Episode 07: Arts organizers David Solnit & Gemma Searle

Bay Area arts organizers David Solnit and Gemma Searle with the Climate Justice Arts Project share their process for making giant murals, banners, puppets, screen printed patches and posters, and projections for the movement. 

We trace David’s decades long direct-action organizing and art-making history from anti-war and anti-nuke organizing to migrant farmworkers to he and Gemma’s current collaborations with communities on the frontlines of climate chaos and in support for mobilizations in the street for a Free Palestine. Gemma also gives me a quick screen printing tutorial and shares her work to make an accessible arts lending library and archive movement history through preserving movement art. 

Find David on IG at @DavidSolnit. Find Gemma at an art build! 

The art making kits referenced in this episode can be found at:

• bit.ly/arttoendfossilfuels
• bit.ly/ceasefireart

You can find David’s books at:

• http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100654030
• https://couragetoresist.org/army-of-none-the-book/
• https://www.akpress.org/battleofseattleakpress.html