Bio

Nicolas Lampert is a Milwaukee-based interdisciplinary artist and author whose work focuses on themes of social justice and ecology. His artwork is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Library of Congress, and over sixty archives and special collections across the world. Collectively, he works with the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative - a worker-owned printmaking cooperative of over forty artists in North America that formed in 2007. He also works with the Art Build Workers - a group of six artists, designers, photographers and educators who are based in Milwaukee and who work locally and travel around the country organizing multi-day art builds that help unions, organizations and movements amplify their messages through visual art, media, and archiving. The Art Build Workers primarily collaborates with the National Education Association (NEA) that is the largest union in the country with an estimated membership of over 2.7 million members. Lampert is also an art organizer with Voces de la Frontera - Wisconsin’s largest immigrant rights organization. His first book A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements was published by The New Press in 2013 and is part of the People’s History Series edited by Howard Zinn. Lampert is the area head for the Community Arts program in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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Prints by Nicolas Lampert available via Justseeds

(Boxset) A Decade of Activist Art by Nicolas Lampert available via Booklyn

Other boxsets and portfolios by Justseeds, VDLA and IVAW available via Booklyn

link to talk at the U of A Museum of Art with Chip Thomas