Graphic Liberation

Josh MacPhee has created a composite work life that merges elements of designer, artist, author, historian, and archivist. He is a founding member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative (Justseeds.org), the author of An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, and coeditor of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. He cofounded and helps run Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements (InterferenceArchive.org). He regularly works with community and social justice organizations building agit-prop and consulting on cultural strategy.

Avram Finkelstein is a US designer from Silence=Death Project, Gran Fury, ACT UP.

Alison Alder is an Australia-based printmaker, member of Redback Grafix, and founder of Megalo print studio.

Emory Douglas is former revolutionary artist and designer for the Black Panther Party.

Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza are a Chicanx printmakers in the Bay Area, members of Dignidad Rebelde and Justseeds Artists Cooperative.

Daniel Drennan ElAwar is founder of Jamaa Al-Yad graphics collective in Beirut, Lebanon.

Tomie Arai is an early member of Basement Workshop, the first political cultural space in NYC Chinatown in the 1970s, and a member of Godzilla, Asian-American arts collective.

Sandy Kaltenborn is cofounder of Kotti & Co. housing initiative in Berlin and image-shift studio.

Judy Seidman is a longtime South African arts organizer, activist, and member of Medu Arts Ensemble.

A3BC Collective is an antinuclear-antimilitarist block making collective in Tokyo, Japan.

Tings Chak is based in China and is the art director of the new Tricontinental.