By Publishers Weekly
December 2026
Gallery director Tedford debuts with a colorful “people’s history archive” of leftist political sticker art. She begins at the dawn of the 20th century, as the Industrial Workers of the World promoted union action with red-and-black “stickerettes” stamped with catchy slogans. In later decades, antiwar protestors sold stickers mocking Nixon, volunteer graphic designers conceived the Silence=Death pink triangle logo for ACT UP, and feminist group SisterSerpents created stickers with direct, sometimes humorous slogans to fight misogyny (“Actually, women are not this stupid”). Also included are illuminating essays from the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers’ Collective, which produced “This Phone Is Tapped” stickers in response to the 2001 Patriot Act; Egyptian artist Ganzeer, who was arrested for posting protest stickers during his country’s 2011 revolution; and Kiara Welsch, who explains how the German radical left-wing youth group Linksjugend [’solid] designs its grassroots art to address everything from ableism to climate change. The result is an eclectic survey of an ingenious and ever-evolving form of political art. (Dec.)
