Projects
Ongoing projects
JustSeeds: We’re founding members of this artists’ cooperative. JustSeeds.org features an online store, blog, artists’ portfolios, and a network of activist projects that its members participate in. The cooperative is an experiment in making and distributing art outside the gallery system. A portion of all sales goes to collective activist projects.
Ghost Bikes: Memorial installations for bicyclists killed by cars. This is our most active project. Inspired by similar projects in Pittsburgh and St. Louis, we created the first ghost bike in New York City in June 2005 in memory of Elizabeth Padilla. Since then the project has grown to include a dozen NYC alternative transportation organizations and spread to almost two dozen cities worldwide.
Pedestrian Memorials: Branching off from the ghost bike project, we work with Time’s Up!, Transportation Alternatives and other groups to create memorials for pedestrians killed by cars in New York City.
Street Art Workers: International political poster campaign.
Skillshares: We occasionally do workshops on silkscreening and stencils at high schools, conferences and other events.
Past Projects
2006
If They Come For You In The Morning: Benefit gallery show for our friend Daniel McGowan, a political prisoner then facing trial. Over 100 artists, over 1,000 attendees, over 100 degrees inside ABC No Rio.
Guernica. Wheatpasted mural at the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Thanks to Deep Dish TV for sneaking us in.
2005
How-to Zine: Tips, tricks and info on how to make street art. Everyone can make art with minimal materials and some simple techniques. Hopefully this helps; if not, experiment.
Critical Mass Art: Posters and stencils celebrating the monthly bike ride and protesting the NYPD’s ridiculous crackdown on cyclists.
Anti-gentrification: We collaborated with The Change You Want To See to create a street campaign against the proposed rezoning of the Williamsbug-Greenpoint waterfront for skyscrapers and luxury condos.
Brooklyn sunflowers: We made a big banner for an anti-gentrification march in Williamsburg. See also here.
2004
No RNC Poster Project: Our first project. 50,000 posters by dozens of artists protesting the Republican National Convention in New York City.
