The Beehive Collective‘s wonderfully complex posters have been in circulation for a decade, and to celebrate, they’re publishing their full body of work. Some of these posters have been out of print for years and others have yet to be seen.
Their work offers the full scope of complicated social and political issues; Beehive designs storytelling objects that spin tales of resistance and movement without minimizing the issues they take up. They source their material from real struggles, through direct contact with, and participation in social movements. The intricacy of these movements is mirrored in their illustrations: multi-layered pen and ink drawings that they offer to the public for educational purposes. Beehive carefully considers how their images function in the world, and their creations follow certain criteria that they hope will characterize the work’s social life: they avoid literal human depictions, ensure that the images are cross-culturally legible, and aim to avoid cultural appropriation.
Now, ten years deep in a voluntary, collective, and embedded process, they’re in need of some support. They’ve set a goal to raise $5,000 in order to print the run of posters promised above. Please contribute!
Disclosure: Beehive is from the same state I hail from, their work has been around and present in my life for as long as I’ve been politically active, and they are friends of dear friends.
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