Last Monday night, Josh McPhee spoke at UW-Milwaukee. The subject of his talk was street art activism. http://justseeds.org/blog/ Quoted from this blog:
"Which Side Are You On?
Exhibition featuring work from the Justseeds Radical Artists’ Cooperative
MILWAUKEE, WI — From March 5 through April 3 the UWM Union Art Gallery will present Which Side Are You On?, featuring the work of 20 plus artists who are part of the Justseeds Radical Artists’ Cooperative. The exhibition reception is on Thursday, March 5 from 5-8pm. An exhibition preview will take place on March 3 at 5pm. All events are free and open to the public.
Justseeds (www.justseeds.org) is a decentralized radical art cooperative consisting of 20 plus artists who live in Brooklyn, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Portland, Milwaukee, and other cities across North America. Together they work on a myriad of projects where art is used as a tool to serve social justice movements. Justseeds is best known for their political prints, a blog that serves as a home for socially engaged street art and news, their group installations, and a recent portfolio project in honor of the 10-year Anniversary of Critical Resistance (a grass roots organization committed to opposing the prison-industrial complex.)"
I noticed people working on this sign in Spaights Plaza last Wednesday. Today is Monday, a week since McPhee's talk. I walked through Spaights Plaza at 7:38am, taking pictures of this sign. I want to be hopeful that this is a metaphorical sign also, that something can change, re-scape our campus, a public gathering place, a space were students have rallied, protested, debated...
