, with key case studies in the Twin Cities. I discussed my work as a local community organizer who weaves artwork and mutual aid into the organizing projects I lend my capacity to, and my work through the Spill Paint, Not Oil (SPNO) art collective. I highlighted how art is invaluable in the toolbox of organizing. Artwork in all of its forms, whether that be poetry, murals, signage, plywood, prints, song and dance, spoken word, and everything in between, can lend itself to advancing the rapid response narrative messaging needs of on the ground causes we care deeply about. During this talk, we co-ideated concepts and drafts alongside Augsburg faculty and students for a screen-printed poster to the Sabo Center\u2019s programming, and a hand-painted banner for the Augsburg Campus Kitchen.<\/span><\/p>\nWorkshop 2 – <\/span>Sean Lim: Movement Art Workshop \u2013 Banner Making<\/b><\/p>\nOn Monday, November 24, I brought a traced muslin banner for Augsburg\u2019s Campus Kitchen, and hand-painted the design with acrylic paint alongside campus community members at the Christensen Center, East Commons. This banner, adorned with paintings of fresh produce and all of the offerings of the Campus Kitchen program, will be hung at the Sabo Center\u2019s office, and can be used by the Campus Kitchen program at events across the campus for tabling and event fairs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nWorkshop 3 – <\/span>Sean Lim: Movement Art Workshop \u2013 Screen-printing Posters<\/b><\/p>\nOn Monday, December 1st, I hosted a live screen-printing workshop in the lobby of the <\/span>Christensen Center to teach students and faculty members the steps of printing their own silk-screen printed poster in various colors. Over the course of the workshop, we made 150 prints for the Sabo Center to distribute to members of the Augsburg Campus community. The poster highlights six different on-campus programs offered by the Sabo Center: the Community Garden, Community Change, Community Engaged Learning, Campus Kitchen, Augsburg Local Businesses, and Bonner Community Leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
ABOUT SPILL PAINT<\/b><\/p>\n
Spill Paint Not Oil is an autonomous network of artists, organizers, friends, and mischief-makers, primarily based in Mni S\u00f3ta Makoce (Minnesota) who\u2019ve held various roles across movements, art projects, and campaigns.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nWe\u2019ve been, and continue to be, shaped by resistance movements to prevent fossil fuel expansion, and fight social and environmental injustices. Since 2021, our collective has stewarded a community studio space that hosts regular art builds and assisted many ongoing community art projects. We screenprint, make banners, signs, and occasionally dip our fingers into paper mache.\u00a0 Hundreds of people come through our studio space every year, some on a one-time basis, others as more consistent collaborators.<\/span><\/p>\nWe believe that art making is world building. Together we engage in the necessary and shared work of envisioning better and more just worlds. We are committed to responding to the urgencies of daily life under late-stage capitalism. We are committed to the long, intensive, and slow work of relationship-building, mutual-aid, skill sharing, and collective transformation. We believe in participatory and collectivized world-making. Grab a paint brush.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
ABOUT SEAN \/ BIOGRAPHY<\/b><\/p>\n
Sean Lim \u6797\u4f73\u8ed2\u00a0 (he\/him) is a first-generation Malaysian Chinese American, the eldest child of immigrants; born on the East Bank of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis – a lifelong resident of Mni Sota Makoce (Minnesota).<\/span><\/p>\nSean is a community organizer, artist, and mutual aid practitioner who has spent the past 8 years building community power \u2014 from electing historic candidates into office, to passing legislation, and winning monumental issue campaigns. His advocacy has consistently centered youth organizing, education, housing, & environmental \/ climate justice.<\/span><\/p>\nHis near decade of on-the-ground community organizing experience spans projects and organizations including the Minnesota Youth Collective (MNYC), St. Paul Camps Support (SPCS), East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI), Minneapolis Federation of Educators (MFE Local 59), Art Shanty Projects (ASP), The Southeast Asian Diaspora (SEAD) Project, The Paper Lantern Project (PLP), and many others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSince 2021, Sean has been part of a core team of artist-organizers who steward the local art collective and community third space, Spill Paint Not Oil (SPNO, <\/span>spillpaint.org<\/span><\/a>) where his artwork in solidarity with movements helps facilitate rapid response to assist the messaging needs of local organizing efforts, in real time. Sean\u2019s project, \u201cMovement Art for Mutual Aid\u201d seeks to get screen-printed posters out into the world, while raising and redistributing grassroots funds to local mutual aid projects in need of resources.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHe currently works as a freelance graphic designer and literature designer in local politics for various candidates for office\u2026 building the bench of local elected leaders, having worked on the campaigns of over 30+ local candidates for various levels of office from School Board to Congress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAs an arts educator, he was an Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC) Arts Impact for Individuals 2025 Grant Recipient for his workshop series, \u2018Banners for a Better World.\u2019 You can find Sean at the Spill Paint studio, or online at @SeanLimMN on Instagram, X, or Bluesky.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOVEMENT ART IN THE FIGHT FOR THE ROOF DEPOT This Fall 2025 Semester at Augsburg, I had the incredible opportunity …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43408,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43406\/revisions\/43408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}