Colin Matthes

Colin Matthes
12″x18″, screenprint

Image by Colin Matthes in collaboration with Missourian Organizing for Reform and Empowerment. 

Colin Matthes makes work about engineering the absurd, which allows him to address economic and environmental crisis from a funny, critical, and perversely industrious point of view. His practice includes painting, drawing, installation, zine and graphic production, and public art projects, and he has exhibited internationally in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Antwerp, Dublin, Houston, Seville, Ljubljana, Melbourne, and Berlin.

Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) believes that Missouri is positioned at a unique intersection of social, economic, climate, and environmental injustice. With their Take Back St. Louis campaign, MORE has worked to eliminate financial incentives for fossil fuel extraction companies like Peabody Coal, a major miner and polluter of Navajo and Hopi lands in the Southwest- and to show the damage dirty energy does to public health.

 

CultureStrike, in collaboration with Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, has forged partnerships between artists and frontline environmental justice organizations to create a provocative, limited-edition art print portfolio, called We are the Storm, that highlights the urgency of climate change on these communities.

The portfolio draws inspiration from the powerful work of grassroots groups that are championing creative and community-based solutions to combat climate change. The artworks bring voices from frontline communities that are being the most impacted by climate change and destructive environmental practices, to the forefront of the climate change discussion.

Portfolio contains 23 12″x18″ digital and screenprints from the following artists:

Agana/Southwest Worker’s Union (SWU)

Micah Bazant/Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)

Kevin Caplicki/Marcellus Shale Earth First!

Thea Gahr/Everglades Earth First! (EEF!)

Thomas Greyeyes/The San Carlos Apache

Nicolas Lampert/The Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands (MICATS)

Fernando Marti/No More Deaths

Colin Matthes/Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE)

Mazatl/Reclaim Turtle Island (RTI)

Nicolas Medina/People Organizing to Demand Environmental Justice

Roger Peet/Portland and Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Gilda Posada/California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA)

Jesse Purcell/The Unis’tot’en (C’ihlts’ehkyu/Big Frog Clan)

Pete Railand/Occupy Sandy

Favianna Rodriguez/Movement Generation (MG)

Julio Salgado/Texas Environmental Justice Advisory Services (TEJAS)

Meredith Stern/Bridge the Gulf

David Tim/ClimateTruth.org

Rommy Torrico/Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC)

Mary Tremonte, -Tar Sands Blockade

Erin Yoshi/Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)

Bec Young/Radical Action for Mountain People’s Survival (RAMPS)