First Friday
2023-11-03 10:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | NY
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. This month, our education team is taking over First Friday to highlight the museum’s education offerings.

10:30am–12:30pm: Pint-Sized Posters Family Program
This drop-in program for toddlers and children of all ages (accompanied by their adults) focuses on the posters in our new exhibitions Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde and We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020. Explore the galleries guided by Poster House’s Kids Cards, then stop by our workshop space to create colorful prints of your own.
1pm: We Tried to Warn You Tour
Join Poster House Educator Maya Varadaraj for a drop-in tour of We Tried to Warn You: Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020. Explore the global history of environmental activism through graphic design. Questions are strongly encouraged!
3pm: Art Deco Tour
Join Poster House Educator Maya Varadaraj for a drop-in tour of Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde. Learn about the rise and fall of what we now know as Art Deco through this in-depth exhibition exploring the global phenomenon of avant-garde commercial advertising. Questions are strongly encouraged!
3:30–5pm: PH x Teens – Vintage Playlist with the Young Lordes Collective
Join the Young Lordes Collective (YLC) for a special edition of PH x Teens at Poster House and make vinyl record covers that promote environmental activism.
Inspired by albums of the 1970s that used natural elements to spread messages of environmental awareness, this activity will allow you to design your own record cover using watercolor paint, collage, and/or letterpress techniques. Don’t forget to include your environmental activism playlist on the back! —
At the intersection of artistry and activism, the Young Lordes Collective (YLC) is a grassroots artist-activist youth collective that aims to create a growing and breathing network of underrepresented New Yorkers. Since March 2021, the Young Lords Collective has cultivated a generative space for community-based learning, care, and revolutionary struggle for the emerging artists and activists of our generation. Through multimedia publications, mutual aid initiatives, food drives, open mic nights, educational discussions, and more, the Young Lordes Collective pays homage to activist groups of the past by uplifting the change makers of the future.
PH x Teens is a drop-in program for young adults ages 13 to 18. Advanced registration is required; participants are not expected to stay the entire time. Guests should plan to spend about an hour on this interactive, self-guided activity.
6–7pm: PH x College – We Are The Future! Youth Movements and Environmental Justice
Today’s students have come of age during a time of environmental crises. In this special tour and talkback of We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020, college students are invited to come together and discuss the role of youth in environmental justice movements—past, present, and future.
Poster House Educator, Rayyan Mikati, will guide this conversation toward historical inquiry and speculative imagination. Questions and comments are strongly encouraged!
6:30-8pm Loving with Three Hearts Sins Invalid Film Screening & Discussion
Poster House is thrilled to welcome Lorenzo Van Ness (they/them/elle) from Sins Invalid for a screening and discussion of Loving with Three Hearts. After the viewing, there will be a discussion on the intersection of climate justice and disability justice. Special attention will be paid to how Sins Invalid utilizes performance to explore these connections.
Please note that while Poster House is mask-optional, this event is mask-mandatory. Masks and clear masks will be provided.
Accessibility notes: This film will have an audio description and captions. There will be an ASL interpreter and assistive listening devices provided. Fidget tools will be available.
To view the social narrative for the event, click here: Loving with Three Hearts Film and Talkback Social Narrative.
To address further access needs, please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387.
Lorenzo Van Ness is a queer, trans, Dominican lifelong New Yorker. They have worked in the legal field as a non-attorney as well as an organizer. They’re passionate about building access for people pushed to the margins, supporting community, and continuously growing their knowledge.

Indigenous History is Poster History
2023-11-08 12:30 - 14:00
Poster House is pleased to welcome graphic designer and scholar Sadie Redwing for a wide-ranging conversation on Indigenous poster history and graphic communication. Describing the perspective of Indigenous ideology in visual communication is very challenging—especially to an audience who does not understand the harm of cultural appropriation. Indigenous sensitivity to appropriation is not taken into consideration when designing for representational material or identifying a traditional presence in the common world. Native Americans rely on stereotypes to distinguish themselves from other cultures. The struggle to display an accurate tribal identity derives from oppression and historical trauma through Western education. American Indian boarding schools erased the traditional image of a Native American that left tribal students uncertain of who they were as people.
As Indigenous peoples progress from the American Indian Boarding School era, the urge to distinct tribes from Pan-Indianism forces a greater responsibility from Indigenous designers to visually communicate sovereignty. The role of an Indigenous visual communicator requires the practice of visual sovereignty, or decolonizing the stereotypical representation into a traditional image for cultural education. Indigenous visual communicators have the power to give Native Americans a respected-face in the world by revealing tribal visual languages in visual communication. The rising movement of visual sovereignty in Indigenous visual communication has revolutionized a new fight against stereotypes and continues to revitalize an honorable image away from the subordinate portrayal of indigenous peoples.
Sadie Red Wing is a Lakota/Dakota graphic designer and advocate from the Spirit Lake Nation. Red Wing earned her BFA in New Media Arts and Interactive Design at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She received her Master of Graphic Design from North Carolina State University. Her research on cultural revitalization through design tools and strategies created a new demand for tribal competence in graphic design research. Red Wing urges Native American graphic designers to express visual sovereignty in their design work, as well as, encourages academia to include an indigenous perspective in design curriculum. Currently, Red Wing serves as an Assistant Professor at OCAD University (Toronto, ONT).
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

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Global Deco
2023-11-14 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 or Educators, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows and permanent collection.
This month’s tour will focus on Global Art Deco.
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.

Art Deco Metropolis
2023-11-29 12:00 - 13:00
The Chrysler Building, the Waldorf-Astoria, Rockefeller Center—these are among the hundreds of Art Deco monuments that during the 1920s and ‘30s helped create the image of New York City as the world’s modern metropolis. In New York, Art Deco evolved through a series of Manhattan skyscrapers into the city’s chief architectural language. Following a massive reawakening of interest in them during the 1970s, New York’s Deco buildings survive today as prized remnants of a distant yet modern past that still help define the city’s visual identity.
This lecture is presented by Anthony W. Robins, Vice-President of the Art Deco Society of New York and author of New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture and will cover the great skyscrapers of architects Raymond Hood, William Van Alen, Ely Jacques Kahn, and Ralph Walker, including the Daily News, Empire State, Irving Trust, General Electric, American Radiator, Barclay-Vesey, and RCA Buildings. It will trace the adaptation of this “skyscraper style” through apartment buildings on the Bronx’s Grand Concourse, airport terminals at LaGuardia, the Central Park West residential skyline, automated midtown parking garages, diners, night-clubs, hotels, department stores, banks, and Radio City Music Hall.
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
2023-12-01 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.

3pm Billion Oyster Project Presentation
Learn about Billion Oyster Project‘s vision of a future in which New York Harbor is the center of a rich, diverse, and abundant estuary from Public Outreach Manager Agata Poniatowski. The communities that surround this complex ecosystem have helped construct it, and in return benefit from it, with endless opportunities for work, education, and recreation. The harbor is a world-class public space, well used and well cared for—our Commons. Billion Oyster Project hopes to restore one billion oysters by the year 2035 through public education initiatives working to involve one million people! Learn about our work and how to get involved.
4pm We Tried to Warn You Curatorial Tour
Join Poster House Guest Curator Tim Medland for a drop-in tour of We Tried to Warn You: Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020. Explore the global history of environmental activism through graphic design. Questions are strongly encouraged!
5pm Alt Text as Poetry Workshop
Posters are a visual medium. How can they be made more accessible to the blind and low vision community? Poster House is thrilled to welcome Finnegan Shannon (they/them) and Bojana Coklyat (she/her) as they lead visitors through a workshop on how to reframe alt text (short, written descriptions of images) as a type of poetry. Inspired by posters from the museum’s collection, visitors will practice writing, discussing, and reframing this type of accessible writing. To learn more about this larger project, visit the Alt Text as Poetry website.

Accessibility Notes:
An ASL interpreter and assistive listening devices will be provided. Seating will include stools and chairs. Tactile posters and fidget tools will also be available.
To view the social narrative for the event, click here: Alt Text as Poetry Social Narrative.
Poster House is wheelchair accessible, with an automatic front door, accessible restrooms, and elevator access.
Please note that while the museum is mask optional, masking for this event is mandatory. Clear masks and N95 masks will be provided.
We always appreciate visitors reaching out to discuss further accessibility needs or questions. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or 914.295.2387.

6:30pm Non-traditional Collage Workshop $15
Poster House is pleased to welcome artist Max Colby for a nontraditional collage workshop. Inspired by We Tried to Warn You: Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020, guests will use recycled supplies from Materials For The Arts to create experimental textural collages. No previous experience required.
7pm Gatsby Entertainment Dance Performance
Celebrate Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde with a performance by Gatsby Entertainment, New York’s premiere Jazz-Age dance troupe. Enjoy the hottest dances of the 1920s performed by expert dancers in full period costume.

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: We Tried to Warn You!
2023-12-12 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 or Educators, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows and permanent collection.
This month’s tour will focus on the new exhibition, We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020.
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.

Rediscovering New York’s Art Deco Architecture
2024-01-09 13:00 - 14:00
On January 11, 1982, a dozen admirers of Art Deco gathered in the Murray Hill apartment of interior designer Henriette Nathan to hold the first official meeting of the newly incorporated Art Deco Society of New York. Interest in the modernistic styles of the 1920s and ‘30s had been growing worldwide since a seminal Paris retrospective exhibition of 1966, and a number of New York’s Deco superstars––Radio City Music Hall, the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building––had found shelter under the city’s 1965 Landmarks Law. The revival of interest in Art Deco, however, was still in its early days. Forty years later, Art Deco may be the single most recognizable architectural style in New York City, where more than 80 individual Deco buildings have won Landmarks protection, along with dozens more in historic districts, including a stretch of the Grand Concourse.
In this lecture, Anthony W. Robins––who joined ADSNY while the Society was still getting organized and currently serves as its Vice President––will trace the extraordinary growth of New York’s fascination with Art Deco architecture and its rocky road to acceptance in historic preservation circles. Robins witnessed much of that story while on staff at the Landmarks Preservation Commission, where he wrote the designation reports of half-a-dozen Deco landmarks. He will revisit resounding victories, from rescuing Radio City in the late 1970s to the interiors of the Waldorf-Astoria in 2017. He will also highlight major restorations, from the Empire State Building’s lobby to the Orchard Beach Bathhouse, and recount some of the lamentable losses––from Bonwit Teller, demolished in 1980, to the McGraw Hill Building lobby, stripped to the walls in 2021––serving as a reminder that there is still work to be done.
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

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Advertising India’s Sandalwood Film Industry
2024-01-25 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 or Educators, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows and permanent collection.
This month’s tour will focus on the new exhibition, Advertising India’s Sandalwood Film Industry.
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.

Talking Loud & Sayin’ Nothin’: Artist Talk & Print Sale with Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.
2024-01-26 18:30 - 20:00
Poster House is thrilled to host an artist talk and print sale with the one and only Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear directly from one of the most prolific and lauded letterpress printers in the United States, in conversation with Poster House Chief Curator Angelina Lippert. A longtime friend of the museum known for his distinctive, layered printing style and strong political and social commentary, Kennedy will discuss his process and approach to printmaking. In addition to being the subject of The Letterpress Posters of Amos Kennedy at the museum in 2020, his work is currently featured in We Tried To Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970-2020. Four of his posters are also on display as part of the permanent Poster History Timeline. Immediately following the talk, Amos will have a selection of posters available for purchase, so bring your questions and your cash!
Accessibility Note: Masks and clear masks are available free of charge at the museum. Assistive listening devices and stools are available. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs. For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org

First Friday: Art Deco Curatorial Tour
2024-02-02 16:00 - 17:00
Join Poster House Chief Curator Angelina Lippert for a guided tour of the acclaimed exhibition Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde. This show chronicles the rise and fall of what would come to be known as Art Deco, starting with the 1925 Paris Exhibition where various factions of the European avant-garde were distilled through commercial endeavors to become the visual language of capitalism, and ending as Deco graphics became more nationalistic in the lead up to World War II. Questions encouraged!
Accessibility Note: Masks and clear masks are available free of charge at the museum. Assistive listening devices and stools are available. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs. For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org

First Friday: Gettin’ Fishy with Miss Toto–Drag & Tag Presentation and Performance
2024-02-02 18:30 - 19:00
What do sharks and drag queens have in common? More than you would think! Poster House is pleased to welcome the iconic Miss Toto for a performance and marine science presentation inspired by the hit exhibition We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020. Learn about Miss Toto’s contributions to monitoring shark populations off the coast of Florida, recently featured in Scientific American.
Accessibility Note: Masks and clear masks are available free of charge at the museum. Assistive listening devices and stools are available. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs. For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org

We Tried To Warn You! Exhibition Talk at the Clark
2024-02-04 16:00 - 17:00
For the last half-century, artists and designers all over the world over have sought to express the urgency of environmental issues in graphic terms—and to spark action. Their efforts have met with tragically little success, but the variety and ingenuity of their appeals is astounding. Tim Medland, curator of the current exhibition at Poster House in New York, We Tried to Warn You!, joins Clark curator of contemporary projects, Robert Wiesenberger, for an introduction to the exhibition and a conversation about what it might take to get the message across.
This event takes place at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, located at 225 South St, Williamstown, MA 01267.

In Their Own Words: Art Deco Architects Speak
2024-02-06 12:00 - 13:00
The great Art Deco skyscrapers—the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building—were designed by socially prominent architects, often of old New York stock. But a generation of lesser-known architects and builders—new to the profession and often new to the country—helped spread the Deco style across the more modest, but also more numerous, middle-class landscapes of the city, from the Garment District to the Grand Concourse. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Anthony W. Robins had the good fortune to meet and interview three of those architects, and he recorded the interviews.
The three architects––Israel Crausman, Louis Allen Abramson, and Marvin Fine––came from varying backgrounds. This program explores the work of these architects—three of the dozens who helped transform the face of New York City in the 1920s and ‘30s—through their own words. In addition to Robins’s commentary, participants will hear the architects describe their buildings, their experiences, and their inspirations.
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: A Plant Grows at Poster House
2024-02-23 15:30 - 17:00
Welcome spring early this year by getting a start on your own mini-garden. Participants will choose from a variety of seeds and design their own flower pots. Inspired by the environmental messaging in We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970-2020 guests will then use collage to create a sustainable masterpiece.
PH x Teens – A Plant Grows at Poster House is a drop-in program for young adults ages 13 to 18. Advanced registration is required but participants are not expected to stay the entire time; guests should plan to spend about an hour on this interactive, self-guided activity.

Black History is Poster History
2024-02-27 12:00 - 13:30
From 1967 to 1980, Emory Douglas served as the official Revolutionary Artist and then Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party (BPP). In these positions, he art directed, designed, and created most of the illustrations—including the back page posters—for the Black Panther newspaper, spreading the Party’s message around the country if not the world. Almost sixty years later, he continues to advocate for securing what the Black Panther Party outlined in its famous ten-point program: “land, bread, justice, housing, and peace” for all people. By creating new posters as well as remixing and updating some from the Black Panther newspaper, Douglas maintains “All Power to the People” as his enduring graphic legacy.
Colette Gaiter is a Professor in the Departments of Africana Studies and Art & Design at the University of Delaware. After working in graphic design in New York City, she became an educator, artist, and writer. Her visual work, exhibited internationally, covers a range of media and forms, including artist books. Since 2005, she writes about former Black Panther artist Emory Douglas’s work, including his current international human rights artist activism. Her essays on his work appear in Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas (for which she wrote introductions to the 2014 edition and current third edition), and other books and publications. The 2022 book The Black Experience in Design includes her interview with Emory Douglas and an essay on evolving visual literacy.
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

Ebony It Girls: Black Women's Fashion of the 1920s
2024-03-22 18:30 - 20:00
An “It Girl” is a woman who defines the fashion, culture, and beauty of an era. During the early twentieth century, popular Black stage and screen performers defined Black women as fashion symbols. From Josephine Baker’s banana skirt to Florence Mills’s perfectly shaped bob, the Black female performer embodied sensuality, elegance, and beauty despite widespread anti-Blackness that had stripped these women of their humanity only decades prior. Black female performers were propelled to the status of celebrity by way of prioritizing and valuing fashion and dress.
This hybrid event will discuss the most notable performers of the 1920s and ‘30s who set out to define Black womanhood as assertive, beautiful, and sensual.
Es-pranza Humphrey is a historian of Black studies and museum educator based out of New York. She received her BA in History from the University of New Haven and her MA in American Studies from Columbia University. Her research has incorporated interdisciplinary approaches to spotlight the Black feminine identity expressed through various forms of performance art. Her latest research endeavors focus on the history of fashion as activism for Black women in the 20th century. She is currently the Assistant Curator of Collections at Poster House

Educator Happy Hour
2024-04-03 16:30 - 18:30
Poster House welcomes pre-K–University educators to view the museum’s new exhibitions and learn more about upcoming educational programming!
Join us for a complimentary happy hour at the museum, complete with drop-in exhibitions tours and a behind-the-scenes view of the Poster House archive. Chat with the Education team about field trips, in-school residencies, teen programs, and CTLE-certified teacher professional development. Poster House will be closed to the public, so attendees will also have private access to our new exhibitions, Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters, and The Anatomy of a Movie Poster: The Work of Dawn Baillie. Drop in anytime between 4:30pm and 6:30pm, and raise a glass with your fellow educators!
This is a drop-in event for pre-K-12 teachers and college/university professors. Advanced registration is required with a school email address; attendees can arrive anytime between 4:30pm and 6:30pm. Beer, wine, and light refreshments will be served, and we will be raffling off Poster House swag.
Accessibility Note: Masks and clear masks are available free of charge at the museum. Assistive listening devices and stools are available. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs. For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org

Members-Only Tour: Streetscapes & Subways
2024-04-04 18:00 - 19:00
Poster House Members are invited to a private tour of the Transit Museum in Brooklyn. Join Museum Curator Jodi Shapiro for an immersive, guided exploration of the museum’s platform level and vintage subway cars followed by a look at its exhibition, Streetscapes & Subways: Photographs by Pierre P. and Granville W. Pullis that provides a rare view of the last days of “old New York” through the lenses of two of the earliest photographers of subway construction.
This tour will take place at the Transit Museum, located at 99 Schermerhorn Street Brooklyn, NY 11201. Space is limited!

First Friday: Dirty Dancing Movie Screening
2024-04-05 13:00 - 14:30
The Anatomy of a Movie Poster: The Work of Dawn Baillie includes some of the most iconic and beloved posters in modern cinematic history. Throughout the exhibition, Poster House will screen a selection of films highlighted in the show. This First Friday, guests will enjoy a free screening of the classic film Dirty Dancing, one of the first movie posters Dawn Baillie worked on as lead designer.
Accessibility Note: Masks and clear masks are available free of charge at the museum. Assistive listening devices and stools are available. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs. For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org

First Friday: Travel Poster Collage Workshop
2024-04-05 18:00 - 19:00
Join artist Acacia Rodriguez to make a personalized collage poster inspired by the new exhibition Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters. Attendees will be encouraged to choose a location in NYC as the subject for their mixed-media artwork. While all materials will be provided, participants are welcome to bring their own images to integrate into their collage.
Accessibility Note: Masks and clear masks are available free of charge at the museum. Assistive listening devices and stools are available. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs. For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org

First Friday: Ajna Dance Performance
2024-04-05 19:00 - 19:30
Poster House is pleased to welcome back Ajna Dance Company for a special performance. Don’t miss their captivating medley of Bollywood and Bhangra dances inspired by the exhibition Advertising India’s Sandalwood Film Industry, on view at Poster House through April 14.
Accessibility Note: Masks and clear masks are available free of charge at the museum. Assistive listening devices and stools are available. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs. For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org

First Friday: It's Showtime NYC Dance Performance
2024-04-05 19:30 - 20:00
It wouldn’t be the New York subway without street dancers—so what better way to celebrate Poster House’s new exhibition Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters than with a performance by It’s Showtime NYC?! These skilled performers will activate the main gallery with dances commonly seen in public spaces throughout the city.
Accessibility Note: Masks and clear masks are available free of charge at the museum. Assistive listening devices and stools are available. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs. For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org.

Poster Kids: Lights, Camera, Action, & Movie Posters
2024-04-07 10:30 - 12:00
This month, Poster Kids will engage in dramatic play—strike some poses and participate in rounds of charades all while exploring the movie posters in our new exhibition The Anatomy of a Movie Poster: The Work of Dawn Baillie. Afterward, participants will enjoy a workshop focused on movie poster design!
Join Poster House on select Sunday mornings from 10:30am–12pm 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.
Accessibility Note: Masks and clear masks are available free of charge at the museum. Assistive listening devices and stools are available. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs. For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org.

Members-Only Tour: Advertising India’s Sandalwood Film Industry
2024-04-09 18:00 - 19:00
Poster House Members are invited to a private tour of the exhibition Advertising India’s Sandalwood Film Industry. Join curators Carly Johnson and Sophia Williamson as they discuss the fascinating history behind these posters. Learn about Southern India’s incredible movies and how they compete with the more well-known Bollywood genre. Afterward, feel free to explore the museum’s other hallway show, Creating Community: Event Posters for AIGA NY.
Light refreshments will be provided.

PH x Teens: Cinematic Flipbook
2024-04-19 15:30 - 18:00
Inspired by the exhibition The Anatomy of a Movie Poster: The Work of Dawn Baillie, teens will create flip books that depict a short animated scene from their favorite film. This program merges design with storytelling, allowing participants to explore concepts behind the world of movie-making.
PH x Teens: Cinematic Flipbook is a drop-in program for young adults ages 13 to 18. Advanced registration is required but participants are not expected to stay the entire time; guests should plan to spend about an hour on this interactive, self-guided activity.

Genius on Display: Jason Raish
2024-04-19 18:30 - 19:30
Genius on Display is thrilled to welcome illustrator, graphic designer, and educator Jason Raish to Poster House. During this artist’s talk, Jason will discuss his expansive career that includes familiar clients such as the New York Times, the MTA, and Lucas Films. Join us in person as we spotlight this incredible designer. Questions strongly encouraged!
Jason Raish is a Brooklyn-based freelance illustrator and educator at The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). Jason has worked with clients around the globe, including those based in Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, Barcelona, London, and Paris. He lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where you can find him jogging the park loop with his rescue husky, Dubu, tending to his rooftop vegetable garden, or mostly, illustrating in his home office with the shades down (the digital coal mine).
Accessibility Note: Masks and clear masks are available free of charge at the museum. Assistive listening devices and stools are available. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs. For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org.

Dafi Kühne: Poster Cult
2024-04-26 18:30 - 20:00
As one of Switzerland’s foremost poster designers, Dafi Kühne produces diverse work that plays with the contrast between old production tools and modern layouts. While printed on traditional presses from the 1960s, his posters do not look like typical letterpress prints. Instead, they connect to the history of letterpress production while pushing the boundaries through modern tools of what is possible. Through the use of of analog printing presses, computers, lasercutters, and freshly cast hot-metal-type, he creates wildly creative, large-format posters. From his vast letterpress studio in the Swiss Alps, Dafi Kühne simultaneously drives poster culture and upholds the cult of the poster. In this talk, Dafi will give insight into his processes and his approach to Swiss typographic poster design. To help illustrate this lecture, a selection of his posters will also be on view at the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York starting on April 23, 2024.
In-Person Accessibility Note: Masks and clear masks are available free of charge at the museum. Assistive listening devices and stools are available. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs. For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org

Poster Kids: Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
2024-05-05 10:30 - 12:00
This month’s Poster Kids is inspired by images in Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters. Together, we’ll explore our favorite destinations and create a special souvenir in honor of that place.
Join Poster House on select Sunday mornings from 10:30am–12pm 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.
Accessibility Note: Masks and clear masks are available free of charge at the museum. Assistive listening devices and stools are available. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs. For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org.

Members-Only Reception: Wonder City of the World
2024-05-08 18:00 - 21:00
Poster House invites you to a Members-only reception honoring Nicholas D. Lowry and Angelina Lippert as part of our five-year celebration.
On May 8, join us for a conversation with Lowry and Lippert about Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters, followed by a cocktail reception and book signing of the exhibition catalog, published by Cernunnos. Hear about their favorite stories behind the show and working together on Poster House’s very first publication as we pay tribute to these two incredible champions of the poster medium and their many contributions to the museum.
Nicholas Lowry is the President of Swann Auction Galleries and has served on the Advisory Board of Poster House since its inception, providing instrumental guidance to the museum as it grew. He is the curator of our anniversary exhibition Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters that tells the story of the city we know and love as it flourished into a world-class destination.
Angelina Lippert is the intrepid Chief Curator & Director of Content of Poster House who has curated over ten exhibitions in five years, given hundreds of tours, hosted scores of events, and ensured our signature high quality of exhibition programming for the museum.
Your support as a Member of Poster House is especially meaningful to us as a young institution. It helps us find our footing to engage with this community and learn more about our shared interests. In thanks, we hope we will be able to come together on this night to celebrate one of our most exciting milestones.

Curatorial Conversation with Dawn Baillie & Angelina Lippert
2024-05-22 18:30 - 20:00
Poster House is pleased to welcome Dawn Baillie in conversation with Chief Curator & Director of Content Angelina Lippert on the celebrated exhibition The Anatomy of a Movie Poster: The Work of Dawn Baillie. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear directly from the designer behind some of the world’s most iconic film posters and get a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the magic of the movie poster making process.
Accessibility Note: Masks and clear masks are available free of charge at the museum. Assistive listening devices and stools are available. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs. For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org.
