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💗Thank you to everyone who came out to see us as Print Bazaar last weekend! So far we’ve raised over $800 for Gaza mutual aid. We still have second editions of Saj Issa and Kiki Salem’s broadsides available for purchase, with all proceeds being donated. Check out those prints and others on our website at PSA-STL.org/shop! ~much love~

It’s that time again for the Cherokee Print Bazaar! Come see us this Saturday, December 6th from 11am-6pm. We’ll be kickin it at the Luminary, inside INDEX on the corner of Cherokee Street and Ohio Ave. — This year, along with our usual broadsides and postcards, we’ll also have a second edition of Kiki Salem’s sold out broadside, as well as a second edition of Saj Issa’s broadside! All profits from those sales will be donated to Gazan relief efforts ❤️ — Looking forward to seeing everyone out there! ~much love~ #cherokeeprintbazaar #riso #risograph

‼️DATE CHANGE‼️ ✨ Curated by CURIOSITY is our monthly series celebrating the creative spirit of St. Louis. This month we welcome PSA: with artists Marina Peng and Shannon Levin. 📢 PSA: gives underrepresented artists, writers, and poets a platform to challenge ideas of “public good” and share the voices we all need to hear. Join us for an evening of art, conversation, and connection — in a relaxed happy hour atmosphere. 🍷 📍 CURIOSITY BUILDING 🗓️ Tuesday, Sept. 30 5p RSVP in link in profile #STLorg #CuratedByCuriosity #STLArts

✨We’ve got new postcards for y’all! These 4x6 riso prints of Jacqui Germain’s second PSA: installation are now available on our website, PSA-STL.org/shop. Come and get em ~

A past PSA: has taken on new life! We’re thrilled to share that “No Other Gods” by Maurice L. Tracy, originally installed in 2021, has been reprised for the Stanley Museum of Art in Iowa as part of their exhibition “it’s a fine thing.” Curated by the wonderful Katherine Simóne Reynolds, it’s a fine thing explores themes of erasure, community, and the complex relationship between Black Midwesterners and the land. The exhibition will be on view through July 20th.

Jacqui Germain has a question for y’all. Now on view at MaTovu in Botanical Heights. — From Jacqui: Do you know what you believe in, what kind of world we all deserve? Have you told anyone? Well-meaning as we are, I wonder often about the way language can so easily become a substitute for an embodied commitment. We update our vocabulary, reach for more politicized words, adopt new terms, and self-righteously signal the urgency and rigor we have yet to cultivate in our own actions. And of course, the language is accurate. The stakes are, in fact, as high as terms like “settler colonialism” and “fascism” and “ecological collapse” would suggest. But then what kind of responsibility do we have to the language we use, if we dare to wield it honestly, with full conviction? The distance between what we believe and how we fight for it isn’t entirely our fault. We’ve been stripped of the resources and agency to build, shape, and live fully dignified lives ourselves, much less build and sustain that degree of collective self-determination across borders, for all of us, together. Such is the nature of late-stage capitalism and imperialism and all of their brazen barbarisms. But how disempowered are we that our political vision for ourselves and for each other seems relegated to a landscape of belief and faith so far removed from our material reality? How often are our words braver than we are? We can believe all sorts of big, life-affirming things. We shout our commitments to the sky when we’re in a big enough crowd and whisper our riskiest faiths to each other in small, trusted circles. We can believe and believe and believe—and for what? Does it matter what you believe in if you won’t fight for it to be true? Who are you brave enough to become in order to first engage in, and then win, that fight? May our love be brave enough to demand more. We cannot build a better world without becoming braver people. Is it not our responsibility to ourselves and to each other, to become brave enough to win? - #publicart #publicartinstallation

✨We’re back with our fourth and final installment of our Questions series at MaTovu. For this piece, we’re coming full-circle by inviting Jacqui Germain to be our final contributor. If you’ve been following this project for a minute, you’ll remember that Jacqui was our inaugural contributor back when we launched PSA: in 2019. Her piece, “MAY OUR LOVE BE TENDER BUT WITH TEETH,” established a tone for this project that influenced installations to follow. Now, we’re asking Jacqui to leave our community with a question to consider. Stay tuned for more… — Jacqui Germain is a poet and journalist living and working in St. Louis, Missouri. Her first full-length poetry collection, Bittering the Wound (Autumn House Press, 2022), was selected for the 2021 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize, and awarded the 2024 Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University. As a journalist, her original reporting, essays, and profiles have been published in Teen Vogue, In These Times Magazine, The New York Times, The Nation, The Guardian, Artsy, and more. She has received fellowships from the Economic Security Project, St. Louis Regional Arts Commission, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and Jack Jones Literary Arts. Germain is also author of the poetry chapbook, When the Ghosts Came Ashore (Button Poetry, 2016), and has had poems published in The Offing, Poem-A-Day, The Rumpus, Bettering American Poetry, Muzzle Magazine, River Styx, The St. Louisan, and elsewhere.

✨Our newest broadside is in!✨🇵🇸 ❤️Commemorating Saj Issa’s installation “Your Refuge” at the Luminary, these 11x17” riso prints are now available on our website, and will make their debut appearance at the Cherokee Print Bazaar tomorrow, December 7th 🌷 — 📍PSA: will be tabling on the first floor of the Golden Record from 11am-6pm. We’ll have plenty of past prints as well as new ones too. Come say hi 👋! #freepalestine 🖨 @sfxprint #cherokeeprintbazaar #risograph #riso

😈New postcards are in! These riso prints commemorating Diya Abbas’ installation “Complicity & Witness” will be available THIS SATURDAY at the annual Cherokee Print Bazaar 💫 (and on our website too). All profits from Diya’s postcards will be donated to @mizna_arabart , a contemporary arts org promoting Arab/SWANA lit, film, & art, and who’s working on compiling a Folio publication focusing on writers living in Gaza. - 📍PSA: will be tabling on the first floor of the Golden Record from 11am-6pm. We’ll have plenty of past prints as well as new ones too. Come say hi 👋! 🖨 @sfxprint #cherokeeprintbazaar #risograph #riso

This is the last week to visit “Complicity & Witness” by Diya Abbas, on view outside MaTovu! Stay tuned for the release of Diya’s commemorative postcards, coming real soon 👀

Postcards are in for Kentaro Kumanomido’s installation, “Regarding Redemption!”These are sold in packs of 4, intended to be kept, gifted, mailed, or traded. 🔗 Available now on our website, PSA-stl.org (link in bio!) 50% of profits will be donated to @empower.missouri , an organization working to secure basic human needs and equal justice for Missourians through coalition-building and advocacy. 🖨 Risograph printed in LA by @sfxprint

“Complicity & Witness” posed by Diya Abbas is now on view at MaTovu. — On their question, Diya writes: Surviving capitalism means being a gear in the machine of empire. “Getting through”, barely paying rent, counting dollars at the grocery store, no matter how grueling these modes of survival, directly fund the imperialism machine to annihilate communities and cultures abroad. What distinguishes the value of our life from theirs besides position? Every day all I can do is live in this hex. The least we can do is be aware of this consciousness. The fabric of our minds is also a weapon. Lies and misinformation skew reality. What reality do you choose?  — #installation #installationart #poet