🎉 We're excited to present: School is For You! — a trilingual booklet for young immigrants that explains their school options in NYC: High School; High School Equivalency (HSE); and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). Celebrate this new resource with us on May 6th at 4:30pm, at 555 Broome Street!
👉 Created in collaboration with CUP (@welcometocup ) and design duo Shireen Mathews (@cauliflowerfields ) and Tara Tabassi (@taratabassi ).
📚 The booklet encourages young immigrants to assert their rights when Family Welcome Center or school staff tries to discourage them from enrolling in High School. It includes six perforated cards that they can tear out and bring with them to help them assert their rights.
🔗 Get your copy from The Door, and check out the digital version via the link in bio. #DoorNYC #LegalServices #CUP #Resources #NYCyouth
So excited to be working with Shireen again as a 🎨Design Team for CUP’s Making Policy Public — we’re partnering with The Door to create popular education materials for immigrants aged 18-21 arriving in NYC to understand their right to enroll in the NYC public school system! It’s a really shit week in the world, but this project with @door_nyc and @welcometocup and Shireenjaaaan makes my heart warmer 💕
Yahooo!!!!👾 My illustration got chosen to be in the ✨Dignity for All✨ collection of the @thegreats.co launched by @miamiworkerscenter and @fineacts ! Im feeling real proud to be in a collection of housing justice and worker rights movement posters made by artists around the world — the collection is FREE to be used and adapted non-commercially by activists everywhere! Big love and thanks for including me in this project! 💖
🎨: The other artists featured here are Tsveta Pesheva (@fourth.kid ), Preeti Singh (@preeeti____ ), Olivia Bulanda (@oliwiabulanda_art ), Susie Oh (@susieoh.art ) 🌸💖🌸
📸: Illustration is based on a photo by @met_council and @housingjustice4all of a housing protest in New York City on June 14th 2018, featuring the Rude Mechanical Orchestra 🎺
On May 1, 2020, tenant leaders in Manhattan’s Chinatown signaled their intention to go on rent strike by hanging this banner outside their building on Bowery Street. In those earliest weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in NYC, tenants were facing widespread fear and death, industry shutdowns and unsafe working conditions. They hoped that their rent strike would help secure housing for them and other New Yorkers throughout the crisis, regardless of ability to pay.
I based this illustration very tightly on a photo taken by Liz Moy of CAAAV. The banners hanging were painted by brilliant housing justice organizer Melanie Wang in a room by herself (cuz COVID early days) on a particularly rainy New York day. Thank you Mel for providing all this amazing backstory and for all your work for housing justice ✨
We are connected with nature. Because we are nature ✨ Imagine how the world could be if we lived from that reality.
I’ve been having SO much fun designing and screenprinting all the merch for @terrastoryteller ’s show Standing on the Miraculous Field about nature farming! 👨🏻🌾 This merch is based mostly on a 360 degree photograph Terra took of Akame, an amazing Nature Farming school in Japan plus some fun stuff like the orange in the middle, since the whole show is centred around an orange tree! 🍊 And thank you to @slowme_nagoya for showing us how to screen print for the first time ♥️
Check out @standingonthemiraculousfield for more info on Terra’s upcoming performance this Saturday. You can watch his amazing show in Den Haag’s cozy Spinozahof greenhouse, while eating soup, aaaaaand pick up one of these T-shirts to support the show! That’s a pretty cute Saturday night 🌌🍜
Latest design project at Right to the City with my work bestie, the talented Shireen Mathews who taught me so much about how to tackle a massive design project (117 pages 👀) like this!! I’m legit so proud of this Language Justice Toolkit for Organizers, written by the fabulous and genius Trilce Santana!! ♥️ This toolkit is an epic contribution to U.S social justice movements detailing how to do better at creating multilingual spaces — and Im super proud to have been on this team making Trilce’s vision come to life ✨ Mobarak Trilce!!! 🔥
🎨 Scroll through for screenshots of the pages of the toolkit with my illustrations on them, please download and read the full toolkit for free at link in @ourcityrttc bio!
More art: this time about farming!! 🌿 Designed a show flyer for the ever fabulous Storyteller & Nature Farmer Terra Norihiro Terazawa’s latest piece “Standing on the Miraculous Field”. The show is about nature and human nature — ANNND is premiering this weekend at Mezrab in Amsterdam! Tickets at link in bio @terrastoryteller 👩🏻🌾🌱
✨🌱 Norooz Pirooz! !نوروز پيروز 🌷✨ first year my sabzeh isn’t a moldy pile of lentils. inshallz this bodes well for the year ahead. wishing everyone a thousand blessings this year — may we know justice + peace in our lifetime.
Look what finally came! ❄️ I designed lil’ postcards for Right to the City that went out for the winter holidays and my coworker sent me a pile of extras! There’s nothing like holding your art in your hand, especially in these digital lives of ours 🫶🏻 Illustration based on a photograph from a 2019 Met Council on Housing @met_council and Housing Justice for All @housingjustice4all protest in NYC!
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“All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
is Change.
God
is Change.”
✨Octavia E. Butler
This year taught me a lot about change. And as I go into a new year, I’ve never been more grateful to be alive, ‘cause on the other side of each change is a whole lot of wondrous life 🪷 Thank you to the bees and the flowers, the wind and the sea, the sweet one who surprised me with a fabulous birthday massage in a dandelion field, to my family, friends and community, for getting me to 37 and holding my hand in these apocalyptic bitter beautiful times. I love you, I love life, and — shit, it took this many years — I’m learning to love myself too 🪺
🖋ART SALE✒️
✨Three Nastaliq/Persian calligraphy on vintage NY windows for sale in Harlem, made by me! Can be purchased individually or together. Includes mounting pieces. Windows collected across Queens and Brooklyn as buildings were getting renovated in gentrifying neighbourhoods like West Harlem. DM me for pricing.
✨These are definitely words you wanna hang on your wall and live by! From left to right:
✨Just One Breath poem by Omar Khayyam as penned by @jhajheri :
“From the house of ignorance,
to the realm of faith,
is one breath
From the world of all doubts,
to the realm of peace and certainty,
there is only one breath.
Take joy in this one sweet breath,
Because this lifetime of ours
is just one breath.”
Size: 26x44
✨“Since you exist, be happy/enjoy!” by Omar Khayyam
Size: 33x24
✨“This too shall pass” — a favourite saying of my late father Khosrow Tabassi
Size: 38x31
