Counterculture Materialized: Work and the “Outlaw Builder”
This essay examines how hippies, in their guise as outlaw builders, radically redefined work.
How Poster Art of the “Long 1960s” Fueled International Solidarity
In the mid-1960s political posters began a renaissance.4 In the United States, one transformative moment happened when the San Francisco Mime Troupe (pronounced “meem,” an homage to Greek and Roman exaggerated theater—they were not silent) was arrested in 1965 for deliberately performing “obscenity” in public.5 Their new publicist, Bill Graham, mounted an enormously successful defense benefit that would launch his career as a rock music impresario. Promotional art for those early concerts was wild, innovative, affordable, and hugely popular.6 At the same time, artists in countries such as Poland, Mexico, and Cuba were experimenting with this powerful medium, and much of it targeted to young people. By the late 1960s posters would never be the same.
Wet Plate Collodion Tintypes
A celebration of Lane County artists and artisans through traditional wet plate collodion tintype portraits. Excerpted with permission from katephoto.com.
Bioregional Movements: A Story from Many Voices
Bioregionalism is a philosophy and idea that has been the dominant way that communities have existed around the planet for thousands of years. In western thought, bioregional movements, and the term bioregion can be traced back for more than four decades, rooted from naturalists like Aldo Leopold, and different strains of spiritualism, romanticism, anarchism, feminism, regional geography dating back to the 19th and 20th centuries.
Back to the Land Project #10
Presenting the CHC, its members, our partners and an article on Bioregional Movements.