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…
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…
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…
In 2016, I joined water protectors on Standing Rock Lakota Sioux land to stop the “black snake” of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Many memorable moments stand out to me during my…
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…
Please Slow Down Baby Fox Crossing. Walkill, NY
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…
The Anishinabe Nation has rallied around the important issue of dwindling moose population in La Vérendrye wildlife reserve, a huge park 4h drive north of Montréal. Four First Nation communities…
I encountered the liberatory and feminist graphic work of Pilar Emitxin through instagram, where we exchanged some mutual likes and had some of the same people in our networks. I…
We Are Called to Be A Movement by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber This summer Rev. Dr. William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival…
I was invited to participate in a local street art & graffiti alley jam last week and decided to paint a baby mural showing what images come up to mind…
Since my main gig painting murals has been postponed indefinitely due to COVID, I’ve been looking elsewhere for ways to make a living making art, and I’ve been lucky to…
Aaron Hughes, Justice, 2020 The Earth Day to May Day Chicago coalition formed to unite labor, immigrant, community, and environmental justice organizations during the current public health, economic, and environmental…
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…
This image represents an individual Rocky Mountain locust, Melanoplus spretus, a representative of what was once one of the most numerous species in the history of the entire planet, and…
By Manon Thompson Last fall I met Meredith Stern at the Uri-Eichen Gallery in Chicago, during the opening of Chip Thomas’ exhibition, Be here now! She wore a vegan pleather…
By Sheila Navas Hello readers! My name is Sheila Navas. I am a graduate student in Museum and Exhibition Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). During my…
By Artie Foster Co-Prosperity Sphere in Bridgeport was buzzing with conversation and anticipation as attendees of the spaces’ Networks of Resistance exhibition, which ran from October 12th through November 17th…
This is the second half of a little essay about the history of mining and human civilization. You can read the first part here. This is a work in progress,…
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….