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Justseeds / Visual Resistance Artists’ Cooperative
Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to advocate for social movements through their art. Their website, which serves as an information center on current events in radical art and culture, offers Justseeds artists’ prints for sale at very modest prices. Their blog covers political printmaking, socially engaged street art and culture related to social movements. Justseeds believes in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society.

History
Justseeds was conceived in 1998 by artist Josh MacPhee as a way to promote and distribute his art and the Celebrate People’s History poster series. Due to the fast-growing success of the Justseeds online community and poster venture, MacPhee found himself turning to a generous grassroots community effort to help him save what he had created. He was joined by a dozen like-minded artists and previous collaborators as well as the political street art blog Visual Resistance to re-create Justseeds as a cooperative effort. Justseeds was transformed into Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists’ Cooperative, an artist/worker owned and run cooperative, that launched in the summer of 2007. You can support their creative efforts by buying one of their print works or posters, many priced at just $4.00 each.