One of the ideas in my book “Imperfect Solidarities” is that you can align with people momentarily and provisionally to move things forward—to be in solidarity does not have to mean agreeing with every single thing they’ve said and done ever. Solidarity is not an identification, it’s a strategy.

“The most important thing is he changes the way his teammates think about their own play,” Lebron James on Nikola Jokic. “When you’re able to inspire your teammates to play at a level that sometimes they don’t even feel like they can play at, that’s a true testament of a great one.”

"daddy, what did you do in the war" son, i archived all 6,793 videos from the Kennedy Center before they disappeared from the internet we all did our part

queer time, CMYK screenprint on cotton hanky. Made for the Salt and Blood of Hidden Kinship print exchange.

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

I’ve been leaving out a mini library from my collection for my Queer Archives/Queer Ephemera class. Here are some fun selections I’ve been adding.

Thinking about this in contrast to, perhaps, some of my pessimism over the fascist policies hitting higher ed. I teach Emergent Strategy in my studio classes (actually, discussing tomorrow) and it’s this exact sentiment of care and solidarity that I am leaning on. People save people.

Applications that ask you to type your CV/resumé are forever the bane of my existence.

In all honesty, I don’t know how we navigate all of this anti-DEI policy in a higher ed setting. I’ve never felt institutions to be the place where one can most effectively challenge structural oppression within the world. It’s scary times, and I hope we can just stick together and help each other.

The Dear Colleague letter that went out on Friday, banning *all* DEI activity at schools (who received this, college presidents and public school superintendents?) www.ed.gov/media/docume...

erasure is happening all the time. I’m thinking about this project I did in 2018 that recorded all of the emails that went into the deletion of climate change-related terms on the EPA website, also the result of an EO. A 734-page book of all of the emails leading up to the purge

The only thing I know about the Super Bowl is this.

New compliance doc for NEA recipients www.arts.gov/grants/legal...

Skipped on ice today, cartoonish fall, and now both wrists sprained. Let’s see how this portfolio exchange gets done 😅

Starting a list for #printmaking professors, instructors, and educators. 🥧 I need your help building this list! Comment if you'd like to be added to the list and tag other print educators you know. 🙂 🧵 Follow the feed for print-related content by the people on this list. #printsky

For anyone who was interested in this post—I’ve written a longer piece about the history of the rainbow flag (and other things) here: open.substack.com/pub/soulelli...

Not going to SGCI Puerto Rico, but color proofing prints for the Salt & Blood portfolio organized by Ron Abrams and @vernalpool.bsky.social Now to work on the etching component

a helpful diagram. #art #design

There was an exhibition on campus that made me cry today. It was a showcase of 50 years worth of news clippings of Seattle Gay News. Left a QR code for visibility. It's extremely important rn to see how far we've come, what battles we've won and lost over the years, also some banger pics too lmao

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

One of the hardest things as an artist/academic has been maintaining a balance of just being a normal person. Like, I kinda just wanna talk about trash reality TV and music.

Lunar New Year special at our favorite Korean place in Troy, NY, Sunhee’s Farm & Kitchen

Being a printmaker is like being from Philadelphia. I can talk so much shit about the discipline all I want, but as soon as someone who doesn’t makes prints says anything, WE ARE FIGHTING!

Of Ill-Omen & Clipped Wings Thirteen-color lithograph caught in a knot of bramble and thicket, he plucked out a soft mess of feathers. my dear, love will not break your heart, but you cannot go back and you cannot survive. my dear, do you need a safe place to land? #contemporaryprint #lithograph

I wasn’t made to deal with emails. (Selfie to semi-introduce myself on this platform)

Unmentioned in this article, but this building is also home to a number of non-profits, including VisualAIDS and its archive. This is ominous news.

It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....

Efficiency is not generally considered important in art. But my experience teaching print is that humans will create reasons to overcompensate, over complicate, and postpone completion. Being efficient in making your work will often make the work itself better.

A rebuttal to the wrongheaded, outrage-fueled misreading of the NPG installation of Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled" Portrait of Ross in L.A., 1991-- disappointed to see queer folks taking the bait as HIV/AIDS funding is slashed and denigrated here + around the world. Calibrate your energies.

A Black professor accidentally started an HBCU on TikTok called HillmanTok. Now other professors have joined in and are teaching actual courses with some offering certs that can be added to your resume Some courses being offered ⬇️

I sometimes thinking about this Canon ad with Godzilla at a copy machine when I’m feeling sad

Read, share, act.

In “The Radical Print”, author Esther Chadwick explores how 18th-century British printmakers like William Blake used art to challenge power and politics.

ok sweet - boycat is an app to support divesting from corps that hate us, buycat helps us find alternatives. this is one of the most accessible, discreet, consistent and effective ways we can be in solidarity with each other!

One of my favorite moments from my installation at Print Center New York during summer 2024. Two intaglio prints with inkjet fabric decals.

Erica is utterly brilliant and this is a gift worth opening.

Ours is an era of obsession as much as distraction. “To ascribe our woes to a society-wide attention-deficit disorder is to make the wrong diagnosis,” Daniel Immerwahr writes.

Pieces (Summer Set), 2024 Woodblock on paper 33.75”x23” Created while an artist-in-residence as part of the Alfred IEA program the summer of 2024. It was incredible to make this CMYK laser engraved woodblock, printed with help from Thomas Logan on their offset press.

Beginning of the semester. My students are taking notes, and they’re listening.

I wrote about the jacket, and my need to see more than what’s visible in the famous photo of David Wojnarowicz at the FDA ACT UP action in 1988 soulellis.substack.com/p/youtube-ty...