NRDC X JUSTSEEDS

photo by Taylor Emery Glasscock

William Estrada's Mobile Printing cart. photo by Taylor Emery Glasscock.

photo by Taylor Emery Glasscock

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NRDC X JUSTSEEDS (2022)-Justseeds collaborated with the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) to do a site specific installation and pop-up print shop at the primary entrance to the 2022’s EXPO CHICAGO, (the International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art), outside of Navy Pier’s Festival Hall. We highlighted local work by collaborating with activists from Chicago’s Stop General Iron campaign.

This installation showcased the work of over 30 artists in an outdoor mural installation with live screen-printing. This partnership harnessed the power of art to spotlight key environmental issues facing communities, including: climate change, biodiversity, fossil fuels, safe drinking water, and environmental justice. By partnering with a justice-based, worker-owned artist cooperative at Chicago’s largest commercial art fair, the collaboration will ask visitors to think critically about the role that art plays in disrupting normative systems that perpetuate injustice, and inequality.

The dynamic installation evolved daily, featuring new works, as well as selections from Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative robust archive of protest prints and ephemera.

I acted as a core coordinator, printer and mural designer for this project.