Look Loud is a collaboration between Josh Yoder + myself, and is the primary avenue for my work at this time!

Look Loud is a nimble team of visual strategy accomplices, supporting communities taking control of their own media narratives. We develop action art, tactics, and cultural strategy for social movements to speak precisely and powerfully to the public. We provide support and connective tissue for movements to unite around their shared visual identity–both internally and with the public. We believe that successful threats to power are found in vast collective expressions of discipline, joy, and trust–and the tools of art, design, media and storytelling are critical in cultivating that threat.

When we are invited to pull up seats to the strategy table, we bring a combined 20+ years of experience in movements for racial, economic and climate justice. We’ve cultivated our toolkit of analog and digital production skills to match the challenges we see movement groups face time and time again.

Our dream for Look Loud is to fill holes in the often messy work of confronting power. We know collective liberation will take much longer than our lifetime to complete, but we do our imperfect best to make the practices of that better world real between us today. It’s important to us to do cultural work in a way that stays flexible to the real constraints of our collaborations. We strive to stay unafraid of holding complexity. Let's work together.

The best way to get a sense of our work is on our Instagram! Here’s some recent posts. Be in touch with us at inbox@lookloud.org

Wage theft impacts workers in the US every day. Many employers get away with it because their workers are isolated from each other, but @SiembraNC is organizing Latine workers to fight back. They tell us that every time a worker has organized with S
A march is an opportunity to communicate to the public what you stand for, and how many people agree. The most powerful photo of a march will be taken from slight elevation so you can read the banner AND see the crowd. A ground level view makes your
The Revolution will be quilted These quilted banners were produced with @faithinindiana ‘s “Call for Care”- organizing for mental health crisis response systems outside the police. They’re built to be used on stage AND carri
*Shallow thoughts on Deep Learning* -holy wow this is so cool! -AI tools like Photoshop and Stable Diffusion have as much utility for revolutionaries as paint brushes and canvas. -The left has been hanging on to “low tech art” as &ldqu
Takes on AI portrait #1: Yes, I’m worried about what’s ahead for my portrait artist friends. I’ve watched my musician comrades go for day jobs, crushed by an industry under the thumb of Spotify. I’m worried about a lot of kin
Drawing mind-maps has always been a way I tried to figure things out. So when I was a new organizer, I started asking other people to help me chart complexity and contradiction as a way to untangle the world together, and it evolved into making poste
Some of my favorite illustrations from the last six years of movement organizing. Mostly commissions from climate and labor. The last three were a response to the kind of selfish panic and selfish patriotism that was being foisted on all of us, in th
Introducing the pollination sticker pack! This set of 10+ stickers draws from favorite designs from actions and campaigns this year.  With permission from our partners on each project, we’ve created this pollination pack to spread the dem
Most of us know the frustration and fear that comes when our private health insurer refuses to pay for health care. Private insurance companies deny more than 240 million claim or pre-authorization requests per year. Photos of #careovercost action:
Grinding out de-escalation props for @allvotingislocal PA. Visualizing the will of the people in the places and scenarios where MAGA Republicans most threaten to silence voters and advance their election overthrow plots. Whatever happens next: PA is
Demonstrators from across Pennsylvania rallied on the capital steps this week, to protect abortion freedom and reproductive healthcare. The republican controlled PA legislature is passing a constitutional amendment to end the right to an abortion in
Getting ready for Occupy Park Avenue---You may not see the dozens of people of all ages that flowed through this weekend's art build + action training, but you will see them on the ritziest streets in town, calling out corporate greed and climate fin
Last week people of many faiths came together in prayer in the headquarters of Blackrock. 27 faith leaders were arrested, praying for climate Justice and an end to Blackrock’s financing of fossil fuel extraction. It is not enough for people of
Organizers at Firelands said: In our work, sometimes it’s hard for our people to imagine that things could be different, or better. Honestly this feels like the biggest inhibitor to us building the power we need to demand change. …But
Last month with Firelands WA, we spun popular education metaphors into carnival games for organizing block parties. Through a group visioning process with member leaders and staff, we created Solidarity Fishing!Working Class Futbol! Remember the Fu
Making organizing visible with our friends at Firelands: We started with a series of conversations that drew out what Firelands looks like: the colors, shapes, fonts, slogans. …and then we made it real! A big banner for parades and tabling
Swag is the stuff that helps us own our story- it can be so much more than just a logo on a laptop, when done right it helps us see who we are. This spring our friends at Firelands asked for help designing swag- and here’s what we designed, al
In August, we traveled to Washington State to work with our new friends at Firelands: multi-racial working class organizing to rebuild timber country for all of us. After months of visioning and designing swag together online, it could not have been
Todays training experiment, in miniature! Struggling to keep your signs to 4 words or less? Consider emphasizing a few words that get the point across. This is an easy way to make a long or difficult message easier to read. Notice how “Power,
Last week, we gatthered with young people organizing to defend democracy from across the state of Ohio. We skilled up on art production, banner drop tactics + visual storytelling . Fair maps are a missing key to unlock abortion access, racial justice