20th Annual Allied Media Conference

Thea Gahr is a queer bilingual printmaker and educator who works both in Oregon and Mexico City. She is a member of the Justseeds artists’ cooperative and has worked collectively with Colectivo Cordyceps, Escuela de Cultura Popular Martires del 68, and the workshop that led to the formation of Mujeres Grabado Resistencia, which continues to inspire women`s rights movements around the world. Through teaching young people, building community, printmaking, and farming across cultures, she strives to empower ideas of social and environmental justice., Justseeds Artist Cooperative

Mary Tremonte is an artist, educator, and DJ based in Toronto via Pittsburgh. A founding member of Justseeds Artists` Cooperative, she works with "printmaking in the expanded field," including printstallation, interactive silkscreen printing in public space, and wearable artist multiples such as queer scout badges. As DJ Mary Mack she strives to make safe(r) spaces on dance floors for embodying a body politic with pleasure. With Justseeds and independently Mary has exhibited, presented lectures and workshops, and performed in Toronto, Pittsburgh, throughout the United States, and internationally. Formerly the youth programs coordinator at The Andy Warhol Museum, she values art education as a means of youth empowerment and social change. Through her work she aims to create temporary utopias and sustainable commons through pedagogy, collaboration, visual pleasure and serious fun., Justseeds Artist's Cooperative