First Friday

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. This month, our education team is taking over First Friday to  highlight the museum’s education offerings.

10:30am–12:30pm: Pint-Sized Posters Family Program
This drop-in program for toddlers and children of all ages (accompanied by their adults) focuses on the posters in our new exhibitions Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde and We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020. Explore the galleries guided by Poster House’s Kids Cards, then stop by our workshop space to create colorful prints of your own.

1pm: We Tried to Warn You Tour
Join Poster House Educator Maya Varadaraj for a drop-in tour of We Tried to Warn You: Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020. Explore the global history of environmental activism through graphic design. Questions are strongly encouraged!

3pm: Art Deco Tour
Join Poster House Educator Maya Varadaraj for a drop-in tour of Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde. Learn about the rise and fall of what we now know as Art Deco through this in-depth exhibition exploring the global phenomenon of avant-garde commercial advertising. Questions are strongly encouraged!

3:30–5pm: PH x Teens – Vintage Playlist with the Young Lordes Collective
Join the Young Lordes Collective (YLC) for a special edition of PH x Teens at Poster House and make vinyl record covers that promote environmental activism.

Inspired by albums of the 1970s that used natural elements to spread messages of environmental awareness, this activity will allow you to design your own record cover using watercolor paint, collage, and/or letterpress techniques. Don’t forget to include your environmental activism playlist on the back! —

At the intersection of artistry and activism, the Young Lordes Collective (YLC) is a grassroots artist-activist youth collective that aims to create a growing and breathing network of underrepresented New Yorkers. Since March 2021, the Young Lords Collective has cultivated a generative space for community-based learning, care, and revolutionary struggle for the emerging artists and activists of our generation. Through multimedia publications, mutual aid initiatives, food drives, open mic nights, educational discussions, and more, the Young Lordes Collective pays homage to activist groups of the past by uplifting the change makers of the future.

PH x Teens is a drop-in program for young adults ages 13 to 18. Advanced registration is required; participants are not expected to stay the entire time. Guests should plan to spend about an hour on this interactive, self-guided activity.

6–7pm: PH x College – We Are The Future! Youth Movements and Environmental Justice
Today’s students have come of age during a time of environmental crises. In this special tour and talkback of We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020, college students are invited to come together and discuss the role of youth in environmental justice movements—past, present, and future.

Poster House Educator, Rayyan Mikati, will guide this conversation toward historical inquiry and speculative imagination. Questions and comments are strongly encouraged!

6:30-8pm Loving with Three Hearts Sins Invalid Film Screening & Discussion
Poster House is thrilled to welcome Lorenzo Van Ness (they/them/elle) from Sins Invalid for a screening and discussion of Loving with Three Hearts. After the viewing, there will be a discussion on the intersection of climate justice and disability justice. Special attention will be paid to how Sins Invalid utilizes performance to explore these connections. 

Please note that while Poster House is mask-optional, this event is mask-mandatory. Masks and clear masks will be provided. 

Accessibility notes: This film will have an audio description and captions. There will be an ASL interpreter and assistive listening devices provided. Fidget tools will be available. 

To view the social narrative for the event, click here: Loving with Three Hearts Film and Talkback Social Narrative.

To address further access needs, please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387. 

Lorenzo Van Ness is a queer, trans, Dominican lifelong New Yorker. They have worked in the legal field as a non-attorney as well as an organizer. They’re passionate about building access for people pushed to the margins, supporting community, and continuously growing their knowledge.