upcoming events
Art of Politics 2008 is a political poster project based in Portland, Oregon. They have an idea of promoting political posters through this public voting process. Check it out. They write as follows.
As of about an hour ago, the People’s Choice Online Voting
officially launched. Please visit the site, or let friends, family,
colleagues know they can visit the site and vote on the posters.
To vote, you can just go to www.artofpolitics2008.com and
click on the poster link at the top. And the posters can be sorted
in a variety
of ways based on the sort buttons in the upper right hand side of
the page. To cast your vote, click on the poster you would like to
vote for and then the voting page will prompt you through casting
the vote. The system is set up to automatically tally the votes and
can be sorted based by popularity. And you can copy the link to your
posters voting page if you would like to post it or send it out to
anyone.
Don’t forget, voting closes on May 31, 2008 at midnight.
Some work by Art Hazelwood featured in this book.
Reproduce & Revolt contains an extensive collection of contemporary political graphics collected from around the world, including art from many of today's most exciting street artists, poster makers and graphic designers. All of these images are granted to the public domain, to be freely used for political purposes, serving as tools to inspire, mobilize, and transform communities.
Order your copy today by visiting www.JustSeeds.org, an independently owned political art store.
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If you have any questions, please contact us. Again, THANK YOU! This book would not have been possible without you.
In Solidarity,
Favianna Rodriguez & Josh MacPheeReproduce & Revolt
By Josh MacPhee and Favianna Rodriguez
Bilingual Edition (English / Spanish)
224 pages; $19.95
ISBN 978-0-9796636-1-1
Soft Skull Press / Counterpoint
Front
Gallery
part of a three person show in Oakland, CA
April 4 - May 23, 2008
Pulcinella in Hades, Art Hazelwood’s most recent book with Eastside Editions will be shown at the International Print Center of New York in New Prints/Autumn 2007. From November 1, through December 19 the show will be at the IPCNY in New York and then travel to Columbia College in Chicago where it will be shown from January 16 – February 22, 2008. www.ipcny.org
Galeria Zapatista at Mission Grafica presents:
Pillars of Society - Prints by Art Hazelwood
Mission Cultural Center 4th floor Galeria Zapatista
at Mission Grafica
2868 Mission at 25th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
May 4 – July 15, 2007
Reception: Thursday, May 17, 6:30 – 9:00
Come to the reception and print a screen print created by Art Hazelwood.
This impeachment screen print poster is
free to everyone who prints one.
Talk by the artist – Thursday, June 21, 6:30 – 7:30 - free
Contact: 415 643-2786, grafica@missionculturalcenter.org
web site: www.missionculturalcenter.org
Some reviews relating to this show.
PRINTS
OF WAILS, Art Hazelwood: Instead of just screaming at the TV, artist vents
his anger in political linocuts. Matt Villano
Thursday, May 24, 2007, San Francisco Chronicle
About
the "I" Word. Political Artwork blog spot has an essay
about my impeachment poster, on Wednesday,May 23, 2007.
www.artbusiness.com website
has a bunch of photos of art openings and some commentary. You’ll
have to scroll a bit.
Art Hazelwood’s new series
of linocut prints titled “Pillars of Society” takes its inspiration
from the title of a painting by George Grosz. Grosz portrayed the destructive
leaders of society in Weimar Germany in the 1920s. In Hazelwood’s
prints he brings his own satirical edge to contemporary America.
In imagery richly populated with grotesque figures the series depicts
a world of sycophants,
war profiteers, and mercenary violence.
The terrain covered in this new series is explored from different
points of view in several other prints featured in this exhibition.
Among them are “Iraqopoly”, a screen print made at the Mission Grafica
studio. It creates a board game out of the battlefield of Iraq. A large
etching with engraving, titled “The Battle of Foulujah” recalls
battle maps from the Thirty Years War complete with goddesses of
war (one holding a scale model of the White House) as decorative
elements, as well
as the requisite captured and hooded prisoners.
Pillars of Society
