work on paper

Before you enlist
c. 2005

Poster consists of a full color image and red and black text on a white background. Image depicts four young men and one young woman of various races standing in a loose group. Text includes "...

Kral Majales
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster printed with black ink on white paper. Graphics of a male nude figure wearing glasses, sneakers, and playing finger cymbals inside a phallic border appear at right and left. The figure at...

Alternative Media Project
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Multi-color poster shows a castle inside a light bulb surrounded by planetary objects (stars, a moon, etc.). Text at top reads, "The First Gathering." Text around the top of the light bulb reads...

First Annual Indian and Spanish Winter Market
1989

Multi-color poster shows a reproduction on an artwork on a black background. The artwork shows a figure with antlers in a white and blue outfit inside a purple and blue frame near a cross-shaped...

Star War: The Final Frontier
1984

Poster has a black background with white text. Main image is of a spacecraft with the U. S. national symbol on its underbelly. The craft is destroying a planet in its path. Poster reads, "Star War...

Angels in America
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster shows a black and white photograph of a woman wearing white robes and wings in front of a blurred cityscape. Red text at top left reads, "American Conservatory Theater / Angels in America...

Summer Jam to Stop the Super Jail!
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster printed with black and purple ink on white paper. The page has an overall black background. "Summer Jam to Stop the Super Jail!" is printed in large letters at top. A figure in purple...

The Music Never Stopped
c. 1995

Multi-color poster shows an illustration by R. Crumb on a blue background of a group of musicians on a stage in front of a crowd of skeletons. A blue and red Grateful Dead skull logo appears...

Peoples Army
24227

Poster printed in black ink on newsprint that was originally printed in the San Francisco underground newspaper, "Good Times." Small oblong figures stand together on a hill on the lower portion...

Honoring Muhammad Ali
1967

Poster printed with black and red ink on white paper. The ink color transitions from black at top to red on the bottom, and a checkered border with a star and crescent moon at each corner frames...

International Green Movements
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster contains fuchsia text and graphics and an overall mint green background. "International Green Movements and the Prospects for a New Environmental/Industrial Politics in the U.S." is...

All things are connected.  Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth.
1990

Poster contains a photograph of a burned hillside filled with charred tree stumps with a clear blue sky above. A person sits on a large tree stump at center left facing away from the camera. A...

People's Park
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster printed in black ink on newsprint. Newspaper articles on the People's Park appear on the back of the poster. An image of men and women lifting a large leaf in the air in the pose captured...

Mind States II
2001

Multi-color poster shows a group of green hands emerging from a landscape on a light blue textured background. Smaller hands along the bottom are closed in a fist and have leaves attached to the...

I swear it to you
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster is printed with a blue background and yellow text and images. Clusters of wheat grass appear at bottom right and left. Poster text reads, "I swear it to you / I swear on my common woman's...

untitled (Landscape)
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster printed with blank ink on white paper and shows a collage of images. Two hands covered in black liquid appear at top right and a hand at top left holds gold pieces and a $100 bill....

Vigesima Marcha del Orgullo Lesbico-Gay
1998

Poster shows a triangle with vertical stripes in rainbow colors on a white background. Blue text at top reads, "Vigesima Marcha / Del Orgullo Lesbico-Gay." Smaller orange and blue text below the...

Holy Mist, God is a Spray Can
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster printed with yellow, blue, black, and gray ink on white paper. The page contains an overall yellow background. A white spray paint can with three black circles on the front appears...

5 de Mayo
1962

Poster has a graphic on the upper two thirds of the page that shows a man in a blue uniform, General Ignacio Zaragoza, riding a brown horse. The horse is standing on a mound of earth with "Las...

I Have a Dream
1987

Poster shows a black and white photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking while holding one hand up in the air. "I Have a Dream" is printed in large white font at bottom left.

Mujeres en Lucha
1999

Multi-color poster shows a reproduction of an artwork on the top two-thirds of the page. The artwork shows a woman with black hair in an orange tank top raising both hands in the air to break...

Stop IMDs, Investments of Mass Destruction
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Multi-color poster printed on white paper. "Stop IMDs / Investments of Mass Destruction" is printed at top. The center of the page contains photographs of environmental degradation in the shape...

Totalverweigerer politische Gefangene
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster printed with black and red ink on white paper. A large image aligned at lower right shows the shadows of two people in chains and prison bars. Text printed vertically at left reads, "...

All Life is InterreLated
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster printed with black and red ink on white paper. The center of the page contains a black and white reproduction of an artwork that integrates a portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. with...

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