Just seeds

Yesterday 200 shirts with different messages appeared on clotheslines and coat hangers throughout Oakland, California. Envisioned as "mini-murals", the shirts ask, Is This Justice? The shirts come from the Restorative Justice Leaders program, a project at MetWest High School, facilitated... Bec Young

Broken City Lab made this sweet little video of me silkscreen printing at the end of the Mayday march, in Drouillard Park, right across from the Ford plant. Participants in the march were excited to choose a silkscreen printed... Mary Tremonte

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Notes from the farm: is the first in a series of drawings and writings telling of my experience coming back home to my family's farm. It's been nearly three years now of watching the weather, the landscape and the... Thea

This just in from Jess Baines, a friend doing great work researching UK poster collectives: Ink Now: Posters, Collectives and Art Lecture Theatre CR100, London Met University, 41-47 Commercial Road, London, E1 1LA 6.30-8.30pm, Tuesday 4th June. An evening of... Josh M. www.justseeds.org

Jesse, Kevin, and Josh will be tabling for Justseeds at this year's Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, this weekend Saturday and Sunday, May 25-26. Come say "Hello!" In addition, Kevin and Josh will be giving a presentation on Interference Archive at... Josh M. www.justseeds.org

Vladmir Mayakovsky: “Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.” Hannah Hoch: “I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.”... Meredith Stern

Awhile back Midwest political graffiti powerhouse and freight train aficionado Impeach sent me a stack of photos of recent work. I've been too busy to get them up here on the blog, but now I've finally sorted, cleaned, and am... Josh M. www.justseeds.org

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 the livelihoods and habitats of a broad array of species... Roger Peet

For this fourth and final entry into the books of Seven Seas, I'm going to just run through the rest of the titles I've been able to find. (To see the three previous entries about this publisher, click HERE.) Lets... Josh M. www.justseeds.org

Justseeds is now on Tumblr! Follow us for a continuing thread of in-process pics, shots from our distribution office in Pittsburgh, photo updates on individual and group projects, and occasional goofing around. There are real people behind the prints... Shaun Silfer

Wildcat at Mead Thursday May 16th, 2013, 7pm Interference Archive, 131 8th St. #4, Brooklyn NY 11215 Wildcat at Mead is a 1972 documentary about a seven-week wildcat strike at Mead Packaging Corp. in Atlanta, during which almost all of... Josh M. www.justseeds.org

For this third entry into the books put out by East German publisher Seven Seas in the 1960s and 70s, I want to look in-depth at a single title. By far the coolest Seven Seas book I've picked up is... Josh M. www.justseeds.org

Uprisings: Images of Labor, the new set of large-format silkscreen and relief prints that Justseeds created at Union Art Gallery at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, is opening tonight at Broken City Lab's Civic Space, in the heart of downtown... Mary Tremonte

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 on the site right now inspired by the time I... Roger Peet

Over the last three weeks, I've posted 3 blogs around the creation of a print on our website called "Mass Incarceration is a Labor Issue." Here is the last blog entry about this print. After the first color is printed,... Meredith Stern

You can download a high-res, 11"x17" version of this poster HERE.... Josh M. www.justseeds.org

Seven Seas also published a number titles related to Africa, in particular novels and short stories by South African writers. I've been able to find four of these titles, but the Seven Seas bibliography at 50 Watts (HERE) shows at... Josh M. www.justseeds.org

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Good things arise out of collaborations and art exhibitions. During the Justseeds SGCI install in March in Milwaukee I noticed folks from Yes - Youth Empowered in the Struggle - who work in conjunction with Voces de la Frontera -... Nicolas Lampert