Poster House

Virtual Talk: Poster Art in the Mao Era
2020-10-26 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Join historian Alfreda Murck as she guides guests virtually through The Sleeping Giant, focusing on posters produced during the Mao era. She will unpack these dynamic works of graphic design, exploring elements of politics, famine, and warfare that led to the Cultural Revolution. This is a unique opportunity to examine and discuss these pieces with a leader in the field.
Tickets:
Early Bird (purchased before Oct 10): Free!
General Registration: $3
A historian of Chinese visual culture, Alfreda Murck lived in Asia as a student and professional for more than two decades. In China from 1997 to 2013, she worked at the Palace Museum and taught at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and at Peking University. Besides various articles on Chinese painting, she authored a book titled Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent (Harvard University Asia Center, 2000). In the flea markets of Beijing she collected other people’s castoffs, including objects related to the Pakistani mangoes that Mao gave to workers, which led to the exhibition Mao’s Golden Mangoes and the Cultural Revolution (Rietberg Museum Zurich, 2013). Prior to living in Asia, Freda was Associate Curator of Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum. She received her PhD from Princeton University in 1995.
This program is co-presented by China Institute. By signing up for this program, you agree to be added to China Institute’s mailing list.

Instagram Takeover: Colin Laurel
2020-10-26 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 Colin Laurel. Laurel is a Black trans illustrator working in editorial, licensing, posters, and social justice. Throughout his work, he explores identity, culture, mental health, and advocates for self-help through making art. Colin hopes that his practice will inspire others to use creative solutions as a means for therapy and liberation. He has worked with Adobe, the New York Times, Icebreaker, Media Res Studio, UC Berkeley, Poetry Foundation, and organizations such as Forward Together, Trans Justice Funding Project, and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. He graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2015 with a BFA in Design Arts. He lives in Portland and adores his cat.
Name: Colin Laurel
Pronouns: He/him/his
IG: @folklaurel

Virtual Archives Tour
2020-10-22 18:30 - 19:30
Join Poster House’s Collections Manager, Melissa Walker, for a look behind the scenes at the museum’s archives!
This freewheeling glimpse into the museum’s permanent collection will cover everything from our Living Archive project to vintage posters; contemporary advertising campaigns to recent acquisitions. Come learn about the museum’s collecting mission and ask Melissa about all things collections-related!
Tickets: $3
Members & Students: Free!

Lippert & Lowry: Fireside Chats
2020-10-21 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!
This evening, the dynamic duo will be discussing all this nautical with a night dedicated to ship 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!

Grad School Night
2020-10-20 19:00 - 20:30
When making any decision about your education, it can help to consult a wide array of resources and perspectives. Whether you are considering graduate school or are a current graduate student, this evening is for you. In this program, you will hear from multiple speakers in the design world who hold Masters Degrees, including Poster House Director Julia Knight, professor and artist Clara Lieu, private art consultant Sarah Stein-Sapir, and curator, educator and filmmaker Katherine Cheairs, who will all discuss their educational journeys and what they learned about the cause and effect of going through graduate programs.
The final half hour of this program will feature the Poster House Education Team, who will lead participants in a professional development session focusing on continuing education post-school and resources for professional networking and involvement during and after your formal education.
Clara Lieu is the founder of Art Prof, a free website for learning visual arts. From 2007-2020, she was an Adjunct Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design where she taught in the departments of Foundation Studies, Printmaking, Painting, and Illustration. She has written for the New York Times and given lectures at Brown University, the National Art Education Association conference, and in Vancouver and China. Her work has been profiled on WBUR, Artsy, Hyperallergic, Inside Higher Ed, WCVB’s Chronicle, and KPCC. Her work has also been exhibited at the International Print Center New York, the Danforth Museum of Art, the Currier Museum of Art, and the Davis Museum and Cultural Center.
Sarah Stein-Sapir is a private art consultant that specializes in contemporary and emerging art. She studied art history at Columbia University and received a Masters in Contemporary Art from the Sotheby’s Institute in New York. Upon graduating she began working at Gagosian Gallery’s flagship space on West 24th Street and then went on to work with the World Wide Head of Contemporary Art at auction house Phillips de Pury. After her time there, she joined Philippe Segalot at esteemed art advisory firm Giraud Pissarro Segalot. Along with partners Lionel Pissarro and Franck Giraud and with offices in New York and Paris, GPS dealt primarily with late 19th , 20th and 21st century art. In 2012, Sarah was hired by former auction house expert Guy Bennett and serves as Director of Pelham Holdings. At that time, she also began advising independently for both private clients and developers through her company Stein-Sapir Art. Her major development projects include Extell Development’s ONE57 and their forthcoming Central Park Tower in Manhattan on what is commonly referred to as billionaire’s row. Sarah is also the founder and chair of the Madison Square Park Art Council.
Katherine “Kat” Cheairs is a curator, educator and filmmaker. Ms. Cheairs leads the conceptualization, development, and implementation of art education programs at Howl as the director of education. Kat’s areas of interest include: HIV/AIDS; visual culture; media arts therapy; community arts; and, critical race theory in art education. Katherine has a ten-year track record of working with a wide range of art education programs in media and interdisciplinary arts for both K-12 and adult populations. Her programs have served over one thousand individuals and include work with youth and adults experiencing incarceration, social and emotional learning difficulties, and trauma. Ms. Cheairs has designed and taught media arts programs for organizations such as, BRIC, Tribeca Film Institute, Film Society of Lincoln Center and Four Freedoms Park Conservancy. Kat has appeared and presented on panels at the Tribeca Film Institute, BAM, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Aperture Foundation and UnionDocs. Ms. Cheairs has a Master of Fine Arts in Film and Television Production from the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University.
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 West Village Neon
2020-10-20 18:30 - 20:00
Due to the success of our Walking Tour of Historic Chinatown Signage, Poster House is partnering again with design historian Thomas Rinaldi as he guides you on this 90-minute walking tour of the West Village.
Greenwich Village is blessed with an especially dense concentration of vintage neon signs. Signs like these advertised businesses large and small throughout the city beginning in the 1920s and 1930s. They fell out of favor in the 1960s due to rising costs, restrictive zoning ordinances, and the appearance of less costly forms of outdoor advertising. In recent years, they have all but disappeared as old, independent businesses across the city have succumbed to rent hikes and old age. This tour will take us past about a dozen signs dating to the 1930s, 40s and 50s, marking the locations of some of the neighborhood’s most stalwart restaurants, bars, and small businesses. We will see them at dusk, as they start to come to light and when they look their best. Some have been beautifully restored; all are in perpetual danger of disappearing. We will discuss their materials, design, origins and future.
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.
In the event of rain, the walking tour will take place on November 17.

Poster Inspiration: A Virtual Night With Anna Sui
2020-10-19 18:30 - 20:00
Poster House is thrilled to present an evening with fashion design icon Anna Sui as she discusses how posters have inspired some of her most dynamic and beautiful collections. A native of Detroit, Anna Sui’s work translated photography, music, pop culture, and art history into effervescent designs for women who embraced eclectic chic and rockstar beauty. She was recently honored with a retrospective at the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC which will be traveling to NSU Ft. Lauderdale in February, and her runway shows, with their creative visuals, unexpected interactive moments, and brilliant soundtracks continue to excite fashion lovers around the world. Tonight, she will be focusing on how posters from the 1960s and 70s have influenced and inspired her work.
Anna Sui is one of New York’s most beloved and accomplished fashion designers, known for creating contemporary original clothing inspired by spectacular amounts of research into vintage styles and cultural arcana. Sui joined New York’s intensely creative cultural underground in the 1970s, forging important relationships in the worlds of fashion, photography, art, music, and design.
A first-generation Chinese American, Anna Sui came of age in a suburb of Detroit. Her career is a classic American success story. “You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense. How could this young girl from the suburbs of Detroit become a success in New York? It was always that dream,” she says. Sui was part of a generation of fashion designers who remade American style in the 1990s. She rejected 1980s power dressing, with its corporate suits and big shoulder pads, in favor of a more relaxed silhouette that reflected the values of youth culture.
Since her premiere runway show in 1991, Sui has produced eighty-four collections, and she remains at the helm of her independent brand. Her label has grown to include accessories, cosmetics and fragrance, and she operates boutiques in the United States and Asia. A passionate advocate for New York’s Garment District, she has located her business and produced her fashion lines here in New York City for the past thirty-eight years.
Photo by Joshua Jordan
Tickets: $5
Members & Students: Free!

Protest Poster Collection Day
2020-10-17 12:00 - 15:00
As the first museum in the United States dedicated to the art, history, and impact of posters, Poster House is pleased to announce an open call for posters used in any of the protests that took place in the summer of 2020 in New York City.
Poster House has previously collected posters from the 2017 Women’s March in Boston, and we are excited to deepen our contemporary collection of citizen designers by continuing to acquire posters created at the grassroots level.
These posters will be professionally archived and added to our permanent collection. Our collection is accessible without charge to scholars and students for research purposes, as well as digitally to the entire world once our virtual database launches in 2021. Poster House will also incorporate images of these posters into lectures and public programs, and consider them for future exhibitions at the museum and like-minded institutions.
We will be accepting in-person submissions (please do not mail us submissions) at the museum on October 17, between 12 and 3pm.

We will be accepting in-person submissions (please do not mail us submissions) at the museum on October 17, 12–3pm. The front desk staff will direct you to a member of our curatorial team who will assist with your donation.

Please review our submission criteria below before bringing your poster to Poster House.

Submission Criteria:

The poster must have been physically used in a protest. Designs created with civic action in mind, while great, are not covered by the museum’s mission.
Posters cannot be made of copy paper, cloth, painted canvas, or three-dimensional substrate.
We do not accept banners or anything larger than 40×60 inches.
Please remove any sticks, handles, or carrying aids from posters prior to submission.
Only one submission per person, please 🙂

Upon arrival, you will be asked to fill out a brief questionnaire that will include how you wish to be credited in our database and any other information you feel is pertinent to the history of your design. If you wish to remain anonymous, that is also fine.
Due to storage constraints, Poster House will only be able to accept 150 posters representing these protests. We will aim to accession the widest array of voices and design styles chosen out of the submissions. Submission does not guarantee acceptance into the permanent collection, and we reserve the right to refuse the poster based on condition.

Open House New York Weekend
2020-10-17 00:00 - 23:30
Every October, Open House New York Weekend unlocks the doors of New York’s most important buildings, offering an extraordinary opportunity to experience the city and meet the people who design, build, and preserve New York.
In light of the pandemic, this year’s festival will feature a hybrid of virtual experiences and outdoor self-guided explorations. Poster House is thrilled to be participating by offering a behind-the-scenes tour of our archives with our Collections Manager, Melissa Walker.
Open House New York is a nonprofit organization that advocates for an open and inclusive city. In addition to OHNY Weekend, Open House New York organizes a wide range of programs all year long that provide broad audiences with unparalleled access to the extraordinary architecture and urban design of New York and to the people who help design, build, and preserve the city.

Poster House Book Club: Three Brothers by Yan Lianke
2020-10-15 18:30 - 20:00
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.
