EAT: Economics. Arts. Transformation. Public Talk Back Series! Session 3: Communal Art & the Solidarity Economy Art.Coop, Economics for Emancipation, & the New Economy Coalition (Winter 2025) In this hour long session, artist and worker-owner, Camila Tapia-Guilliams, talks about their experience founding their art, design, and culture work collective called Transverse Cooperative, and doing training […]
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“All Power to the Pollinators” Swamp Rose Co-op (Summer 2025) Upholding cooperative principle No.VI, “cooperation amongst cooperatives”, Transverse worked with Swamp Rose Co-op to make a mural in their native nursery space. The mural celebrates pollinators and plant allies, depicting the intertwining life cycles of the Baltimore checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas phaeton) and its native host
Solidarity Works Logo Solidarity Works (Summer 2025) Transverse designed this logo playing off of the seal of Chicago for Jenna Pollock’s Solidarity Works LLC, where she collaborates on solidarity economy and creative projects focused on community economic development, research, policy, and media production.
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Community-Owned Solar Comic Book RENEW Worcester (Spring 2025) Transverse wrote and illustrated a ten page full color comic book for RENEW (Renewable Energy Worcester Community Energy Co-op), a diverse, grassroots group of residents who are committed to working for energy democracy in their community. The comic book accessibly tells the story about community-owned solar–what it is,
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“Music Is Mutual” T-shirt Mirlo (Spring 2025) Transverse created a t-shirt design for Mirlo, which is a musician-owned cooperative that provides a user-friendly space to help artists sell digital music, receive financial support, manage mailing lists, and share with their supporters. The design is inspired by Mirlo’s tagline “Music Is Mutual”, jazz, sheet music, and the
VII Cooperative Principles Boyfriend Cooperative (Spring 2025) Transverse illustrated a digital artwork of the seven cooperative principles in a queer femme whimsigoth aesthetic with a SWANA influence for Boyfriend Cooperative. This two-foot by three-foot artwork hangs in the lesbian worker-owned bar cafe in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. It is also available to anyone
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“A Conversation Guide to Unions and Worker Cooperatives” zine Austin Cooperative Business Association (Winter 2024) Commissioned by the Austin Cooperative Business Association, Transverse copyedited the written content and illustrated a 20-page bilingual Spanish and English mini zine (8”x10”) about how unions and co-ops are connected, with a specific focus on union co-ops. The zine is
“EAT: Economics. Art. Transformation” Graduation Certificate Art.Coop (Fall 2024) Transverse created the graduation certificate for the pilot program of “EAT: Economics. Art. Transformation”, an intensive 6-month training in the economics needed to advance a different vision that includes economic security and freedom for the builders of our collective imagination: our artists and culture workers. The
Flyer for “The Art Worlds We Want in Chicago & Beyond: Collectives, Cooperatives, and Challenges/Possibilities” at the 2024 Worker Co-op Conference (Summer 2024) with Art.Coop, Haz Room, Cooperation Racine, Cooperative Journal Media, Creative Wildfire, US Federation of Worker Cooperatives Transverse designed a flyer to support an artist cooperative panel at the 2024 Worker Co-op Conference.
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“Transit and Transition: A Bridge to Rapid Change” coloring book Purple Line Corridor Coalition (Summer 2024) Transverse was commissioned by recipients of Healthy Places Seed Grant (The University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and the School of Public Health). Transverse was provided with several hours of qualitative data in the form of
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