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.

• Foreword Introduction—Josh MacPheeConversations with:Emory DouglasTomie AraiJudy SeidmanAvram FinkelsteinAlison AlderSandy KaltenbornDignidad RebeldeDaniel Drennon AlAwarTings ChakA3BCIndex