🙏🏾📚thank you Horn Book! #CallingCaldecott 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒆 🌍✨

Sending love to Jamaica. 🇯🇲 If you’re able to donate anything for Hurricane Melissa relief efforts, please do! And let’s continue to speak against corporate fossil fuel giants that choose profit over people, contributing to devastating Coastal/Caribbean storms. People first. 🗣️🇯🇲✨ #Jamaica

don’t swipe to get to the ███████ Ballroom™️ don’t shut down the government to break ground on the ███████ Ballroom™️ don’t call it that… don’t peek to see what’s underneath the ███████ Ballroom™️ 👀

🚨my Portland Frog & AntifAmerica tees going fast 👀 www.nikkolas.art/tshirts

🚨 𝑻𝒆𝒆𝒔 𝑵𝒐𝒘 𝑨𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆! 🚨 Portland Frog 🐸 & AntifAmerica 🇺🇸 Tee Shirts are now available at www.Nikkolas.Art! www.nikkolas.art/tshirts I wanted to create a product which reflects the high quality I always strive for. I appreciate all your support! 🐸🇺🇸 #portlandfrog #nikkolassmith #StandTall

🚨 𝑻𝒆𝒆𝒔 𝑵𝒐𝒘 𝑨𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆! 🚨 Portland Frog 🐸 & AntifAmerica 🇺🇸 Tee Shirts are now available at www.Nikkolas.Art! www.nikkolas.art/tshirts I wanted to create a product which reflects the high quality I always strive for. I appreciate all your support! 🐸🇺🇸 #portlandfrog #nikkolassmith #StandTall

Reach. Support. Build. Grow. 𝑹𝑬𝑺𝑰𝑺𝑻. This is: 𝑻𝙪𝒈 𝒐𝙛 𝙒𝒂𝙧 & 𝙋𝒆𝙖𝒄𝙚 or “𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚐𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎” They cannot destroy the world unless we refuse to resist. We must choose to build. (40”x30” acrylic on canvas, now available on 𝚠𝚠𝚠.𝙽𝙸𝙺𝙺𝙾𝙻𝙰𝚂.𝚊𝚛𝚝) #Art #NIKKOLAS #Painting

@4nikkolas.bsky.social posted this on Instagram with Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," and it gave me chills.

Another masterpiece by @4nikkolas.bsky.social

This is a stunning picture book. @4nikkolas.bsky.social I got goosebumps reading it. Incredible piece of work. 📚💙

Boycott anti-equity. Boycott apartheid. (…𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨) Boycott anti-Blackness. Boycott segregation. Boycott any group who hates Jackie Robinson. Boycott the corporations (𝑎𝘯𝑑 𝑢𝘯𝑖𝘷𝑒𝘳𝑠𝘪𝑡𝘪𝑒𝘴) that bow to fa𝑠cism. ᏴᎾᎩᏟᎾᎢᎢ ᎡᎪᏟᏆᏚᎷ. 🗣️✨

This is what No Kings Day felt like 🐸🐔🦄🐿️✨ “Tʜɪs ɪs ᴡʜᴀᴛ Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ ʟᴏᴏᴋs ʟɪᴋᴇ!“ 🗣️✨ This country belongs to the people. #StandTALL 🚀🗣️ (Prints at www.Nikkolas.Art)

Stand Tall. We Will Win. (🎨 Nikkolas Smith) @4nikkolas.bsky.social

🐸 Artivist: Nikkolas Smith

Author and illustrator, Nikkolas Smith, draws 'Portland Frog'

🎨 Nikkolas Smith

🚨🩸🅢𝒊𝒏𝕟𝚎𝗿𝔰 Poster giveaway!🩸🚨 Happening on my IG right now 👀 It’s been 6 months since Sinners hit theaters! In honor of this milestone, who wants a signed poster? 🤓🎥👊🏾 Like/Comment or Repost and I’ll pick a winner at random. In the meantime, here’s some fun facts about my poster design 🎨🍿🎬

Artist: Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social - www.nikkolas.art/protest-art-... - Thanks also @maddow.msnbc.com for uplifting the power of the people! P.S. This Saturday 10/18/2025 www.nokings.org No Kings Day after today's great AOC & Bernie Town Hall !!!

National Geographic !! 🙂🌍🙏🏾📚🎨 I’ve always said 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒆 is like a NatGeo documentary. A factual slice of our shared history. I’m glad NatGeo agrees! Thank you all for helping me spread this book to every part of the world. It’s such a critical part of human history… the beginning! 🌍✨

NoKings.org | October 18

ℐ𝔱’𝓈 𝒏𝑒𝘷𝑒𝙧 𝓒𝔬𝐥𝖚𝚖𝖇𝐮𝐬… It’s the T͢a͢í͢n͢o͢ people of the Caribbean over the genocidal colonizers… It’s the hypocrisy of “you will not replace us” while on stolen land… It’s the history repeating… It’s justice for the indigenous…all day every day. #StandTall #IndigenousPeople #IndigenousPeoplesDay

The Antiphibian of Portland is gearing up to be an iconic symbol of resistance

Stunning and epic art work by the amazing and talented #artivist @4nikkolas.bsky.social #Portland #Portland2025 #Frog #Hero #StandforJustice #StandAgainst 🐸✊🏼✊🏿✊✊🏾✊🏻✊🏽 (This piece literally choked me up… tears of all kinds of emotion)

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by ‘artivist’ Nikkolas Smith from The History of We, his picturebook about the origins of humanity and our creativity. Sumptuous image of a crowd of gentle faces made with lavish paint on canvas. Rock the Boat 25 September. @4nikkolas.bsky.social @rocktheboat5.bsky.social

PBS gave us Mister Rogers and Officer Clemmons in the 1960’s. PBS showed the world what love & equality looks like, during a time when people were actually dumping acid into pools where Black kids were swimming...

What would you do if this was your child? The inhumanity and cruelty we’re seeing in Gaza is beyond unacceptable, and history will rightfully denounce the warmongers responsible for these atrocities. Enough with the headlines replacing “mass starvation & genocide” with “famine & conflict”.

Whether you want to learn about famous activists, understand your rights, or learn how to join #peacefulprotests— check out these 📚 about #activism. www.kidlit.tv/2025/06/new-... @harperkids.bsky.social @coilyandcute.bsky.social @staceyabrams.com @quartokids.bsky.social @4nikkolas.bsky.social

Don’t miss the Intellectual Freedom Awards at ALA Annual w/ @ftrf.bsky.social @ifrt-ala.bsky.social @ischoolui.bsky.social! 6/27, 7:30pm, Philly Marriott Salon E. #ALAAC25 attendees welcome. Keynote by NYT Bestseller @4nikkolas.bsky.social! bit.ly/IFawards2025

THE HISTORY OF WE by @4nikkolas.bsky.social is a recommended read aloud for Grades 2-5 offering inspiring art and an uplifting, validating message about shared pasts and humanity’s connections. #EduSky 🍎 #Kidlit 📚👍 #Libsky

𝐉𝐮𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐞. 𝐉𝐨𝐲. 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦. 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐁𝐚𝐦. 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧. 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐡𝐬. 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐚. 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥. 𝐑𝐡𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐦. 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬. 𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐨𝐮𝐭. 𝟑𝟔𝟓. #𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 #HappyJuneteenth to all who celebrate✊🏾✨ #Juneteenth

I’m always down for a good anti-trump protest 🗣️✨ No Fascists. No Nazis. No ICE. No Racists. No Dictators. No Kings. #NoKings #NoKingsDay

National Geographic !! 🙂🌍🙏🏾📚🎨 I’ve always said 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒆 is like a NatGeo documentary. A factual slice of our shared history. I’m glad NatGeo agrees! Thank you all for helping me spread this book to every part of the world. It’s such a critical part of human history… the beginning! 🌍✨

NEW YORK CITY! Join Fred Joseph and me as we discuss our latest books! 📚🗣️✨ See you at Books Are Magic on June 18th! RSVP>> www.eventbrite.com/e/frederick-...

THE HISTORY OF WE (Kokila/ @penguinkids.bsky.social‬) by @4nikkolas.bsky.social‬ will receive a starred review in the July/August 2025 #HornBookMagazine. Congratulations! #HBMag #HBStars www.hbook.com/story/july-a...

thank you for the love @thehornbook.bsky.social !🌍📚🚀✨ 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒆

The History of We Tour is in the books! 📚🚀 ✨ Thank you everyone in Washington DC, Atlanta, Decatur, Chicago, Houston, Austin, Pasadena, Los Angeles, Berkeley and Oakland for coming out! can’t wait to visit more cities soon. kokilabooks & penguinkids ! #TheHistoryofWe #kidlit #nikkolassmith

Five years… five years since 9 minutes and 29 seconds, ending George Floyd’s life. I often wonder if this country learned anything from this violent murder… compassion became trendy for a spell… for the marginalized… #GeorgeFloyd #Justice4George

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒆 is NOW AVAILABLE Nationwide!!!!! My first hand painted picture book is here yall… 🤓🌍🎨✨ And it’s about the origins of humanity. The first ancestors of Every. Person. On. This. Earth. Order your copy today!!>> www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721499... #TheHistoryOfWE #Summer

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒆 is NOW AVAILABLE Nationwide!!!!! My first hand painted picture book is here yall… 🤓🌍🎨✨ And it’s about the origins of humanity. The first ancestors of Every. Person. On. This. Earth. Order your copy today!!>> www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721499... #TheHistoryOfWE #Summer

THE HISTORY OF WE is celebrating a #BookBirthday today! From author and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator @4nikkolas.bsky.social comes an awe-inspiring, hand painted picture book about the origin and advancement of humans.

No May Gray here! 'Radiant' fine art print by @4nikkolas.bsky.social is a pure ray of sunshine. ☀️ Available at staticmedium.com

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐖𝐄 hits shelves in TWO weeks (05/20) but the 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐫 begins next Thursday! 5/15‼️🌍📚✨ This is gonna be special. We’ll travel back over 200,000 years to the origins of humanity! 📚🙏🏾👊🏾 w/ gratitude form the Ancestors, -Ɲ𖥣𖢉𖢉𖥕ꛚ𖧥ꕷ

we were raised on these Streets… #PBS4Life 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

🤓🩸Film of the year yall. It’s so good. Honored to contribute concept art early on, and this art piece at the finish line🙏🏾👊🏾🎬 - only in theaters, April 18. Grab those IMAX tix! : Fandan.co/SinnersMovie #Sinners

🤓🩸Film of the year yall. It’s so good. Honored to contribute concept art early on, and this art piece at the finish line🙏🏾👊🏾🎬 - only in theaters, April 18. Grab those IMAX tix! : Fandan.co/SinnersMovie #Sinners

Ironic that I illustrated dreams of unity in “𝑨 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝑰𝒔 𝑮𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆” in the same year that dream is under attack…

Boycott anti-equity. Boycott apartheid. (…𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨) Boycott anti-Blackness. Boycott segregation. Boycott any group who hates Jackie Robinson. Boycott the corporations (𝑎𝘯𝑑 𝑢𝘯𝑖𝘷𝑒𝘳𝑠𝘪𝑡𝘪𝑒𝘴) that bow to fa𝑠cism. ᏴᎾᎩᏟᎾᎢᎢ ᎡᎪᏟᏆᏚᎷ. 🗣️✨

𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓮. 𝓜𝓪𝓱𝓶𝓸𝓾𝓭. 𝓚𝓱𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓵. If I have to sketch wrongfully detained human beings under this fa𝘴cist regime every week, then that’s what I will do. So let’s talk about #MahmoudKhalil :