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.

John Joseph Sances was born August 18, 1952, in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Sicilian-American family.^[3][4][5] He studied at Montserrat School of Visual Arts (now Montserrat College of Art).^[6]

He came to California in 1976 and became active in art and politics.^[6] In the last 1970s, Sance was active with the Galería de la Raza and the La Raza Silkscreen Center.^[7] In c.1982, Sances co-founded Mission Grafica at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts.^[6][7]

In 1989, Sances founded the 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] The Or, The Whale work was created on 119 panels, when assembled together they form a 14 feet high by 51 long 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' work can be found in various public museum collections, including Smithsonian American Art Museum,^[1] Birmingham Museum of Art,^[12] American Labor Museum in Haledon, New Jersey, Oakland Museum of California (OMCA),^[13] Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,^[14] among others.

Sances' screenprints, his own images and images printed for other artists, are included in Mission Grafica: Reflecting a Community in Print.^[15]