“Winter” by Kristine Virsis.  One of many Handmade prints available during the JUSTSEEDS Black Friday print sale

Our upstairs neighbors and friends, JUSTSEEDS are having a Black Friday Handmade print sale in their office, which is the second floor of the BikePGH office.  JUSTSEEDS is a collective of 26 artists from the US, Canada, and Mexico whose distribution center and gallery space is right here in Pittsburgh!

Get a jump on shopping with handmade prints – They’ll even package the art for you for safe bike travel!

Where: 3410 Penn Ave, 2nd Floor (intersection of Penn Ave and Butler St)

When: Friday November 26, noon – 8pm

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Direct from JUSTSEEDS:

JUSTSEEDS Give Love, Buy Something! Handmade Print Sale
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26 NOON-8:00PM

Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative is having a print sale.
See vibrant new work on our walls, get a jump on your holiday shopping, catch some sweet in-store deals and save on shipping.
We’ll even pack up your prints safely for bike travel, if you so desire…

See beautiful and radical hand-printed silkscreens and relief prints, printed by Justseeds artists from near and far.  Like Kristine Virsis’ “Winter” (featured above) or Roger Peet’s “Escape” or be real about the ridiculousness of it all, with Meredith Sterns “Give Love! Buy Nothing!”

Pick up books like the hot-off-the-press “Celebrate People’s History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution” edited by Josh MacPhee or “Firebrands: Portraits From the Americas,” edited by Pittsburgh’s own Shaun Slifer and Bec Young.

Visit our space on Friday, November 26th from NOON – 8:00pm
3410 Penn Ave, 2nd floor (above BikePGH, where Penn Ave meets Butler St, at the edge of Lawrenceville)
Enter at the back on Spring Way, bike parking available

Refreshments too, you know how we do…

About JUSTSEEDS:
Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized network of 26 artists committed to making print and design work that reflects a radical social, environmental, and political stance. With members working from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Justseeds operates both as a unified collaboration of similarly minded printmakers and as a loose collection of creative individuals with unique viewpoints and working methods. We believe in the transformative power of personal expression in concert with collective action. To this end, we produce collective portfolios, contribute graphics to grassroots struggles for justice, work collaboratively both in- and outside the co-op, build large sculptural installations in galleries, and wheatpaste on the streets – all while offering each other daily support as allies and friends.

HISTORY
Founded in 1998, and originally the graphics distribution project of Josh MacPhee, Justseeds made the transformation into a worker-owned cooperative in 2007 – the original network being largely in place through past collaborations and friendships. In May 2010, Justseeds moved our distribution center from Portland to a new and larger base in Pittsburgh. We operate an online store and wholesale distribution center; an active, multi-voice blog detailing current art and resistance projects around the world; and a small gallery space in our Pittsburgh shipping office that highlights member work.

VISIT US
Our distribution center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is run by artist/members Bec Young, Mary Tremonte, and Shaun Slifer. All member work and projects get sent here, where we package and ship orders. While we don’t have regular public hours yet, we would be more than happy to set up an appointment with you if you’re passing through Pittsburgh and would like to visit us and see our operations first hand. As well as rotating exhibitions of member work, we have flat files of other work by Justseeds artists, including some historical posters and work by other artists and collaborators. In addition we have shelves of books and zines in stock! Contact us through “store” at justseeds.org or call us at 412.894.3199 to set up a time to stop in!

We’re located at 3410 Penn Avenue in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, at the intersection of Penn and Butler (known locally as Doughboy Square, after the WWI memorial soldier statue across the street). We are in the old Junction Coal building, more recently the offices of the Turner Detective Agency, which has been newly renovated and now houses the workhorse bike/ped nonprofit organization BikePGH on the first floor, with our offices on the second floor.

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