Poster House

Poster Kids: Poster Processes
2021-07-25 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)
Join Poster House on the last Sunday morning of every month, from 10–11am for a family-friendly, interactive, virtual poster tour and a related art-making experience. Admission is free; advanced registration is required in order to receive link access and a list of suggested materials. See below for details.
Poster designers have the big job of visually communicating messages to the masses. Join us for an interactive virtual tour that explores famous posters and talks about what makes them so effective. After the tour, you can participate in a collage-making workshop where we’ll try out some of the fun poster styles discussed.
Materials:
magazine/newspaper
colorful paper
white paper
scissors
gluestick

Intern Instagram Takeover: Erin
2021-07-28 09:00 - 17:00
Poster House’s second season of summer internships is almost finished.
Four amazing people joined the museum’s ten-week, paid summer internship program this July through August. They were afforded remote access to all parts of running a cultural organization, from collections management to public outreach, educational development to corporate membership. Over the next few weeks, they will be sharing their final projects, writing for the museum Blog, and creating unique social media content.
This Monday, Design Intern Erin Moore will be taking over Instagram Stories for a full day, exploring the Medu Art Ensemble of Botswana and how the collective used silkscreen techniques to fight apartheid in Africa in the 1970s and 80s.
Erin is a rising senior at the Maryland Institute College of Art, majoring in Printmaking. She is interested in book arts, hand-lettering, and zines.

Intern Instagram Takeover: Isabel
2021-08-02 09:00 - 17:00
Poster House’s second season of summer internships is almost finished.
Four amazing people joined the museum’s ten-week, paid summer internship program this July through August. They were afforded remote access to all parts of running a cultural organization, from collections management to public outreach, educational development to corporate membership. Over the next few weeks, they will be sharing their final projects, writing for the museum Blog, and creating unique social media content.
This Monday, Corporate Membership Intern Isabel Hou will be taking over Instagram Stories for a full day, exploring 100 years of poster design for the Olympic Games. She will be discussing compositional turning points and how those visual choices reflect different eras within the Games.
Isabel is an undergraduate sophomore at Cornell University majoring in Hotel Administration. She has spent the summer working to engage the corporate and public communities near Poster House. She loves posters because they combine the power of images with words, shaping culture and society through motives and meaning.

Art for an Equitable Cannabis Industry
2021-08-05 12:00 - 13:00
While drug reform was a central issue of Hunter S. Thomspon’s 1969 Freak Power campaign, it still remains at the forefront of civic discourse. How has society’s perception of marijuana evolved over the past 40 years? What drugs should be decriminalized?
Poster House is thrilled to partner with Lanese Martin, founder of The Hood Incubator, and artist & designer Bee Harris for a conversation on their recent collaboration as part of Amplifier Art’s Cannabis Justice Now campaign. This conversation will center on their creative poster intervention for a racially just approach to marijuana legalization as well as the intersection of art and politics on this crucial issue. Questions strongly encouraged!
Lanese Martin is an award-winning community organizer with a background in electoral campaigns, policy and advocacy on issues impacting Black people and the areas they work, live & play – Lanese supports projects that address systemic inequality. As co-Founder of The Hood Incubator, she guides the national grassroots organization’s mission to end the drug war and reverse its impacts on Black communities. Lanese also Chairs the City of Oakland’s Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Under Lanese’s leadership the city of Oakland has the most comprehensive equity program to date in the country.
Brittany Harris is an eclectic creator with a wide-range of interests and talents ranging from art to social justice. As a digital illustrator, she creates art with bold colors, abstract shapes, and charismatic characters that expresses Black femininity with power and style while giving voice to important social issues. As a social justice advocate, Brittany worked within an international non-profit where she supported advocacy programs designed to end poverty and further justice reform. Brittany holds her Masters of Arts in Educational Leadership, Politics, and Advocacy from New York University, a B.S. in Organizational Leadership from Colorado State University, and an A.A. in Apparel Management from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising.

We the News at Poster House
2021-08-07 12:00 - 16:00
Poster House is thrilled to welcome We The News, a traveling newsstand that documents, publishes, and distributes the stories of Black im/migrants and first-generation Black Americans. Stop by the museum to meet the artist behind this incredible project and to explore zines that share these important but overlooked narratives. While you’re here, be sure to check out Freak Power an exhibition that tells the story of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson’s bid to become sheriff of Aspen in 1970. Many of the posters in this show respond to issues of gentrification, citizens’ rights, and oppression—all concerns shared by We The News.
Lizania Cruz is a Dominican participatory artist, designer, and curator interested in how migration affects ways of being and belonging. Through research, oral history, and audience participation, she creates projects that highlight a pluralistic narrative on migration. Cruz has been an artist-in-residence and fellow at the Laundromat Project Create Change (2017-2019), Agora Collective Berlin (2018), Design Trust for Public Space (2018), Recess Session (2019), IdeasCity:New Museum (2019), Stoneleaf Retreat (2019), Robert Blackburn Workshop Studio Immersion Project (SIP) (2019), A.I.R. Gallery (2020-2021), BRIClab: Contemporary Art (2020-2021), Center for Book Arts (2020-2021), and Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Visual Arts (2021-2022).

Intern Instagram Takeover: Erica
2021-08-09 09:00 - 17:00
Poster House’s second season of summer internships is almost finished.
Four amazing people joined the museum’s ten-week, paid summer internship program this July through August. They were afforded remote access to all parts of running a cultural organization, from collections management to public outreach, educational development to corporate membership. Over the next few weeks, they will be sharing their final projects, writing for the museum Blog, and creating unique social media content.
This Monday, Collections Intern Erica Evans will be taking over the museum’s Instagram Stories for a full day, exploring posters featuring the Alps. Posters highlighting this geographic area combine awe-inspiring natural beauty, an interest in sports culture, and a desire to retreat from the grittiness of urban life.
Erica is a graduate student at Hunter College working toward her MA in Art History. She is writing her master’s thesis on the intersection of German Expressionism and Alpine culture. During her free time, she enjoys watching countless episodes of the Food Network show Chopped despite being a lackluster cook.

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Freak Power
2021-08-19 16:00 - 17:00
Every month, Poster House offers Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for community members who are blind or have low vision. Explore one of the museum’s shows with a museum educator trained in the art of verbal description and learn more about the history of printed posters.
In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we offer our description tours online through teleconference. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows.
This tour will focus on Freak Power, an exhibition of silkscreen posters and photographs documenting Hunter S. Thompson’s bid for sheriff of Aspen and the grassroots political movement that evolved out of those efforts.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by August 17 to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing the teleconference the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 70 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our Access Tours, click the Access filter at the top of our Events page, call 917.722.2439 x413 or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Fireside Chat: Stump the Specialist
2021-08-25 20:00 - 21:00
Join everyone’s favorite blazer-loving poster duo for the final Fireside Chat of the season on Instagram Live!
Angelina Lippert, Chief Curator at Poster House, and Nicholas Lowry, Director of Swann Auction Galleries, are two of the biggest personalities in the poster world. And they also happen to be best buddies! So why not spend your evening hanging out with them?
Ask questions, chime in, make requests, play along—no poster is off limits for these two!
This week, in what may be the Fireside Chat swansong, these two poster experts are going to play the game Stump the Specialist. Each will take turns trying to get the other to identify and talk about posters they haven’t seen before!
Just follow @posterhousenyc and @swanngalleries and tune in at 8pm for the best poster entertainment on the internet!
*This event has passed. Watch archived Fireside Chats on the “Our Friends” Highlight on our Instagram page!

Poster Kids: Hungry for Posters
2021-08-29 10:00 - 11:00
Join Poster House on the last Sunday morning of every month, from 10–11am for a family-friendly, interactive, virtual poster tour and a related art-making experience. Admission is free; advanced registration is required in order to receive link access and a list of suggested materials. See below for details.
Doesn’t food just make you…hungry? Posters advertising food are some of the earliest in the genre because food and drink appeal to everyone! Join us for an interactive tour of posters featuring foods from all over the world. After the tour, a workshop will show you how to create 3D food sculptures and talk about the temping tag lines we’d use if we were advertising them in posters. We can’t promise you won’t leave ready for some lunch!
Materials:
clay or playdough
paper
drawing pencils or colorful pencils

Ask a Curator Day
2021-09-15 10:00 - 18:00
September 15 is the 11th annual Ask a Curator Day!
Now is your chance to ask the Poster House curatorial team anything you want! Have a burning poster question? Want to know more about our collection? What does a curator do anyway?
Head to Instagram on September 15 to hear directly from Chief Curator Angelina Lippert all day. Want to make sure your question gets answered? Send it to her in advance and she’ll be sure to include it in her morning roundup!
#AskACurator

Museum Day: Free Museum Admission
2021-09-18 10:00 - 18:00
Poster House is thrilled to take part in Smithsonian Magazine‘s annual Museum Day! Enjoy free entry to the museum, as well as other museums and cultural institutions across the country, on Saturday, September 18. Visit our current exhibitions, stop by the cafe, and explore our Poster History Timeline, all for free!

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: The Push Pin Legacy
2021-09-23 16:00 - 17:30
Every month, Poster House offers Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for community members who are blind or have low vision. Explore one of the museum’s shows with a museum educator trained in the art of verbal description and learn more about the history of printed posters.
In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we offer our description tours online through teleconference. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows.
This tour will focus on The Push Pin Legacy, a show chronicling this landmark design studio in NYC and how it defined a generation of illustration art.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by September 21 to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing the teleconference the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 70 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our Access Tours, click the Access filter at the top of our Events page, call 917.722.2439 x413 or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Poster Kids: Push Pin and Play
2021-09-26 09:15 - 10:15
Join Poster House on the last Sunday morning of every month, from 9:15–10:15am for a family-friendly, interactive, virtual poster tour and a related art-making experience. Admission is free; advanced registration is required in order to receive link access and a list of suggested materials. See below for details.
Push Pin Studios was responsible for introducing the playful visual language of 1950s and 60s illustration to advertising. Join us for an interactive virtual tour of the current exhibition The Push Pin Legacy to discover what it means for a poster to be playful. Then, apply some of the techniques we discover as we make fun watercolor drawings of our own.
Materials:
watercolors
brushes
watercolor paper (or other thick paper)
a cup of water
paper towels
crayons
Interested in joining us in-person for this tour and workshop? Sign up to participate in-person from 10:30am-12:15pm here.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom. Closed Captioning will be provided. This event will not be recorded due to the presence of minors. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at salvador@posterhouse.org.

PH x College: Election Design and Personal Branding
2021-09-30 17:00 - 18:00
Kick off PH x College’s Fall 2021 series with our first event, “Election Design and Personal Branding!” Hear from leading graphic designer, design critic, and educator Michael Bierut on his experience designing Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign followed by a Q&A on design and branding. Learn how to apply those skills to yourself with award-winning digital communications professional and public speaker Brandi Boatner! Beyond her work as the social and influencer communications lead for IBM Global Markets, she speaks globally on a variety of industry and marketplace topics with a focus on personal branding. This event will teach students how to stand out from the crowd and define themselves to potential collaborators, clients, and employers!
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. A recording of the event will be made available for all registered attendees. Questions about accessibility? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at salvador@posterhouse.org.

First Friday
2021-10-01 10:00 - 20:00
Poster House is pleased to announce its latest public programming initiative, First Fridays! Starting October 1, the museum will be open for free with extended hours on the first Friday of every month. Stop by and see our current exhibitions and join in the fun by attending an activity, workshop, or performance throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection. Reserve your ticket or sign up for an activity today! Proof of vaccination and masks are required for entry; please see below for complete details.
11am: Coffy Movie Screening
Join Poster House for a matinee screening of the Blaxploitation classic, Coffy. Starring the iconic Pam Grier in the titular role, this gritty, action-packed movie defined the genre and continues to influence cinema and culture to this day. Stop by the Café before the screening to enjoy a Mimosa & Matinee special! Space is limited for this intimate screening, so be sure to reserve your tickets ASAP! *Note: Due to adult content, guests must be 18+ to attend this screening.
2pm: In-Person Archive Tour, $25
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!
5pm Fantasy Travel Posters Workshop
Inspired by the fantasy travel posters on display in The Push Pin Legacy, this workshop will guide participants through making their own travel posters for destinations both real and imagined. Led by artist, designer, and cultural worker M, this hands-on workshop will allow attendees to design a poster advertising their personal fantasy destination! n. All workshop materials will be provided. Space is limited; sign up today!
6:30pm DJ Ciara Chaii
Closing out First Friday is DJ Ciara Chaii! Join her by the Poster History Timeline as she spins hits inspired by the musical references in our current exhibitions. From disco to funk, Aretha to Mahalia, DJ Ciara Chaii will make sure to send you into the weekend in true ‘70s style. Bring your dancing shoes and hit the floor!
This event is in person at Poster House, with masks required. Poster House operates in compliance with the Key to NYC mandate. All museum visitors older than 12 must show proof that they have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccination records and IDs will be checked upon entry. Proof of vaccination may include:

NYC COVID Safe app: Android | iOS

Excelsior Pass

CDC Vaccination Card (or photo of card)

NYC Vaccination Record

An official immunization record from outside New York City or the United States.

Valid ID includes your name accompanied by a photograph such as:

Driver’s license

Government ID card

IDNYC card

Passport

School ID card

Person Place Thing with Jim McMullan
2021-10-04 18:00 - 19:30
Poster House is thrilled to partner with Randy Cohen for a live recording of his popular public radio series Person Place Thing. Tonight, he will be joined by the prolific designer and illustrator Jim McMullan, whose work appears extensively in the exhibition The Push Pin Legacy. McMullan has created images for countless magazine stories, books for adults and children, record covers, U.S. stamps, murals, and animated films. His best known work, however, is the series of over 80 posters he has done for Lincoln Center Theater, a selection of which is now on permanent display in the lobby of the Mitzi Newhouse Theater.
Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them. The result: surprising stories from great talkers and thinkers.
Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines. His first television work was writing for “Late Night With David Letterman” for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s “TV Nation.” He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. A recording of the event will be made available for all registered attendees. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at salvador@posterhouse.org.

Monyee Chau: Virtual Studio Tour
2021-10-06 19:30 - 20:30
Poster House is dedicated to celebrating all voices within the poster community. In an effort to share with our audience the widest array of poster talent, we are partnering with numerous young designers around the world to create Instagram Live Studio Tours—hour-long sessions on our Instagram account in which up and coming graphic artists give us a personalized peek inside their poster-making world.
Tonight, we are featuring Monyee Chau. Monyee Chau (They/Them, b. 1996) is a queer Taiwanese/Chinese American artist. Receiving their BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in 2018, they further their analysis of diaspora and decolonization with themes of labor, ancestral healing, and community. They have curated and exhibited at institutions both throughout Seattle and internationally, with the intent of cultivating and empowering communities by sharing intimate and vulnerable stories.

Instagram Handle: @monyeeart

PH X College: BIPOC Professionals in Museums
2021-10-13 17:00 - 18:00
As part of our reimagined PH x College Fall 2021 series, Poster House will be hosting a panel of BIPOC professionals in museums followed by a Q&A . Three panelists from across the museum sector will share their personal experiences and lessons learned navigating the field. This event, moderated by emerging museum professional Matthew Waldemar, will speak to the experience of BIPOC people in a variety of positions and experiences within the museum field to inform emerging professionals.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. A recording of the event will be made available for all registered attendees. Questions about accessibility? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at salvador@posterhouse.org.

LaserWriter II Book Launch
2021-10-16 17:00 - 18:00
Before there was Poster House, there was Tekserve, the neighborhood computer store that fixed a million tech issues. It was a beloved New York institution, and its ghosts still haunt the museum’s art-filled halls.
Tonight, join Tamara Shopsin as she launches LaserWriter II, a book that brings Tekserve back to life. The event will feature humorist John Hodgman, the world’s shortest reading by Shopsin, and at least one sound effect—not to mention a free poster* with book purchase.
*while supplies last
Tamara Shopsin is an illustrator, graphic designer, writer, part-time cook, and co-owner of the New York City eatery Shopsin’s. She is the author of Mumbai New York Scranton and Arbitrary Stupid Goal.
John Hodgman is a writer, comedian, and actor. He is the author of Vacationland and three books of fake facts and invented trivia, all of them New York Times bestsellers, and his writing has also appeared in The Paris Review, This American Life, The New Yorker, and Mad Magazine. He has appeared on The Daily Show, FX’s Married, HBO’s Bored to Death, and Cinemax’s The Knick.
This event is in person at Poster House. Poster House operates in compliance with the Key to NYC mandate. All museum visitors older than 12 must show proof that they have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccination records and IDs will be checked upon entry. Proof of vaccination may include:

NYC COVID Safe app: Android | iOS

Excelsior Pass

CDC Vaccination Card (or photo of card)

NYC Vaccination Record

An official immunization record from outside New York City or the United States.

Valid ID includes your name accompanied by a photograph such as:

Driver’s license

Government ID card

IDNYC card

Passport

School ID card

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: LeRoy Neiman
2021-10-21 16:00 - 17:30
Every month, Poster House offers Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for community members who are blind or have low vision. Explore one of the museum’s shows with a museum educator trained in the art of verbal description and learn more about the history of printed posters.
In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we offer our description tours online through teleconference. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows.
This tour will focus on the poster designs by LeRoy Neiman.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by October 19 to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing the teleconference the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 70 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our Access Tours, click the Access filter at the top of our Events page, call 917.722.2439 x413 or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Genius on Display: Expanding Access with Cheryl Miller
2021-10-21 18:00 - 20:00 | Poster House, 119 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Poster House is thrilled to welcome 2021 AIGA Award Medalist Cheryl D. Miller for an evening highlighting unsung Black and racialized designers of the 1960s and ‘70s. Set against the backdrop of our current exhibitions, Miller’s talk will focus on the talented yet overlooked BIPOC designers of this era and the hurdles and systems that kept them out of the industry. Applying her signature decolonializing lens, Miller will amplify the expertise and artistry of these designers and assert their rightful place in the design cannon. In this intimate conversation, Miller will ground her analysis in her own lived experience, sharing her personal history as a young designer of color who lived through the time period in New York City.
Cheryl Miller is recognized for her outsized influence within the profession to end the marginalization of BIPOC designers through her civil rights activism, industry exposé trade writing, research rigor, and archival vision. Miller is a national leader of Minority Rights, Gender, Race Diversity, Equality, Equity, and Inclusion advocacy in Graphic Design.
She is founder of then, Cheryl D. Miller Design, Inc., N.Y.C., a Social Impact Design firm; she is a designer, author, trade writer for PRINT Magazine, and theologian. The Cheryl D. Miller Collection at Stanford University is her legacy professional firm’s archive, including her memoir research and manuscripts. The collection features D&I initiative, Corporate Communications developed for Fortune 500 corporations, and Corporate Communications for National African American organizations developed post Civil Rights Era, 1974–1994. She is Distinguished Senior Lecturer, University of Texas, Austin Design. She is a member of The Board of Trustees, Vermont College of Fine Arts and The President’s Global Advisory Board, Maryland Institute College of Art.

This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. A recording of the event will be made available for all registered attendees. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at salvador@posterhouse.org.

Posters & Cocktails: Up In Smoke
2021-10-26 19:00 - 21:00
Our Posters & Cocktails events continue to delight guests around the world! Tonight, smoke ‘em if you got ‘em because we’re lighting one up with tobacco posters.
Poster House’s Chief Curator will once again be hosting Nicholas Lowry of Swann Auction Galleries and Don Spiro of The Green Fairy Society over Zoom as they blaze their way through the history of posters related to smoking! No, we do not condone or promote the use of tobacco, but we do love its rich visual history in advertising.
After Don opens the show with our first smokey cocktail, Nicholas will light a match in our hearts with the early history of tobacco advertising. Don will continue to provide hits of alcohol throughout the night until Nicho leaves us stoned with wonder at these incredible, enduring graphics.
For a full list of ingredients and supplies, see below:
Smoked Spicy Old Fashioned
Your Favorite Whiskey
Bitters (Angostura or Another Favorite)
Sugar
Cherry and/or Orange (to garnish)
Cinnamon Stick or Wood Chip (Apple, Pecan, etc)

Penicillin
Blended Scotch
Islay Scotch (the peaty kind)
Fresh Lemon Juice
Honey Ginger Syrup (To make at home, simmer equal parts honey, sliced ginger root, and water. Alternatively, make honey syrup and ginger syrup separately.)
Candied Ginger

Rosemary Southside
Gin
Lemon Juice
Simple Syrup (To make at home, simmer equal parts sugar and water)
Rosemary Sprigs

Mezcal Margarita

Mezcal
Orange Liqueur (like Cointreau)
Fresh Lime Juice
Smoked Salt
Lime Garnish

Blue Blazer
Cask-Strength Whiskey (110 proof or higher)
Boiling Water
Sugar
Lemon Twist (to garnish)

Tools:
Jigger or measuring cup
Shaker with strainer
Mixing glass
Strainer
Spoon
Knife and cutting board
2 Rocks glasses
2 Cocktail glasses
2 Glass mugs (heat resistant)
Ice
Toothpicks
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. A recording of the event will be made available for all registered attendees. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at salvador@posterhouse.org.

Poster Kids: Ready, Set, Costumes
2021-10-31 09:15 - 10:15
Join Poster House on the last Sunday morning of every month, from 9:15–10:15am for a family-friendly, interactive, virtual poster tour and a related art-making experience. Admission is free; advanced registration is required in order to receive link access and a list of suggested materials. See below for details.
Movie posters are beloved by collectors. Join us for an interactive virtual tour of the current exhibition You Won’t Bleed Me: How Blaxploitation Posters Defined Cool & Delivered Profits to learn how poster designers portrayed the heroic, strong, and cool Black characters of 1970s Blaxploitation cinema. Then—just in time for Halloween—participate in a workshop where we will design costumes for the many characters we play in our own lives.
Materials:
four full-body black and white photos of participant printed on plain paper
oil pastels/cray-pas
Interested in joining us in-person for this tour and workshop? Sign up to participate in-person from 10:30am-12:15pm here.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom. Closed Captioning will be provided. This event will not be recorded due to the presence of minors. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at salvador@posterhouse.org.

Poster Kids: Ready, Set, Costumes
2021-10-31 10:30 - 12:15 | Poster House, 119 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join Poster House on the last Sunday morning of every month, from 10:30am–12:15pm for a family-friendly, interactive poster tour and a related art-making experience at Poster House. 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.
Movie posters are beloved by collectors. Join us for an interactive virtual tour of the current exhibition You Won’t Bleed Me: How Blaxploitation Posters Defined Cool & Delivered Profits to learn how poster designers portrayed the heroic, strong, and cool Black characters of 1970s Blaxploitation cinema. Then—just in time for Halloween—participate in a workshop where we will design costumes for the many characters we play in our own lives.
Not ready to join us in person? Sign up to participate virtually from 9:15-10:15am here.

First Friday
2021-11-05 10:00 - 22:00
First Friday is back at Poster House—now open even later! On Friday November 5, the museum will be open for free with extended hours till 10pm! Stop by and see current exhibitions and join in the fun by attending an activity, workshop, or performance throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection. Reserve your ticket or sign up for an activity today! Proof of vaccination and masks are required for entry; please see below for complete details.
3pm: 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!
4pm: Curatorial Tour of The Push Pin Legacy
Join Poster House’s Chief Curator Angelina Lippert for a curatorial tour unlike any other. This in-person tour of the museum’s latest exhibition The Push Pin Legacy will explore the incredible impact Push Pin Studios had on the resurgence and evolution of American commercial illustration. Learn about the origins of the iconic design studio and see many of the works that launched the careers of design legends such as Seymour Chwast, Edward Sorel, Paul Davis, and many more. Questions strongly encouraged!
5:30pm: Curatorial Tour of You Won’t Bleed Me
Join special guest Adam Howard for an in-person curatorial tour of theexhibition You Won’t Bleed Me where you will get acquainted with the larger-than-life figures of Blaxploitation cinema while exploring the cultural and historic context of these posters. Questions strongly encouraged!
6:30pm: Blacula Movie Screening
Spooky season isn’t over yet! Poster House’s Blaxploitation movie series continues with the 1972 thriller, Blacula. Billed as “the first Black horror film,” this campy cult classic might just scare your socks off. Space is limited for this intimate screening, so be sure to reserve your tickets in advance! *Note: Due to adult content, guests must be 18+ to attend.
8pm: DJ Ciara Chaii
DJ Ciara Chaii is back once again to close out First Friday! Join her in the Café as she spins hits inspired by the musical references in current exhibitions. From disco to funk, Aretha to Mahalia, DJ Ciara Chaii will make sure to send you into the weekend in true ‘70s style. Bring your dancing shoes and hit the floor!
This event is in person at Poster House, with masks required. Poster House operates in compliance with the Key to NYC mandate. All museum visitors older than 12 must show proof that they have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccination records and IDs will be checked upon entry. Proof of vaccination may include:

NYC COVID Safe app: Android | iOS

Excelsior Pass

CDC Vaccination Card (or photo of card)

NYC Vaccination Record

An official immunization record from outside New York City or the United States.

Valid ID includes your name accompanied by a photograph such as:

Driver’s license

Government ID card

IDNYC card

Passport

School ID card

Real Hot Girl S#!T: Black Womanhood in Blaxploitation & Beyond (Virtual)
2021-11-15 18:30 - 20:00
Inspired by the current exhibition You Won’t Bleed Me: How Blaxploitation Posters Defined Cool & Delivered Profits, Poster House is thrilled to welcome Dr. Robin Boylorn for an engaging conversation on representations of Black women in blaxploitation films and contemporary popular culture. In this wide ranging talk, Dr. Boylorn will examine hypersexualized portrayals of Black women from the height of the blaxploitation era. She’ll juxtapose these depictions with contemporary representations of Black women in hip hop, scrutinizing the role of agency and authorship in these issues. Questions strongly encouraged!
Note: This event is intended for mature audiences and may include nudity and sexual content for educational purposes. Viewer discretion is advised.
Dr. Robin M. Boylorn is an accomplished scholar, activist, writer, speaker, and thinker. Her work concentrates on ways of documenting marginalized lives and making them 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 a member of the Crunk Feminist Collective.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. A recording of the event will be made available for all registered attendees. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at salvador@posterhouse.org

Virtual Type Tour of The Push Pin Legacy with Paul Shaw
2021-11-16 18:00 - 20:00
Join type historian and educator Paul Shaw for a virtual guided tour of The Push Pin Legacy. He will look at the whimsical and playful lettering and type featured in the exhibition, including many early iterations of alphabets designed by Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast. Get a new perspective on iconic posters and album covers by Push Pin Studios.
This event is presented in partnership with the Type Directors Club, which celebrates and amplifies the undeniable power of typography
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. A recording of the event will be made available for all registered attendees. Questions about accessibility? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at salvador@posterhouse.org.

The History of the Afro with Michele Washington
2021-11-17 18:00 - 19:30
Join designer, researcher, writer, and educator Michele Washington as she virtually guides us through the history of the AFRO, illuminating how this ubiquitous hairstyle has endured over time, from the late 1950s till today. Inspired by the powerful coiffs on display in You Won’t Bleed Me: How Blaxploitation Posters Defined Cool & Delivered Profits, she will discuss how the Afro is ingrained in this genre of film, how it defined Black beauty and visual culture, and why it should be viewed as more than just a hairstyle. Natural hair has spawned a million-dollar Black hair care industry, fostering an advertising shift during the ‘60s and ‘70s,
cementing the Afro’s ongoing popularity.
Michele Y. Washington is a facilitator of design, research, and strategy who works with various cultural and community-based projects. She is an A’Lelia Bundles Columbia University Community Scholar; she holds a Master of Fine Arts in Design Criticism from the School of Visual Arts and a Master of Science in Visual Communications from the Pratt Institute. Michele is also the founder of Curious Story Lab, a podcast and short documentary film series featuring designers, architects, urbanists, fashion and product designers, and food designers of color.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. A recording of the event will be made available for all registered attendees. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at salvador@posterhouse.org.

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Blaxploitation Posters
2021-11-18 16:00 - 17:30
Every month, Poster House offers Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for community members who are blind or have low vision. Explore one of the museum’s shows with a museum educator trained in the art of verbal description and learn more about the history of printed posters.
In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we offer our description tours online through teleconference. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows.
This tour will focus on posters from the Blaxploitation era of film.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by November 16 to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing the teleconference the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 70 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our Access Tours, click the Access filter at the top of our Events page, call 917.722.2439 x413 or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Poster Kids: Let's Play a New Game
2021-11-28 09:15 - 10:15
Join Poster House on the last Sunday morning of every month, from 9:15–10:15am for a family-friendly, interactive, virtual poster tour and a related art-making experience. Admission is free; advanced registration is required in order to receive link access and a list of suggested materials. See below for details.
LeRoy Neiman designed posters for all kinds of sporting events. Using his work from the current exhibition What’s The Score? The Posters of LeRoy Neiman as inspiration, we will design our own egg-carton sports, promote them through graphics, and compete with our partners!
Materials:
paper and pencil
clean cardboard egg carton
scissors
black marker and colorful markers
pom poms, pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks, tin foil, construction paper and/or other craft materials
Interested in joining us in-person for this tour and workshop? Sign up to participate in-person from 10:30am-12:15pm here.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom. Closed Captioning will be provided. This event will not be recorded due to the presence of minors. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at salvador@posterhouse.org.
