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 take months to digest considering the range of activities and the size of the events (the USSF was estimated at 15,000 people and over 1,300 organizations.) One of the goals of Justseeds and the friends that we traveled with was to make radical art highly VISIBLE and presented as an essential part of social justice movements. With this in mind, we tabled, introduced the new portfolio project “Resourced,” and gave talks and workshops about collective and individually based projects and campaigns. We also put up a ton of art in Detroit. Below are some photos and in the next post, I’ll highlight the AMAZING mobile printmaking station that Mary, Heather, and Ashley brought to Detroit.
Wow, that was an overwhelming experience! It was great to hang out with everyone, test our limits, and spread the art far and wide!
I wanted to shout out to all the other visual art crews working the USSF too, like the Beehive Collective (who had an amazing spread, and just finished their coal poster!!), Design Action Collective, Liberation Ink, RVLTN, Ricardo Levins Morales, Syracuse Cultural Workers, and Donnelly/Colt!
Mary tabling
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