Poster House

Poster House Book Club: Three Brothers by Yan Lianke
2020-10-15 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
The Poster House Book Club meets a few times an exhibition cycle to discuss vibrant, interesting, and dynamic works which relate to the posters on view.
Because we want to encourage community during this time of social distancing, this edition of book club will remain online!
In honor of The Sleeping Giant: Posters & The Chinese Economy, we will be discussing Three Brothers: Memories of My Family by Yan Lianke.
This tender, witty, and intimate memoir chronicles the author’s childhood during the darkness of the Cultural Revolution in rural China.
This meeting of the Poster House Book Club will be moderated by Yunzhong Shu, a teacher of advanced Chinese literature at Queens College, where he also developed a course in Chinese fiction-in-translation. His research focuses on modern Chinese fiction and modern Chinese literary criticism. He published the book Buglers on the Home Front: The Wartime Practice of the Qiyue (July) School, a study of a group of dissident writers active in the 1930s and 1940s in the Chinese leftist literary circles.

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Collection Highlights Part 2
2020-10-15 16:00 - 17:30
Every month, Poster House offers Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for the low vision and blind community. Explore one of the museum’s shows with an experienced educator trained in the art of verbal description and learn more about the history of printed posters.
Due to the current public health crisis surrounding COVID-19, we’re bringing our description tours online through teleconference. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows.
This tour will focus on Part Two of our Poster History Timeline, covering psychedelic, contemporary, and silkscreen posters, as well as a billboard.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by October 13 to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing the teleconference the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 90 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our Access Tours, click the Access filter at the top of our Events page, call 917.722.2439 x413 or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Literary Happy Hour: Book Poster Cocktail Party
2020-10-14 19:00 - 21:00
Our Posters & Cocktails parties keep getting rave reviews, so we’ve added two more to our 2020 calendar! As the air turns a bit brisk, why not snuggle up with us for an evening of books and booze?
Our Chief Curator will once again be hosting Nicholas Lowry of Swann Auction Galleries and Don Spiro of The Green Fairy Society over Zoom as they take us on a well-lubricated literary journey.
After making an initial cocktail to get us going, grab your favorite throw blanket while Nicholas talks about the history of books in posters. As our glasses empty, Don will teach us how to make the signature cocktails of some of history’s greatest authors (and maybe even a few beloved by infamous literary characters).
Tickets:
Early Bird Registration (purchased before Oct 1): Free!
General Registration: $3
All are welcome to tune-in for the fun. If, however, you’d like to drink along with our hosts, here are the cocktails we will be preparing and their ingredients:
Mark Twain Cocktail
Scotch
Fresh lemon juice
Simple syrup
Angostura bitters
Pegu Club (for Rudyard Kipling)
Gin
Fresh lime juice
Curacao
Angostura bitters
Orange bitters
Vesper Martini (for Ian Fleming)
Gin
Vodka
Lillet
Lemon peel
Hemingway Daiquiri
White rum
Fresh lime juice
Fresh white grapefruit juice
Maraschino liqueur
Dickens Punch
Brandy (or cognac)
Jamaican rum
Lemons
Sugar
Boiling water or Tea

Lippert & Lowry: Fireside Chats
2020-10-07 20:00 - 21:00
Join everyone’s favorite blazer-loving poster duo for a Fireside Chat on Instagram Live!
Angelina Lippert, our Chief Curator, and Nicholas Lowry, Director of Swann Auction Galleries, are two of the biggest personalities in the poster world. And they also happen to be best buddies! So why not spend your evening hanging out with them? There might even be a real fireplace!
Ask questions, chime in, make requests, play along—no poster is off limits for these two!
In honor of the Vice Presidential Debates, tonight’s theme will be Political Posters!
Just follow @posterhousenyc and @swanngalleries and tune in at 8pm for the best poster entertainment on the internet!*
*This event has passed. Watch archived Fireside Chats on the “Our Friends” Highlight on our Instagram page!

College Night: Women in Design
2020-10-07 19:00 - 20:30
This lecture will highlight the career paths of three accomplished women in design, all hailing from different backgrounds and current positions in the design world. Participants will learn about each of these designer’s career trajectories, from college to where they find themselves now, and have the opportunity to ask questions so as to feel better equipped to continue pursuing their own professional futures.
Hear from Poster House’s Designer, Mihoshi Fukushima Clark; graphic designer, writer, and educator, Gail Anderson; as well as artist and design educator, Elizabeth Meggs, as they recount their experiences as students and their journeys to success in the arts.
Mihoshi Fukushima Clark is an experienced graphic designer and artist who specializes in product design, branding, social design, motion graphics, and poster design. She moved to the United States from Kanazawa, Japan in 2010, where she attended Maryland Institute College of Art and then moved to New York City. Her graphic design work has been featured in the New York Times, and her social design work for the Baltimore City Health Department won The Core 77 Design: Notable Strategy & Research Award and a GDUSA: Health + Wellness Design Award.
Gail Anderson is a New York-based designer, writer, and educator. She is a partner, with Joe Newton, at Anderson Newton Design. From 2002 through 2010, she served as Creative Director of Design at SpotCo, a New York City advertising agency that creates artwork for Broadway and institutional theater. From 1987 to early 2002, she worked at Rolling Stone magazine, serving as designer, deputy art director, and finally, as the magazine’s senior art director. And early in her career, Gail was a designer at The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and Vintage Books (Random House).
Anderson’s work has received awards from major design organizations, including the Society of Publication Designers, the Type Directors Club, The American Institute of Graphic Arts, The Art Directors Club, Graphis, Communication Arts, and Print. In addition, it has also been included in the permanent collections of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, the Library of Congress, and the Milton Glaser Design Archives at the School of Visual Arts.
Anderson teaches in the School of Visual Arts MFA, undergraduate, and high school design programs, and has served on the advisory boards for Adobe Partners by Design and the Society of Publication Designers. She currently serves on the board for the Type Directors Club, and is a member of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee for the US Postal Service.
Elizabeth Meggs is a Brooklyn-based artist, illustrator, writer, and designer, whose most recent work includes paintings, photography, and hand-bound artist books. She attended Virginia Commonwealth University on a full academic scholarship, graduating summa cum laude with a BFA in Communication Arts and Design. She received her master’s degree with distinction in Painting from Pratt Institute.
In the past decade, she has had five solo shows of new work, and exhibited in 70 group shows, including Go Brooklyn! with the Brooklyn Museum, Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center, Hudson River Park in Chelsea, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, ISE Cultural Foundation, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Mariner’s Museum, Firehouse Art Collective, Anderson Gallery, Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory, Galapagos Art Space, Edward Hopper House, Pratt Institute’s Steuben and Dean’s Galleries, Gravity Racers at Pierogi Gallery, and more.
College Night aims to provide real resources to students who are interested in pursuing careers in art, design, and museums, with an emphasis on breaking down the pathways and barriers that can intimidate young professionals when planning for their futures. Our student programming provides professional development opportunities such as a lecture series of museum professionals across departments and throughout the world of design, as well as creative workshops, resumé reviews, and direct mentorship with our museum staffers.
College Night moved online in March of 2020, and is free of charge. To learn about the perks of becoming a Student Member at Poster House, please visit our Join page.

Walking Tour of Historic Chinatown Signage
2020-09-30 18:30 - 20:00
Join design historian Thomas Rinaldi as he guides you on this 90-minute walking tour of Chinatown. Focusing on the history of signage in the area, we will make stops to admire Chinatown’s surviving historic signs and discuss how they fit into the evolutionary history of commercial signage more broadly, exploring threads of graphic design and technology that have collaborated to produce this quintessential urban commercial landscape.
Thomas Rinaldi is the co-author of the book Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape, published by the University Press of New England in 2006, and the author of New York Neon, published by W.W. Norton in 2012. His photographs have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The New York Observer, Westchester Magazine, CNN Online, and elsewhere, and have been exhibited at the Municipal Art Society of New York and at the New York State Museum in Albany.
NOTE: This tour does NOT begin at Poster House. You will be emailed the starting location one week before the event. Guests should be prepared to walk on uneven, crowded streets for 90 minutes without seating.
Tickets:
Poster House & China Institute Members: $15
General Public: $20
Rain Date: October 7

Virtual Talk: The Evolution of Chinese Typography
2020-09-29 18:30 - 20:00
Join scholar Chris Wu as he virtually guides guests through the posters in The Sleeping Giant, talking about the evolution of printed Chinese typography.
Tickets:
Early Bird (purchased before Sept 15): Free!
General Registration: $3
Chris Wu is a designer and creative director based in New York. He is a partner of the multidisciplinary design practice Wkshps. Previously, he was a principal of the design studio Project Projects, winner of the Cooper Hewitt’s National Design Award. Chris has collaborated with clients such as the Guggenheim Museum, M+ Museum, David Zwirner, New Museum, Para Site (Hong Kong), The Met, James Cohan, MoMA, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, SculptureCenter, Asia Art Archive, Modern Media Group (Shanghai), The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics, among others. Chris received his Master’s degree in Communications Design at Pratt Institute.

Instagram Takeover: Alexis Eke
2020-09-28 09:00 - 17:00
Poster House is dedicated to celebrating all voices within the poster community. In an effort to share with our audience the widest array of poster talent, we are partnering with numerous young designers around the world to create Instagram Takeovers—full days on our Instagram account in which up and coming graphic artists give us a personalized peek inside their poster-making world.
Once a month, head to our Instagram to see these amazing contemporary designers. Get special access inside their studios, hear their philosophy on how posters work, peek at their latest poster creations, and ask them questions!
This Monday, we are featuring the illustrator and designer Alexis Eke, based in Toronto, Ontario. Inspired by Renaissance portraits and traditional Japanese art, she illustrates Black women in a contemporary light. Her mission is to expand the representation of Black women in design and to evangelize, by creating a space for audiences to deeply reflect on themselves and their relationship with God. Her clients include Adiddas, Bloomberg, CBC, Globe and Mail, Nike Jordan, Sportsnet, among others.
Name: Alexis Eke
Pronouns: She/her/hers
IG: @alexis.eke

Behind the Job: Exhibition Design
2020-09-22 19:00 - 20:30
This lecture will explore the lifespan of an exhibition at a museum, from inception and design, to installation and documentation. Hear from Ola Baldych, Poster House’s Design Director, and John Lynch, Poster House’s Exhibition Manager, about how they work together to build something that supports the museum’s vision within the museum’s physical capabilities. Then, hear from Stephanie Powell, a photography professor and Poster House consultant, about her documentation of exhibitions and how her images can be used for years to come through museum-related initiatives.
Ola Baldych is a graphic designer, photographer, and visual artist living in New York where she is currently the director of design and exhibitions at Poster House, a partner at a multimedia production outfit oljo creative minds, and a frequent collaborator with Putty Dance Project in Philadelphia. Her recent collaborative project with Poster House, Print Magazine, and Times Square Arts has resulted in a large PSA campaign featuring fellow designers including Paula Scher, Milton Glaser, Maira Kalman, Edel Rodriguez, Gemma O’Brien, Emily Oberman, Matt Dorfman, and others to be screened on 1,800 Link NYC kiosks as well as on electronic billboards in Times Square, New York City, Chicago, Boston, and LA with messages of love, support, and gratitude to health care and essential workers. Ola studied at Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design in Philadelphia and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She is also an alumna of Gdansk University’s School of Law and Administration.
John F. Lynch is the Exhibitions Manager for Poster House. Since receiving his MFA from Pratt Institute in 2011 he has held many positions with galleries and exhibitions around New York City. He was the Director of Operations for Elizabeth Dee Gallery in Harlem, the Lead Installer for the internationally touring exhibition Art of the Brick. Lynch has been integral in the development of hundreds of contemporary art exhibitions, art fairs, and private collections, as well as planning and executing the installation of public and corporate art. He developed and co-ran Botanic Gallery in Bushwick, is the former Visual Arts Editor for Apt Literary Journal, and currently has a studio art practice in Brooklyn.
Stephanie Powell is an interdisciplinary artist who works in photography, video and sculpture. Recent exhibitions include Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; Sgorbati Projects, NYC; Mallorca Landings, Palma de Mallorca, Spain and Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts. She has received grants and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, apexart, the Jerome Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at Pratt Institute. Powell has been a freelance photographer in Chicago and New York City for over 15 years. Freelance clients have ranged from the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Poster House. She is also the current advisor for the Made in NYC photography initiative which offers photographic support for NYC based manufacturers.
College Night aims to provide real resources to students who are interested in pursuing careers in art, design, and museums, with an emphasis on breaking down the pathways and barriers that can intimidate young professionals when planning for their futures. Our student programming provides professional development opportunities such as a lecture series of museum professionals across departments and throughout the world of design, as well as creative workshops, resumé reviews, and direct mentorship with our museum staffers.
College Night moved online in March of 2020, and is free of charge. To learn about the perks of becoming a Student Member at Poster House, please visit our Join page.

Virtual Tour: Go Behind The Grid with Paul Shaw
2020-09-21 18:30 - 20:00
Join type historian and educator Paul Shaw for a virtual guided tour of The Swiss Grid . He will look at mid-20th century Swiss posters and ephemera with an eye on type, lettering, and reproduction techniques. Get a new perspective on iconic designs by Josef Müller-Brockmann, Armin Hofmann, Emil Ruder, and others.
Tickets:
Early Bird (purchased before Sept 15): Free!
General Registration: $3
Paul Shaw is a designer and design historian with a specialty in letterforms and type. He is the author of Revival Type, Helvetica and the New York City Subway System; co-author of Blackletter and National Identity; and editor of The Eternal Letter. He teaches at Parsons School of Design and The School of Visual Arts.
This program is in partnership with Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.

Climate Week
2020-09-21 09:00 - 17:00
Starting on Monday, September 21, Poster House will be virtually taking part in Climate Week, a summit dedicated to education about climate action and building a better future.
Tune in to our Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter accounts between September 21 and 27 to see one incredible poster per day that focuses on the history of mankind’s relationship with the planet.

Virtual Talk: The Evolution of Chinese Fashion
2020-09-17 18:30 - 20:00
Join fashion historian Dr. Kyunghee Pyun as she virtually guides guests through the fashions on display in The Sleeping Giant. Using the posters for reference, she will talk about the history of Chinese fashion, the modernization of traditional clothing, and the development of Mao Suits. An excellent introduction to Chinese fashion history!
Tickets:
Early Bird (purchased before Sept 10): Free!
General Registration: $3
Dr. Kyunghee Pyun is Associate Professor of art history at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. Her scholarship focuses on history of collecting, reception of Asian art, diaspora of Asian artists, and Asian American visual culture. Her recent book Fashion, Identity, Power in Modern Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) discusses modernized dresses in the twentieth century. She is currently writing a book on school uniforms in East Asia. As an independent curator, she has collaborated with contemporary artists in New York since 2013.
This program is co-presented by China Institute, and will feature an introduction by their Director of Marketing, Jeremy Willinger. He is a career non-profit marketing and communications professional with experience in the education, culture, mental health, and Judaic fields. For the last two years, he has served as China Institute’s Director of Marketing, working to share the many organizational programs, courses, and resources with their growing audience.
By signing up for this program, you agree to be added to China Institute’s mailing list.

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Collection Highlights Part 1
2020-09-17 16:00 - 17:30
Every month, Poster House offers Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for the low vision and blind community. Explore one of the museum’s shows with an experienced educator trained in the art of verbal description and learn more about the history of printed posters.
Due to the current public health crisis surrounding COVID-19, we’re bringing our description tours online through teleconference. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows.
This tour will focus on Part One of our Poster History Timeline, covering the Belle Époque, Art Deco, Constructivist, and Swiss International styles.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by September 15 to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing the teleconference the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 90 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our Access Tours, click the Access filter at the top of our Events page, call 917.722.2439 x413 or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Ask A Curator Day
2020-09-16 09:00 - 17:00
For the past ten years, museum curators around the world have come together for this annual one-day event where members of the public can take to social media and ask a curator everything and anything.
Poster House’s Chief Curator, Angelina Lippert, will be joining in the fun this year, providing content on our Instagram Stories and Twitter feeds.
Ask a Curator, was the brainchild of Jim Richardson, founder of MuseumNext, a conference on the future of museums. The idea was that a curious public would be able to question the keepers of cultural heritage about the objects in their care and what it is they do with them.

Thinking Outside The Grid: Social Design & Community Education, Pt. 2
2020-09-15 19:00 - 20:30
The second of a two-part student series about the history of design as it relates to community organizing, this event brings the theories of Part 1 into practice.
Through our hands-on workshop led by Isometric Studio, students will gain the knowledge and resources to begin designing their own informational graphics on voting to disseminate among their social circles, both online and through the power of the street-facing poster.
Using digital tools or paper and markers, participants will design their own graphic posters while learning about type, color, and communication.
Isometric Studio unites graphic design and architecture to create empowering visual identities and spatial experiences. Based in New York City, Isometric collaborates with cultural institutions, universities, tech companies, and nonprofits to reinvent the way they present themselves visually and strategically. Isometric clients include the USAID, Google, Museum of the City of New York, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Princeton University.
Additionally, Isometric works with a variety of organizations that represent marginalized and underserved populations, including civilians in zones of conflict, subjects of human trafficking, and the beneficiaries of chlorine and deworming programs.
College Night aims to provide real resources to students who are interested in pursuing careers in art, design, and museums, with an emphasis on breaking down the pathways and barriers that can intimidate young professionals when planning for their futures. Our student programming provides professional development opportunities such as a lecture series of museum professionals across departments and throughout the world of design, as well as creative workshops, resumé reviews, and direct mentorship with our museum staffers.
College Night moved online in March of 2020, and is free of charge. To learn about the perks of becoming a Student Member at Poster House, please visit our Join page.

For The People Project
2020-09-14 09:00 - 17:00
Starting Monday, September 14, ThoughtMatter and Poster House are teaming up to celebrate the 233rd Anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution.
Tune in to our Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter accounts between September 14 and 25 to see one incredible poster per day that focuses on each of the amendments in the Bill of Rights.
Conceived shortly after the 2016 Presidential Election, ThoughtMatter’s For The People Project brought together twelve prominent graphic designers to reinterpret the Constitution’s Preamble and the Bill of Rights in a refreshing, modern way, turning each into a unique poster.
Designers featured are Milton Glaser, Paul Buckley, Yue Chen, Jessica Hische, Edel Rodriguez, Seymour Chwast, DJ Stout, Elizabeth Resnick, Kit Hinrichs, Mark Fox & Angie Wang, and Jonathan Key.

Virtual Chinese Cooking Class with Nom Wah
2020-09-10 17:30 - 19:00
Poster House is thrilled to once again partner with Nom Wah, one of New York’s oldest dim sum houses, in honor of the exhibition The Sleeping Giant: Posters & The Chinese Economy. Tune in to this live cooking event where Nom Wah’s chefs will guide you through an authentic Chinese recipe highlighted in their upcoming cookbook The Nom Wah Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from 100 Years at New York City’s Iconic Dim Sum Restaurant.
Tonight’s menu will highlight Nom Wah’s incredible Turnt Up Turnip Cake. A complete ingredient list is noted below.
Please note that due to copyright restrictions, this event will not be recorded or available for view after the live event.
TICKETS:
Early Bird (purchased before Sept 5): Free!
General Admission (purchased after Sept 5): $3
TURNT UP TURNIP CAKE
Makes approx. 9 portions (27 slices)
Required Cooking Equipment: 12 3/4 x 10 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch metal half-pan for steaming
Ingredients:
Canola Oil – 5 tbs.
Chinese Pork Sausage (or any firm sausage), 1/8″ dice – 1 cup
Dried Shrimp, minced – 1.5 oz (can also use raw shrimp)
Rice Flour – 1 lb.
Corn Starch – 1/2 lb.
Water – 6 cups total (divided into 4 and 2 cups)
Whole Daikon, peeled & grated – 4 lbs.
Kosher Salt – 1 tbs.
Sugar – 1 tbs.
Mushroom Powder – 1 tbs.
Chicken Powder – 1 tbs.
Optional Garnish:
Fried shallots
Scallions, sliced

Uncovering Our Roots: Asian-American Design Perspectives
2020-09-09 13:00 - 14:30
Poster House and Welcome to Chinatown are proud to present Uncovering Our Roots: Asian-American Design Perspectives, a discussion centering on Asian-American designers’ roles during COVID-19.
Join our panel as they discuss how Asian-American designers grapple with issues around their background, community, and heritage in their work. How do Asian-American designers deal with, break, and appropriate Asian stereotypes in their roles as designers? How are their career choices seen by their communities versus the rest of the world?
The panel will also discuss the historical significance of Chinatown, its struggle with gentrification, and the rise of xenophobia in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thinking Outside The Grid: Social Design & Community Education, Pt. 1
2020-09-02 19:00 - 20:30
This event is sponsored by Creative Reaction Lab.
The first of a two-part student series, this event will delve into the history of design as it relates to community organizing, the visual language behind powerful consciousness-raising designs, and the ways in which social media changes how we encounter, value, and communicate information. Hear from Rafael Esquer, Creative Director and CEO at Alfalfa New York, Matt Massara, graphic designer and illustrator, and Antionette Carroll, President and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab, in conversation with Poster House’s Chief Curator Angelina Lippert as we tackle the evolving mediums and functions of design.
Rafael Esquer is the Creative Director and CEO at Alfalfa New York. He received his BFA in graphic design from Art Center College of Design and has lived in Manhattan since 1996. A native of the Sonora desert of Mexico, Esquer established Alfalfa New York on November 1 (Day of the Dead) in order to emphasize its connection to the rich tradition of Mexican graphic arts. He is the designer behind NYC’s “Dial 311” brand identity.
Matt Massara is a graphic designer and illustrator currently based out of Charleston, South Carolina, known on Instagram as @broccoli__boy. He holds a BFA from Columbus College of Art & Design and is currently a freelance graphic designer. Before moving to Charleston, he was a lead designer at A&R creative group, an in house design studio for a restaurant group in Columbus, OH. Massara also works heavily in screen printing and hand illustration.
Antionette Carroll is the President and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab, a nonprofit educating and deploying youth to challenge racial and health inequities impacting Black and Latinx populations. Within this role, Antionette has pioneered an award-winning form of creative problem solving called Equity-Centered Community Design (named a Fast Company World Changing Idea Finalist). Creative Reaction Lab was founded in support of the Uprising in Ferguson. Today, Creative Reaction Lab is building a youth-led, community-centered movement of a new type of Civic Leader: Redesigners for Justice. Creative Reaction Lab’s mission combines education and civic engagement for racial justice & healthy living. Creative Reaction Lab’s work is based on the belief that systems of oppression, inequality, inequity are by design; therefore, they can and must be redesigned.
Angelina Lippert is the Chief Curator of Poster House in New York City, the first museum in the United States dedicated to the history of the poster. She holds an MA in the art of the Russian Avant-Garde from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and a BA in Theology and Art History from Smith College. She is the author of The Art Deco Poster, and has lectured at SVA, The Cooper Union, Columbia University, and The Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She is a contributing writer to The Muse by the Clio Awards, where she focuses on the history of advertising design, and is an editor for Vintage Poster magazine.
College Night aims to provide real resources to students who are interested in pursuing careers in art, design, and museums, with an emphasis on breaking down the pathways and barriers that can intimidate young professionals when planning for their futures. Our student programming provides professional development opportunities such as a lecture series of museum professionals across departments and throughout the world of design, as well as creative workshops, resumé reviews, and direct mentorship with our museum staffers.
College Night moved online in March of 2020, and is free of charge. To learn about the perks of becoming a Student Member at Poster House, please visit our Join page.

Virtual Chinese Cooking Class with Nom Wah
2020-08-27 17:30 - 19:00
Poster House is thrilled to once again partner with Nom Wah, one of New York’s oldest dim sum houses, in honor of the exhibition The Sleeping Giant: Posters & The Chinese Economy. Tune in to this live cooking event where Nom Wah’s chefs will guide you through two authentic Chinese recipes highlighted in their upcoming cookbook The Nom Wah Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from 100 Years at New York City’s Iconic Dim Sum Restaurant.
Tonight’s menu will include crafting Nom Wah’s scrumptious Rice Rolls and Roast Pork Buns. A complete ingredient list is noted below.
Please note that due to copyright restrictions, this event will not be recorded or available for view after the live event.
**For the scallion/cilantro Rice Rolls, Nom Wah is offering pre-packaged kits that feed two. Kits can be ordered online or by emailing catering@nomwah.com by Friday, August 21. They will be available for pickup at Nom Wah Nolita (10 Kenmare Street). Delivery can also be arranged for Manhattan (up to 125th Steet) and LIC/Brooklyn (between Bushwick and Park Slope) on either August 25 or 26.**

RICE ROLLS
Required Cooking Equipment:
• Steamer setup
• Flat metal tray or plate which can fit inside steamer
• Bench scraper or metal spatula
For the Rice Rolls:
1 ½ Cup rice flour
3 Tbsp tapioca starch
1 Tbsp wheat starch
1 Tbsp potato starch
½ tsp Kosher salt
½ Cup canola oil (or other neutral oil)
For Rice Roll Sauce:
2 tsp light brown sugar
2 Tbsp regular soy sauce
2 Tbsp oyster sauce (substitute sweet soy sauce or hoisin sauce)
½ Cup water
Optional Fillings:
2 Tbsp sliced scallions
2 Tbsp fresh picked cilantro
½ pound cleaned and peeled shrimp (substitute for minced roast pork or chicken)
HOUSE SPECIAL ROAST PORK BUNS
Required Cooking Equipment:
• Steamer setup
• Medium rimmed pot
For the Bao Dough: **(for instructions on making the dough in advance of the class, please see end of listing)**
1 tsp active dry yeast
1 ½ Cup warm water
3 Cup all-purpose flour
6 Tbsp sugar
2 Tbsp canola oil (or other neutral oil)
1 ½ tsp baking powder
For the Char Siu Filling:
1 Tbsp canola oil (or other neutral oil)
⅔ Cup minced white onion
2 Tbsp white sugar
2 Tbsp light soy sauce
3 Tbsp oyster sauce
4 tsp toasted sesame oil
4 tsp dark soy sauce
3 Cups chopped char siu (substitute for diced roast chicken or diced roast pork)
1 tsp cornstarch
2 Tbsp water
If you are going to cook along with the live class, please prepare the bao dough in advance:

In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the dough hook attachment, sift the flour and sugar. Add yeast and baking powder.
Add the water and oil slowly while mixing on the lowest speed until a smooth dough ball forms (1-2 min). You can do this by hand without a mixer, but it will take longer.
Cover the dough with a damp cloth and let rest for approx. 2 hours, until it doubles in size. This is a great time to prepare the bao filling!
Turn the dough out onto a flat surface and gently knead by hand until the dough becomes smooth again (approx. 5 min). If the dough is dry, add 1 to 2 tsp. water. Cover with a damp cloth and let rest for another 15 min.
While the dough rests, lay out ten flattened cupcake liners (you can also use a large piece of parchment paper cut into ten 4×4 inch squares). These are your boa coasters.
To make the buns, roll the dough into a tube approx. 2 inches in diameter and 1 1/2 to 2 feet long, and divide it into 10 equal pieces. This should be done right before the stat of class.
Reroll each piece of dough into a disc about 4 1/2 inches in diameter and about 1/4 inch thick. They should be thicker in the center and thinner around the edges. Cover with a damp towel.

Virtual Talk: New York City in Posters
2020-08-25 18:30 - 20:00
New York City didn’t become the capital of the world overnight. The Big Apple also relied on world class advertising to attract visitors.
Before it was a tourist destination, New York City was (and still very much is) a port town, a terminus for ships arriving from Europe and beyond. Between 1892 and 1924, over 12 million immigrants arrived at Ellis Island in New York harbor. The gleaming city—a large, bustling, shiny magnet—with its towering buildings appeared on countless posters produced by steam ship and ocean liner companies.
The city was also home to the headquarters of the New York Central Railroad, with its 26,000+ miles of tracks connecting the East Coast with the mid-Atlantic states and the Great Lakes region, and to Grand Central Station (“the gateway to a continent”), a hub through which the rest of the country could be reached. It hosted the 1939 World’s Fair that counted almost 45 million visitors from around the country and around the world, and it boasted soaring skyscrapers—awe-inspiring structures rising like ziggurats, modern cathedrals to progress and imagination—and a cityscape unlike anywhere else. The city was home to Broadway and Times Square, and a stylish, incomparable urban hustle and bustle.
Now, with tourism momentarily frozen due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is a perfect time to pause and reflect on the attributes of this great city that many of us take for granted. Over the past 100 years, all the things we consider uniquely New York have been graphically presented in posters, tempting an incredulous and eagerly-awaiting world to come and see the city that never sleeps.
Join Poster House and Nicholas Lowry of Swann Auction Galleries as we view the historical, promotional images that not only drove visitors to the city, but delineated her amazing contours to countless others, searing an indelible, enviable image into the imaginative conscious of the world, burnishing a mythology that New York City still generates today.

Virtual Summer Vacation: Travel Poster Cocktail Party
2020-08-19 19:00 - 21:00
Our ongoing Posters & Cocktails parties have been met with rave reviews, so we are giving the summer one last hurrah with another mixological blend of drinking and design!
Our Chief Curator will once again be hosting Nicholas Lowry of Swann Auction Galleries and Don Spiro of The Green Fairy Society over Zoom as they take us on a virtual summer vacation full of travel posters and beach drinks!!
We may be stuck at home, but that doesn’t mean we can’t travel the world! After making an initial cocktail with Don, let the evening breeze blow through your window and pretend you’re on some exotic beach while Nicholas takes you around the globe through posters. As our glasses empty, Don will teach us four more island-themed beverages, the perfect remedy for those staycation blues.
To keep us thoroughly lubricated, here are our libations for the evening:
BLUE HAWAII
– Light Rum
– Vodka
– Lemon Juice
– Lime Juice
– Pineapple Juice (unsweetened; fresh is best)
– Sugar
– Ice
DARK & STORMY
– Dark Rum (preferably Goslings)
– Lime (optional)
– Ginger Beer
DAIQUIRI
– Light Spanish Rum (Cuban or Puerto Rican)
– Lime Juice
– Sugar
MAI TAI
– Blended Aged Rum (or mix your own aged Jamaican rum with a Martinique rhum)
– Curaçao or similar orange liqueur
– Orgeat
– Fresh Lime (for juice & garnish)
– Simple Syrup (1:1 sugar & water)
– Mint Garnish
SINGAPORE SLING
– Dry Gin
– Bénédictine
– Cherry Brandy
– Cointreau (can be substituted with triple-sec)
– Pomegranate Syrup (grenadine)
– Lime Juice
– Pineapple Juice
– Angostura Bitters
– Seltzer

Alphonse Mucha: Online Talk with the NYPL
2020-08-17 16:30 - 18:00
Embark on a virtual journey through the Paris portion of Alphonse Mucha’s career, as featured in the exhibition Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau/Nouvelle Femme that recently debuted at Poster House.
Afterward, we’ll have a Q&A with the museum’s Chief Curator, Angelina Lippert—any and all questions about Mucha or general poster history are welcomed and encouraged!

This lecture is made possible by Culture Pass, a program for cardholding patrons of New York City’s public libraries, the Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library, and Queens Public Library. Support for Culture Pass is provided by The New York Community Trust, Charles H. Revson Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: The Sleeping Giant
2020-08-13 16:30 - 18:00
Every month, Poster House offers Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for the low vision and blind community. Explore one of the museum’s shows with an experienced educator trained in the art of verbal description and learn more about the history of printed posters.
Due to the current public health crisis surrounding COVID-19, we’re bringing our description tours online through teleconference. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows.
This tour will focus on The Sleeping Giant: Posters & The Chinese Economy, an exhibition currently on view at the museum which covers over 100 years of Chinese graphic design.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by August 11 to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing the teleconference the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 90 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our Access Tours, click the Access filter at the top of our Events page, call 917.722.2439 x413 or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Virtual Lecture: Chinatown's Historic Signage
2020-08-12 19:00 - 20:30
The streets of Chinatown have historically been defined by an intensity of urban life whose vitality almost overwhelms the senses of visitors from less frenetic places. Commercial signs and outdoor advertising have long been a key feature of Chinatown’s unique urban landscape. But with so much to look at in these streets, signs tend to get lost in the mix.
Taking a moment to spotlight Chinatown’s unique history of outdoor advertising, this virtual program by design historian Thomas Rinaldi will explore the ways in which graphic design, technology, and cultural undercurrents converged to produce one of New York’s quintessential urban landscapes.
Thomas Rinaldi is the co-author of the book Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape, published by the University Press of New England in 2006, and the author of New York Neon, published by W.W. Norton in 2012. His photographs have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The New York Observer, Westchester Magazine, CNN Online, and elsewhere, and have been exhibited at the Municipal Art Society of New York and at the New York State Museum in Albany.

Intern Instagram Takeover: Michelle
2020-08-12 09:00 - 17:00
Poster House is currently wrapping up its inaugural cohort of summer interns.
Four amazing people joined our nine-week, paid summer internship program this June–August, giving them remote access to all parts of running a museum. In these final weeks, they will be revealing their final projects, writing for our Blog, and creating unique content for our social media channels.
This Wednesday, our Arts Administration Intern, Michelle Meged, will be taking over out Instagram Stories for a full day, exploring a poster-related topic that interests her.
Michelle is a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University pursuing a Masters in Arts Management. A big fan of Warhol, she believes art is for everyone and aims to break down the barriers to arts participation. She’s never met a pattern she didn’t like.

Intern Instagram Takeover: Danielle
2020-08-10 09:00 - 17:00
Poster House is currently wrapping up its inaugural cohort of summer interns.
Four amazing people joined our nine-week, paid summer internship program this June–August, giving them remote access to all parts of running a museum. In these final weeks, they will be revealing their final projects, writing for our Blog, and creating unique content for our social media channels.
This Monday, our Collections Intern, Danielle Moler, will be taking over out Instagram Stories for a full day, exploring a poster-related topic that interests her.
Danielle is an art librarian wannabe living in Philadelphia. Her greatest passions in life are cats, art history, and cheese. She will be using her Takeover to talk about LGBTQ posters + community archives.

Virtual Talk & Tasting: Cheese Posters!
2020-08-06 18:30 - 20:00
If there’s one thing we can all agree upon, it’s that everyone loves cheese. There’s a cheese for every occasion, every palate, every mood—and what better way to celebrate this dairy delight than with a night of guided tasting and cheese poster appreciation.
Poster House is thrilled to partner with Stephen Gellert of the The World’s Best Cheeses, one of the leading cheese importers, who will guide us on a fascinating epicurean journey around the world with cheese. He’ll beguile you with cheese history and inspire you to create epic cheese plates for your next dinner party (or just your next dinner on the couch).
Our Chief Curator, Angelina Lippert, will also make an appearance, introducing you to a wide array of cheese posters from the last hundred years. Questions on both cheese and cheese poster history are encouraged throughout the night!
So come, join our cheese party, and snack the night away with us!
Stephen Gellert is the Executive Vice President of The World’s Best Cheeses, one of the largest cheese importers and distributors in the country. After a rigorous exam similar to the Sommelier certification process, he was awarded the title of American Cheese Society Certified Cheese Professional (ACS-CCP). He is also a member of the Guilde Internationale Des Fromagers.
Custom cheese kits for this event are available on iGourmet.com and are shipped overnight anywhere in the continental USA.
If you would like to follow along with cheeses purchased at your local store, try to find the following types:

Roquefort-Societe
Brie
Sbrinz
Parmigiano Reggiano (aged 24 months)
Gruyere
Babybel

Intern Instagram Takeover: Maya
2020-08-06 09:00 - 17:00
Poster House is currently wrapping up its inaugural cohort of summer interns.
Four amazing people joined our nine-week, paid summer internship program this June–August, giving them remote access to all parts of running a museum. In these final weeks, they will be revealing their final projects, writing for our Blog, and creating unique content for our social media channels.
This Thursday, our Evaluation Intern, Maya Rodgers, will be taking over out Instagram Stories for a full day, exploring a poster-related topic that interests her.
Maya has spent her summer at Poster House working on survey implementation and visual analysis design. She is finishing up her degree at Ithaca College, where she is majoring in Communication Management and Design with a minor in Graphic Design. She is currently residing in Ithaca, exploring waterfalls, chasing sunsets, and running lots of hilly miles.

Online Talk: Equity & Justice Poster Design During COVID
2020-08-05 16:30 - 18:00
Join Poster House and Isometric Studio—a Brooklyn-based design studio led by queer people of color—as we discuss the transformative role of posters in promoting inclusion, equity, and justice.
The program will begin with a presentation by Poster House Collections Manager Melissa Walker on the history of protest posters. Next, Isometric partners Andy Chen and Waqas Jawaid will present a few case studies of how tech, educational, and cultural institutions are using poster and spatial design to redress racism and authenticate the experiences of people of color.
The event will conclude with a conversation among the presenters and a Q&A session with attendees. Attendees are welcome to create and share their own posters in response to the program during or after the event on social media.
This talk is made possible through Culture Pass, a program for cardholding patrons of New York City’s public libraries, the Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library, and Queens Public Library. Support for Culture Pass is provided by The New York Community Trust, Charles H. Revson Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
