Regenerative Economy
Poster Portfolio
Artists are a tremendously important part of building the Regenerative Economy.
The posters on this page are the result of a collaboration with 15 movement artists who translated 15 regenerative economy planks into poster art.
Art by Jackie Fawn
Indigenous and Tribal Sovereignty
About the Artist
Jackie Fawn is a Yurok/Washoe/Filipino graphic artist from Del Norte County, California. Currently, Jackie is living in Akwesasne, NY and exploring the magic as a first time mother.
Indigenous peoples have suffered and continue to suffer from historic injustices as a result of dehumanization and racism and the colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right of self-determination in accordance with their own needs and interests, extending to their rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements entered into with the United States and its several States.
Justice for Black Communities
About the Artist
Hi I am The Amazing David Brame, Blerd Extraordinaire– I’m an educator, afrofuturist, artist, illustrator but foremost I am a cartoonist. My work fits within a framework of afro-pop surrealism with a heavy focus on narrative and mark making. As a cartoonist I use my skills to make comics and other forms of visual sequential storytelling.
Justice for Black Communities is spectrum of ideas, feelings, thoughts and actions. With this piece I wanted to highlight the black diaspora and specifically black indigenous communities in the western hemisphere like the Garifuna, Choctaw and Taino. I wanted to use color, movement and notable symbols of Black identity to make those visual relationships more prevalent. I used the words of community members as design elements to further highlight how our bodies and how we present ourselves is intrinsically connected to our continued efforts for justice. My hope is that this plank will provide a launch point and inspiration for further movement and action towards Justice for Black Communities.
Justice for Migrant Communities
About the Artist
Angelica Frausto aka Nerdy Brown Kid is a social scientist by day and artist by night. She is a queer Xicana born and raised in the south side of Chicago. When she is not parenting a child, or conducting psychological research, she draws to heal and raise awareness. Her work is for and about womxn and femmes of color. Angelica is currently based in South Bend, Indiana, along with her child, and partner.
With the interlinking crises of poverty, racism, war and climate change that defines our existence, the solutions to the daily misery experienced by millions, including those forced to leave their homelands in search of a better life, must be comprehensive and originate from the frontline communities who bear the burden of these centuries-old racist and colonial policies.
Climate change knows no borders. The increased droughts, floods, heatwaves, and other extreme weather conditions increase migration. People worldwide are experiencing the devastating impacts of the climate crisis, which is making corners of the globe increasingly uninhabitable. Human rights are at the core of climate justice.
Just Transition for Workers and Communities
About the Artist
Shirien Creates (she/her) is a Chicago-born Palestinian artist and community organizer. Shirien is committed to using her creativity as a tool to uplift social justice movements. Through her work, Shirien aims to promote community healing, make connections between liberation struggles, and to visualize a better world, from Chicago to Palestine.
We must build visionary economy that is very different than the one we now are in. This requires stopping the bad while at the same time as building the new. We must change the rules to redistribute resources and power to local communities. Just transition initiatives are shifting from dirty energy to energy democracy, from funding highways to expanding public transit, from incinerators and landfills to zero waste, from industrial food systems to food sovereignty, from gentrification to community land rights, from military violence to peaceful resolution, and from rampant destructive development to ecosystem restoration. Core to a just transition is deep democracy in which workers and communities have control over the decisions that affect their daily lives.
Protections and Investments for Sacrifice Zones and Environmental Justice Communities
About the Artist
Amir Khadar (They/Them) is a Sierra Leonean-American artist, designer, cultural organizer, and educator from Minneapolis. Their main mediums are digital art, fiber art, and poetry. They are actively experimenting and growing as an artist through establishing relationships to ways of making, but their practice has always been grounded through afro-futurism, gender theory, beauty, and ancestral practices.
Everyone has a right to breathe clean air and drink clean water. But that right is not afforded to people living next to the engines of the extractive economy: refineries, incinerators, industrial agriculture, etc. The extractive economy has sacrificed communities in exchange for accumulating wealth, resources, and power. The past and present harms done to people living in “sacrifice zones” and environmental justice communities must be rectified and repaired. Our society cannot build a more just and healthy economy if communities continue to be seen as expendable.
Healthcare for All
About the Artist
César Maxit is an Argentine American visual artist based in DC. Maxit has designed campaign materials for grassroots initiatives and national movements focused on environmental protection, climate action, and human rights advocacy. His communications strategies, posters, banners, flags, and large-scale sculptures have been important cultural tools in numerous successful campaigns and many of his daughter’s birthday parties. @csrmxt
A storm looms, representing healthcare crises we all may face. Rain and paint drips symbolize tears and blood, reminders of the grave stakes of life’s fragility. A nurse helps an injured man rise while holding the red umbrella of universal healthcare. Nearby, a healer calls them toward a community clinic’s safety. The waterproof sticker reveals the call for action: healthcare that covers everybody. We can support each other through our most vulnerable moments with an umbrella for the entire country.
Homes Guarantee
About the Artist
Nina Yagual is a NYC born, Florida raised, self taught artist. With ancestral roots spreading deep across native lands. I’m heavily influenced by children because of their proximity to nature- both are playful, innocent and unapologetically honest.
Nearly 40 million people face some level of housing insecurity or rent- and mortgage-burden. Furthermore, too many low-income rental units are in a state of disrepair leaving many marginalized communities dealing with lead paint, leaking roofs, mold, and other toxic issues. A majority of people are one or two paychecks away from being evicted, while many Asian and Pacific Islander, Black and Brown communities are continually displaced due to land speculation and gentrification. Our homes must not be commodified in ways that leave people out. Our homes, in all forms, must be secure, safe, affordable, healthy, and central to a thriving community.
Invest in Community-Controlled, Clean, Renewable Energy Sources and Pollution Mitigation
About the Artist
Jessica Thornton (she/they) is an artist, printmaker, designer and arts organizer. She was born in Ȧbo, Finland, raised in the Netherlands, and she currently lives on Ahtna and Dena’ina lands in Palmer, Alaska. Her art practice has evolved from her 7+ years as a community organizer and is deeply tied to the social and environmental justice movements that she supports.
My intention with this design was to illustrate the need for community control over our energy sources, the democratization of our energy commons and the importance of centering the health and well-being of our environment and our communities within any decision making processes. The sphere contains the vision of clean energy sources and a healthy balance with our environment and our communities. The solutions are within our reach, symbolized by the hand holding the sphere. The salmon is an important symbol - it is a keystone species that indicates the health of our environment, and it is also an important species that many of our communities rely on for their physical, cultural and spiritual health.
Energy Democracy
About the Artist
cozcon is a multidisciplinary artist dedicated to broadening the visual lexicons of black, femme and queer life through work that claims the riches locked up in the exclusionary hubs of contemporary art, design and fashion, reinvesting them into imagery that reflects the lived experiences of the marginalized and historically excluded. you can find more of their on Instagram @cozcon
The original New Deal created pathways for energy to be a public good, yet purposely neglected to center racial equity and justice in that effort. We can learn from this and position communities to govern their energy decisions. Collectively, we can re-prioritize how we create, use, and distribute clean, renewable energy, without nuclear, in order to power our Regenerative Economy.
Food Sovereignty and Land Sovereignty
About the Artist
Crystal Clarity is an Artist, Illustrator, printmaker, Art director, dream weaver, and visual strategist for movement moments. She brings 15+ years experience directing community mural projects across the city and beyond.
“Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. It puts the aspirations and needs of those who produce, distribute and consume food at the heart of food systems and policies rather than the demands of markets and corporations.”
~ excerpted from the Declaration of Nyéléni, 2007 Forum for Food Sovereignty in Sélingué, Mali.
Equitable and Clean Energy/ Emissions-Free Transit
About the Artist
Kah Yangni is an illustrator + muralist living in Philadelphia, PA. They make heartfelt art about justice, queerness, and joy. After studying other things in school, they realized their passion was art and dove into a life of making- learning to create art with a variety of tools, like screenprinting and mural-making. Kah works with folks around the US to share hopeful visions of a more awesome, healthy world.
Transit justice and climate justice are intertwined, as equitable and accessible public transit is crucial for both addressing climate change and ensuring that all communities benefit from transportation systems.
From Disaster Capitalism to Just Recovery
About the Artist
Micah Bazant is a visual artist and cultural organizer who works with liberation movements to reimagine the world. They create art inspired by struggles to end white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, and transphobia. The ongoing process of developing ethical models for collaboration with grassroots community organizations is a large part of Bazant’s work.
From devastating hurricanes to raging wildfires and beyond, we have seen how deeply inequitable systems amplify the impacts of the climate crisis on marginalized communities. These communities, already bearing the brunt of systemic injustices, are hit first and hardest by increasingly severe and frequent climate disasters.
Rooted in principles of justice, the Just Recovery framework centers the needs, visions, and leadership of those most impacted by climate disruptions. By prioritizing the well-being, power, and self-determination of frontline communities, Just Recovery not only helps rebuild after disasters but does so in a way that strengthens these communities for the future.
Investing in the Feminist Economy
About the Artist
Bec Young is a visual artist based in Detroit, Michigan who seeks to inspire and draw inspiration from movements for justice and ecological wellness. Working primarily in printmaking, paper-cutting and illustration, her practice also includes direct interactions within communities, empowering others, skill-sharing, and facilitating change. She is a member of the Justseeds Artists Cooperative.
In order to work for inspired change we have to visualize what we want, but most of us were raised in a patriarchal society in which it’s easier to figure out what you’re against than what you’re for. Still, there are moments and spaces we could look to for visions of reciprocity, relationships and care, in which our labor is valued and our choices are respected. I created this vision of a feminist economy by nurturing the energy from those spaces until it grew.