Ozark Mountain These Times
2023-Ongoing
Risograph poster prints, toner prints, zines, lectures, oral histories, digital scans, and expanding archive.
In 1970 , a short run of a Fayetteville-based countercultural newspaper helped organize and educate an active creative and politically-engaged community in Northwest Arkansas.
Among their projects were a 24-hour help line “Switchboard”, mutual aid resource center, Free Store, Co-op daycare, Library, support for striking workers, and more. Their newspaper, the Ozark Mountain Times contains the only public records of many of these efforts outside of the living memories of the remaining collective members involved.
With the blessing of former “OMT” and “Family Called Us” collectives, I began retelling their stories, creating digital “clippings” from the newspaper, and eventually producing over 1,000 printed posters and objects.
The prints and stories are still touring community spaces, art venues, and social justice organizations in the region, introducing a new generation of community-minded artists and activists to the struggles of their historical precedents.