Beehive Design Collective
To cross-pollinate the grassroots, by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools.
Ongoing touring and distribution of graphics campaigns (on biotechnology, the Free Trade Area of the Americas, Plan Colombia, and Plan Puebla Panama). Two buildings in Maine which host cultural and educational events and provide living and studio space for collective members and artists-in-residence. Stone mosaic apprenticeships.
Location(s)
We are rooted in rural Eastern Maine, but are a very decentralized swarm. There are usually six backbone bees at any given time, with a current count of twenty eight total, and many other autonomous pollinators scattered throughout the Americas (and in Europe) that have small pieces of the Beehive_s work integrated into their own individual activist efforts... and countless other folks functioning as individual researchers and storytellers. At this point in our evolution, our organism is entirely volunteer run. No one gets paid, but some folks that have been more involved occasionally have their expenses of room and board covered by the projects they are dedicated to. We have no queen, and make decisions by modified consensus process. The priorities for our work are set by the requests we receive from collaborators, audiences, and our advisory bees... aiming to stay flexible and organic enough to respond to current events, and mass-pollination opportunities. We present to many colleges, universities, high schools, conferences, community centers, and protests/mobilizations. We are constantly seeking to reach new audiences, but our need to fundraise through touring sometimes limits the number of presentations we can do for free or in more out of the way places. We hope that those who come to our talks can continue the cross-pollination and expand the reach of this work by taking the graphics other places.
Workshop/training session, tabling
