Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Freddie Baer Collage artist, cat lover, anarchist ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.freddiebaer.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Blog](https://www.freddiebaer.com/blog/) ## Pages - [Home](https://www.freddiebaer.com/) - Freddie Baer, 1952-2025: Collage artist, cat lover, anarchist. - [Celebration of Life, May 10, 2026](https://www.freddiebaer.com/celebration-of-life-may-10-2026/) - Celebration of Life: Sunday May 10, 1pm - 4pm Sunnyside Conservatory, 236 Monterey Blvd San Francisco, CAStreaming available at 1:30.Donations to BGHP.org - [About Freddie Baer](https://www.freddiebaer.com/about/) - Fredrika "Freddie" Baer was an anarchist and collage artist, born in Chicago in 1952 and living most of her adult life in San Francisco. Freddie Baer was best known for her collage work, which was widely published from the 1980s thru the 2010s in science fiction, anarchist, and other political magazines and books, and frequently - [Collages for & Collaborations with Hakim Bey / Peter Lamborn Wilson](https://www.freddiebaer.com/hakim-bey-peter-lamborn-wilson/) - HakimBey-1995-PrimitivesExtropiansDownload "Moon Piece: The Monologues" by Hakim Bey, illustrated by Freddie Baer (1987) Temporary Autonomous Zone (T.A.Z.) by Hakim Bey (1991), book cover Immediatism by Hakim Bey (1994), book cover 1995, 2 collages to accompany "Primitives & Extropians" by Hakim Bey, Anarchy! A Journal of Desire Armed, v.14, n.4 (Fall 1995), pp. 38-43. Collages on - [Collage](https://www.freddiebaer.com/collage/) - While Freddie had many passions, many talents, many friends, and many communities, she is best-known as a collage artist. She was as generous with her creativity and time as she was in every other area of her life, and many of her collages and graphic designs were made for projects she was passionate about. Freddie's - [SF Fandom](https://www.freddiebaer.com/sf-fandom/) - SF Fandom was closely intertwined with a number of Freddie's other passions, including anarchism, Bay Area tech people / critics, and polyamory / queer / kink circles. (Indeed, as an example of the overlapping of these circles, Freddie credited her introduction to anarchism to Neil Rest, "anarchist bon vivant and science fiction rogue," in "20 - [Homage to Leonora Carrington](https://www.freddiebaer.com/homage-to-leonora-carrington/) - Freddie was a keen fan of Leonora Carrington's, and "Homage to Leonora Carrington" was a work she kept framed by her bedside table. It was a collage for the May 1993 t-shirt of the month club. - [Potlatch](https://www.freddiebaer.com/potlatch/) - Potlatch (wikipedia) was a "small literary speculative fiction" con in the Pacific Northwest, typically alternating between the Bay Area and points northern, held from 1992-2016 (a solid 25 years). Freddie was a reliable attendee & con-member, and frequently contributed art for posters and silk-screened t-shirts. We do not have a comprehensive collection of these! If - [T-Shirt of the Month Club (1989-1996)](https://www.freddiebaer.com/t-shirt-of-the-month/) - The "T-Shirt of the Month Club" was one of Freddie's initiatives, beginning in January 1989. She would create a collage and silk screen it on t-shirts, and people subscribed to the club. Once a month since January 1989, I design a t-shirt with a new design and send it to approximately 50 subscribers. I don't - [Read OUR Lips: We Demand Choice (1990 collage)](https://www.freddiebaer.com/read-our-lips-we-demand-choice/) - "Read OUR Lips! We Demand Choice!" 1990 t-shirt, Fall 1990. Included in Ecstatic Incisions, p.45.Reprinted in Maximum Rock'n'roll 106 (1992 Mar)Included in "Hella Feminist" exhibit, 2022, Oakland Museum. - [Jack Baer, cir. 1922 - 2007](https://www.freddiebaer.com/jack-baer/) - Death Notice, Chicago Tribune, October 6-7, 2007: Jack Baer, 85, passed away Oct. 3, 2007. Jack proudly served his country in the U.S. Army from 1940-1945 in the European Theatre. He was an expert fisherman, artist, card player and jack of all trades. Jack was the son of the late Charles John Baer and the - [Fredrika Baer Obituary (SF.com, Legacy.com)](https://www.freddiebaer.com/obituary-sf-com/) - Fredrika Baer Freddie Baer, Sept. 10, 1952 - Nov. 12, 2025, noted San Francisco-based collage artist and anarchist, passed away in Eureka after a three-year battle with cancer. Fredrika Elizabeth Baer, daughter of Jack Baer and Elsie Lambert, grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Chicago. In 1978, Baer moved to San Francisco, which remained - [Freddie Baer Obituary](https://www.freddiebaer.com/freddie-baer-obituary/) - Freddie Baer, Sept. 10, 1952 - Nov. 12, 2025. A hell raiser all of her life. Made some unwise choices in both love and life, but barreled through anyway. She lived an interesting life and approached everything with both gusto and obsession. Spent 32 years learning to love herself and what she could do. Freddie - [Freddie Baer Obituary (facebook)](https://www.freddiebaer.com/obituary-facebook/) - Freddie Baer passed Wednesday night, November 12, after a lengthy struggle with that aggressive asshole, cancer. Freddie contained multitudes. Like the collage artist she was, she pulled these sometimes disparate pieces together into Freddie – someone who was so uniquely herself, so one-of-a-kind, that it is almost hard to describe her. You may have known - [Neala Schleuning on Freddie Baer's Collage](https://www.freddiebaer.com/neala-schleuning-on-freddie-baers-collage/) - Two contemporary anarchist artists who have succeeded in creating effective future imagery are James Koehnline and Freddie Baer. By employing the technique of collage, both artists have effectively combined criticism of contemporary reality with visions of alternatives. Their collages challenge contemporary political reality by portraying its disintegration and then creating new visions from the broken - [Biography](https://www.freddiebaer.com/biography/) - September 10, 1952 - born in Chicago to Jack Baer and Elsie Lambert Baer. Difficult relationship with abusive stepmother. Steinmetz High School, Chicago - Petition: We are the dissenting students of Steinmetz. UIC: Bill Chester incident. Porn magazines. Introduced to anarchism by Neil Rest; involved in numerous anarchist groups, member of the IWW, etc. 1976-ish - [Elsie Lambert Baer, circa 1942 - 1965](https://www.freddiebaer.com/elsie-lambert-baer/) - Freddie's mom, Elsie Lambert Baer, was only 43 years old when she passed, leaving two young daughters and her husband Jack Baer. She died on July 18, 1965, in Cook County, Chicago. - [Contact](https://www.freddiebaer.com/contact/) - Contact To share your stories about Freddie, Freddie's art or life, please reach out to us at contact@freddiebaer.com or LQuilter@gmail.com. Read here first for questions about copyright, rights, or licensing; any other questions contact us at contact@freddiebaer.com . -- Laura Quilter - [David Watson](https://www.freddiebaer.com/david-watson/) - Freddie collaborated with David Watson on multiple books (at least four) and other writing projects. Watson also wrote under the names "T. Fulano", "George Bradford", "Primitivo Solis", "Dogbane Campion", and "Mr. Venom." Collaborations between Freddie & David: 1987, "The Annunciation of the Papal Visit to Detroit" by T. Fulano (David Watson) Fifth Estate #326 (Summer - [Index of Published Collages](https://www.freddiebaer.com/index-of-published-collages/) - Being assembled .... Please help! Share any information or publications you have with us at contact@freddiebaer.com . 1981, "Bosses: The Real Time Bandits" (Freddie's first collage!) (included in Ecstatic Incisions, p.5) 1983, Alternative Press Review, #1 (Fall 1983) - Contributing artist 1985, "The Daily Battle", Anarchy #8 (Oct./Nov. 1985) 1985-1997, Komotion International - Numerous graphics - [Exhibitions, Events, & Collections](https://www.freddiebaer.com/exhibitions-events-collections/) - Exhibitions, Events, Collections 1992, Booksigning Party and Art Show (for Ecstatic Incisions), featuring the Collages of Freddie Baer, Phil Lollar, and Johann Humyn Being, April 1st, 1992, Adobe Bookshop, 3166 16th Street, San Francisco 1992, Booksigning (for Ecstatic Incisions), May 1, 1992, Bound Together Bookstore, San Francisco 1993, "Fragmentary Pleasures", An erotic photocollage collaboration by - [Collages about Sexuality & Polyamory](https://www.freddiebaer.com/collages-about-sexuality-polyamory/) - Freddie was a staunch advocate for sexual freedom & autonomy, gender exploration & fluidity, and feminism. This is of course reflected in many of her collages, including collages from the t-shirt of the month club, as well as collage work she donated to various organizations & initiatives. Freddie's concerns with women's bodily autonomy can also - [Collages with Cats](https://www.freddiebaer.com/collages-with-cats/) - Freddie was a cat lover, and while cats weren't a specific project or theme in her collage, she did sometimes include cats in her collage. In honor of cats! - [Site Index](https://www.freddiebaer.com/site-index/) - Freddie's works collage Ecstatic Incisions (1992 collection) Individual collages & collage series Bosses: the Real Time Bandits Don't Fuck with Mother Nature (1989) Read Our Lips (1990) "Portfolio", 4 collages in Semiotext(e) SF (Autonomedia 1989) Illustrated essays, stories, & poems Moon Piece: The Monologues text by Hakim Bey & illustrations by Freddie Baer The Annunciation - [Writings by Freddie Baer](https://www.freddiebaer.com/writings/) - Freddie was not nearly as prolific a writer as she was an artist, generally preferring to let her art speak for her. However, she published a few pieces of writing, which we are documenting. "We are the dissenting students of Steinmetz." - An early petition organized by Freddie, in high school, undated, but circa 1965-1970. - [Typesetting & Graphic Design](https://www.freddiebaer.com/graphic-design/) - Freddie helped out many projects of interest with typesetting, graphic design, & related work. This is an incomplete list of published projects she assisted with. (See also index of published collages.) Magazines / Zines (serials): Alternative Press Review v.1, n.4 (Fall 1994) Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed #36 (Spring 1993) #42 (Fall 1995) Bound - [Illustrated Essays, Stories, & Poems](https://www.freddiebaer.com/illustrated-essays-stories-poems/) - In her work with Anarchy, A Journal of Desire Armed, Fifth Estate, Science Fiction Eye, and other publications, Freddie often collaborated with authors on illustrating other pieces. These collaborations involved creating multiple collages, in dialog with each other as well as with the text. (It was also common for Freddie to be involved in the - [Ecstatic Incisions](https://www.freddiebaer.com/ecstatic-incisions/) - Ecstatic Incisions: The Collages of Freddie Baer (AK Press) is a 1992 collection of some of Freddie's early collages, with a preface written by Peter Lamborn Wilson. Among other works included is "Read Our Lips!: We Demand Choice", which is held by the Oakland Museum of California. pageable PDF (184MB) above download PDF (184MB) Ecstatic - [The Annunciation of the Papal Visit to Detroit by T. Fulano (Feb. 1987)](https://www.freddiebaer.com/the-annunciation-of-the-papal-visit-to-detroit/) - The Annunciation of the Papal Visit to Detroit T. Fulano, February 1987, on the announcement of the papal visit to Detroit for September 1987. T. Fulano is also known as David Wilson. PDF - [Moon Piece: The Monologues by Hakim Bey, illustrated by Freddie Baer](https://www.freddiebaer.com/moon-piece-the-monologues/) - [Goodbye to All That (1986 essay)](https://www.freddiebaer.com/goodbye-to-all-that/) - In "Goodbye to All That", Nov. 30, 1986, Freddie wrote about her connections with the Bound Together Books collective, anarchism, and her personal life. Published in Bound Together Newsletter #10. GOODBYE TO ALL THAT This is the last issue of the Bound Together Newsletter, at least in this incarnation. I do the most of the - [Don't Fuck with Mother Nature (1989 collage)](https://www.freddiebaer.com/dont-fuck-with-mother-nature/) - "Don't Fuck with Mother Nature" is one of Freddie Baer's most iconic collages. It features a colossal figure of a woman, possibly a Valkyrie, striding through a city. In her raised hand she is holding a dagger in a wreath, and storm clouds or smoke are in the sky behind her. "Don't Fuck with Mother - [Anarchy, a Journal of Desire Armed](https://www.freddiebaer.com/anarchy-a-journal-of-desire-armed/) - Freddie worked with Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed for a number of years, illustrating articles and providing collages for a number of covers. We are still sorting through to make a more comprehensive list, so this is a working partial list. 1985, Anarchy #8 (Oct. / Nov. 1985), essay "The Daily Battle" with illustration - [Collaborations - Index](https://www.freddiebaer.com/collaborations/) - T. Fulano (aka David Watson) Johann Humyn Being (Dragonfly, calendar collage, roommates; also a collage artist who frequently published in Anarchy) Kathy Acker (Pussycat Fever) Brian Attebery (Decoding Gender in Science Fiction) Hakim Bey (aka Peter Lamborn Wilson) (multiple collaborations) Bob Black (anarchist; wrote about Processed World, among other things) Diane DiMassa (Pussycat Fever) Leslie - [Media, Reviews, Studies about Freddie](https://www.freddiebaer.com/media-about-freddie/) - Reviews of Ecstatic Incisions: "Review of Ecstatic Incisions", Freedom, vol. 53 no. 19 (March 10, 1992). "Over the last decade her illustrations, ranging from the bitingly political to the sublimely surreal, have appeared in all manner of places: from works by the publishers of Semiotexte, Fifth Estate, Factsheet Five and Anarchy, to magazine and record - [Bosses: The Real Time Bandits (1981)](https://www.freddiebaer.com/bosses-the-real-time-bandits-1981/) - "Bosses: The Real Time Bandits" was Freddie's first collage, according to "20 Questions for Freddie Baer" interview. She included it in Ecstatic Incisions (p.5). In "20 Questions" (#3), Freddie wrote, Despite dabbling with silk screen and offset printing as means of production, my initiation into collage and illustration didn't happen until 1981 at an art - [Bill Chester Incident](https://www.freddiebaer.com/bill-chester-incident/) - Chicago Daily News, April 27, 1972, "Co-ed is accused in attack threat" Chicago Tribune, April 27, 1972, "Lib Critic Cries Assault; He Claims Rape Attempt" Chicago Daily News, Jan. 16, 1973, p.11, "Man tells rape try by co-eds" Chicago Daily News, Jan. 18, 1973, p.2 "'Rape' case acquittal; Judge liberates woman" Massachusetts Daily Collegian, April - [Collage Methods & Influence](https://www.freddiebaer.com/collage-methods-influence/) - Influences: Max Ernst; John Heartfield & Hannah Höch, Terry Gilliam & Jan Svankmajer, Kay Nielsen, J. J. Grandville, Sidney Sime, Hannes Bok, Virgil Finlay, dadaists, animation. (notes from "20 Questions") - [20 Questions for Freddie Baer, 1992 Interview with Thomas Murray Saté](https://www.freddiebaer.com/20-questions-for-freddie-baer/) - Thomas Murray Saté, “20 Questions for Freddie Baer, in Ecstatic Incisions (1992) and 16 of them were printed in Edinburgh Review, #89 (Spring 1993). PDF & images of Edinburgh Review: 1. When/where were you born? Fredrika Elizabeth Baer first made her appearance in Chicago, Illinois at 5 A.M., September 10, 1952. 2. Where did you - [Collages for Bay Area Organizations](https://www.freddiebaer.com/collages-for-bay-area-organizations/) - Freddie donated her collage work to support numerous Bay Area organizations. Included on this page are individual works. See also long-standing collaborations with AK Press, Queen of Heaven, Komotion, and Potlatch. - [Queen of Heaven](https://www.freddiebaer.com/queen-of-heaven/) - As one of the flyers below notes, "Queen of Heaven was organized in 1990 in response to a police raid of a bisexual safer sex party" in San Francisco. Yes, even in 1990, police were raiding people's private sex parties! Organized by Carol Queen, Queen of Heaven hosted parties that were "omnisexual" and "polygendered" -- - [The Daily Battle and The Heartbreak of Daily Routines](https://www.freddiebaer.com/the-daily-battle-and-the-heartbreak-of-daily-routines/) - A short essay ("The Daily Battle") and illustration ("The Heartbreak of Daily Routines") published in Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed #8 (Oct./Nov. 1985). - [STWTTF](https://www.freddiebaer.com/stwttf/) - The STWTTF (Star Trek Women's Terrorist Task Force") was an online women's fan group founded circa 1994. Beginning 1998 or so, Freddie was an active participant. She did this collage for The Flaming Azalea: A Terrorist Manifesto, for the "one and only issue" of the STWTTF zine. References: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Women%27s_Terrorist_Task_Force - [Memories of Freddie](https://www.freddiebaer.com/memories-of-freddie/) - Kate Schaefer I see your art every day. Three of your proof posters are on the wall of our bedroom, with another one on the wall of my office, and yet another in the hallway between the bedroom and the office. Glenn wears your shirts nearly every day; I wear them less often, because most - [Music, Bands, Albums](https://www.freddiebaer.com/music-bands-albums/) - Komotion Bedlam Rovers Political Asylum music themed collages - [Science Fiction Eye](https://www.freddiebaer.com/science-fiction-eye/) - Science Fiction Eye #8 (Winter 1991), COVER “From Lankhmar to the Tenderloin: Two Early Pilgrimages to Fritz Leiber”, by Marc Laidlaw, Science Fiction Eye #8 (Winter 1991), p.78 Science Fiction Eye #9 (November 1991), frontispiece Brothers, Science Fiction Eye #9 (November 1991), p.48 Voyage to the Red Continent (1 of 6) - Science Fiction Eye - [Surre(gion)alist Manifesto](https://www.freddiebaer.com/surregionalist-manifesto/) - "The Surre(gion)alist Manifesto" is an essay by Max Cafard, which first appeared in Mesechabe 4/5 (1989), pp. 22-24, 32-35 and Exquisite Corpse in 1990. It was reprinted in Fifth Estate #341 (Spring 1993) with collage illustrations by Freddie Baer. We don't have a clean scan of the Fifth Estate article yet, but here are some - [Tiptree Award and Related Collages](https://www.freddiebaer.com/tiptree-award-art/) - From 1991 to approximately 2016, Freddie Baer worked closely with the Tiptree Motherboard (later the Otherwise Award) to design an annual collage for the award. The collage was printed on posters and t-shirts, and was one of the primary fund-raising tools for the Tiptree Award. In 2016, Freddie produced two graphics, one which was put - [Second Book](https://www.freddiebaer.com/second-book/) - Second book, never published; but Freddie had begun developing the list of collages to include in it. See Freddie Collage Lists, "to book", all labeled "STAT". 11/93 Potlatch 3 5/92 Procrastination 6/92 Ghost in the Machine 8/92 Consternation in Constantinople 9/92 Birthday 10/92 Excursions 1/93 For Michael 2/93 The Lovers 3/93 Tryptch 4/93 Jellyfish Squared - [Collages in Construction](https://www.freddiebaer.com/collages-in-construction/) - We are including here the collages where we also have drafts or variants. We hope to build this section out, as we delve into Freddie's files and archives. - [Factsheet Five](https://www.freddiebaer.com/factsheet-five/) - Factsheet Five was a publication reviewing & indexing zines & other independent publications. It ran from 1982-1998, under multiple editors, and Freddie contributed a number of collages as covers. See Wikipedia ("Factsheet Five") and at the Internet Archive (@LauraQuilter Factsheet Five list) for more details. #20 - cover art is uncredited, but FB is listed - [Calendar Collages](https://www.freddiebaer.com/calendar-collages/) - Every year, Freddie would host a "calendar collage" party, inviting friends who would each make one or more collages for a calendar, which Freddie would duplicate and distribute. 1986 - PDF (Feb. 86 - Jan. 87) (169 MB) (no table of contents with contributors' names!) 1987 1988 - PDF (185 mb -- includes color, scans, - [Valerie Solanas](https://www.freddiebaer.com/valerie-solanas/) - Freddie was keenly interested in radical feminist Valerie Solanas, and in addition to supporting an AK Press edition of The SCUM Manifesto with typesetting, book layout, etc., also assembled a brief biography about Solanas for inclusion in the book. memory: Freddie was thrilled to get to see a production of Solanas' "Up Your Ass" in - [Collages from the 1980s](https://www.freddiebaer.com/collages-from-the-1980s/) - This is a small selection of collages that Freddie created in the 1980s. The vast majority of her collages are not yet dated in our archive. We will add them to this gallery as we give them dates. See also 1980s - 1990s - 2000s. See also Galleries of Collage - [Portfolio, in Semiotext(e) SF (1989)](https://www.freddiebaer.com/portfolio-in-semiotexte-sf-1989/) - If there exists a major anarchist publication in this country from Fifth Estate to Factsheet Five which has not been graced by at least one of Freddie Baer's meticulous Ernst-like collages, it is unknown to us. Cartooning and xerox collage are the major graphic forms of the late '80s, as future art historians will have - [Book, Magazine, & Album Cover Collages](https://www.freddiebaer.com/book-and-magazine-covers/) - [Komotion](https://www.freddiebaer.com/komotion/) - Komotion International was "a legendary artist collective, gallery, and performance space that exemplified the radical politics and creativity of SF’s Mission District." (Robin Balliger) It produced a series of newsletters, a magazine, and sound magazines / albums, all centered around a radical performance space and collective in San Francisco, from roughly 1985-1995. Freddie did a - [Collages from the 1990s](https://www.freddiebaer.com/collages-from-the-1990s/) - This is a small selection of collages that Freddie created in the 1990s, a very productive decade! The vast majority of her collages are not yet dated in our archive. We will add them to this gallery as we give them dates. See also 1980s - 1990s - 2000s. See also Galleries of Collage - [Beading & Jewelry](https://www.freddiebaer.com/beading-jewelry/) - While Freddie was best-known for her widely-published collages, she was also known among her friends for her love of beading and making jewelry. Like her collage, she basically gave away her jewelry, either to friends or as donations for benefit auctions. She would thrift for beads, looking in particular for stone and vintage glass beads. - [The Ethnography of the World Seen from the Eyes of the Accused Sorcerer](https://www.freddiebaer.com/the-ethnography-of-the-world-seen-from-the-eyes-of-the-accused-sorcerer/) - a collaboration between Johann Humyn Being and Freddie Baer - [Freddie's Cats](https://www.freddiebaer.com/freddies-cats/) - Freddie was an ardent cat lover -- not just in art (and she had an amazing collection of cat art) -- but also the living, breathing, adorably regal felines. In fact, in her Bluesky profile, Freddie identified herself as a "Collage artist, cat lover, aging anarchist." - [Dragonfly Zine](https://www.freddiebaer.com/dragonfly-zine/) - A zine that Freddie, Johann, and various others produced. (date?) - v1, n.1, - 170 mb PDF (date?) - v.1, n.2 - 228 mb PDF. Contributors: Chris Brown, Fredrika Baer, H. H. Bliss, Johann Hymyn Being, Mark Madeo. Contents: Cover art, calendars, We find ourselves ... Flight of Ideas, Motel, Disengaging..., 7:30 1 July 1916, - [Copyright, Rights, & Licensing](https://www.freddiebaer.com/copyright-rights-licensing/) - To our knowledge, Freddie Baer typically retained copyright to the images she produced. She often published them in radical and open distribution contexts, with the aim of having them disseminated widely; some of these publications included explicit copyright statements, some of them disclaimed copyright altogether, many of them said nothing about copyright at all. Much - [Bound Together](https://www.freddiebaer.com/bound-together/) - Bound Together Books was an employee-owned anarchist collective bookstore. Freddie was closely involved for three years, from at least early 1984 through the the end of 1986, and during that time did typesetting and layout for their newsletter. In "Goodbye to All That", published in Issue #10 (11/30/1986), Freddie talks about wrapping that up at - [We are the dissenting students of Steinmetz.](https://www.freddiebaer.com/we-are-the-dissenting-students-of-steinmetz/) - We are the dissenting students of Steinmetz. We are the ones who object to artificial settings. We ask to be observed as we normally are, not as show pieces, but as students. Steinmetz High School Petition signed by 60 or so students, Fredrika Baer first among them. This is not dated, but Freddie graduated high - [Rape Is Not an Act of Love](https://www.freddiebaer.com/rape-is-not-an-act-of-love/) - RAPE IS NOT AN ACT OF LOVE This January 16th, I was acquitted of charges of battery. The charge was battery because in Illinois rape is defined legally as ‘the penetration of a woman by a man over 14 years of age’. I had attempted to rape Chester, a 34 year old man, with two - [Mystopia](https://www.freddiebaer.com/mystopia/) - What is mystopia? Mystopia was the name I gave my p.o. box and own project. It's word play: we don't know what the future will hold, whether it will be a dystopia or utopia. It's a mystery to us -- hence, a mystopia. Then again, it could also be a big mistake -- mistopia. -- - [About This Site](https://www.freddiebaer.com/about-this-site/) - This site is being assembled by friends of Freddie's, including Laura Quilter and Liz Henry, with the assistance of Mary Retzinger, Amber, Johann, and many others. Please share photos and documentation of Freddie's works, and stories! Reach us at contact@freddiebaer.com. Other sites: Flickr: Liz Henry is also curating a Flickr site, the Freddie Baer Memorial - [Collector & Collections](https://www.freddiebaer.com/collector-collections/) - Freddie collected. She collected vintage illustrations and books for her collage work. She collected rare editions and pamphlets of anarchist, surrealist, and feminist SF works. She thrifted for designer clothing, which she gave to friends and sold on ebay. She collected amazing original paintings of cats, and cat art in all kinds of forms. She - [Collection of Art Glass](https://www.freddiebaer.com/collection-of-art-glass/) - Freddie collected in a number of domains -- beads, cat art, buttons -- and art glass, mostly paperweight size. We have a gallery of some of the paperweight size art glass which Freddie had in her home in Eureka, which she asked to be distributed at her celebration of life. Some additional photos of these - [Tura eyeglasses](https://www.freddiebaer.com/tura-eyeglasses/) - Freddie had an amazing collection of vintage Tura eyeglass frames. Which came first, her love of cat-eye shaped eyeglasses, or her love of Tura eyeglasses? Regardless, she had literally hundreds of pairs of glasses, and several sales display cases. We have yet to photograph them in their entirety, but here are a few photos: - [Calendar Collage Party Toolkit](https://www.freddiebaer.com/calendar-collage-party-toolkit/) - For years, Freddie held an annual "calendar collage party", towards the end of the year. She would provide calendar templates, and a bunch of magazines and images, scissors & exacto blades & glue & markers, and invitees would make their own collages for a month or months of their choosing. Freddie would assemble them into - [Collages from the 2000s](https://www.freddiebaer.com/collages-from-the-2000s/) - This is a small selection of collages that Freddie created after 2000. The vast majority of her collages are not yet dated in our archive. We will add them to this gallery as we give them dates. See also 1980s - 1990s - 2000s. See also Galleries of Collage - [Freddie & Friends](https://www.freddiebaer.com/freddie-friends/) - Photos, snapshots, videos of Freddie & friends. - [Collages on Reproductive Rights, Choice, & Abortion](https://www.freddiebaer.com/reproductive-rights-choice-abortion/) - Freddie was committed to women's bodily autonomy, and did numerous collages related to reproductive rights, choice, and abortion rights. ## Att. Categories - [necklaces](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_category/necklaces/) - [collage](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_category/collage/) - [photos](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_category/photos/) - [art-glass](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_category/art-glass/) - [documents](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_category/documents/) - [website](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_category/website/) - [eyeglasses](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_category/eyeglasses/) - [cat art](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_category/cat-art/) - [home](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_category/home/) - Photos of Freddie’s home & home decor ## Att. Tags - [Hakim Bey](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/hakim-bey/) - collaboration with, illustration for, or otherwise connected to Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson) - [t-shirt](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/t-shirt/) - distributed as a t-shirt (could also have been distributed other ways) - [cover](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/cover/) - cover of book, magazine, or album - [illustration](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/illustration/) - (interior) illustration of story, essay, poem, or other work - [Ecstatic Incisions](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/ecstatic-incisions/) - Included within, or otherwise related to, Ecstatic Incisions - [Fifth Estate](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/fifth-estate/) - published in Fifth Estate - [David Watson](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/david-watson/) - [T. Fulano](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/t-fulano/) - [1980s](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/1980s/) - [1990s](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/1990s/) - [2000s](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/2000s/) - [Science Fiction Eye](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/science-fiction-eye/) - [Political Asylum](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/political-asylum/) - [Bound Together](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/bound-together/) - [Komotion](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/komotion/) - [Factsheet Five](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/factsheet-five/) - [calendar collage](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/calendar-collage/) - [cats](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/cats/) - [Potlatch](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/potlatch/) - [Dragonfly](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/dragonfly/) - [Tiptree](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/tiptree/) - [Bill Chester Incident](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/bill-chester-incident/) - [Anarchy Magazine](https://www.freddiebaer.com/attachment_tag/anarchy-magazine/)