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 given by our Lead Educators, allowing you intimate access to the works […]
Poster House members are invited to a private tour of the exhibition Puerto Rico in Print: The Posters of Lorenzo Homar. Join curator Alejandro Anreus as he discusses works by Lorenzo Homar, a pioneering printmaker, poster designer, calligrapher, painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and theater designer, known today as the father of the Puerto Rican poster. This […]
A Lorenzo Homar se lo considera como uno de los artistas gráficos de mayor influencia de Puerto Rico y a menudo se le conoce como el padre del cartel puertorriqueño. […]
Join Poster House on the First Friday of every month for free admission and extended hours! Museum Members can check in at the Info Desk to receive one free drink ticket to use at the bar […]
In honor of the flower-filled posters of Lorenzo Homar, Poster House is hosting an exciting floral design workshop. Discover the beauty of simplicity in this hands-on activity that proves less […]
As part of Poster House’s ongoing partnership with Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, the museum is thrilled to host a daylong origami-making event in the Poster History Timeline. Aimed at balancing participants’ minds and bodies while encouraging interpersonal connection, this hands-on activity will use natural materials, including washi paper, to create delicate works of art. Guests […]
Many people are familiar with the colorful cartoon-laden logotypes and abstract masterpieces that adorned the exteriors of New York City subway cars throughout the 1970s and ’80s. However, unless you […]
Lorenzo Homar was one of Puerto Rico’s most influential graphic designers and is often referred to as the father of the Puerto Rican poster. This guided tour of Puerto Rico In Print: The Posters of Lorenzo Homar will focus on the history of the island as well as on the artist's biography, providing an important […]
Join us for the Second Annual Miss Poster House NYC: a dazzling drag competition celebrating Pride. Inspired by the current exhibitions Fallout: Atoms for War & Peace and Puerto Rico in Print: The Posters of Lorenzo Homar, five fierce drag queens will battle it out in a show-stopping competition to be crowned Miss Poster House […]
In honor of New York’s annual Puerto Rican Day Parade in June and of the museum’s current exhibition, Puerto Rico in Print: The Posters of Lorenzo Homar, Poster House members are invited to a private, guided walking tour of four unique community gardens in East Harlem stewarded by the New York Restoration Project. Ranging from […]