We're a Sacramento print shop that uses "signs of change" to join our neighbors in conversation and action about racial justice.
We teach screen printing so that all of us can use the power of printmaking to express our views in public. We launched Perkins Public Prints in September 2020, thanks to the financial support of our neighbors and friends.
We use typefaces designed by Vocal Type.
All of our posters use typefaces that reference movements for justice. Learn more by clicking on each poster.
The backstory:
We live in the Land Park neighborhood of Sacramento, in a house on Perkins Way that's four doors down from where Christina grew up.
Christina is a teacher and designer, and Dylan is a writer and financial coach for folks who work in creative fields. When George Floyd was killed on May 25, 2020, we began working to more actively engage our families and neighbors in conversations about racial justice. (Land Park is a majority white neighborhood; Dylan is white and Christina is Chinese/white biracial.)
On July 4, 2020, we screen printed 55 posters to give away to our neighbors and post in the neighborhood: Anti-Racism is Patriotism and We Live on Nisenan Land. (Land Park is the tribal land of the Nisenan.)
We printed these because we wanted to invite folks to join us in a conversation about how to celebrate this country while also recognizing its legacy of oppression towards Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color. When civil rights leader John Lewis died on July 17, we printed 30 posters with his famous quote "Get in good trouble, necessary trouble" and posted them up around Land Park.
In August 2020, we launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to gather support so we could offer this work in a sustainable way.
Our most recent poster, Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free, was printed for July 4, 2023.
Our commitment:
We're committed to Land Park, and to working for racial justice in partnership with our neighbors. We're starting this project because we love our neighborhood, we love printmaking, and because we know we need to do more to listen and amplify stories that have been silenced.
The two of us are still learning about how to be in community with folks who have different points of view, different life experiences, and identities that are different from our own. This is a project that proposes we do this together.
Want to get involved or stay in touch?
helloneighbors@perkinspublicprints.com