Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio

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Featuring the work of medicinal artist/activist Ricardo Levins Morales. Studio and store in Minneapolis MN USA, shipping anywhere via RLMArtStudio.com. Most posts made by staff. linktr.ee/RLMarts

Three identical buttons stacked in an inverted triangle in the center of the image. All buttons are tan with red bold lettering that reads "Honor Teachers". White text underneath these buttons reads "Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio".
Red white and black image. Red circle bordering the edge of the image. In the center of the image, a red circle bordering a black cat, with its back arched and angry. White text bordering this red circle and cat reads "An injury to one is an injury to all".
Black background with black circle button in the center of the image. Grey, red and white text reads "geSTOPo Ice" "stop ice".
Grey circle in the center of the image with black text and a red oval in the center of the text. Black text in the center of this circle reads "Black lives matter".
Brightly colored poster. On the top 3/4 of the image, various colorful faces fill the poster, surrounding a blue figure that stands with its arms stretched to the top of the picture. It stands on text that reads “Laughter is the sound of hope. Hope is the seed of power. Power is the combined force of a multitude of voices joined together… that began as a mere whisper, lost in the immense darkness and the ferocious cold, and only kept alive by small improbable notes of laughter.”
Brightly colored poster featuring a crowd of several people in brightly colored clothing, surrounded by text. Text reads "What if nobody could have seconds until everyone had gotten firsts? Could I be sent to jail for asking that?"
Black and white poster featuring a crowd of several people facing the front of the image. Black text on the bottom of the image reads "South Africa apartheid was defeated. The struggle for justice continues".
This simple clayboard illustration shows the sun, rain and stars above the waves of a roiling lake or sea below. Black text under image reads "Naturally Powerful".
This illustration-only poster shows the earth reaching up to the clouds, making land and sky one.
Background with blue stars and transparent trees. A red shirt is on the bottom left. In the bottom center, a black and white button that reads "Anti-fascist". Two cream colored stickers are stacked to the right of this button. Text on top of this image reads "Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio. Last day of our 15% off sale! Use code 250TooMany at checkout. RLMArtStudio.com".
Three identical buttons stacked near each other in the center above white text that reads "Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio". Buttons feature multicolor text that reads "Resist!"
Black background with black circle in the center, with red text in the center. Text reads "Informed and dangerous".
Background with blue stars, an upside down american flag, and a crown in the center of a red circle that's being crossed out. White text on top of this image reads "F the Fourth. Sidewalk Sale today! 15% off storewide. 10am - 3pm. 3260 Minnehaha Ave. MPLS, MN".
Three identical buttons in the center of the image. Background of these circular buttons is yellow and maroon text reads "Minnesota NoICE!"
Blue background with a tree filled with water, its leaves in the shape of grey clouds. Text on top center and bottom center of the image borders a white text block and aa portrait of Ricardo Levins Morales. Text on the top of the image reads "Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio. July Newsletter". Center left oval portrait features person holding and speaking into a mic. Text to the right reads "These times are definitely difficult ones. We can understand fascism to represent the weakness of the system (which it does) but it is still just as dangerous... and scary. The pace of attacks targeting people for their race, gender, legal status, and class position - and the natural world we are part of - can feel like being caught in a meteor shower. How to process and respond to this reality is the question of our times." Black text below this reads "To read more, follow our newsletter! linktr.ee/rlmarts".
Nature landscape featuring black lower half of the image representing the earth and trees, and red and orange gradient for the sky. In the lower center of the image, a crowd of people gather in a circle around a light source. Blue text cradling them reads “And in the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing about the dark times. Bertolt Brecht".
Black and red background. In the foreground, North and South America filled in with black. South America in the shape of a heart. Red text inside of this heart read "Let me say, at the risk of appearing ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love." In cursive the word "Che", under this heart.
Background with blue stars and an upside down american flag. White text on top of this image reads "15% off storewide. July 2nd - 6th. F the Fourth Flash Sale. Sidewalk sale, July 4th. 10am-3pm. Use code 250toomany online at checkout. Rlmartstudio.com. 3260 Minnehaha Ave. Mpls".
Brightly colored block text bordering a portrait and a crowd of protestors holding up brightly colored signs. Text reads “So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t forget to have fun doing it! Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin’ ass and celebratin’ the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after, how much for it was!”
A fanciful depiction of hearts as seeds, pushing through rich and nutritious soil toward a vibrant sky. Sky is bright blue with swirls stretching from left to right. Seeds under the ground stretch up to this blue sky. Red seed in the shape of the heart is centered in the image.
A block ink drawing in bright red, yellow, blue and green with black outline of a person putting their hand over their heart and the words “YOU ARE HERE.”
In this poster, a figure kneels on the floor of a jail cell. A picturesque rural scene can be glimpsed through the bars of the window. The person uses their hands to pry open similar bars on their chest. Birds fly free as a similar scene is revealed. The quote is by Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer Kahlil Gibran. “And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that the throne erected within you is destroyed.”
Blue and black gradient sky with text and a book on the right side of the image. Text reads "The Land Knows the Way. Eco-social insights for Liberation. "Fighting a riptide - reacting with simplistic counter-messaging to anything thrown at you - will sweep you out to sea. Swimming out of it, on the other hand, relies on truth-telling, a more complicated but more effective strategy. Ricardo Levins Morales".
1980 art supporting resistance to coal and uranium extraction. Black and white scratchboard image. Text reads "All out to Paha Sapa! Black Hills International Survival Gathering. July 18-27 1980".
A poster depicting three illustrations, from top to bottom. On top, five whote people in business clothes carry in their hands a fancy vehicle, a briefcase, a private jet, and two large stately buildings, with worried expressions on their faces. The second illustration, in the middle vertically, is of a line of five riot police holding shields. Lastly, the illustration on bottom shows a multiracial crowd of regular people going about their day as if on a crowded city street. One talks on her phone, while another carries a basket and another reads the newspaper. In between all the illustrations is the quote (handwritten in red) attributed to Father Edward Dowling, Editor and Priest, 1941: “The two greatest obstacles to democracy are, first, the delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich lest we get it.”
On this poster, a monarch emerges from its chrysalis. Hills frame a blue, purple, pink and yellow sky in the background. Pink text below this butterfly reads "Here's to new beginnings!"
Dark background with black, white, green and red poster, with white text underneath that reads "Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio". A whimsical scratchboard/woodcut-style image with black ink illustrations, red block lettering and green highlights. In red across the page are the words "Capitalism is not healthy for children and other living things." In and around the words, are scenes such as fighter jets taking off into the sky; a line of cars with a supermodel, fast food meals strewn about, a set of handcuffs, and a television protruding into the air dispalying the word "BUY!" in green. The anthropomorphic TV holds an alcoholic drink in one hand and a gun in the other.
A vertical sticker with black ink and blocks of bright colors. Block lettering in yellow and red at top reads, "The Labor Movement! The folks that brought you (and in smaller letters: fought for, supported, demands, defends:" The majority of the poster is comprised of people of various skin colors, genders, and facial types holding up signs about labor issues, including: overtime pay, living wage laws, parental leave, civil rights, sick leave, child labor laws, workplace power, health benfits, minimum wage, farm labor rights, and most prominently near the bottom: unemployment insurance, equal pay for equal work, and "The Weekend." Beneath this in yellow block letters is a quote: "Power concedes nothing without a demand - it never did and it never will - Frederick Douglass."
Pink and light purple watercolor background and circle in the center. Circle features two figures holding signs in the center, with black text bordering them. Text reads "Trans people are here to stay. Always have been. Always will be!". Below this circle, white text reads "Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio".
Tan background. An image of a sun in the center, with red lines contouring its face and stretching its rays to the edge of the image. Green text reads "Light is returning Even though this is the darkest hour Nothing can hold back the dawn Let’s keep it burning Let’s keep the flame of hope alive Make safe our journey Through the storm. Charlie Murphy. (1953-2016) Folk singer/songwriter."
A vertical scratchboard, watercolor and ink poster illustration featuring a dark-skinned figure with bowed head and long, wide arms with hands clasped in a circle. Held inside are the names George Floyd (in blue), Minneapolis USA and Yves Sakila (in yellow), Dublin Ireland, along with colorful flowers alongside the large black solidarity fist statue (from George Floyd Square) and more flowers along side a blue/yellow/red Congolese flag and a "Black Lives Matter Here" sign from the Yves Sakila memorial.. As a tear drop falls from the figure's eye, red rose petals also fall from the memorials across the bottom of the page over the large black block lettering, Say Their Names!
An intricate black and sepia portrait of Ella Baker, an older Black woman sitting on a chair wearing a robe, with large natural hair, and with a stack of papers and a curtain behind her, looking at the viewer. A quote in a script font in the upper right says, “In order to see where we are going, we must not only remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.”
Two square stickers with identical designs. Under these stickers, text reads "Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio". Sticker designs feature roughly circular image on a cream background, consisting of block lettering in mostly earthy colors (such as burnt orange, dark green, gold, lavender, and dark blue) interspersed with cut out shapes depicting people's faces and arms joining together. The five people depictred have various hairstyles and dark skin tones. The letters spell out "Nothing About Us -- Without Us -- Is for us." In small words at the bottom, "based on slogan popularized by South African disability rights and youth activists."
Three people stand with their hands up, smiling, in front of a conference table full of art.
an illustrated green and white portait of Woody Guthrie on a blue circular background (we sell it as a sticker and button) with the white block handlettered text "All You Fascists Bound to Lose." it's from his song with the same lyric.
Three identical buttons stacked and spread out on top of each other. White text underneath these buttons reads "Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio". Buttons all feature an olive tree with its leaves in the shape of a fist. Text above this tree reads "Solidarity with Palestine".
A simple horizontal print in mostly in forest green and dark brown on a white background. Two hands, outlined, cradle a forest scene with evergreen trees, a mountain in the background, a soaring bird, and large rocks, with a blue stream cutting through and pouring down through the hands into the bottom of the page. At top, the word "LIVE" in large text is only slightly obscured by the tree tops; at bottom, with the waterfall in front, are the words "Like The Earth Really Matters."
Neutral colored gradient background, colors consist of reds, greens, and browns. A landscape that consist of rows of growing plants, birds flying and rolling hills. Three bison are stacked on top of each other. The top, red. Middle, green. And bottom, brown. Large text in caps reads "To be of use". Poem in the center reads "The first two of four stanzas read: The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. They seem to become natives of that element, the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half-submerged balls. / I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again. The poem is from CIRCLES ON THE WATER, Alfred A. Knopf, 1973, used with permission.
Purple brick background with apartment buildings in the background. In foreground, a pair of high heels next to a bouquet of flowers. Pink text below reads "no one is disposable!"
Against a background of orange/brown curved and straight lines and black dots, in a woodcut style, the following quote is printed in block letters with a black and maroon shaded gradient: “If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” In the lower right is the small attribution: Aboriginal activists' group, Queensland, 1970s.
A poster with an illustration of Teddy Roosevelt wearing a suit with a big bushy mustache and old timey glasses. Written on the large USA flag behind him is a quote, "“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” at bottom: Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the united states
This button shows two people facing each other, on top of a rainbow background as if cut-and-pasted from a black and white magazine, with pink speech bubbles forming the shape of a heart. The person on the left asks, “Gay?” and their counterpart on the right responds, “Gay.”
5 buttons with identical design stacked on top of each other. Design features ink and watercolor of a pastoral landscape and small village next to a blue river and rows of olive trees.Large blue block letters against the pink and blue sky, expanding across the top half of the image, spell out "From the River To the Sea." At bottom, brown block letters spell: "No checkpoints - no discrimination - equal rights for everyone".
A family stands in the rubble of a home destroyed by government occupiers. A woman wearing black in mourning, is holding a portrait of Rachel Corrie. Other homes are in the background. On the blown-out walls on either side of the family, is a quote: “My Palestinian friends are a good example of how to be in it for the long haul. I know that the situation gets to them… I am nevertheless amazed at their strength in being able to defend such a large degree of their humanity – laughter, generosity, family time – against the incredible horror occuring in their lives and against the constant presence of death… I spent a lot of time writing about the disappointment of discuovering the degree of eveil of which we are still capable. [quote moves to other wall] I should at least mention that I also discovering a agree of strength and basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances – which I also haven’t seen before. I think the word is dignity. - Rachel”
3 stickers with identical designs, with white text above them that reads "Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio". This design shows a carceral institution surrounded by barbed wire which is transformed into green rose stems and leaves. The red flowers take the shape of solidarity fists. Text at bottom says, “No Room for Racism and Transphobia.”
Red background with white text and a red t shirt in the center. Shirt text reads "Bosses beware. When we're screwed, we multiply!". In the center of this text, three rows of bunnies with their arms linked. Text on the bottom of the image, below the shirt, reads "Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio".
June calendar page which features a rainbow and black design on top and a calendar grid on the bottom of the image. Text on the top of the image reads "Free Honee Bea. June 2026 Junio". Calendar page features rainbow color blocks around the border of the image.
Calendar page background. White text surrounding buttons and a red shirt reads "Ricardo Levins Morales June Newsletter. Happy Pride! Happy Juneteenth! New stickers, shirts, and buttons! Linktr.ee/rlmarts". Buttons and stickers feature same design. Watercolor sky background with green grass and text that reads "From the River to the Sea". Red shirt in the center of the image features three rows of bunnies, with their arms linked. Text above and below them reads "Bosses Beware, when we're screwed we multiply!"
A reproduction of a brown and cream colored woodcut image of Angela Davis, a Black woman with a large afro, from the neck up and facing the viewer. Beneath the woodcut in digital type, are the words Angela Davis - Sister, You Are Welcome In This House! Beneath that in a much smaller font is some explanatory text about Davis and the image.
Blue and pink background with blue and pink circle with white text. Text on bottom of the image reads "Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio". Blue and pink striped circle in the center features a tree with star shaped leaves, with its branches extended towards the sky. White text next to the circle reads "Won't be erased".
A horizontal poster in ink and watercolor, showing a scene of several workers, mostly Black and brown, facing the viewer, while an elder and a young person (wearing tank top and backwards ballcap) shake hands in the front. At top is the quote: The more I study history, the more I seem to find -That in every generation there are times just like that time - When folks like you and me who thought that we were all alone - Within this honored movement found a home. - Si Kahn". And at bottom: “I study history… because I am interested in the future. Peter Rachleff”.
A two-color block print style poster, in a gradient from black on top to red on the bottom. With a sun and moon on top and radiating lines outward from the center, a woman sits on a stage, playing a drum with her hands. The bottom of the drum is shaped like the earth, with the continents of Africa and Eurasia shown. At the bottom a plugged in cord goes off stage, amidst myriad patterns.
Blue and white image with blue button in center. Cream text inside of this button reads "Defend public education".
Against a black background, there are 6 different block print style illustrations, in 2 rows of three, showing scenes of mothering and parenthood: including giving birth and breastfeeding in various poses. Each panel has a different watercolored background in pastel shades; the dominant colors are purple, orange, yellow, green, blue and brown. In the middle, with each letter a different color in all caps, are the words "Heroines of Labor."
Against a cream colored background, an ink and watercolor illustration shows instruments from various cultures, surrounded by green hand letered words saying "Peace is a tune that all can play".
A vertical screen print style poster in red, yellow and black, featuring the quote by 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." The edges of the poster show a packed village with small houses, and a road leading to skyscrapers in the far background. A red sun in the upper right shines its long yellow rays across the image.
6 square stickers with identical circular design and the words "Ricardo Levins Morales" at the bottom of the image. Ink and watercolor of a pastoral landscape and small village next to a blue river and rows of olive trees.Large blue block letters against the pink and blue sky, expanding across the top half of the image, spell out "From the River To the Sea." At bottom, brown block letters spell: "No checkpoints - no discrimination - equal rights for everyone".
A roughly circular image on a cream background, consisting of block lettering in mostly earthy colors (such as burnt orange, dark green, gold, lavender, and dark blue) interspersed with cut out shapes depicting people's faces and arms joining together. The five people depictred have various hairstyles and dark skin tones. The letters spell out "Nothing About Us -- Without Us -- Is for us." In small words at the bottom, "based on slogan popularized by South African disability rights and youth activists."