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Help Us Print a Book Documenting the Mobile Print Power Exhibition!
We've just launched a pre-sale of the exhibition catalog for Soñamos Sentirnos Libres: Under Construction
We are in the last month of Soñamos Sentirnos Libres: Under Construction and look forward to seeing you all on September 5 at our end of the show block party! Not only will the block party feature music and screen printing, but it will also include the launch of our very exciting exhibition catalog!
The Soñamos Sentirnos Libres catalog is a compilation of essays and images produced throughout the exhibition, which features contributions and reflections from the many collaborators involved. This is a bilingual publication in Spanish and English. It will be full color, and likely around 90 pages.
Prior to the block party, we are offering a special pre-sale of the exhibition catalog. If you order before September 5 you will not only get the catalog but will also receive a limited edition screen print from Mobile Print Power, for only $18 (plus shipping). Funds from catalog sales will help support the costs of this exhibition—your purchase will have a direct impact on our programs.
Here is a sneak peek at a couple of the page spreads:
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Audio Interference 18: Kevin Caplicki/We Are The Storm
“The image allows for the viewer to interpret it quickly. And I guess that’s what an advertiser tries to do–that’s what a propagandist tries to do.†– Kevin Caplicki
In this episode, Brooke Shuman talks to Kevin Caplicki, one of the founders of Interference Archive and a member of Justseeds. Founded in 1998, Justseeds is a worker-owned cooperative that produces politically-themed prints. With members working from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Justseeds operates both as a unified collaboration of similarly minded printmakers and as a loose collection of creative individuals with unique viewpoints and working methods. Justseeds produces annual collective portfolios, and Kevin discusses the most recent, "We Are The Storm," which focuses on climate justice.
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Beyond Prisons Propaganda Party a Huge Success!
A little over a week ago we held our first ever "Propaganda Party." It was an experiment, an attempt make getting information and art about important social causes fun, and get artists, designers, activists, organizers, and the general public to hang out, relax, and meet each other in a more informal setting than a meeting or structured event.
We worked with The Amplifier Foundation, who provided an amazing array of stickers, posters, and other propaganda—all focused on confronting the injustice of mass incarceration. Groups like Critical Resistance and the Close Rikers Campaign brought materials to share, and artists like Proletarian Printing and Blanco made new work specifically for the event. Around 100 people came through, had a great time, and got to leave with rolls of posters and piles of stickers.
It was such a success that we are already planning the next one. In October we'll be holding a Climate Justice Propaganda Party. Start making your propaganda to share now! If you're interested in helping out, get in touch with us!
(Thanks to Cleo Barnett for the photographs!)
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Our Current Exhibition
Soñamos Sentirnos Libres
// Under Construction
Mayo 1- Sept. 5, 2016
Curaduria por Mobile Print Power
Interference Archive presents Soñamos Sentirnos Libres // Under Construction, a public exhibition and event series which features the work of Mobile Print Power, a multigenerational collective based out of Immigrant Movement International Corona, in Queens. The collective uses silkscreen printmaking and public projects to engage communities and explore social and cultural situations.
Interference Archive (El Archivo de Interferencia) presenta Soñamos Sentirnos Libres : Under Construction, una exposición pública y serie de eventos que destacan el trabajo y obra de Mobile Print Power, un colectivo multi-generacional radicado en IMI Corona (Immigrant Movement International Corona), en Queens. El colectivo usa el proceso de serigrafÃa para involucrar a comunidades y explorar situaciones sociales y culturales.
Read more on our website
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Our Comics, Ourselves opens to the University of Connecticut
June 14–August 22, 2016
The Archives & Special Collections at the University of Connecticut will host the first traveling installment of the exhibition Our Comics, Ourselves co-curated by Jan Descartes and Monica McKelvey Johnson. The exhibition premiered at Interference Archive in January, and we're really excited to see it move on to new locations. Our Comics, Ourselves features comics from the Interference Archive collection as well as private collections on loan. The exhibition includes comic books, graphic novels, DIY comics, and various comics paraphernalia primarily from the United States, 1945 to present. The works range from autobiographical to sheer fantasy, and explore feminism, abortion, racism, cultural identity, social activism, veterans of war, sexual abuse, immigration, public health, civil rights, gender and sexual identity, and more.
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