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Justseeds
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized, worker-owned cooperative of thirty artists throughout North America. Justseeds members primarily produce handmade prints and publications which are distributed through their website and at conferences and events related to social and environmental movements. Members also work individually as graphic designers for and within a broad swath of social and environmental activist causes in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. As a collective body, Justseeds has produced several gallery exhibitions of both print work and collaborative sculptural installation. History Justseeds was founded in 1998 by member Josh MacPhee as an internet-based store and distribution point for graphics that MacPhee, his friends, and associated groups were producing. Following the 2006 collapse of ''Clamor (magazine), Clamor'' magazine, which was then handling Justseeds mail-order distribution, MacPhee sought to organize several artists with which he already had a w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meredith Stern
Meredith Stern (sometimes using the pseudonyms "Merry Death" or "Merry Def") is an artist, musician and disc jockey living in Providence, Rhode Island. Biography Stern went to George School for high school. She later graduated Cum Laude from Tulane University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in ceramics. While living in New Orleans, she collaborated with fellow artists Brice White and Icky Apparatus to create Nowe Miasto, a do-it-yourself warehouse space that has since hosted hundreds of bands and workshops. While living in New Orleans, she wrote several zines, including ''Mine: An Anthology of Women's Choices'' and ''Mine: An Anthology of Reproductive Choices'', and published several issues of a personal zine called ''Crude Noise''. In 2005 Stern moved to Providence, Rhode Island. She spent several years working as the program director for AS220. She is a linoleum block printer and a member of the Justseeds Artist Cooperative. In 2006 she co-curated (with Pippi Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh MacPhee
Josh MacPhee is an artist, curator, stonemason and activist living in Brooklyn, New York. Career Josh MacPhee's work as a socially-engaged artist and designer focuses on production and distribution of political graphics. Originally from Holliston, Massachusetts, MacPhee was influenced at an early age by the work of Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper. He attended Oberlin College and studied media and culture while publishing the zine ''Fenceclimber''. After two years at Oberlin, MacPhee moved to Washington, D.C. where he helped create a community space called Beehive and collaborated on founding the D.C. chapter of the Anarchist Black Cross Network as part of MacPhee's broader burgeoning involvement in prison reform. MacPhee returned to Oberlin in 1994 and graduated in 1996, continuing his prison reform work on campus. Following graduation, he moved to Boulder, Colorado, for a year to work with the Prison Rights Project before moving to Chicago. His work against mass incarcerat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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