by Justseeds member…
“United We Consume”
My pal Leslie at Transformazium is selling these Madonna del Ghisallo (patron saint of cyclists) patches to raise funds for the silkscreen studio at the Braddock Public Library, where I…
“Thank Heavens for 7-11”
Justseeds has two art shows in Portland, OR this Thursday. The first one is at Sea Change Gallery, which is in the Everett Street Lofts in Old Town. That show…
“The Other Side of the Mall”
We’re extremely pleased to have another showing of our 2009 portfolio, Voices From Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex. This art show is part of 2009 North of Nowhere…
This image is titled “Act Like Nothing’s Wrong” and comments on the general public amnesia towards the on-going wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Another week, another mud stencil action against prisons. This time in Madison, Wisconsin. On Saturday, October 17th, 6’ by 9’ stencils reading “Why Deny Used Books to WI. Prisoners?”, “Books…
Every Thursday, I will post a new collage image – selecting between recent and past work. This image is titled “Nature as a Laboratory.”
Yup, we’ll be there, so come say “hi!” All the info on the bookfair is on their site HERE. This years great poster designed by Edd from Last Hours.
Some more install shots (close-ups) from my exhibit “Machine Animals, Meatscapes, and Public Interventions” at the Allen Priebe Gallery at UW Oshkosh. Show runs through October 28th. A cool mud…
Below are some install shots from my exhibit “Machine Animals, Meatscapes, and Public Interventions” at the Allen Priebe Gallery at UW Oshkosh. The opening is Thursday, October 8th 7:00pm-9:00pm and…
My pal Erok & I sent some copies of Favianna Rodriguez and Josh Macphee’s book Reproduce and Revolt down to Chile about a year ago. Like many of the punks…
I just realized that this nice group interview Milwaukee artist Brandon Bauer, creater of the Random Artwork blog, did with a bunch of us in Justseeds never got reposted here….
In 2003, I took to the road and drove around the Northeast and Midwest United States and interviewed about 2 dozen radical artists about their work. I posted an edited…
While the G20 is meeting in Pittsburgh right now, the General Assembly has been meeting at the United Nations in NYC. This week, Sept 20-26 has been called Climate Week…
Get inspired. Photos from the wall installation by Favianna Rodriguez, Ian Kualii, and Orlando Reyes. The work is amazing and part of “Movimientos: Two Generations of Chicana Artists” that features…
The Union Art Gallery in Milwaukee continues its long standing tradition of hosting exhibitions with vital political and social content. A show featuring the work of Ester Hernandez and Justseeds…
ally reeves and me—this is very zine-y, right? Ciara Xyerra, the proprietress behind Learning to Leave a Paper Trail zine distro, did an interview with me a few weeks ago,…
The Dirt Palace site just posted some nice-looking pics from my installation in their window, which just came down. You can check it out in slideshow format on Flickr. The…
Untitled from mglc on Vimeo. As many of you may know, Justseeds is currently exhibiting work in Slovenia at the 28th International Biennial of Graphic Arts. Check Josh’s previous blog…
chick pea radio is back on the airwaves and internet-waves! I’ve been doing this radio show on and off, with or without partners, and under various names for close to…
The Way it Was By Justyn Dillingham You might not know it to look at that small, trim-looking white building next to the School of Art, but inside those walls,…
Here’s a new stencil that Chris made for his upcoming trip to Norway. It looks really good on t-shirts, as you can see even Burt Reynolds is sporting one! If…
From Get Familiar I know this is extremely late, but I had the chance to make it out to Ad Hoc while they were closed to see the show unperturbed….
Justseeds members Chris Stain and Swoon will be at Nuart 2009, Sept 10th-Oct 11th. Nuart is an annual international street art festival based in Stavanger on the West Coast of…
Justseeds is really excited to be included in the 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia!!! 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts September 4-October 24, International Centre of Graphic Arts…
The Justseeds show just opened in Tucson and it looks fresh! Quite a solid representation of the collective’s working practices. It is up through the fall, so stop by! It’s…
There are a handful of images from the “I Know There is Love” installation, by Chris Stain and Armsrock, up on the web. Check out the slideshow up on the…
i recently completed a residency at AS220 in Providence, RI. during my month there I worked on a large-scale but intricate banner project. the first three weeks were entirely spent…
Our group photo of folks that attended the Justseeds retreat this past weekend, in Braddock, PA. There’s another on our Flickr. Thanks to the Transformazium folks, and others, for feeding…
Photo essay from the 2009 Justseeds retreat in Braddock/Pittsburgh…
We just had the annual justseeds retreat! Three days in Braddock outside Pittsburgh, Pa across the street from a Steel Mill! Long days (10 hour sessions!) where we talked about…
Brooklyn Street Art as put up a time-lapse video of a recent Armsrock & Chris Stain mural on a rooftop. check it out
RUST (Radical Urban Silkscreen Team) 2009, a project of Artists Image Resource and The Andy Warhol Museum, is coming to a close. During the month of July, we cooled down…
RUST (Radical Urban Silkscreen Team), a Pittsburgh youth print project of the Andy Warhol Museum and Artists Image Resource, is kicking off to a fresh Summer 2009 season. Justseeds members…
Justseeds members who come to town to do a residency at AS220 also end up doing a mushroom foraging residency. Aha! Luck at Last! Pictured are a couple Bolete mushrooms….
Erik Ruin has been spending the month of July in Providence at my work place, making art and having a blast. Here are some photos of the liberation banner he…
Me and Melanie had an opening last friday for our exhibit at Galeria de la Raza in San Francisco, part of the exhibit was taking over the Billboard on 24th…
My colleague Ryan Burns has been hard at work on an ambitious project of late. It’s to be a massive reliquary of the Congo mineral wars; a huge slab of…
I wanted to draw attention to AK Press’ blog Revolution by the Book there is a post about Josh MacPhee & Erik Ruin’s book Realizing the Impossible called Defining Anarchist…
Justseeds is putting together a book to be published by Microcosm Publishing and we’re all currently hard at work producing illustrations for it; the subject matter is essentially radical personas…
This is a link to a review of the show Current Tendencies at the Haggerty Museum in Milwaukee. It talks a little bit about the drawing pictured above. Here is…
Here is my first attempt at sharing my academic writings with you. Thought I’d start with this encyclopedia entry I wrote on ‘Indigenous Radicalism.’ Nothing too challenging here. This is…
Nicolas, our friend Adam McKee, some UWM workers, and I took down the which side are you on show. Here is what it looks like now….we gotta organize our studio…
A short video by Ross Nugent documenting the Justseeds installation Which Side Are You On? at the Union Art Gallery in Milwaukee.
Art Nouveau Magazine just published an interview I did with them a couple weeks back about Justseeds and what makes art political. You can read it here.
Chris went to Amsterdam recently for the festival Utra de la rue celebrating the, now, 400 year relationship of the Dutch to NYC. This was Chris’s take on that. photo…
PM Press has been putting out a lot of interesting books, and I’m excited to be working with them on a lot of design and book covers. One of my…
This is an interesting post to follow Roger’s on the Jaguar. The word for jaguar is one of the 10 or so words in Portugese that I’ve learned so far…
Here’s a photo of a wall drawing I did at the Haggerty Museum (Milwaukee) for the show Current Tendencies. You can check out more photos on the Haggerty website and…
The Justseeds install in Milwaukee inspired me to try my hand at turning some of my prints into large-scale paintings and five new images are currently up at the Armoury…
Justseeds member Favianna Rodriguez recently did a long, in-depth interview with on the OakBook Blog. Read an excerpt below, and the whole thing here. Check it out: The stories of…
Death Row. Water Buffalo.
1 photo from the opening, 4 from the following day… More to be posted soon.
The Justseeds install at UWM in Milwaukee opens tonight! (Thursday, March 5th from 5-8pm) The Gallery is located in room W199 on the Campus Level of the Union, 2200 E….
This is a design I made recently for a t-shirt for the Earth First roadshow. It got me thinking about how nice it would be if the beavers did take…
I’ve been spending a lot of time in the studio in the day working on some new screen prints. At night I’ve had the time to work on some new…
I uploaded a set of flicks from the install and opening of Chris Stain’s Up on the roof counting pigeons over on our Flickr page.
Brooklynstreetart.com has posted an interview I did with them about the Reproduce & Revolt book. Check it out HERE.
This Spring, the New Press will release a graphic adaptation of Studs Terkel’s Working. Not only is Studs a legend, but this book is quite possibly one of the most…
For anyone that speaks Italian some really cool folks in Rome did an interview with me at the Reproduce & Revolt show at the House of Love and Dissent. You…
The Locust Tank image that I first made in 1995 got up in some unusual places this year. From the lobby of the MOMA to Gavin’s arm to Topeka, Kansas…
Favianna and I have teamed up with the Bay Area t-shirt collective Liberation Ink on their new line of shirts, all drawn from images in Reproduce & Revolt! Liberation Ink…
Check out the weird write up in our local Providence newspaper on the Sustainable show… http://thephoenix.com/Providence/Arts/72689-Live-through-this/
Over the past year, I’ve been sporadically doing projections for my friends in the Lesser Known Neutrinos, West Philly’s premier psychedelic synth-punk band. I just recently chanced upon some nice…
The Justseeds/Gadabout/Halo Fauna tour has reached the west coast, and we are currently heading south in California. Come check us out if we’re heading through your town! 19th – Berkeley,…
Come one come all to a special game night on Thursday, November 20th from 6-8pm! The first fifty participants at War Fair will receive a free coupon to play the…
Here is the recent Justseeds Family Portrait taken in Milwaukee, WI. A couple new and old folks were missing, though. I don’t think it was shocking to see Red and…
Josh & Roger enjoying Milwaukee’s fine cuisine
Just got a package in the mail from Microcosm Publishing with a copy of the hot-off-press brand new Zine Yearbook 9. Over 100 excerpts from zines put out in the…
Hey folks! If you are in the Providence Rhode Island area come check out the SUSTAINABLE art show! Over 30 artists; including 10 Justseeds/Visual Resistance folks and over two dozen…
The next day we took off to Bugambilias, a housing project on the south side of Ecatepec. This was the spot closest to Mexico City, and the one that in…
On Wednesday we headed way up the mountain that rests on the side of Ecatepec, winding around crazy narrow roads and huge speedbumps. The speedbumps up here are almost like…
The next stop on the trip is the city center of Ecatepec, where we meet four members of the local graffiti crew the Komal Collective. Komal Collective formed in 2006…
I barely got a chance to make any sense of D.F. before we had to rush off to Ecatepec, which is no easy task. Although just above Mexico City, for…
I show up in Mexico City on Friday, October 3rd. This is one day after the 40 year anniversary of the Tlatelolco Massacre, a national day of mourning and anger….
Two months ago or so, Favianna Rodriguez (co-editor of Reproduce & Revolt) asked me if I wanted to take a trip to Mexico City with a crew of artists. My…
Making and selling t-shirts is a giant pain in the ass. On and off for the past 10 years I’ve been designing and making shirts, usually finding friends to do…
Recently, Justseeds has completed a portfolio project for the Critical Resistance ten-year anniversary conference in Oakland, California that took place on September 26-28. The project involved twenty artists from the…
Here’s some filcks of the mural Chris, our carpenter savior Nick, and I constructed and painted for Creative Time’s Democracy in America.
Chris Stain was asked to provide a backdrop for Creative Time‘s upcoming convergence of “Democracy in America” at the Park Ave Armory in NYC. Chris asked me to help him…
There’s a nice entry about Chris Stain and Justseeds over at the Regarding Design blog.
Last Friday in Troy, NY the Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea was launched. It is a project of ridiculous proportions, over seven crafts being maneuvered down the Hudson River…
Daniel Tucker has written a nice piece about Justseeds that is going to be published in the upcoming issue of Alarm Magazine. It is also on their website here. And…
Two years ago Visual Resistance organized an art show and benefit, If They Come For You in the Morning, for our friend Daniel McGowan. Over 100 artists from the Street…
I’ve uploaded a handful of flicks, on the Justseeds flickr account, of the collaborative installation at Space 1026, called Out of the Shell of the Old. If you get the…
To continue with our gardenblogging I figured I’d share too. I live on the third floor in an apartment building in Brooklyn with Josh, and this is the amount of…
More snippets from our “Out of the Shell of the Old” collaboration at Space 1026, that opens Friday, July 4th in Philadelphia.
Here are some more flicks from the Justseeds collaboration at Space 1026. Lots of ideas starting to materialize and momentum being built. The space doesn’t have any running water, so…
exhibition photos by Heather Kearns The public library has always been one of my favorite destinations and resources in every city that I have lived in, but rarely have I…
If you were interesting in seeing the exhibit, you can check out some flicks I took of the installation over at the Justseeds profile. We filled up a large container…
We’ve just updated the page for the Daniel McGowan benefit, and have artwork available for purchase online from Swoon, Armsrock, and Eelus, plus a DVD from the Barnstormers and original…
Visual Resistance made a banner for last weekend’s street party against the city’s plan to line the Williamsburg waterfront with luxury hi-rise apartment buildings. The banner went up in an…
Over in photo-land, rancor & k.see have posted reports from last weekend’s Grassroots Media Conference, where VR hosted a stencil-making workshop. The whol conference was pretty great, especially the panel…
Come hang out with the Visual Resistance Collective at the Grassroots Media Conference 2005! April 9th — 11:45 am-1:15 pm New School University — 65 5th Avenue at 13th Street,…