January 2010

Paper Politics For a New Decade

The JustSeeds Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to sell their work online in a central location, to collaborate, and support social movements. Using print and poster making techniques to address a variety of social and environmental justice issues, collective mates work together over many miles to create, resist, and bring meaningful artwork to the masses for affordable prices. These artists believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society.

Originally started in 1998 by artist Josh MacPhee as a way to distribute the Celebrate People’s History poster series, he slowly expanded Justseeds to include the work of like-minded artists. In 2006, MacPhee reached out to a dozen like-minded artists and previous collaborators as well as the political street art blog Visual Resistance in order to re-envision Justseeds as a cooperative effort. Justseeds was transformed into Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, an artist/worker owned and run cooperative and blog, that launched in the summer of 2007.