Activist art

Linocut print, January 2021

Posters submitted to Amplifier Foundation's call for art are going on view in an art center in Seattle.

Art Workers Coalition, "Art Workers Won't Kiss Ass," 1969 Julia Bryan-Wilson's recently published Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era, is the first book dedicated to the history of the Art Workers' Coalition. Her analysis of AWC members Carl Andre, Robert Morris, Hans Haacke, and Lucy Lippard opens up a rich discussion of the complexities of the term "art worker" and the relationship between art and labor. An excerpt of the opening chapter of her book has been made available…

messages from the river, messages from the sea

Throughout 2021, Indigenous water protectors and climate justice groups have distributed copyright-free artworks supporting recent anti-pipeline protests in Minnesota.