Shinkolobwe article published in The Continent
March 18, 2023
I wrote a feature article about Congo’s Shinkolobwe mine for the excellent magazine of African news and culture The Continent. Check it out to read a short summary of the…
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While we are all part of Justseeds, we also each do all kinds of other work. This channel features information about individual Justseeds members projects, whether they are art activities, political organizing, writing, or teaching. 
Making Redacted Rubbings in Southeastern Arizona
February 17, 2023
If “the strike was broken” every time you read about a worker’s struggle that happened on the soil you’re standing on, you might begin to think that every strike has always been broken, and the horizon of collective action and potential for true solidarity might seem like an ideological fantasy…
Roger Peet on Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t
February 14, 2023
I got to have a fun and wide-ranging conversation with friend and colleague Joey Alone of the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t podcast. We talked about Congo, conservation, the sorry…
New Shirts!
February 7, 2023
After many years of people asking if I had any shirts of many of my graphics, I’ve finally launched a new shirt store! I’m testing things out on Bonfire, starting…
The Wound at the Heart of the World: the nuclear legacy of the Manhattan Project in Congo and USA
January 15, 2023
I gave a lecture on my research into the legacy of the Shinkolobwe uranium mine in DR Congo for the Hanford Challenge Project. Hanford is the name of the military…
Endangered Species Murals #29: the American Burying Beetle in Tulsa, OK
December 29, 2022
I traveled to Tulsa in October of 2022 to collaborate on this mural with an artist that I’ve admired for a long time. Kathleen Neeley is an illustrator and printmaker…
Ending Money Bond and Bringing Our People Home
December 29, 2022
This is part 2 of a 4-part art series in support of the Pretrial Fairness Act in Illinois. See the first set of artwork here. The Pretrial Fairness Act takes…
Graphic Liberation at the Opalka Gallery
October 31, 2022
Over the past six weeks my Graphic Liberation! exhibition has been housed at the Opalka Gallery at Russell Sage College in Albany, NY. A set of interchangeable and interactive projects…
Street Roots illustrations
September 26, 2022
Street Roots is Portland, OR’s street newspaper, sold across the metro area by people experiencing houselessness. It’s also reliably one of the best publications in the city hands down on…
Endangered Species Murals #27: Piping Plover
August 22, 2022
In June I travelled to the town of Selkirk, Treaty 2 territory, Manitoba, Canada, to paint a mural of the endangered Piping Plover. These charming small shorebirds are threatened by…
Can the Exception be the Jewel?
August 6, 2022
A review of “Remaking the Exceptional” at the DePaul Art Museum by Brian Holmes Chicago is notorious for police violence against people of color – including arbitrary executions on…
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…
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! at George Mason University
June 1, 2022
In January and February my Graphic Liberation exhibition was installed at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. It was part of a set of installs of an evolving body of…
It’s Right to Rebel
May 25, 2022
In late 2020 I was contacted by Brage Aronson, who runs the small Norwegian record label Plateselskapet No. 13 (“Record Company #13). He was working on a new release and…
Endangered Species Murals: Desert Endemics in Shoshone, CA
May 13, 2022
A new entry in the ongoing Endangered Species Mural Project just wrapped up in the small village of Shoshone, CA, on the edge of Death Valley. The mural is on…
Virtual Tour: Fauna installation at Carnegie Museum of Natural History
April 25, 2022
Take a virtual tour of the entire Fauna installation in Pittsburgh…
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…
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…
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…
Endangered Species Murals #26: The Mexican Blindcat
October 27, 2021
In the first weeks of October, 2021, I traveled to Del Rio, Texas to paint the 26th installment in the Endangered Species Mural Project, an effort to paint murals of…
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…
“Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Revolution, Resistance, and Activism” at the MET
September 8, 2021
“The 4 Evils” print will be in the exhibition Revolution, Resistance, and Activism, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Printed for the Poor People’s Campaign Print Portfolio,…
We Carry A New World In Us
July 15, 2021
I was recent commissioned by Abby Satinsky at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston to create a billboard design for the 2.5 story…
New Shirt Designs!
July 15, 2021
This design is based on a linocut that I’m eventually going to make into a formal print on paper, but I haven’t quite managed to do so yet. In the…
License to Spill: an anti-Chevron comic
May 28, 2021
The Civil Liberties Defense Council commissioned me to make a comic illustrating the ongoing struggle against oil-giant Chevron, and their attempts to avoid the consequences of massively polluting the Ecuadorian…
So Much To Be Angry About: Reviews + Media Roundup!
May 10, 2021
Links to book reviews and author interviews!
Practical Abolition animation series
May 5, 2021
It’s been my great pleasure to collaborate with the Philly-based abolitionists Amistad Law Project on a series of animations illustrating practical alternatives to police and prisons. In the words of…
Insect Papercuts for a commission
April 22, 2021
I’ve been working on a few poster designs for a commission from Aaron Huey of the Amplifier Foundation and National Geographic magazine. Each poster involves my interpretations of iconic photographs…
No More Deaths bandana
March 29, 2021
PM Press hired me to create a bilingual bandana for the powerhouse border organization No More Deaths. If you haven’t heard of them, NMD is on the frontlines of migrant…
The Sumatran Rhino: Hard to Save
March 18, 2021
This is the second video in a series of animated shorts that I’m helping to create for the good people at Mongabay.com. It’s an animated explainer that aims to describe…
Souni TV x Free City Radio
February 21, 2021
Justseeds’ good friend Stefan Christoff, who started both Free City Radio and the Imaging Apartheid Project, has just launched a new initiative, a weekly Free City Radio TV show on…
Early 2021 Projects
February 5, 2021
I’ve just returned to Portland from a swing through the high plateaus of the southwest, escaping the Portland cloud and retaining social distance. Being away from the studio meant that…
Keep It In The Ground poster designs
January 19, 2021
Justseeds artist Kill Joy has coordinated a rush job of poster design, enlisting several artists from the cooperative to produce images for a push for rigorous climate action by the…
Rebuild Rogue Climate
January 10, 2021
Over the past four or five years I’ve designed and produced a series of banners, signs, stickers and posters to support the ongoing struggle against the Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural…
Migration Now! Artist Talk at Pequot Library
December 14, 2020
I was invited by the Pequot Library in Southport, CT to give a talk about the Migration Now! portfolio, which I co-produced with Favianna Rodriguez. It was great to get…
The Sumatran Rhino: Not Doomed
December 8, 2020
This summer I worked on a really interesting project that was something pretty new to me: an animated explainer about the current situation of the endangered Sumatran Rhinoceros, created for…
Fundraiser for Congolese researchers in pursuit of the US nuclear legacy in Africa
October 27, 2020
If you’ve been following my research and writings here about the legacy of DR Congo’s Shinkolobwe mine (the source of the impossibly powerful uranium ore that made the Manhattan Project…
We Keep Each Other Safe Poster Series
October 9, 2020
When the pandemic hit our communities hard in March, I went to work and created this illustration, highlighting the ways in which activists and organizers immediately sprung into action, emphasizing…
Political Patterning
October 6, 2020
First things first, I’ve launched a small Spoonflower shop of some of my political fabric patterns. You can check it out and buy fabric HERE. Because I don’t have the…
From Shinkolobwe to Tsankawi- 75 years of nuclearity after the Trinity Test
August 5, 2020
It was my pleasure to help organize a webinar on the 75th anniversary of the Trinity test to commemorate all those who have been affected by the legacy of the…
Introducing Kevin Yuen Kit Lo
July 21, 2020
We want to welcome Kevin Yuen Kit Lo as part of the Justseeds class of 2020! Kevin lives and works in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke. He is the principal and creative director of…
Introducing Zola
July 13, 2020
We’re very excited to welcome Zola into the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative. Zola is based in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke, and over the past decade has become one of the city’s most prolific and…
Brown Artists for Black Power Poster Series
June 3, 2020
Black Lives Matter! Las Vidas Negras Importan! Justice for Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, Rekia Boyd, Laquan McDonald, and all Black lives stolen by police. For the People Artists…
The Rocks Keep Showing Up
May 19, 2020
I’ve been researching a sprawling project about the Congolese mine that produced the Uranium for the Manhattan project for several years now (read previous blog posts here and here). With…
Polit-Groove IGTV Channel
May 4, 2020
In early March I started posting daily political songs from records I have onto a new Instagram TV Channel. It’s called Polit-Groove, and I’m up to almost 50 songs at…
Close Rikers/Free Them Now!
March 26, 2020
Covid-19 has made its way into prisons and jails throughout the country, there already stories emerging about sick guards bringing the virus in and bureaucrats covering it up. Jails and…
An Encyclopedia one of Hyperallergic’s Top 25 Books of 2019
January 16, 2020
I’m very excited that Laura Raicovich and Hyperallergic chose my new book, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, as one of their Top 25 Books of 2019! Here’s what they…
Endangered Species Murals: White Fringeless Orchid
November 26, 2019
It was a real treat to return to Berea, Kentucky, to paint this mural celebrating one of the Southeasts’ most enigmatic and endangered plants- the White Fringeless Orchid, Platanthera integrilabia….
Port Blockade banners for Portland Rising Tide
November 7, 2019
I recently had the pleasure to design a couple of banners for an action taken by colleagues at Portland Rising Tide. Climbers and kayakers from PRT and Mosquito Fleet chained…
Exhibiting the Redacted Rubbings Project
October 6, 2019
Documentation of two new exhibits of historical marker rubbings in the manner of erasure poetics.
On Tour with An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
September 27, 2019
I’m heading out on book tour for the first time in years! I’m so excited about my new book I wanted to get back in gear and travel and talk…
Endangered Species Mural Project #21: Species of the Gila
August 15, 2019
It’s the 21st installment in the Endangered Species Mural Project! This one happened in Silver City, New Mexico, a beautiful mountain town on the edge of the Gila National Forest,…
Exquisite Gorge: Whose story is this?
July 8, 2019
For the past few weeks I’ve been carving a 4 foot by 6 foot block of birch plywood, depicting a section of the Columbia River Gorge. I live about half…
An Encyclopedia featured on Pop Matters
July 8, 2019
I’m so excited that my new book An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels is gathering steam. This book has been 4 years in the making, with two earlier editions self-published…
What to Pick Up After You Put Down the Gun
May 18, 2019
I’ve just returned from a 6-week residency (along with my partner Erica Thomas) in Medellín, Colombia, as a guest of Casa Tres Patios; an arts organization affiliated with the University…
Endangered Species Coalition interview
May 2, 2019
I was recently interviewed by Jeanne Dodds at the Endangered Species Coalition about the mural project I’ve been coordinating for the past four and a half years. See the full…
La Minga Indigena
April 1, 2019
I’m in Medellín, Colombia, for a six week residency at Casa Tres Patios, an arts center connected to the University of Antioquia. I’m here with my partner Erica Thomas, and…
Higher Education Action Day
February 20, 2019
It’s been amazing to see the involvement of Justseeds artists in the organizing, labor, and image generation at the large-scale art builds happening in Wisconsin around immigration and California around…
Telling Tales at Hartwick College
February 19, 2019
I’m excited to be included in this exhibition currently up at the Foreman Gallery at Hartwick College. Curated by Richard Barlow, Telling Tales: Illustration, Narrative, Communication is an eclectic group show…
Sanctuary Exhibition in Seattle
February 6, 2019
Cleo Barnett, the Deputy Director of Amplifier Foundation, recently invited a number of Justseeds artists to participate in a migration-themed exhibition she curated at Design In Public in Seattle. The…
National Veterans Art Museum Art Auction is live
January 21, 2019
Thanks to the generous donation from amazing artists like Ehren Tool, Jesse Albrecht, Yvette M. Pino, Sarah Seamstress, Josh MacPhee, Melanie Cervantes, Eric J. Garcia, Dan S Wang, Amber Hoy,…
A Brief History of Mining
January 12, 2019
I recently finished a residency at the Arrowmont School of Art and Craft in eastern Tennessee. This was different from the residencies I normally do- instead of working on print…
Read the writing on the wall – 67
December 11, 2018
Freedom. Brooklyn, October 2015. Sometimes, not on the wall, but read on the ground. Was someone writing their name? Or is the land screaming to be liberated?!
Keep Us Growing: the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum is organizing a Battle of Blair Mountain Centennial
November 27, 2018
If you’ve found yourself at the levers of a small, even tiny, community project or non-profit, you’ve probably had to confront the uncomfortable reality of needing to pump people…
Believe Survivors: Flood the internet with love letters for survivors
October 17, 2018
The painful reality of this political moment is personal for many of us. As Kavanaugh becomes our new Supreme Court justice, let the survivors of the world know that not…
Signal Sale at PM Press
October 16, 2018
The publisher of our Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture, PM Press, is having a big sale this month, where you can get 40% off all issues…
Redacted Rubbings: Critiquing the Language of Historical Markers with Crayons and a Ladder
October 7, 2018
“Nothing cuts off self-determination more efficiently than eradicating its language. Replacing it with misdirecting prattle… is a magnificent coup for those who would like to keep us wary of one another.”…
Utopian Flag Making
October 2, 2018
This past Sunday I organized (along with Monica and Interference Archive’s Radical Playdate) a kids flag making workshop in connection with For Which It Stands, an exhibition at the Old…
Hanford and the Reactionary Imagination, a Journey into Nuclearity pt 2
September 13, 2018
This is the second in a series of posts about a visit to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Eastern Washington state, and the fate of the uranium ores found in…
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Installation – Rhode Island
September 6, 2018
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights portfolio created by Meredith Stern is on display for the month of September at 159 Sutton Street in Providence. There is a gallery opening…
Endangered Species Mural #16: Borderlands Wildlife in El Paso
September 1, 2018
The sixteenth of the Endangered Species Murals is finished! This big wall is located near the Convention Center in downtown El Paso, Texas, and features five endangered species from the…
Street Signs and Endangered Animals
August 27, 2018
This past week my daughter and I visited fellow Justseeds artist Chip Thomas on the Navajo Reservation. We traveled there for multiple reasons: to spend time with Chip, to see…
Comida es Medicina seed altar
August 7, 2018
Much of my art is created for use by activist organizations, most of it is individually created, things like poster designs, block prints or etchings. I’m happy in this work….
Ghostfish aboard the R/V Falkor
July 28, 2018
I’ve spent the last six days on the Pacific Ocean, in transit from San Diego, CA to Astoria, OR aboard the R/V Falkor, the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s big research vessel….
Hanford and the Reactionary Imagination: a Journey into Nuclearity, Part 1
July 19, 2018
This is the first in a series of posts about a visit to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Eastern Washington state, and the fate of the uranium ores found in…
Appalachian Movement Press on Audio Interference #53
June 25, 2018
“They saw this region as affected by a colonial influence from the larger urban areas, extracting resources from Central Appalachia historically, for over a hundred years, and not giving anything…
Endangered Species Murals #15: Taylor’s Checkerspot Butterfly
June 16, 2018
The fifteenth Endangered Species Mural is complete! This one is located on the corner of Washington and Tenth streets in the small town of Cottage Grove, Oregon, at the southern…
A Justseeds Garden
May 24, 2018
Gardening is a large part of my practice from April through November. We’ve got a greenhouse where we have maintained rosemary through the winter to harvest for homemade bread, and…
Silkscreen Printing in Jacmel, Haiti
April 23, 2018
In February of this year I had the good fortune to travel to Jacmel, Haiti, to teach a class on screenprinting at a small community arts center called Jakmel Ekspresyon….
257.5: Book Table at Moon Palace Books
April 9, 2018
I recently was invited by the rad Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis to decorate one of the tables they’ve set up in their new cafe and restaurant over-looking the bookstore….
Visualizing Intersectionality
March 26, 2018
I’ve been thinking a lot about flags lately. What will be the symbols of our movement in the future? Here’s one offering. I’m inspired by the Third World internationalism of…
EPIC Bee
March 24, 2018
EPIC Bee was inspired by the logo for Upton Sinclair’s EPIC movement (End Poverty In California) from the 1930s. Sinclair’s plan called for a massive public works program, sweeping tax…
Eberhardt Press needs our help
March 16, 2018
In the rapidly-gentrifying and deeply self-satisfied cultural landscape of Portland, OR, there are few political institutions with any lengthy history of integrity. One of those is our colleague Charles, who…
NO LNG Propaganda Party at PNCA in Portland
March 15, 2018
In early March I helped to organize a banner-painting Propaganda Party at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, over three lunchtimes in the school’s central atrium. I’m the Cultural…
Solidarity with Oak Flat
March 9, 2018
I recently returned from about three and a half weeks of travel through the southwest and beyond, including three days spent at the 4th annual March to Save Oak Flat….
Korean Edition of Celebrate People’s History poster book
February 21, 2018
I just got a copy in the mail of the Korean edition of my Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution! It has been in the works…
CPH Posters and the Sidewall Mural Project
February 20, 2018
It’s been really exciting to work the past year with the Sidewall Mural Project in Pittsburgh to produce a series of six Celebrate People’s History posters as 8 ft tall…
Reflections on the process. Upcoming show: “A Time of Expectant Hopes”
February 5, 2018
March 29th Jenna Valoe and I have an opening at Ripon College in Wisconsin for a show we are calling “A Time of Expectant Hopes”. I was approached by Ripon…
read the writing on the wall – 60
February 3, 2018
Baby, can I get your number My name is not baby Brooklyn, NY. January 14, 2017
NO LNG Rally in Salem
January 15, 2018
Over the last few weeks I’ve been collaborating with Klamath artists Ka’ila Farrel-Smith and Asa Wright to produce some big banners for a rally against Liquefied Natural Gas export in…
Radical Jerseys: Kaepernick and Resist 45
January 7, 2018
In 2012, I created an exhibition of prints and baseball jerseys in collaboration with Paul Kjelland that honored the Milwaukee Commandos, who among many things, helped protect the Civil Rights…
Become a Member of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum!
November 30, 2017
I’ve been working as the Curator/Exhibition Designer for the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Matewan, WV since our project was still an ambitious idea in a vacant storefront in…
Close Rikers T-shirt Production
November 21, 2017
Engaging Community Through Art for the Close Rikers Campaign from Amplifier on Vimeo. Check out this short video just released by the Amplifier Foundation about the T-shirts I designed and…
Get with the Action
October 12, 2017
Justseeds’ artists Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes, and Josh MacPhee are all included in Get with the Action: Political Posters from the 1960s to Now, the new survey of political posters…
Endangered Species Mural #14: A Bear-Shaped Hole
October 5, 2017
The fourteenth Endangered Species mural is finished! This one is located in the Laurel District of Oakland, CA, and is a little different in theme and execution form the other…
Put Down Roots with Interference Archive
September 12, 2017
Interference Archive is moving, building, and growing—and we really need your support to make our new, long-term home a reality. In August, we received a notice that we had to…
“To Immigrants, With Love” mural
September 10, 2017
Jess Chen and Roger Peet collaborated on an illustration early this year for a campaign entitled To Immigrants, With Love- an outreach and letter-writing effort designed to breach the feelings…
Total Essential Knowledge: a collaborative graphic communication archive
July 25, 2017
“no one is an expert in everything, but everyone is an expert in something” For the past couple years I’ve been facilitating Total Essential Knowledge events that use conversation and drawing…
1970s Activist Publishing in West Virginia: Researching Appalachian Movement Press
July 21, 2017
Update (summer 2021): since writing this post in July of 2017, this research has grown to become a book! So Much to Be Angry About: Appalachian Movement Press and Radical DIY…
Fauna Penny Press on Hyperallergic
July 18, 2017
Rachel Elizabeth Jones just published an insightful article about the Fauna penny press project over at Hyperallergic! She hits on some key points about the underpinning motivations behind the project… “In…
Endangered Species Mural #11: Sockeye Salmon
June 5, 2017
I recently completed the 11th in the ongoing series of murals about endangered species that I coordinate, and this one is a bit out of the ordinary- it’s installed in…
Hidden Heritage Collections blog on Support GI resistance
June 3, 2017
Serena Troshynski, a Library and Information Science student at St. John’s University, selected my Support GI Resistance poster for an assignment that was published on the Hidden Heritage Collections blog….
Interference Archive on PRINT Magazine website
June 2, 2017
Steven Heller interviewed Justseeds member/Interference Archive co-founder Kevin Caplicki, along with archive members Jen Hoyer, Bonnie Gordon and Louise Barry, for PRINT Magazine’s website. The Interference Archive in Brooklyn, New…
Strike! Huelga! Shirt from Kayrock
June 1, 2017
I teamed up with Kayrock screenprinters here in Brooklyn to evolve my Strike flag design (downloadable graphic HERE) into a Spring-themed shirt for their Political Action wing. The proceeds from…
biocultura santa fe
May 4, 2017
There’s a new project space that opened in Santa Fe recently called Biocultura. They had an inaugural event April 23rd where they were one of several organizations to partner with the…
Penland School of the Arts
April 17, 2017
Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina is one of the country’s oldest and most respected schools of craft. Opened in 1929 by Lucy Morgan who focused her initial…
Practicing Medicine + Art on the Diné Nation
April 14, 2017
by Diana Kirk (from The Progressive) April 11, 2017 Chip Thomas Dr. Chip Thomas, also known by his artist name Jetsonorama, lives in Tuba City, Arizona, on Navajo land. For thirty…
Endangered Species Mural #12: Streaked Horned Lark & Kincaid’s Lupine
April 13, 2017
I just finished off the 12th in the Endangered Species Mural Project, at the corner of Lombard and Atlantic in North Portland, OR. Painted with Portland artist Sarah Farahat, the…
“American” Flag
April 10, 2017
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…
To Immigrants with Love
March 11, 2017
Justseeds artists Jess X. Chen and Roger Peet recently collaborated on an image to promote the #toimmigrantswithlove campaign, an online effort to encourage people to reach out to the immigrants…
Milwaukee Art Build for Public Education Recap
February 16, 2017
Art builds bring people together and create stronger coalitions. A few weeks ago over 150 people – artists, public school teachers, union organizers, activists, allies, and community members came together…
James Baldwin Mural in Pittsburgh
February 16, 2017
John Jennings’ Celebrate People’s History poster of James Baldwin has been turned into a 4 ft. x 8 ft. mini-mural as part of Pittsburgh’s Sidewall project. Sidewall is a mural…
read the writing on the wall – 35
February 11, 2017
Seen in the door of Otherwild in Los Angeles, CA. February 10, 2017. All Are Welcome is a not-for-profit project aimed at providing businesses, schools and other establishments with a…
Imaging Nursing
February 1, 2017
In 2016, I was invited to contribute art to the re-opening of the Robert Morris University School of Nursing. It was a great opportunity to explore some ideas around nursing,…
If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
January 29, 2017
Really inspired by the emergency demos against the Muslim Ban all around Turtle Island today. Even more excited to see some of the materials from our Inaugurating Resistance Propaganda party…
Inaugurating Resistance Propaganda Party and Art Call-Out
December 25, 2016
Post-Election Organizing: Call for Art & Designs Interference Archive is hosting a propaganda party on the weekend of January 14/15 to produce and disseminate artistic material to be used during…
WV Mine Wars Museum Seeks Dues-Paying Members!
December 13, 2016
Since early 2014, I’ve worked closely with a small, incredibly dedicated group of folks to launch the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum down in Matewan, WV: an independent people’s history museum…
Capture the Flag!
December 6, 2016
For the past year Jesse Purcell and I have been working on a giant screenprinted book. What we ended up with is Capture the Flag. A meditation far…
Endangered Species Mural: Dakota Skipper
November 29, 2016
I had been planning a mural in Asheville, NC for months, had a ticket, ordered paint, and was all set to fly out and start painting on the 7th and…
Live Printing at the Art Museum
November 7, 2016
I was recently invited to do a live-printing demo at the Portland Art Museum, as part of their programming around the big Warhol show they have up. It was a…
Screenprint Biennial Opens Tonight/Josh MacPhee Talk Tomorrow
October 28, 2016
I’m really excited to be heading up to Troy, NY today to see the opening of the 2nd Screenprint Biennial, and then to give a talk tomorrow at the Collar…
New (Old) Work: Checks & Balances sculpture exhibition in Pittsburgh
October 28, 2016
This autumn I was invited to exhibit two projects that I’ve made in the past decade as part of “Checks & Balances”, curated by Murray Horne at SPACE in downtown Pittsburgh….
Creating Home & Place Through Public Art
October 1, 2016
Just this morning, justseeds artist Jess X. Snow & public artist, Lunar New Year lead a free community public art and mural workshop at Urban Word’s annual Preemptive Education Conference at New…
Up Against The Wall at Booklyn
September 21, 2016
Here are a handful of images from the opening last month of Up Against The Wall, at Booklyn. The exhibition, which includes portions of the Iraq Veterans Against War portfolio…
Up Against the Wall opening tonight at Booklyn
August 30, 2016
WHEN Opening Reception Aug. 30th, 7-10PM Exhibition Runs Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016 – Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2016 WHERE Booklyn | 37 Greenpoint Avenue, Suite E4G / Box 23, Brooklyn, NY…
Pre-Order Mobile Print Power: Soñamos Sentirnos Libres Book
August 18, 2016
Since May, Interference Archive has been hosting an exhibition of the collaborative work of Mobile Print Power (MPP). MPP is a mobile screen printing collective largely made up of immigrant-youth…
Protests in Print at NYPL
August 15, 2016
Many Justseeds-related publications are included in the current “flash exhibition” Protests in Print at the New York Public Library. Signal, the Librarians and Archivists to Palestine zine, and some Interference…
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
August 4, 2016
I believe we are at a critical moment in the history of the United States. Earlier this year former US President Jimmy Carter spoke at the Human Rights Defender Forum….
Signal:05 Out Now!
August 2, 2016
Alec and I are very excited that our latest issue of Signal is back from the printer and available here on Justseeds! We made a little promotional animation/video, and hope…
Audio Interference 18: Kevin Caplicki
July 28, 2016
A couple months ago I spoke with Brooke Schuman, one of the folks from the audio working group at Interference Archive. Our discussion, regarding Justseeds & our portfolio projects, was…
QUEER HEARTACHE: a poetry tour
July 25, 2016
TOUR Join award-winning queer Asian-American poets, Kit Yan and Jess X. Chen (justseeds artist) on the Queer Heartache Summer Tour. Combining oceanic laughter, the violence of heartbreak, and the sorrow lost…
Endangered Species Murals #9: White Fringeless Orchid
July 25, 2016
The 9th of the Endangered Species Murals is recently completed in the town of Berea, Kentucky- featuring the first plant in the series, the beautiful and strange White Fringeless Orchid….
Behind Design 02: Producing the City
July 19, 2016
So for this second installment of Behind Design, I thought I’d talk a bit about what went into my recent screenprint poster, Producing the City. Back in April, my friend…
Endangered Species Mural #8: Freshwater Mussels of Tennessee
July 4, 2016
The eighth of the Endangered Species Murals is now complete! I’ve just returned to Portland from Knoxville, Tennessee, after finishing up the largest mural I have ever had the pleasure…
Agitadores de Conciencia
June 30, 2016
I’m excited to have a number of posters in a new exhibition entitled Agitadores de Conciencia/Agitators of Conscience. Organized by Ofelio Serpa, the show is currently on display at the…
Beyond Prisons Posters
June 29, 2016
At the end of March I was contacted by Aaron Huey of the Amplifier Foundation about participating in a project he was putting together—an experiment in mass production and distribution…
Behind Design 01: Perspectives #29
June 28, 2016
I’ve been wanting to start this up for awhile, but finally pulled together a little time to do it! “Behind Design” will hopefully be a new blog post series about…
Juneteenth
June 19, 2016
Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas in June 1865, now celebrated, more generally as the emancipation of African American slaves, on…
Future Booking Collective in InFinite Futures at ABC No Rio
June 9, 2016
I’ve collaborated, with my pal Alexander Dwinell, on an installation for the final exhibition at ABC No Rio. The current building at 156 Rivington St will be torn down in…
Stinkfish, Kill Joy and Mazatl in Honduras
June 6, 2016
Between the months of April and May of this year we(Kill Joy, Stinkfish and Mazatl) had the pleasure of being in Honduras for four weeks to work on the first…
read the writing on the wall – 31
May 24, 2016
Fuck Your Phone Keep Your Head Up Williamsburg, Brooklyn. May 15, 2016 What I just learned, while doing some online research on my smartphone, is that we spend 90-120 minutes…
No LNG: Victory in Astoria and beyond!
May 22, 2016
Last weekend I went to Astoria, a small city at the mouth of the Columbia River, for a party celebrating what seems like a final victory over the forces that…
read the writing on the wall – 30
May 13, 2016
Dump Hillary War Criminal. Long island City, Queens. May 8, 2016. Plenty of graffiti and street art being produced this primary election cycle. This was painted in the shadow of…
SOLASTALGIA: a queer eco-feminist poetry tour
May 6, 2016
Justseeds member Jess X. Chen, and Diné artist Demian Dineyazhi, are going on an eco-feminist poetry tour across America between May 5-May 17th 2016! Stops include: Los Angeles, Tucson, Gallup,…
Endangered Species Mural: Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
May 3, 2016
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…
read the writing on the wall- 29
April 30, 2016
Let Them Eat Reality Bed-Stuy Brooklyn. April 23, 2016 Written on the construction wall at the former site of Cascade Laundry across the street from the Marcy Projects. Most people…
Milwaukee Art Build recap
April 25, 2016
Here is a recap of the Art Build that took place in Milwaukee from April 16th-20th. The event was organized by myself and Susan Simensky Bietila and revolved around a…
Interference Archive in Agitprop! at the Brooklyn Museum
April 22, 2016
Interference Archive is included in the current exhibition Agitprop! in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. I have to say that the show is…
MayDay preparations in Milwaukee
April 18, 2016
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…
read the writing on the wall- 28
April 11, 2016
GIVE YR PRADA TO THE POOR. NO MA$TER$ NYC. March 2012.
Video: Mazatl Painting in Brighton
April 6, 2016
Here’s Justseeds member Mazatl, painting two murals at the Wahaca restaurant in Brighton, England, and talking about what influences the subjects of his current print and mural work. …
The Resistance of the Angler Fish & Poems by Jess X. Chen
April 4, 2016
Justseeds artist Jess X. Chen has been hiding in a hermit hole writing poems exploring eco-feminism, environmental resilience and love amidst diaspora, violence and trauma. Here are some of her…
Interview on Circled A Radio
April 4, 2016
A couple weeks back I got to do a live interview, about Justseeds, with Yodet Gherez of Circled A Radio in the UK. You can give it a listen below…
Kevin Caplicki on Whisper or Shout Panel Discussion at BRIC
March 29, 2016
Tomorrow evening I’ll be representing Interference Archive at the following panel discussion at BRIC, in Brooklyn, NY. It is part of the programming for the current exhibition, Whisper or Shout,…
Big Prints in Omaha
March 28, 2016
I spent a week in Nebraska earlier this month, as a guest artist at the University of Omaha, at the invitation of professor Jave Yoshimoto. I spent most of my…
Racial Justice: A Collection of Books and Print Ephemera from Brooklyn’s Interference Archive
March 24, 2016
ArtSlant and the Night Library just published a cool piece featuring Interference Archive. Seven volunteers of the collective chose items in the archive that they felt spoke to the issue…
Fernando’s No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes t-shirts!
March 12, 2016
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…
Guest posting on Our Comics Ourselves
March 9, 2016
I wasn’t able to pull together a Judging Books by Their Covers post this week, in part because I’m guest posting all week on the Our Comics, Ourselves tumblr site!…
Community Youth Mural on Migration & Ecological Justice Part 1
March 6, 2016
I’ve spent the last month or so in collaboration with Asian-American filmmaker Tani Ikeda, Immediate Justice, and the Center for Biological Diversity leading a weekly stencil and mural workshop to…
read the writing on the wall – 27
March 4, 2016
San Ignacio, Belize. February 2016. Knowledge Kills HIV. These will not transmit HIV, Mosquito, Shower. These will transmit HIV, razor blade, needle. AIDS does not discriminate, Why do we? I…
Black Power Book Covers in situ
March 1, 2016
Back in December the Ace Hotel in New York invited Interference Archive to fill a display case in their lobby. We decided we wanted to use the opportunity to place…
read the writing on the wall – 26
February 25, 2016
Free Art. Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico. February, 2016. Two things I’ve always loved about art made in public is that it can be produced by anyone, willing to take the…
CPH poster exhibition up at UConn
February 23, 2016
The University of Connecticut recently acquired a complete set of the Celebrate People’s History Posters, and already has them on display! They’re up at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center…
We Be Darker Than Blue Mural
February 20, 2016
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…
Manta Ray Paste-ups in Yogyakarta
February 18, 2016
I’m just back from Indonesia, and a slew of little art projects there. First up, a paste-up wall of Manta Ray screenprints and papercuts- I made these before I left…
3 Steps Notepads
February 16, 2016
Our friend Charles at Eberhardt Press (who prints the fabulous Justseeds Organizers each year, and the new 3-Year Garden Journal) just sent me a small box of cool notebooks he…
read the writing on the wall – 25
February 14, 2016
No war, Promote Peace and Love. Caye Caulker, Belize. Feb 2016. Belize is a small country, of 300,000 people, on the Carribean Sea bordered by Mexico and Guatemala. It has…
Rent Checks for Beyond Repair
February 13, 2016
Sam Gould, one of the organizers of a new community art space and print shop in Minneapolis called Beyond Repair, recently asked me if I would help launch their new…
Our Comics, Ourselves book available now!
February 12, 2016
Here’s Interference Archive’s youngest volunteer (and Justseeds’ newest sprout) Asa Michigan MacPhee showing off the awesome new book/catalog that came out of the “Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation…
Audio Interference – A new podcast series from Interference Archive
February 5, 2016
Audio Interference is a podcast by Interference Archive in Brooklyn, NY, a volunteer-run archive of material culture produced in social movements. Interested in the capacity of audio to capture oral…
read the writing on the wall- 24
January 28, 2016
You Are Not What You Own. May 2011 You Are Not What You Own. August 2012. Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY. 2011, 2012
Community Supported Art, shipping out now!
January 27, 2016
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…
“An Uncomfortable History” & The Mine Wars on American Experience
January 25, 2016
[.45 ACP bullet casing, from Thompson submachine gun, recovered from Crooked Creek Gap area of Blair Mountain battlefield, collection of Kenny King] Since early 2014, I’ve worked closely with a small,…
Mine: An Anthology Zines #1 and #2 now available online!
January 24, 2016
In 2002 I published a zine called Mine: An Anthology of Women’s Choices. It was a compilation of stories of people who had had an abortion. In 2004 I released…
Introducing Penny Smasher v.2: Fauna
January 22, 2016
I’ve been scheming with my longtime friend and cohort Stuart Anderson to build a penny smashing machine since some time back in 2007 or 08. At that time, we’d just completed…
read the writing on the wall- 23
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.
Our Comics, Ourselves opens Thursday, Jan. 21st
January 18, 2016
Here’s a teaser video for the upcoming exhibition at Interference Archive! Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation in Comic Art January 21—April 17, 2016 Opening January 21st, 7–10pm Interference…
Jaguar Mural in Tucson: progress!
January 18, 2016
The fifth of the Endangered Species Murals is taking shape in Tucson, on the side of the Solar Culture complex in downtown. The mural is being painted by local artist…
read the writing on the wall- 22
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…
read the writing on the wall-21
January 1, 2016
I’m reviving my old photo series “read the writing on the wall.” To kick it off again here’s a flick I took while hiking Breakneck Ridge, New Years Day…
Our Comics, Ourselves book, pre-order now!
December 28, 2015
Interference Archive is hard at work on its next project, a survey of comics from alternative perspectives entitled Our Comics, Ourselves. We’re putting out a publication to document and go…
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…
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…
Inflatable Climate Action around the world!
December 11, 2015
On the morning of December 11 a number of direct actions took places in cities around the world, in solidarity with the work giong on in Paris to force attention…
Join Justseeds CSA Dec 1-7th and get a $15 gift card!
December 1, 2015
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…
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…
Subscribe now to Justseeds Community Supported Art for 2016!
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…
Sign Painting
November 5, 2015
I made this sign for the local needle exchange and learned three things:
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…
Interference Archive featured in The Guardian
October 14, 2015
We’re excited to get some press for our recent exhibition Armed by Design. You can read more at The Guardian.
Looking for Harriet Tubman CPH Posters!
August 25, 2015
I’m working on a big project to celebrate 100 poster designs printed in the Celebrate People’s History Poster Series over the past eighteen years. I’m working with Booklyn to put…
Another Protest Song: Karaoke with a Message (This Wednesday!!!)
August 3, 2015
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 Doors open 7pm Silent Barn 603 Bushwick Ave. Brooklyn (NOT AT INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE!) $5 – $10 (sliding scale)** As part of the Interference Archive’s if a…
A View Inside the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
May 21, 2015
Last Saturday, after two years of organization and building renovation, the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum finally opened it’s doors to the public on May 16th!
We’re All In This Together Mural
May 17, 2015
A couple weeks back Chris Stain and I (Josh MacPhee) painted a new mural at Houston and 2nd Ave. in Manhattan for Lower East Side History Month. It was great…
Tonight! Print and Politics at Interference Archive
April 29, 2015
Print & Politics: Lincoln Cushing & Favianna Rodriguez Wednesday April 29, 7pm Interference Archive 131 8th St., Brooklyn, NY 11215 A evening of discussion about print and politics, with Lincoln…
Signal:03 review on Dubdog
March 15, 2015
Signal:03 got a really nice review a couple weeks back on Dubdog.com. Check it out HERE. And you can always pick up a copy of Signal from us HERE. And…
Wolf Patrol Online Exhibit
March 9, 2015
WolfPatrol.org is having an online benefit for their organization which “works on the ground to document and report on wolf hunts and illegal poaching, in the face of the removal…
Cataloging Artifacts: West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
February 26, 2015
We’re moving forward with the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum over in Matewan, WV. This community-driven, people’s history museum opens to the public on May 16 (in the midst of…
Rising Tide T-shirt logo
February 10, 2015
The nice people at Portland Rising Tide asked me to design a t-shirt logo for them- and the above graphic is what I came up with. Fossil fuel exports are…
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…
Open House at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
November 24, 2014
Since this past spring, I’ve been honored to be working with a group of folks down in Southern West Virginia to launch an exciting people’s history project: The West…
Traps, Flows, Echoes opens in PDX!
November 12, 2014
I just opened a solo show of prints, installation, sound, and video in the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Gallery 214. It’s up until the end of November, so if…
Penny Smasher v.1: Public Debut
November 3, 2014
This past Saturday, Stuart Anderson and I dragged the penny smasher prototype out into public for the first time for a “soft” debut before the Flood Tide screening at the…
Traps, Flows, Echoes prep
October 21, 2014
I’m deep in preparation for my upcoming solo show at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland. The show is called “Traps, Flows, Echoes” and it opens Nov 6th,…
Penny Smasher: Phase One
October 8, 2014
This fall, I’ve been working with long time cohort Stuart O. Anderson to develop a customized souvenir penny smashing machine (also known as a penny crusher, penny press, or…
Why Do We Protest?
September 27, 2014
I wrote this article for Bitch Magazine in the leadup to the recent People’s Climate March, thinking about futility and frustration and the reasons we do the work we do….
Amazing! (Josh)
September 17, 2014
The ongoing blog series where I ask Justseeds members for five things that have been inspiring them lately. This one from Josh MacPhee in NYC:
The Screenprint Biennial 2014
September 16, 2014
I just got some photos from this past weekend’s opening of the first annual Screenprint Biennial, in Troy, NY. My ______ Manifesto diptych was included, which I’m really excited about….
Honoring OR-7: A Wild Mural Project
September 2, 2014
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….
New issue of Peak Magazine out!
August 19, 2014
Canadian magazine the Peak has their September issue out and it’s articles are complimented by some artwork of Justseeds’ members. You can read the issue below.
Studio Visit with Meredith Stern
July 23, 2014
On our way up to Cape Cod, Laurel and I stopped in for lunch with Meredith Stern and Peter Glantz. Here’s some flicks of Meredith’s studio and a print series…
Signal Fire: Lost Marbles
July 18, 2014
I just got back from a week in the Marble Mountains wilderness of Northern California with the wildlands education and residency organization Signal Fire. Ten artists and activists, from a…
Making a Celebrate People’s History Poster: The Luddites
July 18, 2014
Last autumn, I finished up a design for a new poster in the Celebrate People’s History series, and it’s just now hot off the presses (you can get it here)!…
Happy 145th Birthday Emma Goldman
June 27, 2014
Emma Goldman was born, June 27, 1869, Kovno, Russian Empire. She was an Anarchist known around the world for her writing, political organizing and speeches. Here are just a couple…
Public Energy Art Kit
May 5, 2014
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…
Shifting Baselines on the Lomami
April 19, 2014
I wrote a new post for the blog about my Congo trip today, covering a conversation I had with the chief of the tiny and isolated village of Lole about…
Amazing! (Shaun)
April 12, 2014
The ongoing blog series where I ask Justseeds members for five things that have been inspiring them lately. This one from Shaun Slifer from Pittsburgh:
Beyond the Wall in Philly
April 11, 2014
I recently worked on a big project with Philadelphia Mural Arts, designing materials connected to a mural they are doing around issues of mass incarceration. A half dozen meetings were…
Amazing! (Bec)
April 9, 2014
The ongoing blog series where I ask Justseeds members for five things that have been inspiring them lately. This one from Bec Young of Pittsburgh:
Happy Birthday Paul Robeson
April 9, 2014
Paul Robeson was born today, 116 years ago,in 1898. Above is the Celebrate People’s History poster in homage to him. Also belated Happy B’day to Biz Markie!
Camoutopia in Process
March 28, 2014
I’ve been busily printing and pasting and organizing away on my MFA thesis show for Ontario College of Art and Design University. The 60-page written paper is in, now for…
When is a State Not a State?
March 25, 2014
The organization I’ve been working for in Congo, TL2, performs many of the functions that people in western countries would consider to be the responsibility of the state. From road-building…
Lomami Drama
March 22, 2014
For the last six weeks or so, I’ve been in the Democratic Republic of Congo, volunteering with a project that is trying to develop a new national park in the…
People’s Art History of the US book tour: California
March 14, 2014
Heading to California in a few days for book tour and to re-connect with old friends and to meet new ones. The art and activism conversation will take place in…
Amazing! (Kevin)
March 4, 2014
The ongoing blog series where I ask Justseeds members for five things that have been inspiring them lately. This one from Kevin Caplicki from NYC:
Justseeds in the DR Congo!
February 2, 2014
I’m in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the next two months, working on a conservation theater project in and around a new national park in the east of the…
Obenge Recordings
January 22, 2014
I’m pleased to announce the release of Obenge Recordings- a compilation of music I recorded in the now-vanished village of Obenge in Democratic Republic of Congo in the fall of…
A People’s Art History of the United States excerpt: Living Water: Sustainability Through Collaboration
January 17, 2014
diagram of a Living Water Garden Here is another excerpt from my book A People’s Art History of the United States. This excerpt is on Betsy Damon – an environmental…
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…
People’s Art History book tour this week: Brooklyn, Baltimore & Philadelphia
January 7, 2014
This week I will be on the East Coast presenting talks on the People’s Art History book and radical art. This Wednesday night (January 8th) I’ll be at the Interference…
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…
Favianna’s keynote at Revolve: An Art for Social Change Symposium
December 6, 2013
REVOLVE Keynote Presentation: Favianna Rodriguez from PhillyCAM.
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…
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”…
Amazing! (Erik)
November 10, 2013
Amazing!, the blog series in which I ask members of Justseeds to make a list of five things that have been inspiring them as of late. This time we get…
Green Mini Demo Derby – Championship on November 14th
November 6, 2013
This year I put a ridiculous amount of time and energy into making a solar powered remote control car demolition derby (Green Mini Demo Derby). From asking numerous businesses if…
A People’s Art History of the United States: Now available!
November 5, 2013
Eight years of research and writing has led to my first book –A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social…
Amazing! (Mary)
October 26, 2013
Third round of Amazing! the blog series in which I ask members of Justseeds to make a top 5 list of things that have been inspiring them as of late….
Amazing! (Chris & Nicolas)
October 22, 2013
Second round of Amazing!, in which I ask members of Justseeds to make a top 5 list of things that have been inspiring them as of late. This time we…
Justseeds at Print and Resist: Madison
October 18, 2013
If your in Madison this Saturday, stop by Print and Resist. Justseeds will be tabling.
Amazing! (Melanie, Roger, Icky)
October 12, 2013
Welcome to the inaugural edition of a new series in which I ask the Justseeds collective members to list five things that have inspired/amazed/blown-them-away in the last month or so….
Josh MacPhee in Iowa City for a Week of Events
September 24, 2013
Yup, I’m in Iowa City for a week, doing a bunch of events, and I’d love it if anyone in the area wants to swing by and say “hello” at…
Making Bandit Signs at Crowdsourced
August 12, 2013
A couple weeks back, I participated in “Crowdsourced”, an exhibition organized by Robert Razcka at SPACE here in Pittsburgh. Robert has been doing these time-restricted projects for about ten years…
Green Mini Demo Derby – in progress
August 9, 2013
I’m excited to finally have completed the first car for my upcoming Green Mini Demo Derby. I have sponsors that will have their own hand painted cars. After many tests,…
In Palestine pt.21
July 22, 2013
I’m not a huge reality TV fan, and although I’m vaguely aware of the show American Idol, I had no knowledge of its Middle East equivalent—Arab Idol. Turns out that…
In Palestine pt.20
July 18, 2013
There isn’t just graffiti on the walls here. In many places, particularly refugee camps, there are also murals. Some are made with naive charm, some professional skill, and few…
In Palestine pt.19
July 17, 2013
Most days Ramallah feels like the world’s biggest construction site. Buildings are going up everywhere you look, the street leading up to our hotel didn’t have a sidewalk when we…
In Palestine pt.18
July 16, 2013
While in Nazareth we took a tour with British journalist Jonathon Cook, who lives with his family in Israel/Palestine. He brought us to the remains of the Palestinian town of…
In Palestine pt.17
July 15, 2013
The walls of Palestine are alive with messaging and communication, including layers of posters for cultural events, political martyrs, commercial advertisements, and election campaigns. While the martyr posters are mostly…
In Palestine pt.16
July 12, 2013
When I was in school, it took two years of organizing to get our college library to build their collection of books about prisons from a dusty shelf of old…
Justseeds: Old School 1
July 11, 2013
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…
In Palestine pt.14
July 10, 2013
There is a way that the occupation of Palestine seems to have frozen in time certain aspects of life in certain places, creating strange anachronisms. In the old city of…
In Palestine pt.13
July 9, 2013
‘nuf said.
In Palestine pt.12
July 8, 2013
There is a lot of amazing graffiti here in Palestine, but I think this might be the best thing I’ve seen so far. This hand is so pretzeled to make…
In Palestine pt.11
July 5, 2013
I barely got used to seeing the pay-to-ride CitiBikes around New York City before I left town. Although these bike programs seem to now be a prerequisite for any city…
In Palestine pt.10
July 4, 2013
There is a lot of graffiti here in Palestine, but almost all of it is in either Arabic or English, with a very, very small smattering of French. It was…
Dissent Illustrations
July 3, 2013
I was recently commissioned by Dissent magazine to provide some illustrations for their special issue on climate change. Check out the magazine here and consider a subscription! You can see…
In Palestine pt.9
July 3, 2013
This is the largest key in the world. It sits at the entrance to Aida Refugee Camp, which sits on the edge of Bethlehem, pushed right up against the Israeli…
In Palestine pt.8
July 2, 2013
While being here we’ve heard so many stories of oppression and repression of Palestinians by Israeli Jews (about 25% of Israelis in pre-67 borders are Palestinians, who are “citizens” of…
In Palestine pt.6
June 29, 2013
This is an eight track railroad crossing in Lyd, a historically Palestinian city within pre-67 borders Israel (called simply “48” by most Palestinians) which is very poor and is undergoing…
In Palestine pt.5
June 28, 2013
As many of you know, I’m completely infatuated with books, and book design. Being here in Palestine visiting libraries is a bit like being in a candy shop, with an…
In Palestine pt.3
June 25, 2013
The walls have so much texture here. This image is from Ramallah, and a good example of walls that have been painted over, and over, and over again for years….
In Palestine pt.1
June 23, 2013
Molly and I (Josh) are in Palestine for two weeks as part of a librarians and archivists solidarity trip. Today was our first day, and we visited a half dozen…
Word On The Street: Image, Language, Signage (Chicago)
June 14, 2013
Opening this Friday at the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Colombia College Chicago, you’ll find Justseeds work in the new exhibition Word on the Street: Image, Language, Signage….
Commentary on “Aqui Seguimos”
June 7, 2013
University of Nottingham professor Adam David Morton offers up a nice little vignette of commentary on the significance of the Zapatista movement, using my “Aqui Seguimos” print as a springboard….
Twenty Years of Legal Action for Animals
May 20, 2013
I was recently commissioned to design a poster for the law firm Meyer, Glitzenstein and Crystal to commemorate their 20th anniversary. MG&C has spent the last twenty years aggressively defending…
Counterfeit: A Congo Diptych
May 8, 2013
A doomed past doesn’t mean a doomed future. The weight of history doesn’t bear down forever- people shrug their burdens off. I’ve got two new prints (here and here) up…
Book Blocs/Interference Archive in the news
May 2, 2013
In the past two days both the New York Times and the New Yorker have featured the book bloc exhibition at Interference Archive, with a focus on the book shields…
Open Call for Labor Memes
April 23, 2013
IN HONOR OF MAY DAY INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE OPEN CALL FOR MEMES For an upcoming exhibition about work stoppage—Strike Then, Strike Now!—we need your made and found memes depicting labor, bosses,…
Save the Date! Strike Then, Strike Now!
April 17, 2013
Process of “Mass Incarceration is a Labor Issue” Part 1
April 16, 2013
While Justseeds was in Milwaukee, I took process shots of the print I created, to show the process of creating this print. Here is the final print: The first step…
Justseeds SGCI shadow conference photos
March 22, 2013
Our shadow conference talks continue on Saturday at the Union Art Gallery (9am-5pm). Also check out the opening of our second show at Reciprocity at the Sweet Water urban farm…
Video Experiments and Weird News
March 13, 2013
Part of the month I spent at the Caldera Arts Center was taken up by attempts to fashion some music videos out of the clips I shot while traveling in…
Susan Platt on the War is Trauma portfolio/exhibition
March 8, 2013
Art historian Susan Platt has recently helped organize the War is Trauma portfolio exhibition at the M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery at the Seattle Central Community College. She contextualized the project…
New Website for Interference Archive
February 21, 2013
We’re excited to have just launched a new website for Interference Archive! To celebrate, we’ve got a guest post from Sean Stewart (of the amazing Babylon Falling website and author…
Process: Labor Creates All Wealth
February 18, 2013
It’s week three of my arts residency in the high Cascade mountains of central Oregon. I’m at the Caldera Arts Center, in the burnt pine woods uphill from the town…
Rebel Newsprint!
February 17, 2013
Process: The logo for the Rebellious Nursing Conference
February 2, 2013
I recently had the opportunity to design logos for two great organizations, Fight Back Pittsburgh and the Rebellious Nursing Conference. The creation of a logo is really difficult process!…
Congo stories
January 31, 2013
I’ve been slowly updating the tumblr about my Congo trip, dropping in some photos and telling some small stories about them. There’s so much to tell! The total chaos and…
The Lomami Bandanas: Bear Deluxe article and other press
January 4, 2013
I’ve been back from Congo for nearly a month now, which seems crazy. It was very odd to travel from a place like Obenge, the Congolese village where I stayed…
Back from the Congo
December 17, 2012
Ten days ago I returned to the US after three months in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I’m still adjusting to being back, waking up at 4 in the morning,…
This is an Emergency! Portfolio Review
December 11, 2012
Great review by Ana Alvarez in Brown University College Hill Independent To read the article on the Brown University College Hill Independent click here.
My print for the Munch Gallery Show
December 8, 2012
This is my print for the Sowing the Seeds of Love show at Munch Gallery in New York. It’s four color reduction print (four shades of grey!) turned into a…
“This is an Emergency!” Portfolio Review
December 4, 2012
Review in The Daily Campus at University of Connecticut Here is the direct link to read the article on their website.
La Persistencia de los Sueños install peek from Interference Archive
November 15, 2012
Sublevarte Colectivo is currently installing a retrospective exhibition at Interference Archive, that opens tomorrow, Friday, November 16th. Here’s a peek of them at work. All photos taken by Irina Arellano-Weiss
Interview with Ken Rinker
November 15, 2012
This is an interview with choreographer Ken Rinker, which is printed in the hand sewn zine of “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights….
Interview with Heather Booth of the Jane Abortion Service
November 13, 2012
This is an interview of Heather Booth which is printed in the hand sewn zine of “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To…
Kindle Project highlights Josh MacPhee
November 8, 2012
The Kindle Project recently did a really nice piece on Josh: Josh MacPhee is an understated artist with a loud series of movement building messages. Through his prints he conveys…
This is an Emergency! Essay: Elizabeth Esris
November 6, 2012
This essay was written by Elizabeth Esris, for the hand sewn zine in “This is an Emergency!” To purchase a copy, you can click HERE. To check out the website…
Virginia Reath interviewed by Molly Fair
November 1, 2012
Molly Fair interviewed Virginia Reath RPA MPH. Virginia has spent the last 30 years as a practicing clinician and educator in the field of Gynecology and sexual/reproductive health for women….
Meatscapes: the radio interview
October 23, 2012
Last week I was interviewed by an Australian radio program about my “Meatscapes” collage series. Listen to the Interview
Graphics Fight Torture
October 22, 2012
I’m in Chicago doing some events. If you can, come out tonight! Graphics Fight Torture, A screen-printing workshop with Josh MacPhee Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor …
Bec Young’s print for This is an Emergency!
October 15, 2012
This image is printed in “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy, you can click HERE. To check out the…
Sewing Freedom
October 14, 2012
Jared Davidson (from Garage Collective, and designer of the Red Feds Celebrate People’s History poster) just put out a great looking new book on anarchism in NZ called Sewing Freedom….
All Power To The People! (video)
October 12, 2012
I’ve finished up a video that I was collecting images for at the Interference Archive during the end of this last August (right after gathering for our Justseeds planning retreat)….
Meredith Stern’s image for “This is an Emergency!”
October 11, 2012
This print is from “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy, you can click HERE. To check out the tumblr…
The Bridal Fair by Susan Simensky Bietila
September 27, 2012
This comic is printed in the hand sewn zine of “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. It was originally printed in World War…
Stain Mural in Charlotte, NC
September 18, 2012
A month back I spent five days in Charlotte, NC with Chris Stain, helping him out with his install at the McColl Center for Visual Art. This included making…
Interview with Gina Glantz
September 13, 2012
This interview is printed in the hand sewn zine of “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy of the portfolio,…
A New Species of Monkey in DR Congo
September 12, 2012
I’m currently in DR Congo, in the capital Kinshasa, to be precise, waiting for a dawn flight to Kisangani in the Northeast. I’m volunteering with a team of scientists led…
Interview with Peg Johnston by Sarah Reiter
September 6, 2012
This interview is printed in the hand sewn zine of “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy of the portfolio,…
This is an Emergency! Introduction
September 3, 2012
This is the Introduction to the reproductive rights and gender justice print portfolio, “This is an Emergency!” To purchase a copy of the portfolio, you can click HERE. To check…
Interview with Judith Arcana of the Jane Abortion Service
August 28, 2012
This interview with Judith Arcana, written by Sam Merritt, appears in the hand sewn zine “This is an Emergency!” To purchase a copy, you can click HERE. To check out…
Photos from the Justseeds Retreat at Interference Archive
August 28, 2012
mixing up collective work and play…
Gathering Moss in a Decommissioned Pool
August 21, 2012
On an invitation from curator Amanda Donnan, I initiated a collaboration with friend and local field botanist Jessica McPherson as part of Project: Lido – a temporary collection of installations…
Interview with Judy Kashoff by Meredith Stern
August 18, 2012
This interview is printed in the hand sewn zine of “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy, you can click…
Celebrate People’s History 7: Animal Liberation Front
August 1, 2012
I recently had Karen Fiorito’s Animal Liberation Front Celebrate People’s History poster printed. It’s one of the sharpest designs in the past couple years. It’s really great when artists are…
Celebrate People’s History 6: Matzpen
July 25, 2012
I’m still trying to eek out some words and images from CPH artists for this blog series, so in the meantime I’m going to re-post a Q & A Joshua…
Acid Rain TV: The Grey Stare
July 11, 2012
I’ve got a video featured in July’s Acid Rain public access television series, curated by Jerstin Crosby. You can see it online, but my intention was to create something that…
This Is An Emergency Print Process
July 4, 2012
This is my print for This Is An Emergency!, a portfolio about Reproductive Rights and Gender Justice organized by Justseeds’ own Meredith Stern. The lineup of artists is impressive, and…
Slideshow: Commission for Treasonous Strategies
July 3, 2012
Commission for Treasonous Strategies is an exhibition by Claire & Tesar Freeman and Shaun Slifer: 707 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (June 22-August 19) slifer-freeman.tumblr.com
Lomami Bandanas: first sketch
June 29, 2012
I just finished the first sketch of the image for the Lomami National Park Bandanas! What are those, I hear you cry. Well, they’re going to be a pile of…
Commission for Treasonous Strategies (Pittsburgh)
June 18, 2012
Commission for Treasonous Strategies is a collaborative exhibit between Justseeds member Shaun Slifer and Claire & Tesar Freeman, a presentation of sculptural work which reflects upon the history of the…
New CPH Posters Hot of the Presses!
May 11, 2012
If you haven’t checked out the Justseeds store lately, you might have missed the cascade of new Celebrate People’s History posters that have been coming out. I’m excited to announce…
Punk & Metal Record Covers 05: Antimaster
April 13, 2012
This week’s cover is Antimaster. I had previously posted on the blog the Silkscreen printing process of this cover, but this is what it looked like originally. I had done…
Occuprint Broadsheets Have Arrived!
April 12, 2012
We just received the biggest propaganda drop-off in my lifetime here at the Interference Archive! Occuprint MayDay materials arrived today, including 30,000 broadsheets, 8,500 posters (18″x24″), and 55,000 stickers! Holy…
Drago video of Chris Stain’s release party
April 6, 2012
Official book launch for Chris Stain’s latest project and Drago’s newest title – LONG STORY SHORT – at Wooster Street Social Club in NYC on March 14th, 2012. Buy the…
Punk & Metal Record Covers 04: Condenada
March 30, 2012
Condenada is an all lady hardcore punk band from Chicago, IL. They definitely draw inspiration from Los Crudos and 90’s latino bands from the area, but they not only address…
Endangered Species Condoms released!
March 26, 2012
The second round of Endangered Species condoms have been released! I was commissioned by the Center for Biological Diversity to produce five original paper-cuts for the series, which also incorporates…
Punk & Metal Record Covers 03: Profanator
March 16, 2012
Profanator is a Thrash Metal band from Queretaro. Like most thrash metal bands they wanted the grim reaper to be their main focus of the album. The first draft of…
Chris Stain Book Release Party
March 13, 2012
This Wednesday (tomorrow) is the long awaited book release for Chris Stain’s Long Story Short, which has been in the works for over two years. Join us in celebrating from…
Endangered Species Condoms
March 8, 2012
Some exciting news for me- I’m going to be working with the Center for Biological Diversity to develop art for the next round of Endangered Species Condoms. The condoms are…
Occuprint Fundraiser
February 22, 2012
Occuprint, a group I’m involved in that has been helping to organize, produce, and distribute posters and graphics for the Occupy movement since the early days of Occupy Wall Street…
Realizing a Class Struggle Penny Crusher?
February 9, 2012
For several years, I’ve had the idea to create a souvenir penny-crushing machine which would imprint pennies with designs relevant to working class struggles for social justice in Western Pennsylvania’s…
Dara Greenwald’s Video Work
January 13, 2012
(above: “On Behalf of the Lynx”, detail) Video was only one medium in Dara’s amazing body of work, but every bit of her brilliance, sharp social and political critique,…
Old Yeller’s Dance
January 13, 2012
I worked up a new video recently, an ominous treatment of that crucial scene in Disney’s Old Yeller (1957) wherein Yeller battles the rabid wolf that’s been terrorizing the Coates…
An interview with Mazatl and The 555 Collective
January 5, 2012
The Following is an Interview I did with the 555 Collective. You can visit their web page here and the Interview here Mazatl is an artist residing in Mexico City….
Big Collaborative Blockprints
January 4, 2012
The two big blockprints from the We Agree project are finally available today in the Justseeds store; one made by three Justseeds artists, and the other by the Taring Padi…
Organizers sold out!
December 21, 2011
Uh, the entire run of 2012 Justseeds/Eberhardt Press organizers has sold out. I’m sort of shocked. I sincerely apologize to anyone disappointed, the rate of movement was quite beyond what…
Posters for the Port Shutdown
December 17, 2011
Last Monday, people in cities up and down the West Coast came out to try to shut down the ports. My friend Chris and I put together some posters for…
Work Visit at the Interference Archive
December 13, 2011
Alec “Icky” Dunn, Shaun Slifer and myself recently visited the NYC Justseeds crew to put in a work day at the Interference Archive. We designed and installed lighting, Shaun installed…
Dept. of Space & Land Reclamation Interview
November 11, 2011
My friend Daniel Tucker is working on a new research project about art and activism called “Never the Same: Conversations About Art Transforming Politics & Community in Chicago & Beyond.”…
read the writing on the wall-19
September 6, 2011
MoMA, NYC, 2011 It took awhile for me to realize that there was handwriting on the wall text, then I had to laugh at myself. Not a laughing matter is…
read the writing on the wall-18
September 1, 2011
2008-present Brooklyn, NY
A Busy Day
August 4, 2011
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…
Viande de Brousse opening
June 25, 2011
The Bushmeat Food-cart debuted at the Mall last Saturday; people seemed to enjoy it, in a way. Here’s some flicks from the opening!
Viande de Brousse
May 23, 2011
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…
Josh MacPhee printing at AIR (Pittsburgh)
April 9, 2011
Josh MacPhee is in Pittsburgh this weekend, working on a new print at Artist Image Resource with help from Mary Tremonte. If you’re in town, come by our distro HQ…
CPH in Okinawa
February 25, 2011
Okinawa has long been a site of struggle against U.S. militarism and occupation. Recently activists have been fighting against a U.S. Army helipad. You can read about this struggle HERE…
read the writing on the wall-15
February 14, 2011
Happy Valentines Day! Brooklyn, NY 2011 Why the media (and particularly Wiki leaks) is important Publishing improves transparency, and this transparency creates a better society for all people. Better scrutiny…
read the writing on the wall-14
January 27, 2011
Brooklyn, December 2010.
read the writing on the wall-13
January 3, 2011
4th Avenue, NYC. Winter 2010. This is a terrible cellphone picture. I took it cos I like the interrogation and think it is incomplete and should end with “…the way…
Bushmeat Apocalypse
December 16, 2010
I recently had an article published in the Portland-based environmental journal Bear Deluxe about the international bushmeat trade and the effects that it’s having on the populations of our closest…
Slug & Lettuce Archive
December 1, 2010
When I was a mini-proto-krusty-skater-travel punk, in the 90’s, I went to a handful of DIY punk and hardcore shows. The self-produced culture and autonomy involved always intrigued me. Growing…
There is No Way
September 28, 2010
I’ve really been enjoying Icky’s process posts on his excellent blog, Blackout Print, and I thought that I’d make one for this blog here. I use a variety of techniques…
In the Blogosphere…
September 7, 2010
Signal has gotten a couple nice mentions on the web (don’t forget to pick up a copy HERE.): —A review at Dotrad, which calls Signal “a beautiful chronicle of political…
read the writing on the wall-12
August 10, 2010
Williamsburg Bridge, Brooklyn, NY. July 2010.
Stop the Bomb
August 9, 2010
Today marks the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. Three days prior, August 6, 1945 the USA dropped the first atom bomb on Hiroshima. I made this flyer…
The Process: a Visual Guide to Mass Extinction
August 2, 2010
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,…
read the writing on the wall-11
July 19, 2010
Swooph Paris, 2007
Howling Mob Society in Afterall Online
July 9, 2010
I had a long phone conversation with writer Daniel Fuller this winter – he had driven to town from Philadelphia specifically to find the Howling Mob Society historical markers after…
Printing with Taring Padi
March 30, 2010
Here’s a little photo essay showing the printing process used by Indonesian print cooperative Taring Padi, including images from all stages of the process, from sketching to carving to printing….
Ides Of March Exhibit at ABC No RIo
March 17, 2010
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…
Another Justseeds Member at AS220 in Providence…
February 3, 2010
From now until February 14th, I’m more than happy to be the Artist in Residence at Providence’s multifaceted AS220. I’ll be working exclusively in their letterpress print shop, taking a…
Copenhagen Banners
January 10, 2010
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…
Justice for Oscar Grant
January 2, 2010
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…
read the writing on the wall-10
December 4, 2009
Williamsburg Bridge, NYC. 2009 Today on NPR they reported that 10% unemployment is raising hopes. While so many people are living in precarity, no real solutions to the economic crisis…
SEA Change Banner Project for Copenhagen
December 3, 2009
Here’s a couple of photographs from an epic day of screen-printing, Roger of Justseeds and Heather of Flight 64 cranking out hundreds of individual letters for Katherine Ball’s (of SEA…
Norway or the Highway 1
November 20, 2009
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…
read the writing on the wall-9
November 12, 2009
Paris, France. 2007 “Anarchy” is from the Greek, prefix an (or a), meaning “not,” “the want of,” “the absence of,” or “the lack of”, plus archos, meaning “a ruler,” “director”,…
Urban Mushroom Find!
November 2, 2009
I don’t live in an idyllic state park like fellow Justseeder Meredith, but I keep my eyes peeled all the same. Last night I discovered that a stump at the…
read the writing on the wall-8
November 2, 2009
Park Slope, Brooklyn. 2008 But sometimes someone else decides to censor it- the buff. About other kinds of censorship: National Coalition Against Censorship they like free speech and kids ability…
read the writing on the wall-7
October 26, 2009
Valparaiso, Chile 2007 This is from a set of street slogans I shot during a visit to Chile a few years ago. There’s a set of them on the Justseeds…
read the writing on the wall-6
October 19, 2009
No More Corporate Bullshit-Fuk Wall St Gowanus, Brooklyn. 2008 This was an artists response to last years economic crisis and collapse. Below is a more recent photo of the response…
read the writing on the wall-5
October 16, 2009
*Fuck Gentrification Somewhere, in the world. If it only were pleasurable and easy to fuck something like gentrification, maybe we’d be able to move beyond the boom and bust capitalist…
read the writing on the wall-4
October 5, 2009
Showered with Lies LES, NYC. Walking down the street after my acupuncture appointment, I looked up and was reminded of the barrage of messages on TV, in magazines, and on…
Reproduce & Revolt makes the rounds-in Chile!
October 5, 2009
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…
read the writing on the wall-3
September 28, 2009
Bushwick, NY I have been taking a bunch of flicks of the Read fire extinguisher tags, here’s one of em. You may see Boans, Reader, Read More, or other stuff….
350 in NYC for Climate Week
September 25, 2009
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…
read the writing on the wall-2
September 21, 2009
Its been a year since the Federal Government started bailing out countless financial institutions. The banks and investment have preserved their wealth and avoided their own crisis, and postponed the…
read the writing on the wall-1
September 13, 2009
Like Colin’s weekly drawings, I decided, to post a weekly photo up here on the Justseeds Blog. I got glasses when I was in first grade, but I’ve always been…
Paper Politics Richmond-Install Shots
August 7, 2009
Here’s some photos from Paper Politics Richmond at the Ghostprint Gallery. It opens TONIGHT!
May 68 — May 08
June 15, 2009
I don’t think I ever posted this project here, and it just popped back up in my head, so I thought I’d share it. Back in early 2008 designer…
Printing with Pittsburgh Teens!
May 1, 2009
This week saw the culmination of a project I’ve been working on the last couple of months alongside Mary Tremonte (also of Justseeds), Pittsburgh artist (and beekeeper) Ashley Brickman, and…
Chris Stain & Kevin Caplicki in LA
February 10, 2009
Ever since Chris & I finished the installation and hung his show I’ve been taking in LA. I wanted to post a bunch of photos and links right after the…
New Student of an Old Technique
December 16, 2008
This winter I’ve started learning the nearly-lost art of typesetting and letterpress printing with friend and cohort Artnoose. I have a lot of ideas relative to my current video work…
Alien Boy Zine
November 2, 2008
My friend Erin Yanke (Life During Wartime/Circle A Radio) and I just finished a zine about the life of James Chasse Jr. Chasse was a schizophrenic man living in downtown…
Let Freedom Ring
November 2, 2008
Just a quick post to share a recent project. My friend Matt Meyer has compiled a giant collection of writings about the struggle to free political prisoners in the US,…
Swoon’s Swimming CIties of the Switchback Sea Opens Sunday
September 5, 2008
Swoon‘s second solo exhibit with the Deitch Projects will open this Sunday, September 7, 6-10pm. At 4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City In the early evening on Sunday, September 7th,…
Up the Luddites!
July 13, 2008
Friday was the debut of “Meet the Made” here in Pittsburgh, the latest in the Mattress Factory’s “Gestures” series and a project of the Robot 250 program. Curated by Ian…
New People’s History Poster Collaboration Finished
June 26, 2008
Sara Meister and I have finally finished work on a collaborative poster we started this spring as part of the Celebrate People’s History poster project. During a visit to Sara’s…
Ghost Bikes in New York Magazine
June 17, 2008
Joshua David Stein has written an article titled Ghost Riders about the Ghost Bike Project for New York Magazine. Really beautiful photographs by Christopher Griffith accompany the article. I disagree…
Reader’s Digest “Looks” at Bikes
June 10, 2008
Readers Digest takes a look at the Ghost Bike Project in their June 2008 issue, and the “your america” section online. The memorials continue to garner attention in the media…
Collaboration at Mass MoCA
April 27, 2008
I recently spent three weeks collaborating with 15 other people from the Miss Rockaway Armada on a “mezzanine” hallway at Mass MoCA. The project was really fun, and I’m proud…
Memorial Bike RIde-update
January 8, 2008
Photo by Fred Askew The 3rd Annual Memorial Bike Ride went as planned on Sunday, January 5th. There were around 250-300 cyclists that attended the rides that eventually converged on…
Ghost Bike for Eric Ng
December 19, 2006
It’s been 18 days since Eric Ng was killed. It doesn’t seem possible. Time moves strangely; every day I get the news again. I’m finding it hard to write about…
New ghost bikes
June 30, 2006
Yesterday, members of Visual Resistance and Time’s Up installed two ghost bikes for 23-year old filmmaker Derek Lake, killed June 26 on Houston St, and Dr. Carl Nacht, killed June…
Ghost Bike for Andre Anderson
May 16, 2006
Tod Seelie sent us a link to his photos of the May 14 memorial ride in the Rockaways for Andre Anderson, a fourteen year old who was killed by an…
Ghost bikes go worldwide
February 5, 2006
In the past few weeks, ghost bikes have appeared in at least three new cities across the world. Chicago, Illinois The Chicago Ghost Bike project created a memorial at the…
Ghost Bikes for Liz Byrne and Angel Quizphi
November 29, 2005
In the past several weeks members of VisualResistance have installed two more Ghost Bikes. Thus far this year has witnessed 21 deaths in the NYC bicycling community. Each loss profoundly…
Jen Shao’s ghost bike memorial removed
September 22, 2005
The ghost bike we created this weekend for Jen Shao, a 65-year old grandmother killed last Friday morning by a hit-and-run bus has been removed. A few of us went…
Ghost Bike Project in the Daily News
June 20, 2005
An article by Elizabeth Hays about the Ghost Bike project appears on the Daily News website: Memorial outlines bike death BY ELIZABETH HAYS DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER A 10-speed bicycle,…
Ghost Bike Project
June 16, 2005
In memory of Liz Padilla, a 28-year old bicyclist killed last week, VR members created a small and somber memorial in Park Slope. The night before a memorial ride led…