Art of labor

The exhibit spaces range from Labor Union halls and libraries, to community centers, museums, and historical societies.

One of the most remarkable exhibits was on June 2 to October 21, 2007 at The New York State Museum in Albany, NY: "Unseenamerica NYS: Pictures of Working Life Taken by Working Hands" featured large 5x5 cloth banners of photographs and stories by healthcare workers, tractor-trailer drivers, janitors, security guards, teachers, immigrants from India and Peru, refugees from Burma, Bosnia, Darfur, Somalia and scores of others.

"Graphic Work Imaging Today’s Labor Movement", a poster contest curated by Josh MacPhee and Zoeann Murphy, and sponsored by the Graphic work curated by Josh MacPhee and Zoeann Murphy, Workforce Development Institute and JustSeeds.

The "Graphic Work" exhibit displayed that the American labor movement has an amazing history of graphic production, creating some of the most effective political images in the history of this country.

However, work and workers, along with the labor movement, are often depicted as experiences of the American past: paintings of Joe Hill, photographs from the early 1900s of children working in factories, historic strikes and Rosie the Riveter.