Have you ever wondered what you can create with discarded plastics? Presented in conjunction with the exhibition We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1920-2020, this hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the technique of fusing or layering plastics using an iron. Participants will explore the material affordances of various types of biodegradable, recyclable, […]
Do you want to learn about how posters are printed? This month, Poster Kids focuses on all things printing by looking at the posters from Advertising India’s Sandalwood Film Industry. We’ll discuss how these beautiful posters were made. Afterward, we’ll try printing our own images using foam plates. Join Poster House on select Sunday mornings […]
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 or Educators, allowing you intimate access to […]
On January 11, 1982, a dozen admirers of Art Deco gathered in the Murray Hill apartment of interior designer Henriette Nathan to hold the first official meeting of the newly incorporated Art Deco Society of New York. Interest in the modernistic styles of the 1920s and ‘30s had been growing worldwide since a seminal Paris […]
Poster House Members are invited to a private tour of The Shed’s 2023 Open Call. This large-scale commissioning program is now in its third year and focuses on early-career, New York City-based artists and collectives tapped to create new work. This is a terrific opportunity to witness cutting-edge artistic expression through a host of creative […]
Poster House Members are invited to a tour of the Society of Illustrators, with special attention paid to its annual Original Art Exhibition of the best artwork from award-winning children’s books. Held since 1980, this showcase highlights up-and-coming as well as established talent in the world of book illustration. Afterward, guests will also explore other […]
Break out your seersucker and dust off your boas, because Poster House is taking it back to the 1920s for a motion-drawing class featuring live period dancers! Learn how to capture the fluid gestures of flappers and gentlemen as they perform the hottest dances of the Roaring Twenties—all while enjoying a Prohibition-era cocktail. Instructors Robin […]
Poster House Members are invited to a private tour of Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me at the Museum of Arts and Design. This theatrical exhibition explores the forces that create our inner and outer selves, both individually and collectively, through the Canadian artist’s ceramics, life-sized automatons, two-way mirrors, a coin-operated sculpture, and an […]
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 or Educators, allowing you intimate access to […]
Poster House is thrilled to host an artist talk and print sale with the one and only Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear directly from one of the most prolific and lauded letterpress printers in the United States, in conversation with Poster House Chief Curator Angelina Lippert. A longtime friend […]