PERSPECTIVES ON IMAGE MAKING AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS
Organized by Josh MacPhee, the 2020/21 Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Artist-in-Residence in the Department of Art and Art History at Colgate University.
A series of live conversations between Josh MacPhee, Colgate students, and distinguished political graphics producers, exploring
the role of culture in social movements and the history and evolutionary usage of political graphics.
Josh MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, a decentralized
group of political artists from the US, Canada, and Mexico, and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials
produced by social movements, based in Brooklyn, NY. MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Signs
of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now and Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture.
Melanie Cervantes (Xicanx) and Jesus Barraza co-founded Dignidad Rebelde in 2007, a graphic
arts collaboration that produces screen prints, political posters and multimedia projects which
are grounded in Third World and Indigenous movements that build people’s power to transform
the conditions of fragmentation, displacement, and loss of culture that result from histories of
colonialism, patriarchy, genocide, and exploitation.
Melanie has exhibited extensively including at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco);
Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco); National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago); and Museum
of Modern Art (New York), among numerous others. In 2016, Cervantes received The Piri Thomas &
Suzie Dodd Cultural Activist Award from Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice for her work with Dignidad Rebelde.
Jesus has exhibited at Galeria de la Raza (San Francisco); Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (Santa Fe); El Paso Museum of Art
(El Paso); de Young Museum (San Francisco); Mexican Fine Arts Center (Chicago); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco);
and internationally at the House of Love & Dissent (Rome); Parco Museum (Tokyo); and Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juarez (Mexico).
He received the “Art is a Hammer” award in 2005 from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.
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