Production schedule and release date: (June-August) artists create images and pull prints. (September-early October) assemble portfolios (November) release portfolio (November-on) organize exhibitions Participating Artists: (Justseeds) Josh MacPhee (Brooklyn), Mary Tremonte (Pittsburgh), Kevin Caplicki (Brooklyn), Chris Stain (Queens), Thea Gahr (Mexico City), Bec Young (Pittsburgh), Erik Ruin (Philadelphia), Pete Yahnke (Albuquerque), Alec Dunn (Portland, OR), Colin Matthes (Milwaukee), Nicolas Lampert (Milwaukee), Jesse Purcell (Montreal), Roger Peet (Portland, OR), Molly Fair (Brooklyn), Santiago Armengod (Mexico City), Shaun Slifer (Pittsburg), Dylan AT Miner (E. Lansing) (IVAW) Drew Cameron (Army Veteran, Vermont), Jon Turner (Marine Veteran, Vermont), Joyce Wagner (Marine Veteran, Pittsburgh), Will Stewart-Starcks (Army Veteran, Kansas), Aaron Hughes (IL National Guard Veteran, Chicago), Jeremy Bergren (Marine Veteran, North Carolina), Peter Sullivan (IL Army National Guard Veteran, Chicago), Chris Arendt (MI Army National Guard Veteran, Michigan) (Allies) Michael Rakowitz (Chicago), Marshall Weber (Brooklyn), more tba Links Justseeds-IVAW Chicago action: "http://www.justseeds.org/blog/2010/11/bringing_the_war_home_through.html" http://www.justseeds.org/blog/2010/11/bringing_the_war_home_through.html "http://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/art-design/95791/seeds-of-change" http://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/art-design/95791/seeds-of-change past Justseeds portfolios: "http://justseeds.org/resourced/" http://justseeds.org/resourced/ "http://justseeds.org/criticalresistance/" http://justseeds.org/criticalresistance/ IVAW Operation Recovery: "http://www.ivaw.org/operation-recovery" http://www.ivaw.org/operation-recovery Combat Paper Project: "http://www.combatpaper.org/" http://www.combatpaper.org/ Booklyn: "http://www.booklyn.org/" http://www.booklyn.org/ Endnotes (1) Between 20% to 50% of all service members deployed to Iraq and/or Afghanistan have suffered Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This means between 350,000 to 900,000 Iraq and Afghanistan service members have suffered or are suffering from PTSD. Seal, K. H., Bertenthal, D., Maguen, S., Gima, K., Chu, A., & Marmar, C. R. (2008). Getting beyond Don't ask; don't tell : An evaluation of US Veterans Administration post-deployment mental health screening of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. American Journal of Public Health, 98, 714 720. See also: Comparisons of PTSD rates Journal of Traumatic Stress-Volume 23, Issue 1, Feb, 2010 "http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jts.20486/pdf"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ jts.20486/pdf
(2) Nearly 20% of service members are taking some kind of psychiatric drug. Among service members currently experiencing combat, 12% in Iraq and 17% in Afghanistan are taking prescription anti-depressants or sleeping meds. Yet, the military has no way of tracking specific service members prescription drug use in combat. Mark Thompson, America's Medicated Army Time, June 5 th, 2008 "http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1811858-2,00.html" See also, Bob Brewin, Nextgov, 06/08/2010, Defense unable to track deployed troops' use of psychiatric drugs, "http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100608_2900.php" and Medicating the Military, B. McGarry, Army Times, 03/17/2010 http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/03/military_psychiatric_drugs_031710w/
War is Trauma Pre-publication Portfolio Sponsors As of: October 21, 2011 1. Leatherby Libraries, Chapman University, Orange, CA 2. Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA 3. Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Florida Atlantic University Libraries, Boca Raton, FL 4. Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 5. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 6. The Art and Architecture Library of Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 7. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 8. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 9. University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 10. The Labadie Collection, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 11. David W. Kiehl, New York, NY
image examples: Jesse Purcell
Alec Dunn
Pete Yahnke