Nicholas Lampert: A Decade of Activist Art Portfolio 2008 – 2018

Portfolio housed in box measuring 20 x 26 x 2 inches, and tube measuring 27 ½ x 5 inches, adorned with screenprints. Edition of 20.

This boxset contains 38 items: art that was created for, during and in collaboration with many of the key social justice movements in the United States from 2008-2018 including the NO DAPL movement at Standing Rock, the Wisconsin Uprising (2011), immigrant rights movements, climate justice movements, the student-led movement for gun control, G.I. resistance (Iraq Veterans Against the War), labor movements, teachers strikes and more.

Nicolas Lampert is a Milwaukee-based interdisciplinary artist and author whose work focuses on themes of social justice and ecology. His artwork is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Library of Congress, and over fifty-five archives and special collections across the US and Canada.

Collectively, he works with four groups: the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative – a worker-owned printmaking cooperative of twenty-nine artists in North America that formed in 2007; ReciproCity – a Milwaukee-based collective established in 2012 that works at the intersection of art, architecture, urban sustainability, and a socially-just version of community re-development; Climate Prints – a website/activist infrastructure project that shares downloadable graphics on Climate Justice and puts this work directly into movements; and Voces de los Artistas, an art-affinity group established in 2016 that works in collaboration with Voces de la Frontera – an immigrant rights organization based in Wisconsin.

His first book A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements was published by The New Press in 2013 and is part of the People’s History Series edited by Howard Zinn.

Prints—
1.     You Can’t Deport a Movement, 5 color screen print, 19 x 25”, 2018
2.     West Virginia Teachers Strike, 2 color screen print, 19 x 19”, 2018
3.     Emma Gonzalez, 2 color screen print, 25 x 16.75”, 2018
4.     Alicia Garza, 3 color screen print, 19 x 25”, 2018
5.     Angela Davis Women’s March quote, 2 color screen print, 12.5 x 17”, 2017
6.     68, 2 color screen print, 12.5 x 12.5”, 2017
7.     Take a Knee, screen print / pronto plate, 9.5 x 11.75”, 2017
8.     Keep Families Together, 1 color screen print, 12.5 x 16”, 2017
9.     Water is Life, 3 color screen print, 19 x 25”, 2016
10.  No DAPL – Buffalo, 1 color screen print, 19 x 19”, 2016
11.  How to Stop a Pipeline, 1 color screen print, 19 x 25”, 2017
12.  Solidarity with Migrant Workers, 3 color screen print, 19 x 25”, 2013
13.  Milwaukee Commandos, Designed by Nicolas Lampert and Paul Kjelland, 2 color screen print, 40 x 26”, 2012
14.  Fair Housing Now, Designed by Nicolas Lampert and Paul Kjelland, 3 color screen print, 26 x 40”, 2012
15.  Black Power (Father James Groppi), Designed by Nicolas Lampert and Paul Kjelland, 3 color screen print, 26 x 40”, 2012
16.  Wisconsin Workers Against Union Busting, 1 color screen print, 19 x 25”, 2011
17.  Wisconsin Workers You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Governor, Nicolas Lampert and Colin Matthes, screen print, 25 x 18.5”, 2011
18.  Imagine No Borders, 1 color screen print, 19 x 25”, 2011
19.  Learn About Black Panther Party History, 3 color screen print, 25 x 16.5”, 2010
20.  PTSD Shadow, 1 color screen print, 19 x 25”, 2010
21.  Shannon Airport Plowshares, 3 color screen print, 19 x 25”, 2010
22.  2.3 Missing Americans, 3 color screen print, 12.75 x 25”, 2008

Books—
A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements, 8 x 9.5 x 1.2,” The New Press, 2014.
Ephemera—

1. 1. Drawing Resistance poster, Designed by Josh MacPhee, offset poster, 2001
   2. Celebrate People’s History poster: Judi Bari, offset, 11” x 17”, 2004
      3. Paper Politics, exhibition postcard, 6” x 4.25”, 2007
      4. Justseeds catalog, “Which Side Are You On?”, 8.5”x 11”, 2009
      5. Street Art Workers, “Land & Globalization” poster series, newsprint, 11.5” x 17”, 2010
      6. The Occupied Wall Street Journal, poster series, newsprint, 17” x 11”, 2011
      7. Watershed: Art, Activism, and Community Engagement, exhibition postcard, 8.5”x 5.5, 2011
      8. Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative informational poster, offset, 11” x 17”, 2013
      9. Uprisings: Images of Labor: Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, exhibition postcard, 6.75” x 4.25”, 2013
      10. People’s Climate Movement poster, 11” x 14”, 2014
      11. People’s Art History of the United States postcard, offset, 4” x 6”, 2014
      12. Celebrate People’s History poster: Nov 30 Seattle, offset, 11” x 17”, 2015
      13. No Gondola Sticker, sticker, 3” x 4”, 2015
      14. Paris Climate Summit D-12 demo poster, offset, 5.75” x 8.25”, 2016
      15. Kaepernick pennant, hand-sewn pennant / screenprinted on felt, 17” x 7”, 2018

Collections:
Bucknell University
College of Saint Benedict; St. John’s University
Harvard University Fine Arts Library
St Olaf College
Tufts University Art Library
University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB)
University of Connecticut (UCONN)