https://www.nicolaslampert.org/art daily 1.0 2026-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1596414357934-VD2Q0D01W5SLRDQN28L8/p19mdmj8cb4mp841jv8djqkfh3.jpg Art R*dskins re-design / Nicolas Lampert / June 2014 The blatantly offensive Washington R*dskins name is going to be history sooner rather than later. (EDIT: THE NAME WAS FINALY DROPPED IN JULY 2020) The question is what will replace it? Will it be safe and sanitized? The Warriors? Hogs? Pigskins? Or is there an opportunity for something much more interesting? Could a name and uniform design be more challenging and act as teaching tools, where social justice could be at the forefront of the concept? I gave myself the design challenge of coming up with eight different team names and designing corresponding helmets over a two-week span. I also wrote up pros and cons for each option. Washington Sovereignty Team Name/Helmet Concept: Brings attention to Native sovereignty rights. Helmet Design: Turtle Island graphic on both sides. Two Row wampum belt as the center stripe. Pros: Name and imagery would act as a teaching tool. Turtle Island is the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) name and oral history for how the North American continent was formed – on the back of a giant turtle. The Two Row Belt is a wampum belt that the Mohawk first gave to the Dutch in 1613 (and later to the English, French, and Americans) that represents the separate and equal coexistence of Native and non-Native peoples, two distinct people sharing the same continent. It’s a treaty that the Haudenosaunee view as permanent. Cons: Reduces Native peoples, cultures, and history to a mascot despite the name attempting to be respectful. Sovereignty might be confused with the Revolutionary War and U.S. sovereignty from the British. Imagery focuses too much on the Haudenosaunee. Probability of Name (0-10): 0.1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1600877269716-3I56NOSZMBSICZCXSK0W/Kaep+2.jpg Art - Celebrate Colin Kaepernick Celebrate Colin Kaepernick and all athletes who speak out for justice. Kaepernick shirt available via Bonfire with a full range of color, styles and sizes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1596164390199-0EVF487MB8LJN1WND3PQ/image-asset.jpeg Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1596166091111-LJD20U66H3DOA11AI89F/700x0-5_p19ou21njcun41fj1km1fsnjbhe.jpg Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1596468849327-Y2SCAQ6YIO69MX4IZ58W/image-asset.jpeg Art - Justseeds Artists' Cooperative: 2007-present http://www.justseeds.org/ Aaron Hughes, Alec Dunn, Andrea Narno, Bec Young, Chip Thomas, Chris Stain, Christeen Francis, Colin Matthes, Dylan A.T. Miner, Eric Garcia, Erik Ruin, Favianna Rodriguez, Fernando Marti, Jesse Purcell, Jessica Sabogal, Jess X. Snow, Jesus Barraza, Josh MacPhee, Kevin Caplicki, Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, Joy, Kristine Virsis, Lesly Yobany Mendoza, Mary Tremonte, Mazatl, Melanie Cervantes, Meredith Stern, Molly Fair, Monica Trinidad, Nicolas Lampert, Nicole Marroquin, Paul Kjelland, Pete Railand, Roger Peet, Saiyare Refaei, Sanya Hyland, Sarah Farahat, Shaun Slifer, Thea Gahr, William Estrada, Zola Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized network of 40-plus artists committed to making print and design work that reflects a radical social, environmental, and political stance. With members working from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Justseeds operates both as a unified collaboration of similarly minded printmakers and as a loose collection of creative individuals with unique viewpoints and working methods. We believe in the transformative power of personal expression in concert with collective action. To this end, we produce collective portfolios, contribute graphics to grassroots struggles for justice, work collaboratively both in- and outside the co-op, build large sculptural installations in galleries, and wheatpaste on the streets – all while offering each other daily support as allies and friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1596426966946-B8QFGB7085LYE8SENJAV/700x0-5_p19ouadfri12fm176m1ak0j76jm33.jpg Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1596658766085-UMDC5318ZIUPD13QCBMA/IMG_9775.jpg Art - Farm table. Hard Maple top. Base: Reclaimed Wisconsin barn wood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1596165820818-N7LTF7GJVJ9SOLK6BAHG/700x0-5_p19oubhvn319t1u58134id8b1egfh.jpg Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1596466875724-WV51G40KJJHNGLF9YPU1/p19mbgip5n1jusl6n14c91m0b1e4q7.jpg Art - Locust Tank, Museum of Modern Art, NY, Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities exhibition, 2008 Exhibition website here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1596166378336-AEAWILH3I8OJHRZ2VYWA/700x0-5_p19oucb5jj1esk1oqm10dmfc4a5j7.jpg Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1717298165712-DPI4AQT5IRXN57JKJ0FJ/1+Carbon+flag_US+1_ver+2_12.5_19_color.jpg Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1596165637927-8OT36CULTJN9IJHIVVL7/700x0-5_p1cb5oiuq6bpb37ffavm2d11vt3.jpg Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1596165434977-WEX3GGG697ZP8G5HD6TX/p1bi9hepnv1o221eth1mto10h41m843.jpg Art - Greetings from Portland, Oregon: Where We Block Oil Ships Nicolas Lampert, 2016. available via Booklyn. Publication Date: January 2016 Artwork type: Editioned book Medium: monoprint, photo Dimensions: 9.5 in W x 7.0 in H x 0.75 in D Binding Type: accordion Edition Size: 15 Price: USD 800.00 available through Booklyn On July 29, 2015 thirteen Greenpeace activists suspended themselves from the St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregon - preventing a Royal Dutch Shell icebreaker ship - The Fennica - from leaving Portland for Arctic Waters. Gathered on the banks of the Willamette River in Cathedral Park were hundereds of supporters - including Nicolas Lampert taking photos from dusk to nightfall. In the water were "kyactivists" - representing the community and local environmental groups, including Portland Rising Tide and 350.org Portland. After preventing The Fennica from passing through for thirty-nine hours, the police removed a number of the climbers, allowing the ship to sail west to Astoria and then north to the Arctic.

Disappointment to The Fennica passing through the "blockadia" was tempered when two months later, in September, Shell Oil announced that it had abandoned plans for the season to drill in the Arctic, citing widespread public opposition, dangerous conditions, and smaller oil and gas reserves than expected. On a larger scale, the Portland action represented one action out of many in the global climate justice movement and the call to shift the energy sector to 100% renewables. 

Greetings from Portland is a handmade book consisting of sixteen unique images of the action, each a citrus solve transfer of an original photo or digital print that references the look of postcards. Institutional Collectors: Reed College, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Special Collections, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, Bucknell University, University of Michigan, Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh, University of Southern California (USC) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1596428330141-W4IBWRX3LS1GKOFN9DZZ/red-for-ed-parachutes_v2-1.jpg Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1596165957922-IPTYFT8HG8SHLI9TG8OL/700x0-5_p19oual51oah9csetv19o11btn7.jpg Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1596325475421-A5B6X5R7SFJAYH1TBWUZ/700x0-5_p1bhvm04p714jh453o4o4j6fq6f.jpg Art - Water is Life Water is Life. Image was screen printed at the Oceti Sakowin camp at Standing Rock in the Summer and Fall of 2016 as patches for the water protectors. The image is based on an original photograph by Ossie Michelin of Amanda Polchies – a Mi’kmaq land and water defender peacefully standing up to the shale gas company SWN and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police near the Elsipogtog First Nation in New Brunswick, Canada in 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1767562228954-ZXE76WQTEIXX3W9N0YW0/IMG_6496.jpeg Art screenprinting in the Voces tent during NO KINGS demo, Milwaukee https://www.nicolaslampert.org/gipfel daily 0.75 2020-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456778703932-MRB0MCWXS595MOJCHGJA/65.jpg Gipfel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456778343214-6EXQ3R8UIDEWLZZQ3UYP/65.jpg Gipfel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456778401911-NT5IA88VG1GTQ9Q9RLL9/66.jpg Gipfel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456849773022-QZ1PXXQ7SKUNRLKY766U/67.jpg Gipfel https://www.nicolaslampert.org/contact daily 0.75 2020-07-31 https://www.nicolaslampert.org/writing daily 0.75 2021-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1596401343224-98TQ2N1FKMGN4NLR49CA/p19m9r8e4l1j5m1kte11e15rc1lfi3.jpg Writing https://www.nicolaslampert.org/bio daily 0.75 2025-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f237817c439ce267d32e6da/1596334569671-TQTBD79SNQIKK79XQDLC/OEA_Brusky_10.jpg Bio photo: Joe Brusky