Pound the Pavement #18: God Bless Graffiti

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Pound the Pavement #18: God Bless Graffiti

$10.00

Daniel Tucker
Josh MacPhee

Art & Culture / Abolition / Urban Studies / Partner Publisher

A new 2026 reprint of this zine originally published in 2018, slightly redesigned, some corrections, and better printing!

This issue of Pound the Pavement is a look back on—and documentation of—the God Bless Graffiti Coalition project. The God Bless Graffiti Coalition was a short lived public art project conceptualized by Josh MacPhee and Daniel Tucker, and actualized by an international network of graffiti writers, street artists, and sympathizers in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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Published: March 2018
Format: 4-color risograph printed publication
Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
Page count: 24

2nd printing/edition of 350 copies

  • Josh MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn, NY. MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Strike While the Needle is Hot: A Discography of Workers’ Militancy, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, and Graphic Liberation: Image Making and Political Movements. He has organized the Celebrate People's History poster series since 1998 and has contributed to the art and culture of the campaigns of dozens of community organizations and unions.

 
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