ISBN 978-1-4357-7113-0
Edited by Alice Embree and Carlos Lowry
New Journalism Project Publishing is proud to announce the publication of Collected Art of Solidarity: Austin, Texas, 1974-89. This 96-page book features color reproductions of posters and leaflets that highlight the diversity of activism in Austin, Texas in the 1970s.
Austin, Texas was a hotbed of progressive organizing in the 1970s. Women, lesbians, and gays targeted sexism and homophobia and created new organizations and alternative institutions. The Brown Berets organized against police violence, the Town Lake boat races, and gentrification of vibrant East Side neighborhoods. The Austin Committee for Human Rights in Chile defended human rights in that country, exposed the horrors of the military dictatorship, and protested U.S. complicity with the Chilean coup.
The editors felt fortunate to have participated in much of this insurgency, as printers and designers of leaflets and posters. Fly By Night Printing Collective, and its later incarnation, Red River Women’s Press, allowed us to spread messages of solidarity with printed material and colorful silk-screened posters that marked major events. The union bug of Red River Women’s Press is visible on much of this work. Other artists contributed their talents and are credited in the captions for this collection.
This is not a comprehensive collection of artwork. It is gathered from material the editors have collected, leaflets and posters we had a hand in creating. Some of this material has an archival home with the University of Texas Briscoe Center for American History.