Voices Beyond Lockdown Zine
January 15, 2025
Another free downloadable zine from longterm Justseeds comrade Stefan Christoff in Montreal: Voices Beyond Lockdown: Collective action and care across borders in a time of crisis This zine is a…
Housing & Cities
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San Francisco Housing Reflections 2024
December 30, 2024
I like to think I’ve been able to craft a life where I can do the things I love or that I think need doing. Sometimes I’m making art, sometimes…
Maui Sharks
August 30, 2023
El Machete Illustrated
DIYDPW #74
February 16, 2023
Handmade sign made of different colored tape providing directions away from a residential area to state roads.
Gratitude for Nail Houses
November 10, 2022
We think sometimes that cities are defined by their castles and towers, their highways and skyscrapers. But they are also defined by their exceptions: their nail houses and holdouts, scavenged…
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…
DIYDPW #73
August 27, 2022
DO NOT DRIVE ON SIDEWALK. Portland, OR. August 2022. Thanks to Roger Peet for this contribution to the DIYDPW series! DIYDPW is a frequent, irregular blog post highlighting global examples…
DIYDPW #68
April 25, 2022
An example of someone prioritizing glutenous treats as a necessity. DIYDPW is a frequent, irregular blog post highlighting global examples of Do It Yourself Department of Public Works projects. These…
Justseeds x NRDC at Chicago EXPO 2022
April 13, 2022
Justseeds collaborated with the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) to create a site specific installation and pop-up print shop at the primary entrance to the 2022’s EXPO CHICAGO, (the International Exposition…
DIYDPW #67
April 5, 2022
DO NOT MOW. Kingston, NY. August 2018 DIYDPW is a frequent, irregular blog post highlighting global examples of Do It Yourself Department of Public Works projects. These are defined as…
DIYDPW #66
March 21, 2022
DIYDPW is a frequent, irregular blog post highlighting global examples of Do It Yourself Department of Public Works projects. These are defined as any examples of municipal signage or infrastructure,…
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…
Interview with Junk Comix
February 4, 2022
The sixth installment of Dispatches, an ongoing short interview series with political artists working around the world. This time we feature Junk Comix aka Edmund Trueman, an itinerant artist who…
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…
They Want our Home
November 11, 2021
They want our home. Our home. For themselves. They think they have a right to our home simply because they have more money. We are fighting it. The buyers knew…
Eviction and the Echoes of Colonialism
November 8, 2021
Echoes of colonialism and dispossession, enacted in the daily rituals of eviction and speculation. In her eviction notice to us, Tatiana Omran writes that she has been saving to buy…
Gentrifier Grey
November 5, 2021
Living in San Francisco for close to thirty years, I am seeing more and more of steel grey painted over the houses of the city, slate grey, gentrifier grey. There’s…
Living in a strange time
November 2, 2021
“We’re living in a strange time / working for a strange goal / we’re turning flesh and body / into soul.” – The Waterboys Perhaps I have different attachment to…
Accessories to an Eviction
October 31, 2021
It was beautiful to be with the monumentality of Yolanda’s work last week, her three women, her running women, her Guadalupes, at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, ordinary…
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…
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