Prints of Protest
Anaïs Duplan
Anaïs Duplan is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of a book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020). In 2016, he founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program for artists of color, based at Iowa City’s artist-run organization Public Space One. / Website
Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b. 1985) is invested in the shifting ecosystems of Black epistemologies, and the agile relationships between the varied modes of reading, writing, archiving, editing, translating, publishing, reflecting upon, and arranging narratives about lived Black experiences. With interests in the generative qualities of incompleteness, leakage, dispersal, syncretism (spiritual and otherwise), and choreography (of movement, of learning, of affect), Rasheed works across an ecosystem of iterative and provisional projects. These projects include sprawling, architecturally-scaled Xerox-based collages; large scale text banner installations; publications; digital archives; lecture-performances; library interventions; poems/poetic gestures; and other forms yet to be determined. / Website
Julian Louis Phillips
Julian Louis Phillips (he/him) is a New York-based artist working in performance, sculpture, and public interventions. Phillips has exhibited and performed throughout the region, including the South East Queens Biennial, Microscope Gallery, and New York Live Arts. He has been a JCAL Jerome Foundation Artist in Residence, More Art Engaging Artist Fellow, and NARS Foundation Artist in Residence. Phillips is a graduate of Social Practice Queens at CUNY Queens College and Saint Joseph's University. Since 2018 Phillips has focused on making performance that questions the beliefs that uphold carceral thinking. / Website
Tony Cokes
Tony Cokes makes video, installation, print, sound, and other works that reframe appropriated texts to reflect upon capitalism, subjectivity, knowledge, and pleasure. Cokes deploys sound as a crucial, intertextual element, complicating minimal visuals. / Website
Neema Githere
Neema Githere is a guerrilla theorist and curator hailing from Nairobi, Kenya whose work explores indigenous cybernetics. Their curatorial work around data healing endeavors to illuminate the links between technology, nature and spirituality. Other projects of theirs include Afropresentism — a term they coined in 2017 to articulate digital diasporic cultural production in the here and now — and Radical Love Consciousness, a collective that focuses on re-indigenization through grassroots learning networks. / Website
ABOUT
Highlighting the work and words of Black artists, the risograph prints available in this fundraiser originated as Instagram posts recommended by a group of artists the organizers have worked with through the collaborative artist publication prompt:. The prints constitute a mini archive of how artists in our wider community have responded to ongoing violence and recent protests over police brutality, using social media as a space for reflection or collectivization. Proceeds benefit organizations that are supporting people of color and working to dismantle racist institutions. Special thanks to our printer, Endless Editions, for supporting this project.
IN SUPPORT OF
Marsha P. Johnson Institute
PLACE AN ORDER
Order the full series or a single print via the Google Form below. All prints are 8.5 x 11″ and are offered in editions of 60.
DONATIONS
Each print is offered in exchange for proof of a minimum donation of $30 to one of the above funds and a minimum donation of $10 to the participating artists. The full set of 6 prints is offered in exchange for a minimum donation of $170 to one or more of the funds, and a minimum donation of $50 to the artists.
SHIPPING
$8 within the United States (multiple prints ship at no additional cost). For international orders, please inquire for a quote. Prints will begin shipping in December.
Erica Génécé
Erica Génécé is a New York City - based photographer and filmmaker whose focus is in celebrating people and cultures that might not have always been given the platform to express themselves. Deeply inspired by her Haitian heritage and the African Diaspora, she loves bringing strength, empowerment, and regality back to those groups through photographs and film. Génécé mixes her knowledge of history with a modern-day sensibility to produce a new and eclectic style. As the granddaughter of a seamstress, she has a great appreciation for fashion, and learned the importance of being detail-oriented at a young age. / Website
Special thanks to our printer, Endless Editions, for supporting this project. Endless Editions is a publishing and curatorial project, which aims to highlight artists, regardless of their background, career, gender, sexuality, age or work experience, in the production of limited edition Risograph books and prints. The mission of Endless Editions is to realize the print concepts of these artists and to aid in interpreting original ideas, and bring them to life in new formats. Endless Editions operates out of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in midtown Manhattan, and within the Gateway Project Space in Newark, New Jersey.