The History of the Maharaja with Manu S. Pillai
2023-01-21 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Alas, the Maharaja’s tour with Poster House is ending, and the Rogue will take his final bows. While we’ve come to love his charming, mischievous, and exuberant personality, there’s still more to be discovered about this beloved mascot. Join historian and author Manu S. Pillai as he delves into the history of India’s maharajas, revealing the political complexities behind the character. Stories of sedition, secret political alliances, and espionage will have you asking if the stereotypes of the Maharajas were ever valid.
Manu S Pillai is the author of the award-winning The Ivory Throne (2015), Rebel Sultans (2018), The Courtesan, The Mahatma & The Italian Brahmin (2019), and, most recently, False Allies (2021). Besides working with parliamentarians in India and the United Kingdom, he has also been a researcher with the BBC on its “Incarnations” history series. A winner of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar–awarded by India’s National Academy of Letters to young writers, he has been a newspaper columnist and contributor to multiple publications in India. Manu recently completed his PhD at King’s College London.
This hybrid event will take place over Zoom. It will be simultaneously screened in the museum’s workshop space where a selection of Indian snacks and tea will be served.

Poster Kids: Grow It!
2023-01-22 10:30 - 12:15
In this food-focused Poster Kids program, we will look at propaganda and advertisements from around the world featuring food. At our gallery stops, we’ll share memories, plan meals, and write recipes. Then, we’ll head to the workshop space where we’ll plant our own take-home gardens.
Join Poster House on select Sunday mornings from 10:30am–12:15pm for a family-friendly, interactive poster tour and a related art-making experience. Admission is free; advanced registration is required.
This program invites children 5–11 years old and their adults to collaborate (siblings are welcome). This is not a drop-off program.

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Winter Wonderland
2023-01-24 16:00 - 17:00
Every month, Poster House offers virtual Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for community members who are blind or have low vision.
In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we offer our description tours online through Zoom. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows and permanent collection.
This month’s tour will focus on winter travel posters.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call ‪(914) 295-2387 to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing Zoom the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 70 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our accessibility tours, click the Accessibility filter at the top of our Events page, call (914) 295-23873, or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Gesture Drawing Class
2023-01-27 18:00 - 19:30
Gesture drawing is a technique that aims to capture fluidity and motion, infusing illustrations with a greater sense of life and vitality. In this class, instructor and illustrator Robin Mork will share methods of working quickly and lightly to capture fluid gesture and moving figures using both charcoal and brush and ink. Afterward, attendees will be invited to apply their new skills to illustrate a live dance performance in the museum’s Main Gallery.
Robin Mork is a Brooklyn-based illustrator and book cover designer, and an adjunct assistant professor of illustration and design at CUNY Queens College. She has a BA from Smith College and an MFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts. Clients include Simon & Schuster, JP Morgan Chase, and Columbia University, among others.

Anchor in Continuum Dance Performance
2023-01-27 19:30 - 20:00
Poster House is thrilled to welcome dancer and choreographer Shira Kagan-Shafman and violinist and composer Leandria Lott for a new performance piece created in conversation with the exhibition Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes. Much like the acclaimed exhibition, this production blurs the boundaries among multiple artistic mediums. Together, the pair will explore the tension between the inevitability of change and the permanence of time, allowing viewers to experience a Poster House exhibition in a new and engaging way.
Shira Kagan-Shafman (she/her) is a dancer and choreographer based in New York City. In 2021, she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Dance from The New School and spent time in Israel participating in DanceJerusalem and Batsheva Dance Company’s Summer Course for outstanding dance students. She has performed professionally in works by Caitlin Corbett, Kelley Donovan, Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp, Peggy Florin, Dean Moss, Rebecca Stenn, Jess Pretty, Mariana Valencia, and Joanna Kotze. Additionally, she participated in the Arts on Site Residency and Retreat, developing her work To Breathe Over Seas that premiered at Arts on Site in December 2021 and was restaged in March 2022.Currently, Kagan-Shafman works for Ephrat Asherie Dance.
Leandria Lott (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based, multi-faceted musician, teacher, composer, and artist. Their passion has ignited her to explore music around the world. She has performed and participated in workshops and classes in the United Kingdom and Italy, and has toured The Virgin Islands. She has also performed with Stevie Wonder and Kirk Franklin. They work with Arts on Site as a Community Leader, and they are on the board of B.R.I.D.G.E Orchestra, a hip hop orchestra based in Brooklyn, where they act as the Marketing Manager. They play guitar, violin, and sing in the band The Royal Green Rangers with bandmate Brittany Harris.
Image of dancer taken by Noor Eemaan, image of violinist by Steph Russell.

First Friday
2023-02-03 10:00 - 21:00
Join Poster House on the First Friday of every month for free admission and extended hours! Explore the museum’s latest exhibitions and get in on the fun by attending a tour, workshop, performance, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection. Check back soon for a complete list of activities!
1pm Experimental Drawing Workshop $10
Poster House is pleased to welcome teaching artist Katherine Toukhy for an experimental drawing workshop based around the billboard Cairo By Night. Participants will explore dynamic movement and mark-making inspired by its figures and Arabic lettering, and will leave with a self-drawn silhouette of one of the dancers filled with their expressive marks and lines.
3pm Poster History Timeline Tour
Join Chief Curator Angelina Lippert for a tour of the museum’s Poster History Timeline. Learn the fundamental movements that define Western poster history in this fun and engaging tour. Questions strongly encouraged!
4pm Street Dancing Workshop $10
Much like the remixed posters in Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes, street performances are part of the fabric of everyday life in a big city. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn the basics of street dance forms from It’s Showtime NYC. Grab your dancing shoes and get ready to move your feet like a pro. All experience levels welcome!
5pm Masked Vigilantes Docent Tour
Join docent Tim Medland for a curatorial tour of Poster House’s first contemporary art exhibition Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes. Learn how the artists like Swoon, KAWS, and Jilly Ballistic use posters as a medium from which to create entirely new works of art, repurposing the language of mass communication. Discover how advertising shapes our built environment and how artists leverage sanctioned and unsanctioned public art to disrupt what is commonplace.
6pm Bollywood Dance Workshop $10
Poster House is pleased to welcome back Ajna Dance Company for an interactive Bollywood dance workshop! Get ready to move your body and learn the basics of the famous dance style from New York’s premier Indian dance company. All experience levels welcome!
7:30pm Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet Performance
Poster House is pleased to welcome Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet for a performance in the main gallery. Enjoy the graceful choreography and flowing movements alongside the acclaimed exhibition Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes. You don’t want to miss this showcase of pure excellence in contemporary dance.

Poster Kids: I Spy
2023-02-12 10:30 - 12:00
Have you ever wanted to play I Spy in a museum? Now you can! Join Poster Kids as we find unique and sometimes hidden images in our poster exhibitions. After our gallery activity, we’ll head to the workshop to create our own I Spy-themed collages and drawings.
Join Poster House on select Sunday mornings from 10:30am–12pm for a family-friendly, interactive poster tour and a related art-making experience. Admission is free; advanced registration is required.
This program invites children 5–11 years old and their adults to collaborate (siblings are welcome). This is not a drop-off program.

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: New Orleans Travel Posters
2023-02-21 16:00 - 17:00
Every month, Poster House offers virtual Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for community members who are blind or have low vision.
In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we offer our description tours online through Zoom. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows and permanent collection.
This month’s tour will focus on New Orleans travel posters.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call ‪(914) 295-2387 to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing Zoom the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 70 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our accessibility tours, click the Accessibility filter at the top of our Events page, call (914) 295-2387, or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Pattern & Flow Members-Only Tour
2023-02-27 15:00 - 16:30
Poster House Members are invited to a curatorial tour of the celebrated exhibition Pattern & Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s. This landmark show is the first of its kind dedicated to exploring the revolutionary and decadently beautiful era of 20th-century artists’ papers, brilliantly curated by Mindy Dubansky of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library. This tour will take place at the Grolier Club in New York City. Space is limited.

First Friday
2023-03-03 10:00 - 21:00
Join Poster House on the First Friday of every month for free admission and extended hours! Explore the museum’s latest exhibitions and get in on the fun by attending a tour, workshop, performance, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection.
1pm: Exhibition Design Tour
Ever wonder how an exhibition comes together? Join Poster House Director of Design & Exhibits, Ola Baldych, for a design-focused tour of the museum’s latest exhibitions, Made in Japan & Black Power to Black People. Learn about the inspirations for these incredible installations and the behind-the-scenes decisions that go into crafting a seamless visitor experience. Questions strongly encouraged!
6:30pm: In-Person Archives Tour
Don’t miss this rare and exclusive opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at Poster House’s permanent collection! Led by Collections Manager Melissa Walker, this intimate tour will give 10 people the chance to explore highlights from the museum’s collection of over 10,000 posters from around the world. Catch sneak previews of upcoming exhibition material, take a peek at recent acquisitions for the Living Archive, and get up close and personal with the museum’s growing collection. Members receive 20% off by entering their email at checkout!
6:30pm: Thermal Paper Art Workshop
This workshop will introduce beginners to the art and technology of thermal paper printing (printing without ink). Learn how to “hack” receipt technology by printing your own receipts and altering existing ones through heat transfer. Participants will also experiment with printmaking techniques, including monotype printing on receipt paper. By the end of this workshop, you will never look at a receipt in the same way again! Members receive 20% off by entering their email at checkout!
Instructor will provide all materials; however, participants will need to download an app on their smartphones for printing.
7pm: Butoh Performance
Poster House is pleased to welcome the New York Butoh Institute for a special performance in honor of the museum’s latest exhibition, Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art. Experience Butoh, the avant-garde dance form born in Japan in the 1950s, in conversation with this vibrant, colorful exhibition. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to witness contemporary Butoh up close!

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Made in Japan
2023-03-07 16:00 - 17:00
Every month, Poster House offers virtual Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for community members who are blind or have low vision.
In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we offer our description tours online through Zoom. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows and permanent collection.
This month’s tour will focus on the new exhibition Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call ‪(914) 295-2387 to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing Zoom the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 70 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our accessibility tours, click the Accessibility filter at the top of our Events page, call (914) 295-2387, or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Black Power to Black People Virtual Curatorial Tour
2023-03-07 18:00 - 19:00
Join curator Es-pranza Humphrey for a virtual tour of Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party. Learn how the Black Panther Party devised a graphic language to reaffirm Black humanity and decommodify Black life. Explore the bold language and striking graphics that exposed the public to radical images that captured a shift in tone in the fight for civil rights. Questions strongly encouraged!
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees’ cameras off. Automatic closed captioning will be provided. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request with two weeks notice — please email access@posterhouse.org to request interpretation services. A recording of this event will be made available for all registered attendees.
Questions about accessibility? Please contact Sarit Cahana, Access Coordinator, at access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387‬.
For all other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org

PH x Teens: Counterculture Collage
2023-03-10 15:30 - 18:00
In celebration of our new exhibitions Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art and Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party, teens are invited to create a counterculture collage on notebooks.
Artists Yokoo Tadanori and Tanaami Keiichi, featured in Made in Japan, and many designers featured in Black Power to Black People contributed to the growing anti-establishment movement of the 60s, known as counterculture, in response to the civil rights movement, anti-war efforts, and anti-censorship movements. These artists utilized collage, digital media, and radical imagery to make bold and progressive demands to change the status quo.
Inspired by their work, teens will design their own radical counterculture message using collage. After they complete their notebooks, teens are encouraged to take what they create into the exhibits to explore.
PH x Teens is a drop-in program for young adults ages 13 to 18. Advanced registration is encouraged, but participants are not expected to stay the entire time; guests should plan to spend about an hour on this interactive, self-guided activity.

Educator Happy Hour
2023-03-22 16:00 - 18:00
Poster House welcomes Pre-K through university educators to view the museum’s new exhibitions and learn more about upcoming educational programming! Join us for a complimentary happy hour at the museum, and chat with the Education team about field trips, in-school residencies, teen programs, and CTLE-certified teacher professional development. Poster House will be closed to the public, so attendees will also have private access to our new exhibitions, Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art, and Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party. Drop in anytime between 4pm and 6pm, and raise a glass with your fellow educators!
This is a drop-in event for PreK-12 teachers and college/university professors. Advanced registration is required with a school email address; attendees can arrive anytime between 4pm and 6pm. Beer, wine, and light refreshments will be served, and we will be raffling off Poster House swag.

Members-Only Tour: Black Power to Black People
2023-03-23 18:00 - 19:30
Members are invited to a private, after hours tour of Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party led by curator Es-pranza Humphrey. Learn how the Black Panther Party devised a graphic language to reaffirm Black humanity and decommodify Black life. Explore the bold language and striking graphics that exposed the public to radical images that captured a shift in tone in the fight for civil rights.
Reservations are required and limited to Members and their guests. Not yet a Member? Join today!

Women's History is Poster History
2023-03-24 18:00 - 19:30
Poster House is excited to celebrate Women’s History Month with Lisa Daniell and Natalie Alcide of the Women’s Press Collective. This wide-ranging presentation will highlight parts of the museum’s permanent collection to explore the impact of women on the poster field, with special attention paid to posters used in movement organizing. Join in person at the museum or virtually to learn how women from all walks of life have shaped the art and history of the poster!
This program is presented in-person and live-streamed for our virtual audience.
Founded in 1982, the Women’s Press Collective is a NYC-based, all-volunteer association of artists, printers, writers, and others in publishing and media, joining with community and labor organizers to build independent, community-based press production.
Lisa Daniell has been an organizer since 1994, using a community-organizing approach to build independent community-based press. She is the Operations Manager of Women’s Press Collective (WPC) and Editor of WPC’s magazine, Collective Endeavor.
Natalie Alcide is a Senior Art Director at TBWAChiatDay and an adjunct professor at the City College of New York. A native Brooklynite, her Haitian roots and working class upbringing inform her passion for crafting narratives that authentically represent the cultures of underrepresented communities and telling stories that often go untold. Natalie has been a volunteer with WPC since 2016.

Improvisational Drawing Intensive Workshop
2023-03-25 12:00 - 15:00
This three-hour intensive workshop will explore drawing as an improvisational technique, opening avenues to new ways of interpreting form, color, and composition that go beyond direct representation. By exploring accidental imagery found in spontaneous and unplanned abstraction, participants will not only find new means of visual expression, but also tap into a sense of play that is often lost as artists begin to focus more on technical skill than on unrestricted pleasure. This class will work with collage, watercolor, and various other media.
Robin Mork is a Brooklyn-based illustrator and book cover designer, and an adjunct assistant professor of illustration and design at CUNY Queens College. She has a BA from Smith College and an MFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts. Clients include Simon & Schuster, JP Morgan Chase, and Columbia University, among others.

Poster Kids: East Meets West
2023-03-26 10:30 - 12:00
This month, Poster Kids will focus on the museum’s latest exhibition Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art. We will learn to identify popular motifs in both traditional Japanese and modern Western design. Afterward, we will create our own artwork using themes from both aesthetics.
Join Poster House on select Sunday mornings from 10:30am–12pm for a family-friendly, interactive poster tour and a related art-making experience. Admission is free; advanced registration is required.
This program invites children 5–11 years old and their adults to collaborate (siblings are welcome). This is not a drop-off program.

Designing on the Grid with the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library
2023-03-28 17:00 - 18:30
Join Poster House and the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library for a brief verbal description tour of the museum’s 2020 exhibition, The Swiss Grid. This show explored how design schools in Switzerland helped define a global modern, clean aesthetic through the use of grid systems. Afterward, you will create your own tactile posters based on the exhibit.
The event is at the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library in the Community Room at 40 West 20th Street, #1, New York, NY 10011. To address any accessibility needs, email access@posterhouse.org or call 914.295.2387.

We Act As If It Is Possible: Black Feminist Aesthetics for Black Power
2023-03-29 18:00 - 19:00
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”––Angela Davis
In honor of Women’s History Month, Poster House is pleased to welcome Eesha Pandit and Robin Boylorn of the Crunk Feminist Collective to discuss the long-standing impact of a Black feminist aesthetic on the art of the movements that build Black Power. Taking images from Poster House’s permanent collection and current exhibition Black Power to Black People, this wide-ranging conversation will explore images and ephemera created by and of Black cis and trans women that forge a visual style in service of radically transforming the world. Questions strongly encouraged!
Dr. Robin M. Boylorn is an accomplished scholar, activist, writer, speaker, and thinker. Her work concentrates on ways of documenting marginalized lives and making those narratives accessible and available to wide audiences. She seeks to give voice to silenced experiences and offer strategies for talking about and across difference (in its many manifestations). Boylorn is the author of Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience and co-editor of The Crunk Feminist Collection.
Eesha Pandit is a Houston-based writer and activist. She is cofounder and Managing Partner at The Center for Advancing Innovative Policy (CAIP). Pandit specializes in working with a broad range of organizations, including community groups, national organizations, local and state leaders, coalitions, and funders to create innovative policy advocacy strategies that succeed in fostering progressive policy change and in building vital connections across movements. Her writing can be found at The Crunk Feminist Collective, Salon, Feministing, The Nation, RH Reality Check, Feministe, Bitch Magazine, and In These Times.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees’ cameras off. Automatic closed captioning will be provided. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request with two weeks notice — please email access@posterhouse.org to request interpretation services.
A recording of this event will be made available for all registered attendees.
Questions about accessibility? Please contact Sarit Cahana, Access Coordinator, at access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387‬.
For all other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org

Members-Only Tour: War Stories, Spies, & Propaganda
2023-04-04 18:00 - 19:00
Members are invited to not one, but two back-to-back curatorial tours of our latest hallway exhibitions, Schoolgirls at War: French Propaganda Posters from World War I and With My Little Eye: Warnings for the Homefront.
Starting upstairs, Chief Curator Angelina Lippert will introduce guests to France’s largest all-female rationing campaign from World War I, exploring how children were used to create propaganda for the country during its darkest hours. Afterward, on our lower level, guest curator Tim Medland will break down the different ways Allied countries warned their citizens of espionage threats during World War II.

First Friday
2023-04-07 10:00 - 21:00
Join Poster House on the First Friday of every month for free admission and extended hours! Explore the museum’s latest exhibitions and get in on the fun by attending a tour, workshop, performance, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection.
12pm Upstander Intervention Training
In response to recent homophobic and transphobic incidents in the neighborhood and the city at large, Poster House is partnering with the New York City Anti-Violence Project to offer an upstander intervention training. Learn de-escalation strategies and how to safely intervene when witnessing or experiencing violence. All levels of experience are welcome to attend this comprehensive training.
3:00pm Black Power to Black People Curatorial Tour
Join curator Es-pranza Humphrey for a tour of Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party. Learn how the Black Panther Party devised a graphic language to reaffirm Black humanity and decommodify Black life. Explore the bold language and striking graphics that exposed the public to radical images that captured a shift in tone in the fight for civil rights. Questions strongly encouraged!
3:30pm PH x Teens: Making the Message
Teens are invited to a special a back-to-back PH x Teens event!
In partnership with the Young Lordes Collective, PH x Teens invites you to a zine making workshop. The YLC will facilitate a discussion about the use of posters/pamphlets/other printable media in activism. After discussion, teens will make a zine about something that they are passionate about. Teens are encouraged to be as creative as they please. After they create their zines, teens are encouraged to explore Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party.
PH x Teens is a drop-in program for young adults ages 13 to 18. Advanced registration is encouraged, but participants are not expected to stay the entire time; guests should plan to spend about an hour on this interactive, self-guided activity.
5:30pm PH x Teens: Watercolor Haiku
Teens are invited to a special a back-to-back PH x Teens event!
Inspired by Satō Kochi’s Five Seasons (1988), teens are invited to learn how to write a haiku using watercolor and calligraphy. Participants will take home a finished artwork, and are encouraged to explore the exhibition Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art.
PH x Teens is a drop-in program for young adults ages 13 to 18. Advanced registration is encouraged, but participants are not expected to stay the entire time; guests should plan to spend about an hour on this interactive, self-guided activity.
7pm PH X College: Student Movements & the Black Panther Party
Did you know that many members of the Black Panther Party were students? College students are invited to this special tour and talkback led by Poster House Educator Rayyan Mikati. Learn more about the Black Panther Party’s history of student organizing and students’ roles in the civil rights and Black Power movements. Questions strongly encouraged!

PH x Teens: Making the Message with the Young Lordes Collective
2023-04-07 15:30 - 17:00
Teens are invited to a special a back-to-back PH x Teens event!
In partnership with the Young Lordes Collective, PH x Teens invites you to a zine making workshop. The YLC will facilitate a discussion about the use of posters/pamphlets/other printable media in activism. After discussion, teens will make a zine about something that they are passionate about. Teens are encouraged to be as creative as they please. After they create their zines, teens are encouraged to explore Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party.
Maia Villalba (she/they) is a Chinese Cuban communist, organizer, and abolitionist from Lower Manhattan. At New York University, she concentrates in Social and Cultural Analysis at the College of Arts and Sciences and serves as the President of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Positive Club (SRH+). In her most recent work, Wretched Women: A Manifesto on Abolition, Anti-Globalization, and the International Struggle for the Commons, she exposes the dark underbelly of global corporate development and explains how social practices, acts of provisioning, and forms of peer governance offer practical tools of resistance against the forces of late stage capitalism. Their manifesto is set for publication by Iskra Books in 2023.
At the intersection of artistry and activism, the Young Lordes Collective (YLC) is a grassroots artist-activist youth collective that aims to create a growing and breathing network of underrepresented New Yorkers. Since March 2021, the Young Lords Collective has cultivated a generative space for community-based learning, care, and revolutionary struggle for the emerging artists and activists of our generation. Through multimedia publications, mutual aid initiatives, food drives, open mic nights, educational discussions, and more, the Young Lordes Collective pays homage to activist groups of the past by uplifting the change makers of the future.
PH x Teens is a drop-in program for young adults ages 13 to 18. Advanced registration is encouraged, but participants are not expected to stay the entire time; guests should plan to spend about an hour on this interactive, self-guided activity.

PH x Teens: Watercolor Haiku
2023-04-07 17:30 - 19:00
Teens are invited to a special a back-to-back PH x Teens event!
Inspired by Satō Kochi’s Five Seasons (1988), teens are invited to learn how to write a haiku using watercolor and calligraphy. Participants will take home a finished artwork, and are encouraged to explore the exhibition Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art.
PH x Teens is a drop-in program for young adults ages 13 to 18. Advanced registration is encouraged, but participants are not expected to stay the entire time; guests should plan to spend about an hour on this interactive, self-guided activity.

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Black Power to Black People
2023-04-11 16:00 - 17:00
Every month, Poster House offers virtual Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for community members who are blind or have low vision.
In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we offer our description tours online through Zoom. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows and permanent collection.
This month’s tour will focus on the new exhibition Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call ‪914.295.2387 to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing Zoom the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 70 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our accessibility tours, click the Accessibility filter at the top of our Events page, call (914) 295-2387, or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Milton Glaser: POP with AIGA NY
2023-04-19 18:30 - 20:30
Join AIGA NY for a dynamic conversation with the authors of Milton Glaser: POP, a landmark overview of the work of legendary illustrator and designer Milton Glaser during the 1960s and ’70s, which includes hundreds of examples of Glaser’s work from this quintessential period that have not been seen since their original publication.
This conversation will include writers Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, Beth Kleber, and will be moderated by Chief Curator Angelina Lippert. The event will be held in J.M. Kaplan Hall, Room A106, at The New School.

Genius on Display with Zipeng Zhu
2023-04-21 18:00 - 19:00
Poster House is thrilled to welcome the talented multi-hyphenate Zipeng Zhu for a Genius on Display artist’s talk. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from the prolific designer about his expansive practice and distinctive visual style. Questions are strongly encouraged!
Zipeng Zhu is a Chinese-born artist, designer, art director, illustrator, and animator in New York City who wants to make every day a razzle-dazzle musical. His clients include Apple, Adobe, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Twitter, Netflix, New York Times, The New Yorker, MTV, and Samsung. He was one of the Art Directors Club Young Guns 13 winners and has been recognized as Print magazine’s New Visual Artist and The One Show Young Ones. His work has been exhibited all over the world, including New York, Barcelona, Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai, Beijing, and other major museums and institutions. Now he runs his creative practice Dazzle Studio, and gift shop, Dazzle Supply, to push dazzle life to the next level.
This program is presented in-person and live-streamed for our virtual audience.

Poster Kids: Puppet Party
2023-04-23 10:30 - 12:00
Did you know the Black Panther Party wrote a Ten-Point Program aimed at bettering the lives of Black people? They also used to create puppets with children in their community to teach ideas and words that were important to the Black Panther Party. Together, we’ll learn about this powerful organization and write our own plans to help make New York a better place. Afterward, we’ll head to the workshop space where we will craft our very own puppets and host a make-believe breakfast party where we will share our ideas.
Join Poster House on select Sunday mornings from 10:30am–12pm for a family-friendly, interactive poster tour and a related art-making experience. Admission is free; advanced registration is required.
This program invites children 5–11 years old and their adults to collaborate (siblings are welcome). This is not a drop-off program.

Members-Only Tour: To Fight for the Poor with My Pen
2023-04-24 17:30 - 18:30
Poster House members are invited to join independent scholar Eve M. Kahn at the Grolier Club for a tour of To Fight for the Poor with My Pen: Zoe Anderson Norris, Queen of Bohemia.
Although little remembered today, Norris is considered a foremother of modern-day social-justice advocates and confessional bloggers baring souls in print. In millions of published words of fiction and journalism—including in her own bimonthly magazine, The East Side—she documented desperate immigrant poverty in New York and called for the world to heed and help.
This tour will take place at the Grolier Club in New York City. Space is limited.

Person Place Thing with Nicholas Lowry
2023-04-28 18:00 - 19:30
Poster House is thrilled to partner with Randy Cohen of Person Place Thing for a live recording of this popular public radio series. He will be joined by Poster House Advisory Board member and tartan legend, Nicholas “Nicho” Lowry. Nicholas wears many poster-related hats: auctioneer, specialist, lecturer, curator, historian, enthusiast, and collector. He is perhaps best known, though, as the President and Principal Auctioneer of Swann Auction Galleries, where he is also the Director of its vintage posters department. As one of the world’s foremost authorities on vintage posters, he has spent nearly 25 years serving regularly as a poster appraiser on the PBS television series Antiques Roadshow.
Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them. The result: surprising stories from great talkers and thinkers.
Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines. His first television work was writing for Late Night With David Letterman, for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s TV Nation. He was the ethics columnist at the New York Times for twelve years. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.
Poster house Members can use their email address at checkout to receive 20% off the ticket price.
This program is presented in person at Poster House. Automatic closed captioning will be provided. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request with two weeks notice—please email access@posterhouse.org to request interpretation services. Visual descriptions will be provided.
Questions about accessibility? Please contact Sarit Cahana, Access Coordinator, at access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387‬.
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