Category: Political Art
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Justseeds Takes The Grand Prix
Justseeds has just been awarded the Grand Prix at the International Biennial of Graphic Arts in Slovenia! Jørgen Craig Lello & Tobias Arnell, Reverse View, 2009 (from the Biennial website) Justseeds has been awarded the Grand Prix at the Biennial- the jurors have uploaded a video discussing some of the selection process and why they…
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C. Matt Luther Interview
An interview with C. Matt Luther is now posted on the Random Artwork/Artist Interviews site. C. Matt Luther is an artist currently living in Milwaukee who works across various mediums, from traditional forms such as painting, drawing, and printmaking, to more ephemeral forms like zines and street projects. Collage is at the center of all…
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Paper Politics Richmond!
Next stop for the Paper Politics Exhibition is Richmond, VA! Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today 200 prints from 200 artists Ghostprint Gallery 220 W. Broad St. Richmond, VA 23220 www.ghostprintgallery.com Opening Reception: Friday, August 7th, 7-10 pm The show runs August 7th-August 29th, 2009 Wed-Sat, 1-7pm or by appointment And be sure to keep…
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People’s History Postcard Set #2
My Milwaukee 14 Celebrate People’s History poster will be included in the CPH Postcard Set #2 put together by Justseeds and Sumptown Printers. Here is the description from the Justseeds website: A collaboration between Justseeds and Stumptown Printers, this is a beautiful letter-pressed boxed set of 16 full color offset printed postcard versions of Celebrate…
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Random Artwork/Artist Interviews is Live!
My new project Random Artwork/Artist Interviews has launched! The first interview was conducted with the political art collective Justseeds! The site will serve as a space for interviews of contemporary artists and collectives to discuss their work and the ideas that inform their artistic practice. Check it out!
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Re-post of the Implicit Art Interview
The following is a re-posting of an interview of me conducted by Nathaniel Stern for his Implicit Art blog, and was cross posted on the My Arts Space blog. The interview is the first in a series of MFA student features from the graduate program at the Peck School of the Arts, at the University…
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International Justseeds Events
: The House of Love and Dissent [translated] Posted by Josh MacPhee on the Just Seeds Blog Favianna, Dara and I are in Rome, preparing for our show at the House of Love and Dissent on Thursday. We’re hanging prints, People’s History posters, and images from Reproduce & Revolt. It’s going to be fun! Here…
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Two Justseeds Portfolio Events
Re-posted from the Just Seeds blog: Voices from Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex at Ste-Emilie SkillShare * 3942 Ste. Emilie * metro Place St. Henri Vernissage Friday December 5th, 7pm-midnight Exhibit December 5th – 14th inclusive In connection with the historic Critical Resistance 10th anniversary conference Just Seeds Artists Cooperative has produced a…
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Books to Prisoners show and a call for entries
Wisconsin Books to Prisoners upcoming artshow in Madison – call for entries Re-posted from Just Seeds Blog by Nicolas Lampert Wisconsin Books to Prisoners is organizing an artshow on the prison industrial complex and will pair the Justseeds portfolio project with artwork that is done by prisoners. The exhibition will be in late January and…
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Paper Politics in Syracuse
Paper Politics in Syracuse! Re-posted from Just Seeds Blog by Josh M. The Paper Politics show is still tearing up upstate New York! It open at the Redhouse Gallery in Syracuse tomorrow night. If you’re in the area, check it out! Almost 200 political prints from around the world, with work from all the Justseeds…
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Voices From Outside
I recently participated in a portfolio project through Just Seeds on the prison industrial complex. portfolio covers Artists Included in the Project From the Just Seeds website: Recently, Justseeds has completed a portfolio project for the Critical Resistance ten-year anniversary conference in Oakland, California that took place on September 26-28. The project involved twenty artists…
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Paper Politics @ Dowd Gallery
Next stop for Paper Politics is the Dowd Gallery at the State University of New York College at Cortland. The exhibition runs September 4th-November 6th 2008. For more information visit the Dowd Gallery website.
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Seeing Green Catalog available through Justseeds
The Seeing Green catalog is now available for purchase through Just Seeds! Here is the description from their website: The Seeing Green exhibition catalog features images and text of 30 projects from an activist art show in Milwaukee in April 2008 that was curated by Nicolas Lampert. The show addressed issues of urban environmental sustainability…
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Reproduce & Revolt Book Out Soon!
Due out April 15th! I will have a few designs in this new book- Reproduce and Revolt! Josh MacPhee & Favianna Rodriguez (eds.) Reproduce & Revolt/Reproduce Y Rebélate $18 ($19.95 cover price) A collection of over 500 political graphics, Reproduce & Revolt/Reproduce Y Rebélate contains original art granted by the creators to the public domain,…
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Paper Politics in Corpus Christi, TX
Paper Politics is a traveling political art exhibition I have been involved in since its first inception in Chicago in 2004. The show is curated by Josh MacPhee and has an amazing range of print processes and political sentiments… Next stop Corpus Christi, TX! (re-posted from the Just Seeds blog) Paper Politics, the political print…
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Paper Politics at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Paper Politics is now at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater… For more info visit the Just Seeds posting by Colin Matthes.
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Celebrate People’s History Exhibition
Celebrate People’s History Poster Series Exhibition! Location: Indoors @ Naked Cyber Cafe, Edmonton, CANADA Oct. 22 – Nov. 30 This wildly popular series of underground art posters profiles legendary radical folks, events and movements such as anarcho-feminist Emma Goldman, Wangari Maathai (creator of the Greenbelt Movement), to Crazy Horse’s defeat of General Custer in the…
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Paper Paper Politics in Milwaukee
Paper Politics is a massive group show (representing 150+ artists) which has previously toured in Seattle, Brooklyn, and Portland. Its Milwaukee stop is at the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts. From the show description: Paper Politics presents a breathtaking tour of the many modalities of printing: relief, intaglio, lithography, silkscreen, collagraph, monotype, photography. In…
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New People Again 7"
New People Again 7″! I contributed the cover art and a poster for the package… Every 7″ cover is hand spray-paint stenciled and hand screened. Limited colored vinyl is available!
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Propaganda III in San Francisco
(Text excepted from Visual Resistance) The exhibition PROPAGANDA III is set to open on July 4th at the Start Soma Gallery in San Francisco. The show will feature contemporary political posters by more than 300 artists from across the globe. Following its San Francisco debut the exhibition will travel to a number of national and…
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Random Video Art DVD
A limited edition DVD, Random Video Art was released to to support the Just Seeds benefit show at the Ad Hoc Arts Space in Brooklyn. For more info on the show visit the Visual Resistance page. Random Video Art/Brandon Bauer edition of 25 + 5 a/p The DVD includes: short/cuts (2006) Cellphone Messages (2006) Modern…
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LOWAVE : RESISTANCE(S)
LOWAVE : RESISTANCE(S) Festival des Cinemas de Paris 12/10/06 The Resistance(s) program to be held during the Festival des Cinema Differents in Paris was inspired by a DVD of the same name presenting films and videos by artists from North Africa and the Middle East. The Resistance(s) DVD was published by Lowave in April 2006.…
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Ideas In Pictures #5: Everyday Transactions
The latest issue of Colin Matthes’ zine Ideas in Pictures is out! This issue focuses on everyday transactions in business, leisure, and warfare. The issue has screenprinted covers and 40 offset printed pages inside, printed by Eberhardt Press. This is the first issue to have contributors, and includes work by: Jesse Connor Erik Ruin K.F.…
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If They Come For You In The Morning
(all text and photos excerpted from the Visual Resistance website) The show: Thursday, July 27 & Friday, July 28, 2006, 5-10pm ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St, Lower East Side, NYC Co-sponsored by Visual Resistance and Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan Contact: visual.resistance@gmail.com Over 100 artists participated in the show, including some of the…