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Wiling to Build
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Right Path
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The Seeds Saved Me
We Are the Earth
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WIDE THE GATE 2024 Calendar
Redreaming
Worlds Turn Over
Quiet Hours Quilt
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Prepare the Vessel
Abundance
Queer Farmer Series
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Step In
Zinnia Block-Print
Muddy Fields Quit
World We Want Seeds
Flourishing
Thriving World
Garlic Gay
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Garlic Promise
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Whole (Eco)Systems
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Consequence Vs. Punishment

 

 
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All the Tools
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Homoluminous
An Expanding Sense of Self
Tending My Mycelium Network
Winter Work Quilt
Mud Blessing
The Future is Mutual Aid
Radish & Autumnal hand painted ceramics.
Safety or Control
Cultivators
Animacy
Controlled Burns
Full of Gifts
Wood Wide Web
Grief and Love
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Steeping Into Our Accountability
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In Dreams We Wake
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Rise Rooted
Straddling Worlds
Many Futures
Radical Imagination
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Reconnect
Marigold Mug hand painted ceramics.

 

 
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“Prisons Must Fall” Children’s Book
“Prisons Must Fall” Children’s Book

Written by Mariame Kaba and Jane Ball, this book invites the young audience to consider the harms of our mass incarceration system and how a society based on collective care is both possible and absolutely necessary.

This is the first children’s book I have illustrated! Buy one HERE or from MY SHOP.

“We Grow the World Together” Parenting Toward Abolition
“We Grow the World Together” Parenting Toward Abolition

Edited by Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson, this book includes essays from parents and care workers practicing abolition in their daily lives. The book cover features my illustration “Collective Flourishing”.

Buy a copy here!

Geez Magazine Cover Illustration for Issue 73 "The Fire Rages On"
Geez Magazine Cover Illustration for Issue 73 "The Fire Rages On"

Deeply grateful to have gotten to contribute to the final issue of this incredible publication. You can follow the organizing and writing of Geez editor, Lydia Wylie-Kellerman at the Kirkridge Retreat & Study Center.

Transformative Justice 2024 Wall Calendar
Transformative Justice 2024 Wall Calendar

Organized by Mariame Kaba and designed by Cindy Latte, this calendar featured twelve of my digital illustrations exploring abolitionist and Transformative Justice concepts. All proceeds from sales went to supporting Darkness Rising’s REBUILD Program, which provides free therapy to formerly incarcerated individuals of color.

Shaping Abolitionist Futures with Emergent Strategies Poster
Shaping Abolitionist Futures with Emergent Strategies Poster

Poster designed with and for Andrea Ritchie’s new book Practicing New Worlds; Abolition and Emergent Strategies. This poster illustrates some significant moments in recent history that have helped shape the movement for Prison Industrial Complex Abolition through the lens of Emergent Strategy. Come, find yourself in the rising tide!

Buy a copy of the Poster HERE

T-Shirt Design for Grow Appalachia
T-Shirt Design for Grow Appalachia

Grow Appalachia addresses food insecurity throughout central Appalachia through home and community garden initiatives, foodways, farming, and hunger relief programming.

Letting Go of the Gender Binary
Letting Go of the Gender Binary

Poster design for Syracuse Cultural Workers inviting the audience into Gender Expansive Possibilities and a future of care and free expressions. Read more about this design HERE. Buy the poster HERE.

Campaign Poster for the Pre-Trial Fairness Act
Campaign Poster for the Pre-Trial Fairness Act

Passed in January of 2021, the Pretrial Fairness Act restores the presumption of innocence and makes Illinois safer by ending money bond and the unconstitutional practice of caging people pretrial simply because they cannot afford to buy their freedom.

T-Shirt Design for Spikenard Honeybee Sanctuary
T-Shirt Design for Spikenard Honeybee Sanctuary

Celebrating the whole landscape of plants, birds, insects, sunlight and soil that makes up the ecosystem of the Sanctuary in Floyd, VA.

Yes! Magazine Cover Illustration
Yes! Magazine Cover Illustration

100th Issue: A New Social Justice

Johnny Jump Up Seed Pack Design
Johnny Jump Up Seed Pack Design

Hudson Valley Seeds 2022 Art Pack

Geez Magazine Cover Illustration for Issue 61 "Seeds Are Sacred"
Geez Magazine Cover Illustration for Issue 61 "Seeds Are Sacred"
"Fumbling Toward Repair" Workbook by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan
"Fumbling Toward Repair" Workbook by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan

Jacket cover design and internal illustrations. Available at AK Press.

DE-MIL-I-TA-RISE- Art Against Empire Poster
DE-MIL-I-TA-RISE- Art Against Empire Poster

Spearheaded by Justseeds’s Aaron Hughes, 25 artists created posters imagining a world beyond war, cages, imperialism, empire and highlighting the demilitarization organizing work of Dissenters.

Women & Children First Bookstore T-Shirt
Women & Children First Bookstore T-Shirt

40th Anniversary T-shirt and Tote Bag design. Available on their website.

People’s Paper Co-op- #FreeOurMamas Poster Series
People’s Paper Co-op- #FreeOurMamas Poster Series

Since 2018, the People’s Paper Co-op has collaborated with the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund on their annual Mama's Day Bail Out campaign. Proceeds from sales of these posters goes directly to bailing out mothers and caregivers from pre-trail detention!

"Belonging" Book by Toko-pa Turner
"Belonging" Book by Toko-pa Turner

Jacket illustration and design and chapter title illustrations.

Paul Robeson Seed Pack Design
Paul Robeson Seed Pack Design

Hudson Valley Seeds Art Pack 2018

 

 
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Andersonville
Andersonville

2021

Howard Area Community Center
Howard Area Community Center

2020

YWCA Cincinnati
YWCA Cincinnati

2019

Rogers Park
Rogers Park

2019

 

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