Poster House Members are invited to a curatorial tour of the celebrated exhibition Pattern & Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s. This landmark show is the first of its kind dedicated to exploring the revolutionary and decadently beautiful era of 20th-century artists' papers, brilliantly curated by Mindy Dubansky of the […]
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. […]
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, allowing you intimate access to the items […]
Join curator Es-pranza Humphrey for a virtual tour of Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party. Learn how the Black Panther Party devised a graphic language to reaffirm Black humanity and decommodify Black life. Explore the bold language and striking graphics that exposed the public to radical images that captured a shift […]
In celebration of our new exhibitions Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art and Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party, teens are invited to create a counterculture collage on notebooks. Artists Yokoo Tadanori and Tanaami Keiichi, featured in Made in Japan, and many designers featured in Black Power to Black People contributed […]
Poster House welcomes Pre-K through 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, and 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 […]
Members are invited to a private, after hours tour of Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party led by curator Es-pranza Humphrey. Learn how the Black Panther Party devised a graphic language to reaffirm Black humanity and decommodify Black life. Explore the bold language and striking graphics that exposed the public to […]
Poster House is excited to celebrate Women’s History Month with Lisa Daniell and Natalie Alcide of the Women’s Press Collective. This wide-ranging presentation will highlight parts of the museum’s permanent collection to explore the impact of women on the poster field, with special attention paid to posters used in movement organizing. Join in person at […]
This three-hour intensive workshop will explore drawing as an improvisational technique, opening avenues to new ways of interpreting form, color, and composition that go beyond direct representation. By exploring accidental imagery found in spontaneous and unplanned abstraction, participants will not only find new means of visual expression, but also tap into a sense of play […]
This month, Poster Kids will focus on the museum’s latest exhibition Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art. We will learn to identify popular motifs in both traditional Japanese and modern Western design. Afterward, we will create our own artwork using themes from both aesthetics. Join Poster House on select Sunday mornings from 10:30am–12pm for a […]
Join Poster House and the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library for a brief verbal description tour of the museum's 2020 exhibition, The Swiss Grid. This show explored how design schools in Switzerland helped define a global modern, clean aesthetic through the use of grid systems. Afterward, you will create your own tactile posters […]
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”––Angela Davis In honor of Women's History Month, Poster House is pleased to welcome Eesha Pandit and Robin Boylorn of the Crunk Feminist Collective to discuss the long-standing impact of a Black feminist […]