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Mike Sweeney - Artist
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Paper Artist creating traditional prints on handwoven paper. Inquiries welcome through website contact form.

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Mike Sweeney - Artist @mikesweeney-artist.bsky.social · Oct 27
Hare apparent.
Detail photo of a print on handwoven paper with the digitally overlaid text, "It's common dissent." The print by Mike Sweeney, Artist has been darkened and reduced in color saturation. All rights reserved.
#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
Detail photo of a print on handwoven paper with the digitally overlaid text, "It's common dissent." The print by Mike Sweeney, Artist has been darkened and reduced in color saturation. All rights reserved.
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#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy

It is a danger when dissent is institutionalized, when protest is assigned a space to speak, when the terms of disagreement are defined within, when a challenge to an approach is only expressed as contest instead of discussion.
December 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
Drawing detail of a mouse, the mouse's face, with overlaid text that says: "change happens because things break down" and "if you are human that might be tradition or some- thing you mis- identify as social"
December 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Capacities that literacy and the Arts collide with.

#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
Handwoven paper with text overlay that says: "NOISE SILENCE IN EQUAL PARTITIONS"
December 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Capacities that literacy and the Arts provide.

#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
Handwoven paper with overlaid digital text that says: "there are downsides to every strength" and "there are upsides to every weakness " and "psychological health is about finding solutions to experiential gaps"
December 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Capacities that literacy and the Arts provide.

#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
Handwoven paper overlaid with digital text that says "when desperately seeking your style, consider instead looking for the substance"
December 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Capacities that literacy and the Arts provide.

#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
handwoven paper with text overlaid digitally that says "recognize irony as satire"
December 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
Handwoven paper overlaid digitally with grey text that says: "act on no bad advice" and "affirm no ill intent"
December 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
Handwoven paper overlaid with lettering that says: " if you are still thinking about who blinks first"
December 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
Handwoven paper overlaid with digital text that says: "speak nice to power" - in brown
December 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
Handwoven paper with overlaid digital text that says: I'm not about exuding a categorized identity.
December 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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A print on handwoven paper from approximately 2020 - titled: a brief history of little tin gods.

#printsky #visualliteracy #civicliteracy #literacy #printmking #contemporaryart
"a brief history of little tin gods" (circa 2020) is a print on handwoven paper depicting (in red ink) a man in a suit walking away layered over a landscape with house and water tower (also in red ink) layered over a colonial house with a stone wall (in brown ink). the handwoven paper is predominantly green and an irregular rhombus shape.
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Digitally altered detail of print on handwoven paper by Mike Sweeney, Artist, all rights reserved, 2025.

#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy #contemporaryart #printsky
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Digitally altered detail of print on handwoven paper by Mike Sweeney, Artist, all rights reserved, 2025.

#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy #contemporaryart #printsky
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Handwoven paper rabbit in progress. Studio view by Mike Sweeney, Artist, Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025.

#contemporaryart ##wovenpaper #iapma #visualart ##paperartcollector
Handwoven paper rabbit ears in progress. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025. Handwoven paper rabbit head in progress. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025. Handwoven paper rabbit head in progress. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025. Handwoven paper rabbit head in progress. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Handwoven paper rabbit in progress - sudip view from MikeSweeney,Artist. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025.
Handwoven paper rabbit ears in progress. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025. Handwoven paper rabbit head in progress. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025. Handwoven paper rabbit head in progress. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025. Handwoven paper rabbit head in progress. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
Detail view of reproduction photo of handwoven paper by Mike Sweeney, Artist - overlaid with the text, " there is harm that comes from coding linguistics, not to be messed with"
November 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Pleased to have my print "table," in Stone Canoe, a journal of arts, literature, and social commentary, no. 18.

Stone Canoe showcases "established and emerging artists and writers with ties to upstate New York..."

www.ymcacny.org/stone-canoe-...

#wovenpaper #printmaking #drypoint #printsky
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Sharpen your awareness of the difference between want and need.

#civicliteracy #literacy #visualliteracy.
Photo of wall mounted pencil sharpeners with the overlaid text, " the call for charitable donations to make up for republican majority's government budget stance all occurs as congress ignores the expense of knocking down a federal building for a big, beautiful, empirical ballroom " and the text, "get back to work for US"
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Detail view of Mike Sweeney's handwoven paper -with a variety of found colors - overlaid digitally with the text, "people forget the value of not sharing a common language, the value of learning each other's meanings and patiently bridging divides"

#literacy #visualliteracy ##civicliteracy
Detail view of Mike Sweeney's handwoven paper -with a variety of found colors - overlaid digitally with the text, "people forget the value of not sharing a common language, the value of learning each other's meanings and patiently bridging divides" #literacy #visualliteracy ##civicliteracy
October 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Hare apparent.
Detail photo of a print on handwoven paper with the digitally overlaid text, "It's common dissent." The print by Mike Sweeney, Artist has been darkened and reduced in color saturation. All rights reserved.
#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
Detail photo of a print on handwoven paper with the digitally overlaid text, "It's common dissent." The print by Mike Sweeney, Artist has been darkened and reduced in color saturation. All rights reserved.
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Digitally altered image of handwoven and printed paper by Mike Sweeney, Artist, all rights reserved, 2025.

#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy #contemporaryart #printsky
Handwoven paper with the phrase "categorical purity is a convenience"
October 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Digitally altered image of handwoven and printed paper by Mike Sweeney, Artist, all rights reserved, 2025.

#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy #contemporaryart #printsky
Digitally manipulated detail from a print with the words, "If we consider the entirety of each profession, Art does far more things than Government." - and also the words, "for less money"
October 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
Close-up photograph of handwoven paper overlaid with yellow text saying, " soft colonialism, boot straps, and extreme wealth aspirations"
October 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
handwoven paper overlaid with yellow text that says, "peace, it matters more how you make it than how you declare it"
October 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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detail of American flag in yellow flag with the words "representative democracy"
October 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM