Roger Peet
Roger Peet (born 1975, South Africa) is an artist and organizer based in Portland, Oregon, working as a printmaker, muralist, writer, and in public intervention. He has shown his work extensively internationally in solo and group exhibitions and received many awards and artist residencies. Peet's murals of endangered species can be found across over two dozen states in the United States and Mexico. He is a founding member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, he helps run the cooperative artist run studio Flight66 in Portland, and is represented by Booklyn.[1][2][3]
Career
In the 2007 book Realizing The Impossible, Peet is quoted in an interview by Meredith Stern titled Subversive Multiples: A Conversation between Contemporary Printmakers saying, "The role of an artist in society is to enrapture and enrage, if possible at the same time. The artist should also, if possible, try to make people laugh." He goes on to say, "Art has a role in Social Change."[4][5][6][7]
As a part of a nation wide effort sponsored by the Center for Biological Diversity, an initiative led by Peet for many years. “The goal of this project is to foster connections between people and the other forms of life that surround them. Whether that's a fish in a river, a butterfly flitting from plant to plant, or a caribou chewing lichen from a tree, we're bringing together artists and communities to create big, bold images that will become part of the neighborhoods where they're created, making it a little easier for people to care about the species struggling to survive in their midst.”[8]
In 2016, Peet painted a mural of an endangered flower with artist Tricia Tripp in Berra Kentucky stating, “What I hope for this project is that people see this mural and want to learn more about the plant and want to learn more about why it might be endangered, and to get involved in the process of defending the locations that it lives in … and to take responsibility for the stewardship of the landscape that they live in”[9] That same year Peet painted the 10th mural in the project of an endangered butterfly at the Oceti Sakowin camp at Standing Rock. In response to his time at Standing Rock he stated, "The priorities of the settler culture that's been imposed on this continent is very much requested to take a step back and not insert themselves. It's a great learning experience opportunity to engage with people who are doing very intense serious work to defend their lives and environment."[10]
In April 2023 he joined Joey Alone of the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't podcast. They discussed the Congo, conservation, the sorry but possible state of the left, communicating good ideas in a world of bad ones, murals, and the weird biology of freshwater mussels.[11]
References
- ↑ "Roger Peet, Author at Justseeds". Justseeds. Retrieved 2025-07-27.
- ↑ "Flight 64 Studio". Flight 64 Studio. Retrieved 2025-07-27.
- ↑ "Roger Peet Archives". Booklyn. Retrieved 2025-07-27.
- ↑ Macfee, Josh, ed. (2007). Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority. Oakland: AK Press. p. 107. ISBN 9781904859321. Search this book on
- ↑ Peet, Roger. "First They Mined for the Atomic Bomb. Now They're Mining for E.V.s." New Republic. Retrieved August 20, 2023.
- ↑ Peet, Roger (8 December 2024). "Of Critical Mineral and Atomic Bombs: The Conquest of the Congo". Counter Punch. Retrieved December 8, 2024.
- ↑ Peet, Roger. "Endangered Species Mural Project". Center for Biological Diversity. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
- ↑ "Endangered Species Mural Project". www.biologicaldiversity.org. Retrieved 2025-07-27.
- ↑ Estep, Bill (July 17, 2016). "Berea mural part of nationwide series highlighting threatened species". www.kentucky.com/. Archived from the original on 18 July 2016. Retrieved July 18, 2016. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "A Portland Artist Painted a Bold Mural at Standing Rock". Willamette Week. 2016-11-28. Retrieved 2025-07-27.
- ↑ "A Conversation with Printmaker & Artist Roger Peet". Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't. Retrieved February 11, 2023.
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