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
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.
Alison Alder is a visual artist whose work blurs the line between studio, community and social/
political art practice. She has worked within community groups, art collectives, research
institutions and Indigenous organizations. Her research is focused on empowering communities
through the visualization of common social aims primarily using screen-printed posters as her
medium of choice. Alder was a key member of Redback Graphix, whose ethos and screenprinted posters are the subject of a monograph published by the National Gallery of Australia.
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