Josh MacPhee

Print Agit Prop 2: Climate Justice

Josh MacPhee

Print Agit Prop 2: Climate Justice

Date

2000, 2023

Edition Size

4

Media

Offset print, Relief print, Risograph, Screenprint, Spray paint, Stencil

Dimensions

25.5 × 19.5 × 1 in

Pages

14

Location

Brooklyn, NY

$ 850.00

3 in stock


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Bucknell University

Print Agit Prop is a set of themed portfolios with prints from Josh MacPhee, spanning 25 years from 1997 – 2022. Subject matter reflects the social justice movements that Josh MacPhee was involved with through direct action, working with allies and organizations, and/or personal politics.

“I began producing political posters and prints in the mid-1990s. This was a simple pivot from designing materials for the punk music scene, shifting the same skill sets to bear on social justice issues. I initially worked on posters and materials for campaigns around political prisoners and challenging mass incarceration, but quickly expanded and began working with a diverse set of groups and issues, including housing struggles, immigration reform, labor unions, access to healthcare, environmental justice, police reform, right to the city, and more. Many of this print agit prop was produced in association with—and at the behest of—very specific organizations, while some of it I created on my own in hopes of contributing the struggles. Some of it I was paid for my work, others I donated my labor. Many of these posters were mass produced and widely distributed, used in public demonstrations or organized street art campaigns. All of the work speaks to the complex interplay between visual culture and social movements, and the unique place of the artist and designer in political organizing.” -Josh MacPhee

Climate Justice is a portfolio of 14 prints with a theme of climate change and the global activism that surrounds it. Subject matter includes the natural world, environmental degradation, land autonomy, environmental capitalism, nuclear power, Ken Saro-Wiwa, the politicization of climate work, Puerto Rico, flooding and forest fires and water struggles.

Prints include offset, screenprint, woodtype, linoleum block print, risograph, reduction woodblock.

There are two sets of Climate Justice with slight variation.

Please see the catalogs here: Set A and Set B.