"Encender (Ignite)" by Mazatl, whose work I greatly admire. We have a print of this artifact and it is loved and protected. The picture links to Mazatl's website and I encourage you to browse the work and support this artist.
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From Mazatl's website: "Mazatl lives in Mexico City where he partakes in several collectives seeking social/political/enviromental justice; his art is inspired by the work individuals and collectives do to shake off the noose around our necks."
"Poppies/Amapolas" by Fernando Martí. The image links to Martí's website and the title of the piece links to Just Seeds, where his work may be purchased.
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From Martí's website: "Fernando Martí is an artist, community architect, and activist. He was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and has made his home in San Francisco since 1992. He has been deeply involved in organizing, policy, and cultural production in San Francisco’s Mission District."
"A Bird Knows No Barbed Wire" by Aaron Hughes. The image links to the the artist's website and the poem associated with this work, and the title of the piece will lead you to Just Seeds, where this work may be purchased.
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From Hughes's website: "I am an artist, activist, organizer, teacher, and Iraq War veteran based in Chicago. My multidimensional creative practice operates in a diversity of spaces and media as I seek out connections, poetics, and moments of beauty in order to construct narratives and meaning out of personal and collective traumas. I uses these narratives in the development of projects that expose and deconstruct systems of oppression and dehumanization."
"Legales e Ilegales" by Lesly Yobany Mendoza. The image links to the the artist's statement, and the title of the piece will lead you to Just Seeds, where this work may be purchased.
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From Mendoza: "¡ viva la libertad ¡,,,Soy aprendis de Pintor- grabador , educador y promotor cultural , radicado actualmente en la Ciudad Moustrou (México). ciclista empedernido . Admirador de los animales que viven este planeta asi como de la riqueza y sabiduria de todxs los pueblos indios que habitan y habitaron este mundo."
"In the Early Light" by Pete Railand. The image links to the the artist's Instagram account, and the title of the piece will lead you to the website where this work may be purchased.
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From Railand: "Pete Railand (formerly Pete Yahnke): printmaker, educator, bike rider, self-taught musician and stay at home dad. Born in Milwaukee WI; raised in the north woods of Wisconsin in a town with one stoplight. Has traversed the US too many times, living and working in Milwaukee WI, Albuquerque NM, New York, Red Wing MN, Oakland CA, Santa Fe NM, Minneapolis MN, Portland OR. Recently returned to Milwaukee after a 16 year absence. Wonders when he will leave. "
"Highways (Greenland)" by Rockwell Kent. The image links to The Phillips Collection biography page.
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On Kent: "The American realist Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York. He first studied painting during the summer of 1900 under William Merritt Chase while attending the Columbia University School of Architecture. In 1904 he enrolled in the New York School of Art, where he studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller."
"Company Town" by Lynd Ward. The picture links to Columbus Museum of Art. His name links to the Rutger's University Library biographical notation.
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From the notes: "The term company town came into currency in Europe and North America during the Industrial Age. These towns were usually associated with single industries such as coal or textiles where a company held a monopoly on most of the real estate, utilities, and community resources such as hospitals and necessities such as grocery stores. If the economy or the particular industry or company collapsed, so did the company town.
The term has come to be associated with corporate exploitation of workers and their families.In this wood engraving, a lone figure strolls down a deserted street of boarded-up houses. Ward popularized a book format in which a story is told in images not words. The title of Ward’s 1974 monograph, Storyteller without Words, can be applied to him."