Poster House

Members-Only Tour: Swann Auction Galleries
2022-08-01 16:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
On Monday, August 1, Poster House Members are invited to a preview and tour of Swann Auction Galleries’ summer poster auction. Featuring vintage posters from around the globe, including sought-after classics and never-before-seen designs, this preview and tour with experts in the field is not to be missed.
Reservations are required due to limited capacity. Members are welcome to bring a guest. For questions or to be placed on the waitlist, please email membership@posterhouse.org.

Poster House Block Party
2022-08-06 12:00 - 17:00
We at Poster House are hosting our first-ever block party, and we couldn’t be more excited! Join us on Saturday August 6 from 12–5pm in the Flatiron Plaza for a fun-filled day of activities, free museum tours, performances, giveaways, and more! Attendees also get free admission to Poster House all day. With a full slate of activations and performances, there’s something for everyone! Stay tuned for the full performance lineup, and be sure to register to be the first to receive exciting updates.
Activities include:
Live screenprinting with Mike King
Interactive Wheatpasting Wall
Poster giveaways by NYC X Design
Zine printing with Center for Book Arts
Instant photography with Fotografiska
A MICRO Museum presented by The Simons Foundation
Math mazes by National Museum of Mathematics
Landscape & Memory tours and mapmaking with Madison Square Park Conservancy
Landmark coloring sheets and tabletop games with the Flatiron NoMad Partnership
Children’s activities, including stamp-making and face painting
As well as games, prizes, giveaways, and much more!
Museum Tours:
12:30pm Experimental Marriage Curatorial Tour
1:30pm Ethel Reed Curatorial Tour
2:30pm The Tokyo Olympiad Docent Tour
3:30pm The Utopian Avant-Garde Curatorial Tour
Performance Lineup:
Hosted by Junior Mintt
12pm Christina Britton Conroy of the Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project
12:30pm The Dragon Sisters
1:30pm Jamal Gaines Creative Outlet
2pm Mike Yung
2:30pm Putty Dance Project
3:30pm DJ Tara
4:15pm DJs Amira & Kayla
Be sure to register to be the first to receive exciting updates!
The Poster House Block Party is part of Festival of New York, a citywide celebration featuring 200+ diverse organizations with events from Memorial Day to Labor Day 2022. We’re proud to be a part of Dance Party NYC on Saturday, August 6. One day, five boroughs, more than 80 venues across the city.

Poster Kids: For the Love Of Books!
2022-08-14 09:15 - 10:15
Poster designer Ethel Reed created light-hearted, decorative advertisements for literary publications like newspapers, magazines, and books. Join Poster Kids this month to explore the exhibition Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property. We will discover the techniques Reed used to popularize literature and then create zines of our own.
MATERIALS:

pencil and scrap paper
2 sheets of cardstock cut to appx. 5×7
5 sheets of plain paper cut to appx. 5×7
hole puncher
yarn, wire, or pipe cleaners
scissors
magazines that can be cut up for collage, stickers, colorful paper, and/or other collage materials
glue and tape
markers or other drawing materials

This online event will be hosted on Zoom. Closed Captioning will be provided. Poster Kids will not be recorded due to the presence of minors. Questions about accessibility? Please email Sarit Cahana, Accessibility Coordinator at access@posterhouse.org.

Poster Kids: For the Love Of Books!
2022-08-14 10:30 - 12:15
Poster designer Ethel Reed created light-hearted, decorative advertisements for literary publications like newspapers, magazines, and books. Join Poster Kids this month to explore the exhibition Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property. We will discover the techniques Reed used to popularize literature and then create stories about our own museum experiences.
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.

Nostrovia! Vodka Distillery Tour & Tasting
2022-08-17 18:00 - 20:00
“Na Zdorovie,” commonly mispronounced in English as “Nostrovia”, is a common Russian and Polish toast. Join Poster House at Our New York Vodka, the first distillery in Manhattan since the Prohibition era, for a private tour and tasting in honor of the hit exhibition The Utopian Avant Garde. Get a behind the scenes look at the production methods used to create the former Soviet Union’s signature beverage and enjoy specialty cocktail samplings of this uniquely New York take on the spirit. Afterward, learn about the history of vodka from Don Spiro, Poster House’s resident mixologist and founder of the Green Fairy Society. Tickets include a two hour open bar with light appetizers. Members receive 20% off on all tickets by entering their email address at checkout.

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Summer Picnic
2022-08-23 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 tour will focus on vintage posters featuring favorite picnic items, just in time for that final summer BBQ.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call ‪(914) 295-2387 by August 19 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.

Members' Preview Day
2022-09-08 10:00 - 18:00
We are excited to welcome Poster House Members and their guests to a first look at our latest exhibitions, Masked Vigilantes On Silent Motorbikes and Air-India’s Maharaja: Advertising Gone Rogue. Enjoy this daylong sneak peek before these shows open to the public.
This fun-filled day includes multiple complimentary tours led by our esteemed staff, including:
1pm – Join our incredible design and exhibitions team and learn how they put together Masked Vigilantes and Air-India’s Maharaja.
2pm – Our Chief Curator will dazzle you with an overview of the major movements in Western posters through a tour of our Poster History Timeline.
3pm – Docent Tim Medland will guide you through the political and social movements that inspired the artists in Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes.
4pm – Engage with Chief Curator Angelina Lippert & Tim Medland on a dynamic tour of Air-India’s Maharaja: Advertising Gone Rogue.
In addition to these exclusive tours, Members’ Preview Day also includes complimentary light bites throughout the day and a happy hour from 4-6, courtesy of Great Performances at Café des Affiches.
Advanced registration is required. Membership cards will be confirmed at check-in. Not yet a member? Consider joining today to take advantage of all that Poster House has to offer.

It Takes a Village: Unsung Women and Their Contributions to Silent Film
2022-09-12 18:00 - 19:00
In the first two decades of the 20th century, the nascent silent film industry offered women numerous opportunities to make a significant impact in the field. Mostly marginalized and forgotten over time, these women contributed heavily to early Hollywood filmmaking, doing everything from editing to designing, producing to directing. While some like Alice Guy-Blaché, Lois Weber, and Mary Pickford are well known by cinema buffs, many unsung pioneers like Clare West, Elsa Lopez, and Marion Fairfax still live in obscurity. This lecture will acknowledge these many women’s talents and provide the recognition they deserve.
Film historian and writer Mary Mallory is the author of four books and a blogger on Los Angeles and early film history. She has contributed to the Women Film Pioneers Project, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, and American History magazine. She has lectured at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, Hollywood Heritage Museum, and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UCLA, and she currently serves on Hollywood Heritage’s Board of Directors.

This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. ASL interpretation is available upon request with two weeks notice — please email Sarit@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 Sarit@posterhouse.org.

Untapped Cities Masked Vigilantes Tour
2022-09-15 17:30 - 18:30
Poster House is pleased to welcome Untapped Cities for a docent tour of Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes. Explore works by more than 20 artsts that appropriate poster imagery and reconsider the social and historical narratives that posters participate in. See rarely-viewed works by artists including KAWS, David Wojnarowicz, Jaques Villeglé, and other legendary figures, as well as pieces by contemporary street artists like Jilly Ballistic and FAUST.

Museum Day: Free Museum Admission
2022-09-17 10:00 - 18:00
Poster House is thrilled to take part in Smithsonian Magazine’s annual Museum Day. On Saturday, September 17, enjoy free entry to the museum, as well as other museums and cultural institutions across the country. Come visit our new exhibitions Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes and Air-India’s Maharaja: Advertising Gone Rouge, stop by Café des Affiches, and explore our richly stocked shop without having to pay admission!

Poster Kids: The Maharaja—What a Character!
2022-09-18 09:15 - 10:15
This month’s Poster Kids will focus on the exhibition Air-India’s Maharaja: Advertising Gone Rogue. Together, we’ll follow this iconic mascot and talk about the many qualities that make him charismatic and unique. In our workshop, we will create our own characters inspired by the Maharaja.
Materials:

colored pencils
markers
pencil and paper

This online event will be hosted on Zoom. Closed Captioning will be provided. Poster Kids will not be recorded due to the presence of minors. Questions about accessibility? Please email Sarit Cahana, Accessibility Coordinator at access@posterhouse.org.

Poster Kids: The Maharaja—What a Character!
2022-09-18 10:30 - 12:15
This month’s Poster Kids will focus on the exhibition Air-India’s Maharaja: Advertising Gone Rogue. Together, we’ll follow this iconic mascot and talk about the many qualities that make him charismatic and unique. In our workshop, we will create our own characters inspired by the Maharaja.
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: Masked Vigilantes
2022-09-20 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 tour will focus on Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes, on view at Poster House through February 12 2023.
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.

Masked Vigilantes Virtual Curatorial Tour
2022-09-20 18:00 - 19:00
Join guest curator RJ Rushmore for a curatorial tour of Poster House’s first contemporary art exhibition Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes. Learn how the artists like Swoon, KAWS, Jilly Ballistic and more 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.
RJ Rushmore is a writer, curator, and public art advocate who builds projects that disrupt visual culture. He is a cofounder of Art in Ad Places, a guerrilla public art campaign across New York City’s former payphones, and he has curated projects for The L.I.S.A. Project NYC, Mural Arts Philadelphia, LMNL Gallery, and the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College. RJ has been called everything from “one of the most respected critics of street and graffiti art in the world” to a “petty criminal.”

This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. ASL interpretation is available upon request with two weeks notice — please email Sarit@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 Sarit@posterhouse.org.

Educator Happy Hour
2022-09-21 16:00 - 18:00
Educators, kick off the new school year with Poster House! Join us at the museum for a complimentary happy hour and learn more about our field trips, in-school residencies, teen programs, and CTLE-certified teacher professional development. Poster House will be closed to the general public, so attendees will also have private access to our new exhibitions, Masked Vigilantes On Silent Motorbikes and Air-India’s Maharaja: Advertising Gone Rogue. Drop in anytime between 4:00pm and 6:00pm, and raise a glass with your fellow educators!
This is a drop-in event for PK-12 teachers and college/university professors. Advanced registration is required with a school email address, but attendees can arrive any time between 4:00pm and 6:00pm. Beer, wine, and light refreshments will be served, and we will be raffling off Poster House swag.

PH X Teens Drop-In: First Impressions
2022-09-23 16:00 - 18:00
It’s back-to-school time, and first impressions are everything! The start of the school year is a great time to mark personal and academic growth. Join Poster House for this drop-in program where you can design your very own tote bag or pencil case using letterpress printing techniques. Express your personal affirmations and start your school year off strong!
PH x Teens: First Impressions is a drop-in program for young adults ages 13 to 18. Advanced registration is required, but participants are not expected to stay the entire time; guests should plan to spend about an hour on this interactive, self-guided activity.

Rips & Slices: Masked Vigilantes Artists’ Panel
2022-09-29 18:30 - 20:00
Masked Vigilantes in Silent Motorbikes highlights how posters have long been co-opted by artists to create compelling, vibrant new works of art. Poster House is thrilled to welcome featured artists Swoon, Galen Gibson-Cornell, and Nicholas Fraser to a panel discussion moderated by curator RJ Rushmore on the significance of posters in their practice. Discover how these artists are inspired by posters and how they utilize the formal and conceptual elements of ad campaigns to produce new bodies of work. Each artist’s approach to the medium is unique, making for a rich and vibrant conversation that will provide both newcomers and seasoned poster enthusiasts with a fresh perspective on the dynamism of posters. Questions strongly encouraged!
Caledonia Curry, known as Swoon, is a contemporary artist and filmmaker recognized around the world for her pioneering vision of public artwork. She has spent over 20 years exploring the depths of human complexity by mobilizing her artwork to fundamentally re-envision the communities we live in toward a more just and equitable world.
Galen Gibson-Cornell is a visual artist working with a practice that combines urban exploration, repurpose of found-materials, and principles of détournement. He studies the layers of “urban skin” in cities—the posters, flyers, and paper advertisements—before returning to his Philadelphia studio to deconstruct the resulting materials into methodical and meditative artworks.
Nicholas Fraser creates installations, videos, and sculptures that grapple with the mutability of texts, exploring our compulsion to communicate and mining the gap between intention and perception.
RJ Rushmore is a writer, curator, and public art advocate who builds projects that disrupt visual culture. He is a cofounder of Art in Ad Places, a guerrilla public art campaign across New York City’s former payphones, and he has curated projects for The L.I.S.A. Project NYC, Mural Arts Philadelphia, LMNL Gallery, and the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College. RJ has been called everything from “one of the most respected critics of street and graffiti art in the world” to a “petty criminal.”

Posters & Cocktails: Hocus Pocus
2022-10-03 18:30 - 20:00
Posters House’s favorite trio is back at it with a new season of Posters & Cocktails. Join Chief Curator Angelina Lippert as she acts as emcee for another booze-fueled evening focusing on the wonders of magic posters and some seriously spooky cocktails.
Nicholas Lowry of Swann Auction Galleries will showcase decades of posters covering all things paranormal and phantasmagoric, from the likes of Harry Houdini to the mind-bending impossibilities of sideshow necromancers. Accompanying him is Poster House’s resident mixologist, Don Spiro of The Green Fairy Society, who will pair each portion of the lecture with wizardly potions worthy of the alchemist within.
This series is hosted for free over Zoom thanks to the generous support of Don Lebowitz and Claudia Wagner. Please check back closer to the date of the event for a complete list of cocktail ingredients so you can follow along at home and taste some of these delectable beverages!
MAGIC TRUCE
Bourbon
Drambuie
Dry Vermouth
lemon juice (fresh squeezed and strained)
orange juice (fresh squeezed and strained)
cocktail glass
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
Islay Scotch (smoky)
Blended Scotch
Lime Juice (fresh squeezed and strained)
Simple Syrup (equal parts water and sugar)
Mint Leaves
absinthe
cocktail glass
LITTLE DEVIL
Rum
Dry Gin
Lemon Juice (fresh squeezed and strained)
Cointreau
cocktail glass
SATAN’S WHISKERS
Gin
Grand Marnier or Curacao
Orange juice
Dry Vermouth
Sweet Vermouth
Orange peel
orange bitters
Cocktail glass or coupe

This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. ASL interpretation is available upon request with two weeks notice — please email Sarit@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.

First Friday
2022-10-07 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, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection.
All Day: Tokyo Olympiad screening
Largely hailed as one of the greatest sports movies of all time, Tokyo Olympiad turned the traditional notion of documentary filmmaking on its head, redefining the genre. Enjoy this landmark cinematic feature next to an exhibition of the posters created for the Italian release of the film.
1pm Experimental Marriage Curatorial Tour
Join Poster House Collections Manager Melissa Walker for a curatorial tour of the exhibition Experimental Marriage: Women in Early Hollywood. Learn about the women who shaped the early silent film industry through lobby cards for movies written, directed, produced, art-directed, or edited by them. Questions Strongly Encouraged!
3pm Michael De Feo & RJ Rushmore in Conversation
Poster House is pleased to welcome artist Michael De Feo for a conversation with curator RJ Rushmore on the new book Out of Fashion. This publication explores De Feo’s flower paintings created directly on fashion advertising posters removed from bus shelters. Learn more about the artist’s approach and process during this wide-ranging conversation. Questions strongly encouraged!
6pm Masked Vigilantes Curatorial Tour
Join guest curator RJ Rushmore for a curatorial tour of Poster House’s first contemporary art exhibition Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes. Learn how the artists like Swoon, KAWS, Jilly Ballistic and more 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.
7–8:30pm Tarot Card Reading with Maia Lorian
Celebrate the start of ~spooky season~ at Poster House with multihyphenate public artist Maia Lorian, whose poster series A Presidential Parody is in the museum’s permanent collection. She will be leading a free, single-card tarot reading from 7 to 8:30pm. Let this performative consultation with the cards guide you into the last few months of the year and get a glimpse of Lorian’s impressive public art interventions.
Maia Lorian is an actor, creator, Native New Yorker, and artistic director of A Presidential Parody—a guerrilla art ad takeover with live street art performances and interventions around NYC. As an artist, her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, The Nation, Street Art NYC, and many others outlets. Lorian’s pieces are in the permanent collection of Poster House and The 45 Library. Her work as an actor has influenced her practice as an artist, with credits including SNL (NBC), Flight of the Conchords (HBO), The Onion News Network (IFC), and many original works of theater. Her work as a mystic has been featured in Bust, InStyle, Refinery 29, Elite Daily, Bustle, and in many of your favorite astrology apps.

First Friday: Tokyo Olympiad Screening
2022-10-07 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, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection.
All Day: Tokyo Olympiad screening
Largely hailed as one of the greatest sports movies of all time, Tokyo Olympiad turned the traditional notion of documentary filmmaking on its head, redefining the genre. Enjoy this landmark cinematic feature next to an exhibition of the posters created for the Italian release of the film.

First Friday: Experimental Marriage Curatorial Tour
2022-10-07 13:00 - 14:00
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, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection.
Join Poster House Collections Manager Melissa Walker for a curatorial tour of the exhibition Experimental Marriage: Women in Early Hollywood. Learn about the women who shaped the early silent film industry through lobby cards for movies written, directed, produced, art-directed, or edited by them. Questions Strongly Encouraged!

First Friday: Michael De Feo & RJ Rushmore in Conversation
2022-10-07 15:00 - 16:00
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, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection.
Poster House is pleased to welcome artist Michael De Feo for a conversation with curator RJ Rushmore on the new book Out of Fashion. This publication explores De Feo’s flower paintings created directly on fashion advertising posters removed from bus shelters. Learn more about the artist’s approach and process during this wide-ranging conversation. Questions strongly encouraged!

First Friday: Masked Vigilantes Curatorial Tour
2022-10-07 18:00 - 19:00
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, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection.
Join guest curator RJ Rushmore for a curatorial tour of Poster House’s first contemporary art exhibition Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes. Learn how the artists like Swoon, KAWS, Jilly Ballistic and more 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.

First Friday: Tarot Card Reading with Maia Lorian
2022-10-07 19:00 - 20:30
Celebrate the start of ~spooky season~ at Poster House with multihyphenate public artist Maia Lorian, whose poster series A Presidential Parody is in the museum’s permanent collection. She will be leading a free, single-card tarot reading from 7 to 8:30pm. Let this performative consultation with the cards guide you into the last few months of the year and get a glimpse of Lorian’s impressive public art interventions.
Maia Lorian is an actor, creator, Native New Yorker, and artistic director of A Presidential Parody—a guerrilla art ad takeover with live street art performances and interventions around NYC. As an artist, her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, The Nation, Street Art NYC, and many others outlets. Lorian’s pieces are in the permanent collection of Poster House and The 45 Library. Her work as an actor has influenced her practice as an artist, with credits including SNL (NBC), Flight of the Conchords (HBO), The Onion News Network (IFC), and many original works of theater. Her work as a mystic has been featured in Bust, InStyle, Refinery 29, Elite Daily, Bustle, and in many of your favorite astrology apps.

Air-India Virtual Curatorial Tour
2022-10-11 18:00 - 19:00
Join guest curators Carly Johnson and Sophia Williamson for a virtual curatorial tour of Poster House’s latest exhibition Air India’s Maharaja: Advertising Gone Rouge. Discover the enduring and occasionally contentious travel posters of India’s national airline while learning about the Maharaja’s trajectory from a humble inflight memo pad to that of a cherished mascot. You’ll also enjoy the many guises of the Maharaja, from a monk in Rome to a lover boy in Paris, and even a Playboy bunny in New York.

This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. ASL interpretation is available upon request with two weeks notice — please email Sarit@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 Sarit@posterhouse.org.

Genius on Display: Shiva Nallaperumal
2022-10-12 18:00 - 19:00
Poster House is pleased to welcome graphic and typeface designer Shiva Nallaperumal for a Genius on Display artist’s talk. Explore the talented designer’s amazing portfolio featuring work for a wide range of clients, including the New York Times, the NBA, and many more. Learn all about Nallaperumal’s unique approach to design and typography. Questions strongly encouraged!
Shiva Nallaperumal is a graphic designer, art director, and typeface designer, as well as a co-founder (with Juhi Vishnani) of the plural design practice November. Through November, he has created identity systems, printed matter, installations, and typefaces for a wide variety of clients from culture and commerce, including Apple Music, Uber, the New York Times, Bodice, and the NBA. As a typeface designer, he has worked with Commercial Type, Typotheque, Bold Monday, Sharp Type, and Lost Type Co-op. In 2017, he was selected as one of Forbes India’s 30 under 30, and in 2019 he was inducted into the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).
Genius on Display is a platform for spotlighting the expertise of racialized artists and designers within the context of Poster House’s exhibitions and permanent collection. This program series is presented by CMYK Council, Poster House’s working advisory board of BIPOC creatives, designers, educators, and museum staff.

This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. ASL interpretation is available upon request with two weeks notice — please email Sarit@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 Sarit@posterhouse.org.

Collage Dreams with Luis Martin
2022-10-14 18:30 - 20:00
Join collage artist Luis Martin/The Art Engineer for an evening of conversation and creativity. In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore the collage techniques featured in Poster House’s exhibition Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes by making their own collage using provided materials. No experience necessary; just bring your curiosity and creativity!
Luis Martin/The Art Engineer is a New York-based collage artist who spearheaded the global collage community Collage Dream. The artist uses collage as an act of rebellious optimism and creates opportunity to create in community.

Poster Kids: Posters To Picassos
2022-10-16 09:15 - 10:15
Did you know that famous artists sometimes use posters to make their own art? In our new exhibition Masked Vigilantes On Silent Motorbikes we’ll look at some examples of how posters have been turned to fine art. Then, we’ll create our own art using posters.
Materials:

collected or printed posters
paper cup, solo cup, or plastic bottle cut in half
paint and paintbrushes
water
Mod Podge

This online event will be hosted on Zoom. Closed Captioning will be provided. Poster Kids will not be recorded due to the presence of minors. Questions about accessibility? Please email Sarit Cahana, Accessibility Coordinator at access@posterhouse.org.

Poster Kids: Posters to Picassos
2022-10-16 10:30 - 12:15
Did you know that famous artists sometimes use posters to make their own art? In our new exhibition Masked Vigilantes On Silent Motorbikes we’ll look at some examples of how posters have been turned to fine art. Then, we’ll create our own art using posters.
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: Air India
2022-10-18 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 tour will focus on Air-India’s Maharaja: Advertising Gone Rogue, on view at Poster House through February 12 2023.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call ‪(914) 295-2387 by October 15 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.
