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Around 1975, I was inspired by an article in Ms. magazine describing the work of the Chicago Women's Graphics Collective. (You can see their posters on-line at the web site of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union.) The article included instructions on how to do silk-screen process printing. So I built a set of large silk-screen frames, acquired the requisite inks, solvents, masks and other materials and started making political posters, based on a series of quotations from famous people. I sold the posters by mail-order on a sliding scale, based in the purchaser's income.
My poster work was interrupted when I became pregnant with my first child. I had to stop making posters because the chemicals involved in silk-screening are too hazardous to be used by a pregnant woman, even using a chemical filter mask. Because of the demands of parenting, I never went back to silk-screening.
Now that I have computer graphics at my command, I'm working on creating reproductions of my original posters, which will soon be offered for sale again. I'm also working on a new series of posters. The first in my new series are two peace posters.
Please e-mail your comments to me at jashford@jashford.com
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