I am what’s known as a visual artist. At least that’s the story that’s told about me. I tell a different story about myself. In it I am a healer. What […]
Ricardo Levins Morales
I am an artist by trade, a healer by temperament and a troublemaker by necessity. My art and my writing both grow out of my relationships with communities and movements in struggle for a more livable world. I also offer support and reflection for organizers and others facing the dilemmas of trying to create a future out of materials from the past.
My art can be viewed and purchased at these web sites:
RLM Art Studio, (https://www.rlmartstudio.com/). This is my main site which displays my available posters, cards and buttons. The work is intentionally priced so as to be as accessible as possible. Framing and shrink-wrapping options are available.
Ricardo Levins Morales Fine Art site. Hosted by Fine Art America (http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/ricardo-levins-morales.html), on this site you can order many of my works on canvas, metal and other surfaces - and at a variety of sizes.
Let’s Not Take America Back!
The Madison worker uprising shook up the US political landscape. State governments that were peacefully going about their business forcing workers and communities to pay for upper class gluttony are facing […]
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Turning repression into resistance The cold winds of political repression have begun to blow a little colder. The widening FBI probe of the anti-war and solidarity movements–launched with coordinated raids in […]
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee: a political ecology of change
Don’t fight the riptide. It’ll wear you down. A riptide occurs when water at high tide gets pooled behind reefs or sand bars so when the sea goes out again, the trapped […]
Revolution in the Time of the Hamsters
“I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore, Toto,” Dorothy shared her suspicion with her little dog as they peered out onto an unfamiliar landscape. Still reeling from her own climate crisis, […]
The Drinking Gourd: Vision as Strategy
During the Underground Railroad movement of the mid-nineteenth century, people escaping the enslaved South were instructed to follow the Drinking Gourd, the constellation in the northern sky which points to the […]
Remembering Chairman Fred
Note: Every year at this time I like to re-post this memorial piece to Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Stories get passed on through repetition. It was first published in the Minneapolis […]
The Lizard Strategy or, How to defeat Bush without losing our souls
“Now we get to go out and lie to our members once again,” a union staffer recently complained to me. She was referring to the 2004 presidential election, and her frustration […]
The Return of History: Mirage of Conquest, Oasis of Resistance
The Empire backfires The eighty seven billion dollars in public funds approved by the US Congress this fall will be used mostly in a vain attempt to escape a stubborn reality: […]
September Lightning
When lightning flashes on a stormy night, the world is lit up for a brief, frozen second. You see the shape of the land, the path you have traveled. The lightning […]
Ricardo Levins Morales
Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio 