
Art Hazelwood

For over 35 years Art Hazelwood has created politically charged prints, working with dozens of organizations from unions to grassroots movements. Over that period he has been consistently involved with homeless rights, including working with the Western Regional Advocacy Project, where he is the Minister of Culture. In June 2024 he was honored with the Art is a Hammer Award from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, the most prestigious award for political poster artists.
In 2017, he received the Artwork as Revolution Award from the Coalition on Homelessness. He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute where he was involved in union bargaining for adjunct faculty and was elected Shop Steward. Also at the Art Institute he was part of the founding of the San Francisco Poster Syndicate, which has brought together political poster makers from various levels of experience and backgrounds to create art for activist organizations. His artwork is in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and many other institutions. In 2021 UC Santa Cruz Special Collections established an archive of approximately 300 of his political prints. He is the author of the book Mission Gráfica: Reflecting a Community in Print, as well as Hobos to Street People: Artists’s Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present. He currently teaches drawing at San Quentin State Prison. He shelters in San Francisco.
Top image: Art Hazelwood in his studio, 2017
This image: Fascist Mix ’N Match, edition of 30, 2024, 9 x 10 3/4”, screenprint
