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 curatorial tour of The Future Was Then: The Changing Face of Fascist Italy. Join curator B.A. Van Sise as he discusses how dictator Benito Mussolini adapted to the Futurist art movement, and in turn how Italian culture and commerce bent to the increasingly authoritarian regime of Mussolini. Light […]
Youth may be wasted on the young, but under the totalitarian state they saw naivety and enthusiasm of youth as a particular opportunity. For the state to prosper, youth was treated as a sub-brand of the greater regime that both followed and perpetuated its ideology. Graphic design, typography, officially sanctioned styles and fashions, symbolism and […]
In honor of its final weekend, it’s time for the grand finale of Copy/Paste/Print/Repeat: Mike King & The Art of the Gig Poster! Here’s your chance to join Mike King in creating a poster in the classic cut-and-paste punk style of yesteryear. Rev up the Xerox machine and ready your scissors and glue sticks, because […]
Poster artist and illustrator Molly Crabapple created Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School as a space for artists of all kinds to celebrate, play games, and draw. This Poster Kids activity reimagines Dr. Sketchy’s as a family-friendly sketching session, featuring dancing, music, and refreshment--and a performance artist from Spellbound Theatre! Remember: at Anti-Art School, there’s no such thing […]
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 from 6–9pm. Explore the museum’s latest exhibitions and get in on the fun by attending a tour, workshop, performance, or activity throughout the day. […]
Join Poster House for Federico Fellini’s Amarcord (1973), screened in connection with the museum’s exhibition The Future Was Then: The Changing Face of Fascist Italy. A semi-autobiographical comedy-drama, Amarcord tells the story of a boy navigating life among the lively family and friends of his village in the Fascist Italy of the 1930s. While the […]
Join the Poster House Education Team for a guided tour of one of the museum’s current exhibitions! Explore the historical context and design techniques behind The Future Was Then: The Changing Face of Fascist Italy in an engaging and approachable setting. This program is presented by Poster House’s CMYK Council, the museum’s BIPOC advisory board […]
Join Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop at Poster House for a hands-on screenprinting workshop inspired by Dorothy Waugh’s Lure of the National Parks poster, currently on view in the museum’s exhibition Blazing a Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters. Participants will learn the basics of screenprinting and take home their own two-color print celebrating the beauty […]
Step off the grid and into the wild with designer Zipeng Zhu as he leads a vibrant tour through the museum’s current exhibition, Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters. Explore how Waugh turned mountains into geometry, type into terrain, and color into emotion. From real to flat, from topography to typography, this tour […]