Jo is an artist, activist, educator, and organizer who brings 40+ years of experience in the realms of visual and performing arts. Leading with curiosity their work is guided by the beliefs that:

We must imagine a liberated future to attain it.

Storytelling is the backbone of our movements.

Jo leads hands-on arts experiences that expand imaginations, and create visual storytelling for actions, marches, classrooms, and community celebrations.

Between 1989 and 2020 Jo co-founded Wise Fool Puppet Intervention, The San Francisco Street Theater Festival, and Wise Fool New Mexico, arts organizations focused on social justice through art, circus, and physical theatre. As a current co-facilitator of Art and Revolution, Jo seeks to spread and deepen the use of arts and culture in direct action campaigns and movements.

Jo’s printmaking practice incorporates linocut, letterpress, risograph, and silkscreen and is inspired by the global lineage of political posters and a passion to “make the revolution irresistible.”*

A settler living on unceded Tewa Lands in Jaconita, NM, Jo organizes with Northern NMSURJ, the O’ga P’ogeh Land Tax, and in coalition with Indigenous, Climate Justice, and Palestine solidarity movements.

They are available to facilitate workshops and residencies in arts organizing strategy, visioning, and creation of large scale visuals/street theatre.

Link to Jo’s resume.

Find Jo on IG @JoRedline

*Toni Cade Bambara