The political posters of the 1960s and ‘70s defined a generation, helping shape contemporary politics. Join Poster House Collections Manager Melissa Walker as she examines mid-century presidential election posters, including the Nixon, JFK, and Reagan campaigns. Explore how both mainstream and counterculture political posters spurred civic engagement, with special attention to posters currently featured in […]
Gentrification was a hot-button issue at the center of Hunter S. Thomspon’s 1969 Freak Power campaign, and is still at the forefront of civic discourse today. Poster House is thrilled to partner with Chinatown Art Brigade (CAB) for a panel on the role of artists in the ongoing fight against gentrification. Explore the collective’s creative […]
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 […]
Poster House is thrilled to partner with Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum for a tour of our latest exhibition Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age with Chief Curator Angelina Lippert. Recognized as one of the leading graphic artists of the 20th century, Klinger brought a fresh voice to the world of advertising, blending […]
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 […]
Join everyone’s favorite blazer-loving poster duo for a Fireside Chat 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? There’ll […]
Political satire is as old as civilization. As long as there have been different points of view, people have found a way to lambast their opponents. Few modern satirists are as well-known as Hunter S. Thompson, whose biting points of view are beautifully expressed in the posters on view in Freak Power. But where is […]
A family-friendly, interactive, virtual poster tour and a related art-making experience!
Poster House is thrilled to partner with design historian Steven Heller for an evening examining the iconic and impactful work of Lucian Bernhard. Lucian Bernhard is the putative father of the modern advertising poster. He came to be best known for the Sachplakat—or object poster, a subset of the greater Plakatstil (poster style) genre. Unlike […]
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 […]