John Joseph "Jos" Sances (born August 18, 1952) is an American artist, activist, writer, and community organizer, known for his printmaking, and tile murals/public art .[1][2] He is the founder and director of Alliance Graphics.[3] Sances is based in Berkeley, California.
In 1989, Sances founded Alliance Graphics, a Berkeley-based union screen print shop.[8] Profits from Alliance Graphics support the parent organization, the Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA).[6]
His work, Or,The Whale (2019) was in the 2019 exhibition, Here is the Sea at Richmond Art Center.[9]Or,The Whale was created on 119 panels. When assembled together they form a 14 feet high by 51 feet wide scratchboard with the image of a sperm whale with the illustrated history of capitalism in America inside of the whale.[9]
Sances is a member of the food-based art group The Great Tortilla Conspiracy making tortilla art, other members include Rio Yañez, René Yañez, and Art Hazelwood.[10][11]
Sances' screenprints, his own images and images printed for other artists, are included in Mission Grafica: Reflecting a Community in Print by Art Hazelwood.[15]
^Dalzell, Tom (2015-10-12). "How Quirky is Berkeley? Baseball bas-relief, part two". Berkeleyside. Retrieved 2020-11-07. Sances is the founder and art director of Alliance Graphics in Berkeley. A Sicilian-American, Sances worked for years with La Raza Graphics and Mission Grafica in San Francisco.