Posters by:
The Great Tortilla Conspiracy
Art Hazelwood
Xavier Viramontes
Juan Fuentes
Posada
Posters created by various artists in response to Occupy
ARTISTS RESPOND TO US/MEXICO BORDER WALL
A Traveling show
The wall, now being constructed across the length of the US/Mexico border is like a knife cutting off neighbors, wildlife, indigenous people, and families. The wall is inflaming hatred and contributing to an atmosphere of vigilantism and oppression. While the US walls itself off from the world in the name of “security” what is it sacrificing? A group of artists respond to the wall with imagery from a variety of viewpoints. This touring exhibition began at La Peña Cultural Center from March 3 – April 30, 2011 and is traveling nationwide.
Exhibit organizers:
Francisco Dominguez, Art Hazelwood, Doug Minkler
The artists includes:
Scott Anderson, AD Avila, Christopher Beer, Kilil Bendeb, Francisco Dominguez, Emory Douglas, Flor de Autodeterminación, Juan Fuentes, Ronnie Goodman, Art Hazelwood, Nancy Hom, Frances Jetter, Frank LaPena, Fernando Marti, Doug Minkler, Claude Moller, Malaquias Montoya, Nicholas Naughton, Mokhtar Paki, Patrick Piazza, Manuel Fernando Rios, Calixto Robles, Favianna Rodriguez, Jos Sances, Leon Sun, David Tomb & Luis M. Contreras, Mark Vallen, Imin Yeh
Nancy Hom, Catalina's World, 13" x 18.5",
Digital print, 2011
Homeless Rights
For fifteen years I have been working with different homeless rights organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area. I've made prints for the street publications, Street Sheet and Street Spirit. I've made posters for Western Regional Advocacy Project. I also organized their poster campaigns. I've organized exhibitons and helped with the Coalition on Homelessness auction since its inception.
The most ambitious is the touring exhibition, Hobos to Street People: Artists' Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present.
To see more about Art Hazelwood's involvement with this subject go here
Art of Democracy
In 2006 after the mid-term elections Stephen Fredericks of New York and Art Hazelwood of San Francisco set out to encourage artists and arts organizations around the country to create art, make posters and organize exhibitions on politics. The idea was simply to activate the arts community, to promote political art and to increase the voice of artists in the lead up to the 2008 Presidential election. In the end more than fifty shows around the country pariticipated and artists made more than forty posters distributed widely, all in the few months before the election.
Art Hazelwood made several posters for Art of Democracy.
The California Printmaker 2008
Art Hazelwood was part of a team of guest editors of the 2008 California Society of Printmakers (CSP) journal, you can download a pdf file version of it. Scroll down to the California Printmaker 2008.
This issue of the California Printmaker is made up of images of printmakers, their studios, and their processes. All the images are of members of the CSP.
It's a beautiful portrayal of artists and their studios.
The California Printmaker 2007
Art Hazelwood was the guest editor of the 2007 California Society of Printmakers journal, you can download a pdf file version of it at this link, and scrolling down to the California Printmaker 2007.
Prints in All the Wrong Places
Recently a national art magazine with an historical emphasis on printmaking
had an issue dedicated to art and activism. In these great times, one
might expect something… well… something…serious, in
such an issue. But the magazine seemed to have a concept of activism
that even Dick Cheney and his Pentagon think tank couldn’t have
found threatening. There was the usual art world discussion of political
art about art, and most glaringly there was not a single mention of prints.
Inconveniently for the art world as represented by that magazine there
is a good deal of printmaking going on that has something to say about
the state of the world. For the editors of that national magazine it
would be art for all the wrong reasons, by all the wrong people, in all
the wrong places, made in all the wrong ways.
But there is more than politics that is affecting the way prints are
made and presented. Technological changes mean that printmaking as a
way of thinking is moving into different realms. The tradition of printmaking
is perhaps less in the actual techniques than in the way of thinking
about graphic media. When is a car a print, or a tapestry for that matter?
The final form that prints take now is not fixed; a billboard, a website,
an offset poster, an op-ed piece. The final form of the print, (that
for which the print was made), has moved further down the line towards
something else. And the means of distributing them – in traveling
shows at everyday venues, in web site sales, in free distributions of
prints on tortillas – pushes prints into a role it has not played
in the US in many years. It is a role that printmakers often speak of,
but usually nostalgically as if to say “we were once important.” But
a new activity is in the air. It is being reclaimed – the return
of the democratic print.
Art Hazelwood, guest editor
California
Printmaker 2007
Articles:
Prints
in All the Wrong Places:
San Quentin Prison Block Prints, Katya McCulloch
Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca, Calixto Robles
Celebrating Secret History, Josh MacPhee
The Industrial Revolution of Street Art, Ryan 'Mose' Benford
Graphic Collectives in the Mission, Calixto Robles
30 years of political posters, Lincoln Cushing
San Francisco Print Collective
Middle of the Road Prints, Jenny Robinson
Without Housing, DeWitt Cheng
Prints in All the Wrong Places: Exhibitions
Yo! What Happened to Peace?, Mark Vallen
Art and Intimidation, Stephen A. Fredericks
Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex, Carol Wells
Paper Politics, Josh MacPhee
Propaganda III, Art Hazelwood
Prints in All the Wrong Places: Where
Will it End?
Screenprint into Billboard, Favianna Rodriguez
Weaving Prints into Tapestry, Nick Stone
Muertorider, Artemio Rodriguez
Corn in the Service of Revolution, Great Tortilla Conspirators
Prints in All the Wrong Places: Art and Disability
NIAD Printmaking, Joan Finton
Prints in All the Wrong Places: In the Paper of Record? OP – Ed – Art,
Frances Jetter
San
Quentin State Prison
Arts In Corrections
In 2008, Art Hazelwood worked with Arts In Corrections linocut teacher Katya McCulloch and ten of the students in her class to create this three foot by three foot linocut print. Everyone contributed ideas for the theme of "censorship" which was the theme of the San Francisco Center for the Books steamroller print day event.
Right: The final print
Bottom left: Working on the print
Bottom right: printing at the SF Center for the Book steamroller event.
