PH x College: Books Not Bombs
2022-11-12 15:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Do you dream of a better world? Join Poster House to learn about how student activists have employed design to support causes throughout history, from disarmament to labor rights. After exploring posters from 20th century global student movements, participants in this PH x College event will collage their own poster focused on an issue close to their heart. Students will leave the museum with a tote bag bearing their individual design. Come for the tote bag, stay for the community of student activists, and leave equipped with the ability to create powerful graphics to help change the world.
PH x College is an ongoing series of programs designed by college students for college students and recent graduates who are interested in pursuing careers in art, design, or museums, with an emphasis on providing professional development, networking. and creative workshop opportunities.

Vignelli vs. Vigilantes/Art vs. Design
2022-11-14 18:00 - 19:00
In honor of the debut of the exhibition Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes and the 50th anniversary of what is now commonly referred to as the “Vignelli” subway map, Poster House is pleased to partner with the New York Transit Museum for a discussion about design in the New York City transit system and artists’ public interventions. . This panel discussion will include insights from curatorial and artistic perspectives.
First, guest curator RJ Rushmore will share some of the public art featured in Masked Vigilantes. Then, New York Transit Museum curator Jodi Shapiro will discuss the development of the MTA’s iconic visual identity. Finally, artist Jilly Ballistic will go over her work remixing the MTA’s timeless designs, as well as other posters found in the subway system, into new works of art. The program will conclude with a Q&A—questions strongly encouraged!
This program is presented in partnership with the New York Transit Museum. Registration information will be shared with both institutions.
Jilly Ballistic (she/they) may be considered New York City’s leading subway vandal. Over the last decade, she has used hundreds of stations, train cars and advertisements to shine a light on our contemporary political climate and the startling evolution of warfare over the last century. Ballistic has been featured in numerous street art documentaries (“Wild in the Streets,” Dega Films), television series (Canal+, PBS, FlowSTATE, All Arts) and international culture magazines—from AnimalNY, BuzzFeed, Hyperallergic, HUCK and BUST;
RJ Rushmore (he/him) is a writer, curator, and public art advocate. Working with artists including Shepard Fairey, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, and Jess X. Snow, RJ builds projects that disrupt visual culture. He is a cofounder of Art in Ad Places, a guerrilla public art campaign across New York City’s payphones, and he has curated projects for Poster House, Mural Arts Philadelphia, and the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College. RJ has been called everything from “one of the most respected critics of street and graffiti art in the world” to “petty criminal.”
Jodi Shapiro is a lifelong New Yorker who has worked at the New York Transit Museum since 2014. Prior to becoming the Curator, she worked in the Museum’s archive (with all the cool photos). She’s curated shows about the Second Avenue Subway, the IRT Flushing Line, the Redbird fleet of subway cars, and the Pullis Brothers. Before she joined the Transit Museum family, Jodi had many jobs: data wrangler, record label stooge, graphic designer, investigative journalist. The most significant of these was working as an archivist for several artists’ estates, including a number of world-renown photographers. She holds a Master’s in Library Science, has way too many cameras, and fears her enormous LP record collection will be the death of her some day.

This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. ASL interpretation is available upon request with two weeks notice — please email access@posterhouse.org to request interpretation services. A recording of this event will be made available for all registered attendees. Questions about accessibility? Please contact Sarit Cahana, Access Coordinator, at access@posterhouse.org.

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Schoolgirls at War
2022-11-15 16:00 - 17:00
Every month, Poster House offers virtual Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for community members who are blind or have low vision.
In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we offer our description tours online through Zoom. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows and permanent collection.
This tour will focus on Schoolgirls at War: French Propaganda Posters from World War I, on view at Poster House through April 16, 2023.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call ‪(914) 295-2387 to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing Zoom the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 70 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our accessibility tours, click the Accessibility filter at the top of our Events page, call (914) 295-2387, or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Saying Saree Three Ways
2022-11-15 18:00 - 19:00
The Maharaja is undoubtedly a fashionable character, demonstrated perfectly in Poster House’s latest exhibition. Looking beyond illustration, though, how does Indian fashion function in the real world? Join fashion scholar Arti Sandhu for this wide-ranging virtual conversation on the history of the saree and contemporary fashion in India. She will discuss the saree as a designer garment, a mantle for drag, and the glue that holds social media communities together.
Arti Sandhu is currently an Associate Professor in the Fashion Program in the School of Design at DAAP, University of Cincinnati, USA. Her research is centered on contemporary Indian fashion and related design culture. She is the author of Indian Fashion: Tradition, Innovation, Style (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). She has also published articles on the contemporary Indian catwalk, craft and sustainable design practices, saree groups on social media, television soap-opera costumes, and drag queens. Arti is currently working on research projects relating to the growing discourse around decolonizing fashion studies, the role craft can play in fashioning sustainable design practices, and an ongoing digital ethnography on social media saree groups. Arti also occasionally writes for the digital fashion magazine The Voice of Fashion.

This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. ASL interpretation is available upon request with two weeks notice — please email access@posterhouse.org to request interpretation services. A recording of this event will be made available for all registered attendees. Questions about accessibility? Please contact Sarit Cahana, Access Coordinator, at access@posterhouse.org.

Members-Only Tour: Air India’s Maharaja: Advertising Gone Rogue
2022-11-17 18:00 - 20:00
Poster House is delighted to invite you and a guest to an exclusive, Members-only tour of Air India’s Maharaja: Advertising Gone Rogue led by curators Carly Johnson and Sophia Williamson. Reservations are required.
This exhibition highlights the history of Air-India’s most iconic travel posters produced from 1946 to 1972. The star of these posters was the airline’s beloved mascot, the Maharaja. Conceived in 1946, the Maharaja would go on to become the face of the company and help propel it to the forefront of advertising genius in the mid-20th century.

Saving the Earth...One Poster at a time
2022-11-18 18:00 - 19:00
Since their creation, posters have been utilized as a form of instant messaging to communicate ideas to the public quickly. Which makes us wonder, what can we learn about society by looking at posters as historical artifacts and their documentation of specific issues over time?
Consider environmentalism, which became more mainstream in the United States in the 1960s due to publications like Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring.” What can we learn through the examination of posters from this era? And how has that visual representation shifted as we think about today’s climate change challenges?
Join us as climate scientist Abigail Bodner and chief curator of Poster House Angelina Lippert sit down with science communicator and comedian Kyle Marian Viterbo to examine the decades of posters that have cautioned us to take better care of our environment and the underlying story they reveal about the evolving perception of our relationship to these issues.
This event is in collaboration with our neighbors at Simons Foundation.

Poster Kids: Junior Fashionistas
2022-11-20 09:15 - 10:15
Join us as we take a fashionable approach to Air-India’s Maharaja: Advertising Gone Rogue. More than any other mascot, the Maharaja has an incredible fashion sense. This month, we will learn about his incredible style and then create our own wearable art using recycled textiles.
Materials:

old clothes and/or fabric scraps
lightweight cardboard (e.g. cereal box)
scissors
paint and paint brushes
water
safety pins
stapler
pencil and paper

This online event will be hosted on Zoom. Closed Captioning will be provided. Poster Kids will not be recorded due to the presence of minors. Questions about accessibility? Please email Sarit Cahana, Accessibility Coordinator at access@posterhouse.org.

Poster Kids: Junior Fashionistas
2022-11-20 10:30 - 12:15
Join us as we take a fashionable approach to Air-India’s Maharaja: Advertising Gone Rogue. More than any other mascot, the Maharaja has an incredible fashion sense. This month, we will learn about his incredible style and then create our own wearable art using recycled textiles.
Join Poster House on select Sunday mornings from 10:30am–12:15pm for a family-friendly, interactive poster tour and a related art-making experience. Admission is free; advanced registration is required.
This program invites children 5–11 years old and their adults to collaborate (siblings are welcome). This is not a drop-off program.

First Friday
2022-12-02 10:00 - 21:00
Join Poster House on the First Friday of every month for free admission and extended hours! Explore the museum’s latest exhibitions and get in on the fun by attending a tour, workshop, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection.
12pm What is Paradise? Workshop with Ghost of a Dream $15
Join Lauren and Adam from the collaborative team Ghost of a Dream for an afternoon of brainstorming and creation. Get to know their techniques and thought processes behind their series Falling From Paradise, featured in Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes. Then, head back to the studio space to workshop ideas about the concept of paradise, cutting those ideas into/out of Ghost of a Dream’s collection of vintage travel posters. No experience necessary; just come and have fun.
3pm Masked Vigilantes Artist’s Tour with Jordan Seiler
Enjoy a unique and engaging artist’s tour of the acclaimed exhibition Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes with participating artist Jordan Seiler. Experience the exhibition from the artist’s perspective and get the inside scoop on the show. Questions strongly encouraged!
4:30pm War Stories: Spies & Propaganda
Attend back-to-back curatorial tours of our latest hallway exhibitions, Schoolgirls at War and With My Little Eye. Starting upstairs, Chief Curator Angelina Lippert will introduce you to France’s largest all-female rationing campaign from World War I. Afterward, guest curator Tim Medland will talk about his show breaking down the ways in which Allied countries warned of espionage during World War II.
5:30pm How to Read a Poster with Melissa Walker $25
Posters are designed to communicate a message clearly and quickly, and, as such, are naturally easy to read. Poster connoisseurs, however, observe elements and references that the general public may miss. Join Collections Manager Melissa Walker for an in-depth tutorial on how to read a poster, featuring posters from upcoming exhibitions and the Poster House Permanent Collection. Learn to decode a poster and understand the secrets hidden just beneath the surface in this enlightening and entertaining program.
5, 6, 7pm Ajna Dance Performance
In honor of the celebrated exhibition Air India’s Maharaja: Advertising Gone Rogue, Poster House is pleased to welcome Ajna Dance Company to First Friday for an evening of Indian dance performances. Stop by the museum at 5, 6, and 7 PM for your chance to watch this engaging medley of Bollywood and Bhangra dance. Be sure to arrive promptly on the hour as not to miss these exciting but brief performances.
7:00pm The Dragon Sisters Performance
For one night only, Poster House is becoming The House of the Dragon with a special visit from The Dragon Sisters. If you missed this powerhouse duo at our Block Party this summer, you don’t want to make the same mistake twice. Grab your friends, your dancing shoes, and your singles for this iconic performance.

First Friday: Ajna Dance Performance
2022-12-02 17:00 - 19:00
Join Poster House on the First Friday of every month for free admission and extended hours! Explore the museum’s latest exhibitions and get in on the fun by attending a tour, workshop, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection.
In honor of the celebrated exhibition Air India’s Maharaja: Advertising Gone Rogue, Poster House is pleased to welcome Ajna Dance Company to First Friday for an evening of Indian dance performances. Stop by the museum at 5, 6, and 7 PM for your chance to watch this engaging medley of Bollywood and Bhangra dance. Be sure to arrive promptly on the hour as not to miss these exciting but brief performances.

First Friday: The Dragon Sisters Performance
2022-12-02 19:00 - 20:30
Join Poster House on the First Friday of every month for free admission and extended hours! Explore the museum’s latest exhibitions and get in on the fun by attending a tour, workshop, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection.

For one night only, Poster House is becoming The House of the Dragon with a special visit from The Dragon Sisters. If you missed this powerhouse duo at our Block Party this summer, you don’t want to make the same mistake twice. Grab your friends, your dancing shoes, and your singles for this iconic performance.

Posters & Cocktails: Yes Chef!
2022-12-06 18:30 - 20:00
Posters House’s favorite tipsy trio is ready to help you get in the mood for all the big meals you’ll be eating this holiday season! That’s right, this is Posters & Cocktails: Feasting Edition.
Join Chief Curator Angelina Lippert as she acts as emcee for another booze-fueled evening celebrating all things food and the many cocktails created by your favorite historic eateries.
Nicholas Lowry of Swann Auction Galleries will be our head chef, guiding us through a menu of visual delights. Accompanying him is Poster House’s resident mixologist, Don Spiro of The Green Fairy Society, acting as bartender and sommelier as he explores the storied past of restaurants that created their own signature drinks.
This series is hosted for free over Zoom thanks to the generous support of Don Lebowitz and Claudia Wagner. See below for a complete list of cocktail ingredients so you can follow along at home and taste some of these delectable beverages!
DRY MARTINI
Gin
Dry /French vermouth
Olive or lemon twist
Martini glass
PEGUCLUB
Gin
lime juice
Angostura bitters
Orange liqueur
Cocktail coupe
ARNAUD’S FRENCH 7
Cognac
Sugar
Lemon Juice
Champagne
Champagne flute
WALDORF
Absinthe, to rinse
rye whiskey
Sweet vermouth
Angostura bitters
Garnish: lemon twist (optional)
lemon twist
Cocktail coupe

This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. ASL interpretation is available upon request with two weeks notice — please email Sarit@posterhouse.org to request interpretation services. A recording of this event will be made available for all registered attendees. Questions about accessibility? Please contact Sarit Cahana, Access Coordinator, at Sarit@posterhouse.org.

PH x Teens: One Bright Night
2022-12-09 15:30 - 18:00
What better way to celebrate the holiday season than through creativity? Inspired by the exhibition Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes, in which artists use addition, subtraction, and multiplication to alter posters into new works of art, teens will create their own holiday-themed papier-mâché collages on mason jar candle holders. These bright, festive lanterns will make great personalized gifts!
PH x Teens: One Bright Night is a drop-in program for young adults ages 13 to 18. Advanced registration is encouraged, but participants are not expected to stay the entire time; guests should plan to spend about an hour on this interactive, self-guided activity.

Poster House x TDC Holiday Party
2022-12-09 18:00 - 21:00
Celebrate the end of the year at the Poster House x TDC Holiday Party!
Join us for everyone’s favorite design party featuring full access to the museum and Poster House’s current exhibitions, typographic raffle prizes from around the world, and free drinks for the first 50 attendees, courtesy of Work Type IPA and Ghia! Poster House and TDC Members get a 20% discount at the bar thereafter.
Proceeds from the raffle go to supporting our programming including Poster House educational outreach for school tours and TDC’s salons and scholarships.
Poster and lettering for this event created by Vera van de Seyp.
Drinks provided by Ghia, The Working Assembly, and others.
Prizes provided by WorldlyTypes and Poster House.

Poster Kids: Make It Art
2022-12-11 09:15 - 10:15
This month, join Poster Kids and explore the exhibition Masked Vigilantes On Silent Motorbikes. This show focuses on artists who incorporate posters into their work. Together, we’ll discover key differences between posters and fine art. Afterward, we will embellish and reconfigure posters to turn them into our own unique art.
Materials:

colorful and/or patterned paper
glue stick
scissors
paint-sticks and/or permanent markers
a full page print of any poster you love or one you find on our website (can be in color or black and white)

This online event will be hosted on Zoom. Closed Captioning will be provided. Poster Kids will not be recorded due to the presence of minors. Questions about accessibility? Please email Sarit Cahana, Accessibility Coordinator at access@posterhouse.org.

Poster Kids: Make It Art
2022-12-11 10:30 - 12:15
This month, join Poster Kids and explore the exhibition Masked Vigilantes On Silent Motorbikes. This show focuses on artists who incorporate posters into their work. Together, we’ll discover key differences between posters and fine art. Afterward, we will embellish and reconfigure posters to turn them into our own unique art.
Join Poster House on select Sunday mornings from 10:30am–12:15pm for a family-friendly, interactive poster tour and a related art-making experience. Admission is free; advanced registration is required.
This program invites children 5–11 years old and their adults to collaborate (siblings are welcome). This is not a drop-off program.

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: With My Little Eye
2022-12-13 16:00 - 17:00
Every month, Poster House offers virtual Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for community members who are blind or have low vision.
In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we offer our description tours online through Zoom. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows and permanent collection.
This tour will focus on With My Little Eye: Warnings For The Homefront, on view at Poster House through April 16 2023.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call ‪(914) 295-2387 to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing Zoom the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 70 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our accessibility tours, click the Accessibility filter at the top of our Events page, call (914) 295-23873, or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Members-Only Tour Bruno Munari: The Child Within
2023-01-07 15:00 - 17:00
Poster House Members are invited to a private tour of Bruno Munari: The Child Within at the Center for Italian Modern Art in SoHo. Munari was an accomplished artist, inventor, graphic designer, and a designer of objects who prioritized the idea of play in all his work. This exhibition focuses on the children’s books that he wrote, designed, and illustrated. These books were not meant just to be seen, but to be interacted with as conduits for play and imagination.

Someone Talked! WWII Espionage Posters
2023-01-10 18:00 - 19:00
Poster House is pleased to welcome military poster expert Mel Meehan in conversation with guest curator Tim Medland on the acclaimed exhibition With My Little Eye: Warnings from the Homefront. This program will cover propaganda posters from around the world produced during World War II that explore the theme of espionage and its risks. Ranging from chilling to cheeky, these images showcase how each of the Allied countries took a different approach to warning its citizens of spies. Questions Strongly encouraged!

This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. ASL interpretation is available upon request with two weeks notice — please email access@posterhouse.org to request interpretation services. A recording of this event will be made available for all registered attendees. Questions about accessibility? Please contact Sarit Cahana, Access Coordinator, at Access@posterhouse.org.

Members-Only Tour: Kapoor Galleries
2023-01-19 18:00 - 20:00
Poster House is pleased to partner with Kapoor Galleries for this exclusive tour of their space in honor of Air-India’s Maharaja: Advertising Gone Rogue. As the curatorial juggernaut behind this incredible exhibition, Kapoor Galleries approached the posters from the perspective of India’s rich artistic heritage. Now is your chance to see museum-quality pieces that inspired many of the posters on view in the show, from miniature paintings to ancient bronze sculptures.
Led by the owner and director of Kapoor Galleries, Sanjay Kapoor, this private tour of the gallery will introduce you to dazzling imagery and a deeper appreciation for Indian art.

Poster Kids: Grow It!
2023-01-22 10:30 - 12:15
In this food-focused Poster Kids program, we will look at propaganda and advertisements from around the world featuring food. At our gallery stops, we’ll share memories, plan meals, and write recipes. Then, we’ll head to the workshop space where we’ll plant our own take-home gardens.
Join Poster House on select Sunday mornings from 10:30am–12:15pm for a family-friendly, interactive poster tour and a related art-making experience. Admission is free; advanced registration is required.
This program invites children 5–11 years old and their adults to collaborate (siblings are welcome). This is not a drop-off program.

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Winter Wonderland
2023-01-24 16:00 - 17:00
Every month, Poster House offers virtual Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for community members who are blind or have low vision.
In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we offer our description tours online through Zoom. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows and permanent collection.
This month’s tour will focus on winter travel posters.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call ‪(914) 295-2387 to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing Zoom the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 70 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our accessibility tours, click the Accessibility filter at the top of our Events page, call (914) 295-23873, or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Anchor in Continuum Dance Performance
2023-01-27 19:30 - 20:00
Poster House is thrilled to welcome dancer and choreographer Shira Kagan-Shafman and violinist and composer Leandria Lott for a new performance piece created in conversation with the exhibition Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes. Much like the acclaimed exhibition, this production blurs the boundaries among multiple artistic mediums. Together, the pair will explore the tension between the inevitability of change and the permanence of time, allowing viewers to experience a Poster House exhibition in a new and engaging way.
Shira Kagan-Shafman (she/her) is a dancer and choreographer based in New York City. In 2021, she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Dance from The New School and spent time in Israel participating in DanceJerusalem and Batsheva Dance Company’s Summer Course for outstanding dance students. She has performed professionally in works by Caitlin Corbett, Kelley Donovan, Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp, Peggy Florin, Dean Moss, Rebecca Stenn, Jess Pretty, Mariana Valencia, and Joanna Kotze. Additionally, she participated in the Arts on Site Residency and Retreat, developing her work To Breathe Over Seas that premiered at Arts on Site in December 2021 and was restaged in March 2022.Currently, Kagan-Shafman works for Ephrat Asherie Dance.
Leandria Lott (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based, multi-faceted musician, teacher, composer, and artist. Their passion has ignited her to explore music around the world. She has performed and participated in workshops and classes in the United Kingdom and Italy, and has toured The Virgin Islands. She has also performed with Stevie Wonder and Kirk Franklin. They work with Arts on Site as a Community Leader, and they are on the board of B.R.I.D.G.E Orchestra, a hip hop orchestra based in Brooklyn, where they act as the Marketing Manager. They play guitar, violin, and sing in the band The Royal Green Rangers with bandmate Brittany Harris.
Image of dancer taken by Noor Eemaan, image of violinist by Steph Russell.

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: New Orleans Travel Posters
2023-02-21 16:00 - 17:00
Every month, Poster House offers virtual Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for community members who are blind or have low vision.
In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we offer our description tours online through Zoom. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows and permanent collection.
This month’s tour will focus on New Orleans travel posters.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call ‪(914) 295-2387 to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing Zoom the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 70 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our accessibility tours, click the Accessibility filter at the top of our Events page, call (914) 295-2387, or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

First Friday
2023-03-03 10:00 - 21:00
Join Poster House on the First Friday of every month for free admission and extended hours! Explore the museum’s latest exhibitions and get in on the fun by attending a tour, workshop, performance, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection.
1pm: Exhibition Design Tour
Ever wonder how an exhibition comes together? Join Poster House Director of Design & Exhibits, Ola Baldych, for a design-focused tour of the museum’s latest exhibitions, Made in Japan & Black Power to Black People. Learn about the inspirations for these incredible installations and the behind-the-scenes decisions that go into crafting a seamless visitor experience. Questions strongly encouraged!
6:30pm: In-Person Archives Tour
Don’t miss this rare and exclusive opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at Poster House’s permanent collection! Led by Collections Manager Melissa Walker, this intimate tour will give 10 people the chance to explore highlights from the museum’s collection of over 10,000 posters from around the world. Catch sneak previews of upcoming exhibition material, take a peek at recent acquisitions for the Living Archive, and get up close and personal with the museum’s growing collection. Members receive 20% off by entering their email at checkout!
6:30pm: Thermal Paper Art Workshop
This workshop will introduce beginners to the art and technology of thermal paper printing (printing without ink). Learn how to “hack” receipt technology by printing your own receipts and altering existing ones through heat transfer. Participants will also experiment with printmaking techniques, including monotype printing on receipt paper. By the end of this workshop, you will never look at a receipt in the same way again! Members receive 20% off by entering their email at checkout!
Instructor will provide all materials; however, participants will need to download an app on their smartphones for printing.
7pm: Butoh Performance
Poster House is pleased to welcome the New York Butoh Institute for a special performance in honor of the museum’s latest exhibition, Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art. Experience Butoh, the avant-garde dance form born in Japan in the 1950s, in conversation with this vibrant, colorful exhibition. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to witness contemporary Butoh up close!

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Made in Japan
2023-03-07 16:00 - 17:00
Every month, Poster House offers virtual Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for community members who are blind or have low vision.
In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we offer our description tours online through Zoom. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows and permanent collection.
This month’s tour will focus on the new exhibition Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call ‪(914) 295-2387 to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing Zoom the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 70 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our accessibility tours, click the Accessibility filter at the top of our Events page, call (914) 295-2387, or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Black Power to Black People Virtual Curatorial Tour
2023-03-07 18:00 - 19:00
Join curator Es-pranza Humphrey for a virtual tour of Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party. Learn how the Black Panther Party devised a graphic language to reaffirm Black humanity and decommodify Black life. Explore the bold language and striking graphics that exposed the public to radical images that captured a shift in tone in the fight for civil rights. Questions strongly encouraged!
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees’ cameras off. Automatic closed captioning will be provided. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request with two weeks notice — please email access@posterhouse.org to request interpretation services. A recording of this event will be made available for all registered attendees.
Questions about accessibility? Please contact Sarit Cahana, Access Coordinator, at access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387‬.
For all other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org

PH x Teens: Counterculture Collage
2023-03-10 15:30 - 18:00
In celebration of our new exhibitions Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art and Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party, teens are invited to create a counterculture collage on notebooks.
Artists Yokoo Tadanori and Tanaami Keiichi, featured in Made in Japan, and many designers featured in Black Power to Black People contributed to the growing anti-establishment movement of the 60s, known as counterculture, in response to the civil rights movement, anti-war efforts, and anti-censorship movements. These artists utilized collage, digital media, and radical imagery to make bold and progressive demands to change the status quo.
Inspired by their work, teens will design their own radical counterculture message using collage. After they complete their notebooks, teens are encouraged to take what they create into the exhibits to explore.
PH x Teens is a drop-in program for young adults ages 13 to 18. Advanced registration is encouraged, but participants are not expected to stay the entire time; guests should plan to spend about an hour on this interactive, self-guided activity.

We Act As If It Is Possible: Black Feminist Aesthetics for Black Power
2023-03-29 18:00 - 19:00
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”––Angela Davis
In honor of Women’s History Month, Poster House is pleased to welcome Eesha Pandit and Robin Boylorn of the Crunk Feminist Collective to discuss the long-standing impact of a Black feminist aesthetic on the art of the movements that build Black Power. Taking images from Poster House’s permanent collection and current exhibition Black Power to Black People, this wide-ranging conversation will explore images and ephemera created by and of Black cis and trans women that forge a visual style in service of radically transforming the world. Questions strongly encouraged!
Dr. Robin M. Boylorn is an accomplished scholar, activist, writer, speaker, and thinker. Her work concentrates on ways of documenting marginalized lives and making those narratives accessible and available to wide audiences. She seeks to give voice to silenced experiences and offer strategies for talking about and across difference (in its many manifestations). Boylorn is the author of Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience and co-editor of The Crunk Feminist Collection.
Eesha Pandit is a Houston-based writer and activist. She is cofounder and Managing Partner at The Center for Advancing Innovative Policy (CAIP). Pandit specializes in working with a broad range of organizations, including community groups, national organizations, local and state leaders, coalitions, and funders to create innovative policy advocacy strategies that succeed in fostering progressive policy change and in building vital connections across movements. Her writing can be found at The Crunk Feminist Collective, Salon, Feministing, The Nation, RH Reality Check, Feministe, Bitch Magazine, and In These Times.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees’ cameras off. Automatic closed captioning will be provided. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request with two weeks notice — please email access@posterhouse.org to request interpretation services.
A recording of this event will be made available for all registered attendees.
Questions about accessibility? Please contact Sarit Cahana, Access Coordinator, at access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387‬.
For all other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org

First Friday
2023-04-07 10:00 - 21:00
Join Poster House on the First Friday of every month for free admission and extended hours! Explore the museum’s latest exhibitions and get in on the fun by attending a tour, workshop, performance, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection.
12pm Upstander Intervention Training
In response to recent homophobic and transphobic incidents in the neighborhood and the city at large, Poster House is partnering with the New York City Anti-Violence Project to offer an upstander intervention training. Learn de-escalation strategies and how to safely intervene when witnessing or experiencing violence. All levels of experience are welcome to attend this comprehensive training.
3:00pm Black Power to Black People Curatorial Tour
Join curator Es-pranza Humphrey for a tour of Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party. Learn how the Black Panther Party devised a graphic language to reaffirm Black humanity and decommodify Black life. Explore the bold language and striking graphics that exposed the public to radical images that captured a shift in tone in the fight for civil rights. Questions strongly encouraged!
3:30pm PH x Teens: Making the Message
Teens are invited to a special a back-to-back PH x Teens event!
In partnership with the Young Lordes Collective, PH x Teens invites you to a zine making workshop. The YLC will facilitate a discussion about the use of posters/pamphlets/other printable media in activism. After discussion, teens will make a zine about something that they are passionate about. Teens are encouraged to be as creative as they please. After they create their zines, teens are encouraged to explore Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party.
PH x Teens is a drop-in program for young adults ages 13 to 18. Advanced registration is encouraged, but participants are not expected to stay the entire time; guests should plan to spend about an hour on this interactive, self-guided activity.
5:30pm PH x Teens: Watercolor Haiku
Teens are invited to a special a back-to-back PH x Teens event!
Inspired by Satō Kochi’s Five Seasons (1988), teens are invited to learn how to write a haiku using watercolor and calligraphy. Participants will take home a finished artwork, and are encouraged to explore the exhibition Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art.
PH x Teens is a drop-in program for young adults ages 13 to 18. Advanced registration is encouraged, but participants are not expected to stay the entire time; guests should plan to spend about an hour on this interactive, self-guided activity.
7pm PH X College: Student Movements & the Black Panther Party
Did you know that many members of the Black Panther Party were students? College students are invited to this special tour and talkback led by Poster House Educator Rayyan Mikati. Learn more about the Black Panther Party’s history of student organizing and students’ roles in the civil rights and Black Power movements. Questions strongly encouraged!
