These notes are not about what art teaches; only what I have learned from my practice of it. This is an ongoing list that I will continue to post in installments at […]
What Interstate 80 Taught Me About Fighting for Justice
What I learned on the highways of North America made me a good organizer. It would set the tone for how I would grow into a being a movement strategist and community […]
Community art as medicinal practice
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 