21/11/2025
We are saddened to share the passing of artist, illustrator, and comrade Freddie Baer, who died on November 12, 2025, in Eureka, California, after a long struggle with cancer. She was born September 10, 1952, in Chicago, and spent her life committed to visual experimentation, political imagination, and the radical communities that sustained both. Freddie’s work — sharp, surreal, irreverent, and tender — helped shape the graphic language of anarchist publishing and countercultural expression for decades. Her collages and illustrations appeared in countless independent books, zines, and posters, always marked by a commitment to autonomy, pleasure, revolt, and the strange beauty of the everyday. She brought a clarity of vision that refused the separation of art from life, insisting instead on creativity as a shared, lived practice. Freddie’s images have long been a reminder that critique can be joyful, that dissent can be deeply imaginative, and that the edges of possibility are often found through play. Her work will continue to circulate, inspire, and unsettle, an enduring trace of her singular artistic voice.
