photo: Joe Brusky
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 who primarily collaborates with the National Education Association (NEA) - the largest union in the country with an estimated membership of over 2.7 million members.
Lampert is also the volunteer art organizer with Voces de la Frontera - Wisconsin’s largest immigrant rights organization. He first began collaborating with Voces in 2015 and helped form the Voces de los Artistas (VDLA) art affinity group within Voces in 2016. Lampert established a rapid response art space at the Voces building in Milwaukee in 2024. He co-organizes art builds for Voces, curates the art within the Voces building, and co-organizes the Voces de la Frontera archive through the UWM Libraries and Booklyn.
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
Artists books: Co2 Flags available via Booklyn. Radical Pennants available via Booklyn
Other boxsets and portfolios by Justseeds, VDLA and IVAW available via Booklyn