Karen J. Revis

23/02/2026

18/02/2026

Rest in Power Rev Jesse Jackson. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Here’s a clip from Reverend Jesse Jackson’s appearance on Sesame Street in 1972 reciting “I Am Somebody” (written by Reverend William Holmes Borders, Sr.).
Here’s the full poem:
“I am Somebody! I am Somebody! I may be poor, But I am Somebody. I may be young, But I am Somebody. I may be on welfare, But I am Somebody. I may be small, But I am Somebody. I may have made mistakes, But I am Somebody. My clothes are different, My face is different, My hair is different, But I am Somebody. I am Black, Brown, or White. I speak a different language But I must be respected, protected, never rejected. I am God’s child!”

20/01/2026

I’m so excited to announce the release of Richard Wright’s classic, Native Son, which I had the honour of illustrating.  It’s been in the making for the last two years and it’s finally available!
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The edition features eight linocuts by printed from the blocks on Kitakata paper, a new foreword by Julia Wright, and an introduction by Arnold Rampersad.

Numbered and Lettered editions of NATIVE SON by Richard Wright are now available for pre-order at the LINK IN BIO.

All copies are printed letterpress on Mohawk Via Vellum paper, and are signed by Karen J. Revis, Julia Wright and Arnold Rampersad.

19/01/2026

See The Met collection through artists’ eyes. Join Karen Revis as she reflects on artwork in the exhibition Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson. Listen as Revis discusses themes in the exhibition that resonate with her artistic practice and shares more about her own work as a printmaker, including her REVISionary Prints series which explores her experience growing up in an all-Black community in the 1960’s and being Black in today’s political climate.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson.

Free with Museum admission, though advance registration is recommended.

Note: Space is limited; first come, first served. Priority will be given to those who register.

15/01/2026

I’m thrilled to have my art alongside a powerful essay published in Hammer and Hope. Check linktree to read.

Hammer & Hope is a new magazine of Black politics and culture. It is a project rooted in the power of solidarity, the spirit of struggle, and the generative power of debate, all of which are vital parts of our movement toward freedom.
We are inspired by the courageous Black radicals in Alabama whose lives and struggles to organize against capitalism and white supremacist terror in the 1930s and 1940s are memorialized in Robin D. G. Kelley’s book Hammer and Hoe, from which we take our name.
We will envision collectively what a better future might look like and the strategies that could get us there. Such an undertaking compels us to deepen our knowledge of history, politics, culture, and our own movements.
Our aim is to build a project whose politics and aesthetics reflect the electric spirit of the protesters who flooded the streets in 2020, a project that breathes life into the transformative ideas pointing us toward the world we deserve.
Come join us. We have a world to win.

18/03/2025

I’ve been busy with my head down working and I look up and see the Fair is next week!

This year it’s being held at the Park Avenue Armory

Open to the general public
Friday, March 28, 11 - 7PM
Saturday, March 29, 11 - 7PM
Sunday, March 30, 11 - 5PM.

I will be there with the .

Mark your calendars!

Photo credit: .murs