Beehive Arts and Education (Previously “Beehive Design Collective”)

Beehive Arts and Education works on both local and global projects, creating collaborative, anti-copyright images for use as educational and organizing tools. They work as word-to-image translators of complex global stories, shared with us through conversations with affected communities. They work anonymously, crediting every graphic they make to the collective as a whole. They distribute our graphics by sliding scale donations, and try to give away roughly half of the materials printed to frontline communities, educators, and organizers actively working on the issues in the posters. They build and disseminate these visual tools with the hope that they will self-replicate, and take on life of their own.

The work of Beehive Arts and Education is multidisciplinary and multifaceted. They are most recognized for their expansive narrative graphics campaigns, but they also put a lot of time and energy into projects on the ground in communities where they are based. They create graphics, share stories, tour with their work, connect with local to global efforts, and shape their collective experience together. As with their narrative posters, there is no way to separate the various types of work they do—everything intersects and nothing stands alone.