Poster House members are invited to Join Guest Curator Tim Medland for a private 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! Accessibility Note: Masks and clear masks are available free of charge at the museum. Assistive listening […]
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. […]
Make your own poster with The Arm! Stop by the museum anytime between 1 and 7pm to crank out a custom poster on a traditional letterpress printer! Participants will have the opportunity to set a line of type on a pre-printed gradient by filling in the blank "A Museum for _______ Posters". Advanced registration is […]
Have you ever wondered how bookbinding works? Join this hands-on workshop to learn the basics of bookbinding using recycled materials inspired by Poster House’s acclaimed exhibition We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020. Participants will try their hands at simple bookbinding techniques using leftover promotional materials from the museum’s public programs. Guests will […]
Join Poster House Chief Curator Angelina Lippert for a guided tour of the acclaimed exhibition Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde. This show chronicles the rise and fall of what would come to be known as Art Deco, starting with the 1925 Paris Exhibition where various factions of the European avant-garde were distilled through commercial endeavors […]
What do sharks and drag queens have in common? More than you would think! Poster House is pleased to welcome the iconic Miss Toto for a performance and marine science presentation inspired by the hit exhibition We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020. Learn about Miss Toto’s contributions to monitoring shark populations off […]
If This Be Sin is a new musical based on the life of the fat, Black, and butch Harlem Renaissance entertainer, Gladys Bentley. The show is a raucous ride from her infamous performances in Harlem’s most notable clubs in the 1930s to her eventual path to conformity as a “good christian wife” in Los Angeles […]
For the last half-century, artists and designers all over the world over have sought to express the urgency of environmental issues in graphic terms—and to spark action. Their efforts have met with tragically little success, but the variety and ingenuity of their appeals is astounding. Tim Medland, curator of the current exhibition at Poster House […]
The great Art Deco skyscrapers—the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building—were designed by socially prominent architects, often of old New York stock. But a generation of lesser-known architects and builders—new to the profession and often new to the country—helped spread the Deco style across the more modest, but also more numerous, middle-class landscapes of […]
Poster House Members are invited to a private tour of Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt at Print Center NY. This exhibition is the artist’s first traveling retrospective and the first to reflect the role of printmaking in her ambitious interdisciplinary work, considering her output as both a process and a philosophy—a medium that has […]