Print Jam 2025:
Solidarity Is Our Strength

To be honest, there was a frustrating sense of déjà vu when Pickwick’s Print Jam 2025 Design Committee first met in April. We wanted to continue Pickwick’s tradition of carving a block with a social justice message, but looking back at our past designs (especially our first block from 2017) was causing an emotional collision of urgency and burn out.

Something we were interested in trying to capture in the 2025 block was duality and layers. Dark and light; rough and delicate; progress and setback. The dumpster fire is real… and there is also good (and beauty) here right now. We wanted a reminder that there has always been, and will continue to be, power in printmaking.

Posters referenced in our 2025 Print Jam design

Votes for Women
Cover of The Suffragist, official weekly newspaper of Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Vol. 1, No. 2.  November 22, 1913.

I Am A Man
Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike, February 12, 1968.

Atelier Popular
The Atelier Populaire occupied the École des Beaux-Arts where they designed and printed posters in support of unsanctioned strikes. Paris, France, May 1968.

Silence=Death
Created by the American artist Avram Finkelstein and the Silence=Death Collective, 1986. Designed as an urgent response to the AIDS epidemic and ensuing political fallout of the time.

War is Not Healthy for Children or Other Living Things
Lorraine Schneider, 1967. Schneider donated the use of her illustration, titled Primer, to Another Mother for Peace, a grass-roots anti-war advocacy group founded in 1967 in opposition to the U.S. war in Vietnam.

Free Palestine
Kristina Buckley, October 2023. Printed at Pickwick Independent Press. Free download here.

Inspiration pulled from around the studio