Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio

Ricardo Levins Morales image showing the slogan 8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest, 8 hours for what we will, across images of a worker, a person sleeping, and people on a rowboat reading the newspaper.

I’ve taken to echoing Robert Owen & so many in labor history.

And if life is "Eight hours' labour, Eight hours' recreation, Eight hours' rest" and education only focuses on labor, we have left behind as irrelevant the vast majority of human life & thriving.

To our cost.

The Young Lords Speak

Upcoming book on the Chicago Young Lords from @haymarketbooks.org. Twin Cities folks who know @rlmartstudio.bsky.social may have heard him tell the story of his involvement with them as a teenager, including selling their newspaper. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2601-t...

This poster is a popular print for the sisters, mothers, daughters and other women in your life.  It shows a crowd of women, diverse but sharing a common bond.

Link to poster here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/sist...

Blue background stretches above plans whose roots can be seen under the surface of the dirt above it. A red heart sits in the center, tangled in roots. Plants on the left have bright green leaves, its red flowers are shaped like fists. To the left of this image black text reads "Only good-will resistance in the end is capable of overcoming injustice". Below this "Bayard Rustin, 1948" is written in brown text.

“Only good-will resistance, in the end, is capable of overcoming injustice.”
 Bayard Rustin 

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Women & Femme Wisdom Card Pack – Set of 12 – Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio Store This pack contains 12 notecards, each depicting women and femme wisdom, power and voices through inspiring original illustrations by social justice artist Ricardo Levins Morales. They include both…

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Image of a notecard pack in a brown box. Graphic on pack features text that reads "women & femme wisdom. Set of 12 notecards".

This pack contains 12 notecards, each depicting women and femme wisdom, power and voices through inspiring original illustrations. They include both words and portraits of notable women activists and revolutionaries, as well as images of the resilience and heart of women and femmes in our time.

A woodcut/scratchboard-style poster, in dark purple against a light lavendar background with white border, text and skintone/clothing. A femme figure with curly hair, dancing in a skipping step wearing a knee length skirt and short sleeved, v-neck top, is waving a long purple scarf or ribbon with the words "If I can't dance I don't want to be a part of your revolution! Emma Goldman." Circular ink strokes all around create the appearance of fast, whirling dancing.

“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be a part of your revolution.”
Emma Goldman

Poster here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/if-i...

This month we're slashing prices in half for select women-centered posters!

Browse all price reduced products here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product-cate...

What She Wants (Bread and Roses)- 11×15″ – Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio Store Feminist labor leader Rose Schneiderman helped to organize and lead the original sweatshop workers in the early 20th century. Her vision of self-worth for immigrant women inspired the International…

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“What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist – the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art.  You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.”

Book cover: THE LAND KNOWS THE WAY ECO-SOCIAL INSIGHTS FOR LIBERATION RICARDO LEVINS MORALES The picture is of one of Ricardo’s art pieces. A fist that includes the sky and grass and layers of soil and rocks and roots and deep river bed.

This is a @rlmartstudio.bsky.social appreciation post. 💜

Thank you for the talk today. A beloved neighbor gave me your book. I can’t wait to dive in!

May I strive to have “trickster” in my bio.

The @rlmartstudio.bsky.social calendar reminds us that today in 1973 over 200 Oglala Lakota and other AIM members seized the town of Wounded Knee.

No matter what the current administration wants you to believe, another world IS possible.

This poster will show you another detail every time you look at it.

Link to art: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/anot...

Blue background stretches above plans whose roots can be seen under the surface of the dirt above it. A red heart sits in the center, tangled in roots. Plants on the left have bright green leaves, its red flowers are shaped like fists. To the left of this image black text reads "Only good-will resistance in the end is capable of overcoming injustice". Below this "Bayard Rustin, 1948" is written in brown text.

“Only good-will resistance, in the end, is capable of overcoming injustice.”
 Bayard Rustin 

LInk here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/good...

4 Yellow buttons with maroon text spread out next to each other. White text on top and bottom of the image reads "Minnesota No ICE. Ricardo Levins Morales. RlmArtStudio.com". Maroon text on the golden buttons reads "Minnesota NoICE".

Minnesota nice means showing up for your community and keeping ice out! Buttons are a great way to show solidarity with our fellow Minneostans.

Link to button here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/minn... or by visiting our website RlmArtStudio.com by searching "Minnesota No Ice".

Image with a calendar page, calendar cover and text on top and bottom of the image. Text reads "The Ricardo Levins Morales 2026 Liberation Calendar. Now discounted to $11.95. RlmArtStudio.com". The calendar cover is green with a brown hand holding a blue compass. To the bottom left, a calendar is open to the April page.

We're in the second month of the new year now! Still haven't replaced that 2025 calendar? We've got you covered. The 2026 Liberation Calendar price has been lowered to $11.95!

Get your calendar here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/2026... or by visiting our website and searching "Calendar".

Multiple black buttons with red text stacked on top of each other. Text reads "Resist!"

A bold red button to show solidarity. We have the same design with multicolor text as well!

Button found directly here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/resi... or by visiting our website RlmArtStudio.com and searching "Resist".

It's been lovely to see the positive reaction from our newest sticker release! They're vinyl and can be stuck to cars, water bottles, phones, and wherever you'd like to spread the message! 🧊 Ice out!!!

Get your sticker here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/ice-...

Ricardo Levins Morales has written a lot about how even when you're voting for a socialist, even when you get to vote your values and you win, you're always choosing your opponent in negotiating. That there is no such thing as voting for someone who will uphold every virtue every time.

Poster by Ricardo Levins Morales of the sun shining down on a Brazilian favela and the quote from Dom Helder Camara: 'When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."

Still as true as it ever was...

Image of the artist, Ricardo Levins Morales, standing in an urban setting & opening his shirt to reveal a tropical, Caribbean scene of a house & palm trees (presumably Puerto Rico).

The quote: "If you give me a fish, you have fed me for a day. If you teach me to fish, then you have fed me until the river is contaminated or the shoreline seized for development. But if you teach me to organize then whatever the challenge I can join together with my peers and we will fashion our own solution." The quote is framed by a stream of water with a fish in it, ending in two hands clasping each other in solidarity.

Goddamn, but we all need more of this kind of art right now. Preach it, Ricardo Levins Morales!
@rlmartstudio.bsky.social

Here is a list of local Minneapolis stores that are selling anti-ICE merchandise with funds going directly back to the community. I'll add to it as I learn more:

-Moon Palace
- Mischief Toy Store
- Benchpressed
- Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio
- Toki Toki Tattoo
- Boneshaker
- The Smitten Kitten

What a cool deal!

Ricardo Levins Morales: "National media keeps misrepresenting the struggle here as a reaction to those killings. That's a false & dangerous narrative. It redirects attention from the reason Renee & Alex were in the streets to begin with – & the strength of that movement." mailchi.mp/rlmartstudio...

ricardo levins morales on sun spaces & moon spaces. sun spaces where the people are hold the power and movement and energy. moon spaces like the legislature draw their strength from sun spaces

source: www.rlmartstudio.com/moon-spaces/

Black and blue background. Yellow text in top center and bottom right reads "Celebrate black history month with art for justice. RlmArtStudio.com". In the center left white text reads "Order a black history poster pack and get a free liberation calendar!". On the bottom left, a cluster of brightly colored posters. Above and to the right, an image of a green Liberation Calendar.

This month to celebrate Black History Month, we're giving out free calendars with each purchase of a Black History Poster-Pack!

Get yours here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/blac... or by visiting our website RlmArtStudio.com and searching "Black History".

Blue background with transparent buttons that are covered by opaque buttons. Text on top and bottom of the image reads "Ice out of MN. Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio. 3260 Minnehaha Ave, MPLS, MN". Buttons featured in the center of the image have text that reads "Minnesota Nice", "geSTOPo ICE", "No ICe", "When we lose our fear, they lose their power", "don't deport the hand that feeds you...", and a blue compass.

Minnesotans are working hard to keep ice out of MN.
Due to a surge in demand, large button orders may take several days longer than usual to ship! We thank y'all for you're patience while we fill your orders.

Black, red and white image that resembles a woodcut print. Red bold text reads "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire". To the left of this text, a soldier can be seen holding a gun up. A black rectangle is below the soldiers' feet. White text inside of this black rectangle reads "Say no more to permanent war!".

Today in 2003, fourteen million people across the world protest the impending US invasion of Iraq.

In the philosopher Voltaire’s words: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

Link to art here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/perm...

I Have a Dream – Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio Store “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Poster found here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/i-ha...

Green background with clusters of yellow flowers bordering a graphic in the center of the image. Image features bright yellow sky with large yellow sun, orange lines extending from it. A crowd holds signs. Signs read “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Words from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic speech during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.