Poster Kids: East Meets West
2023-03-26 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | NY
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.
For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org

Dafi Kühne: Letterpress Posters Reinvented
2023-05-03 18:30 - 21:00
Award-winning designer and printer Dafi Kühne is joining Chief Curator Angelina Lippert in conversation to present his work, share his approach to Swiss Typography, and give insight into his fascinating production process. Together they will ask: Do printed posters in times of digital displays in urban spaces still make sense? And why should posters be produced at great expense using the antiquated letterpress printing process, when digital printing devices can deliver high-quality reproductions at much lower cost? In the words of Dafi, “letterpress printing can only live on if the design is at the heart of the process and makes the connection to the present.”
This event is presented by Cooper Union’s Herb Lubalin Study Center and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York. It will be held at the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium.
Dafi Kühne is a Swiss designer and letterpress printer. In his studio, he uses a wild mix of analog and digital tools to produce cultural posters. With this one main rule in his studio, “No PDF ever leaves the studio as a final product.” He prints all posters with letterpress printing presses. His mostly typographic posters have won international awards and been in exhibitions all around the globe.

First Friday
2023-05-05 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. This month, the museum is thrilled to partner with Welcome to Chinatown for a series of programming that celebrates the culture, community, and resilience of Chinatown. Stop by and learn more about Welcome to Chinatown and how you can support the organization’s recovery efforts.
1-8pm MKC Threads Heatpatch Totes
Design your own tote bag inspired by Poster House and Welcome to Chinatown! We have curated a selection of graphic images drawn from the museum’s past exhibitions and Welcome to Chinatown’s collection. Your choices will be hand pressed for you, ready for you to take home in minutes! Supplies are very limited and proceeds from each tote bag will support Welcome to Chinatown. MKC Threads Inc. is a minority-owned, AAPI embroidery, print, and promotional item small business with a mission to empower the community through quality branded apparel and merchandise. With their slogan “You Envision, We Create,” MKC Threads is dedicated to providing the power of personalized merchandise to the AAPI community.
3pm The Chinese Red Envelope as an Artistic Gift
The red envelope is a symbolic gift often exchanged during celebrations,including Lunar New Year, weddings, and birthdays. It is typically filled with crisp, new dollars, wishing prosperity to those who receive it. Many contemporary envelope designs are mass-produced by anonymous artists—however, today the artist is you! Led by NYC-based artist Jenny Acosta, this lighthearted exercise will attempt to reclaim creative ownership of the traditional Chinese red envelopes and remix them with your contemporary perspective. Participants will learn basic techniques of linoleum carving, making their printed editions embossed in silver and gold.
5pm Community Care through Art with Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Join Poster House Artist in Residence Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya in conversation with Harry Trinh of Welcome to Chinatown for a conversation on Amanda’s project We Are Chinatown, a vibrant portrait series and archive that captures the rich intergenerational stories of Manhattan’s Chinatown still reeling in the wake of the pandemic. Learn how Amanda brings an anthropological lens to her practice of uplifting AAPI narratives, capturing not just a participant’s likeness, but their journey through the community, their struggles and triumphs, and the objects and artifacts that hold special significance to them. Questions strongly encouraged!
7pm Choy Lay Fut Lion Dance
New York Choy Lay Fut is a historic Chinatown Lion Dance Team with a 30 year history. They will perform a double bench routine where a lion will navigate and try to find the lucky cabbage to wish those in attendance good luck and good fortune. The lion will be around to meet and mingle with guests afterward, so have your cameras ready!
7:30pm Happy Hour
Enjoy light snacks and refreshments courtesy of our friends Lunar Hard Seltzer, Halmi, and Popadelics at Café des Affiches.

Angel’s Share Pop-Up
2023-05-13 18:30 - 20:30
Poster House is pleased to welcome the iconic cocktail bar Angel’s Share for a one-night-only pop-up at the museum. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to enjoy a selection of three hand-crafted beverages inspired by Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art. Guests will sip on lavish libations prepared by Angel’s Share’s expert mixologists while enjoying exclusive access to the art and design that inspire the cocktails.
Angel’s Share is a cocktail bar founded in 1993 in NYC that specializes in Japanese bartending techniques and skills. The award-winning bar has been credited as the trailblazer of the craft cocktail movement. The original location in the East Village closed in 2022 but will be reopening in the West Village in June 2023.
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.
For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org

Made in Japan Virtual Curatorial Tour
2023-05-16 10:00 - 11:00
Join Poster House guest curators Nozomi Naoi and Erin Schoneveld for a virtual tour of the acclaimed exhibition Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art. Explore the cultural and political shifts within modern Japan that influenced the functions and messaging of its posters and the public’s response to them. 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

Members-Only Tour: Hip-Hop Conscious, Unconscious
2023-05-18 18:00 - 19:30
Poster House members are invited to a private tour of Hip-Hop Conscious, Unconscious on view at Fotografiska New York.
Together with Mass Appeal, Fotografiska has created the definitive destination to celebrate hip-hop’s global impact on visual expression across 50 years – an immersive experience bringing together a community of artists that have documented this cultural phenomenon.
This tour will take place at the Fotografiska New York. Space is limited.

Aesthetics of Black Power
2023-05-19 18:30 - 19:30
The Black Panther Party helped brand the Black Power movement through the use of posters, prints, and the organization’s iconic newspaper. These efforts extended beyond the use of such ephemera to encompass attire and an overall attitude that emphasized the cause. This cohesive visual identity communicated its bold, militant values to the general public, and was specifically inspiring to a Black audience. Poster House is thrilled to welcome Mary Philips, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Lehman College and Jonathan Square, Assistant Professor of Black Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design to discuss the importance of demanding change through aesthetic presentation. This discussion will focus on the outward presentation of Black Panther Party members and consider the stakes involved in their militant stance when interacting with the State.
Mary Frances Phillips is a proud native of Detroit, Michigan. She is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York. Her interdisciplinary research agenda focuses on race and gender in post-1945 social movements and the carceral state. Her research areas include the Modern Black Freedom Struggle, Black Feminism, and Black Power Studies. She is currently working on her book manuscript, Sister Love: Ericka Huggins, Spiritual Wellness, and the Black Panther Party, which is under contract with New York University Press. This project is the first and only scholarly monograph on the life experiences of Black Panther veteran Ericka Huggins.
Dr. Jonathan Michael Square is the Assistant Professor of Black Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design. He was previously a lecturer in the Committee on Degree in History and Literature at Harvard University and a fellow in the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, Dr. Square’s work considers histories of enslavement through the lens of fashion, and his research has appeared in numerous scholarly and public-facing venues. Currently, he is working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Negro Cloth: How Slavery Birthed the American Fashion Industry. Beyond Past Is Present, He has curated exhibitions at Harvard University and is currently curating another exhibition at Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library. Follow his scholarly work at @fashioningtheself on Instagram.
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.
For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org

Poster Kids: Love Lettering
2023-05-21 10:30 - 12:00
This month, join Poster Kids to learn about how letters are designed and made! Together, we’ll look at and learn about some typefaces featured in our current exhibitions. Then, we’ll create fun lettering for our own room signs.
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.

NYC x Design: Black Power to Black People Exhibition Tour
2023-05-22 12:00 - 13:00
Join Poster House Educator Maya Varadaraj 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!

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Art Nouveau
2023-05-23 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 month’s tour will focus on Art Nouveau.
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.

Posters & Cocktails: American Travel
2023-05-24 19:00 - 20:30
Spring is here, and with that comes a new season of Posters & Cocktails. Celebrate the warmer weather with our favorite tipsy trio and explore the history of American travel posters!
As always, our Chief Curator will be hosting Nicholas Lowry of Swann Auction Galleries and Don Spiro of The Green Fairy Society over Zoom, traversing the great expanse of the United States from coast to coast through booze and beautiful vistas.
Don will get us packed and ready with our first cocktail as we pull out of the station. Then, Nicholas will puddle-jump westward, enticing us to visit popular destinations throughout American history. They’ll ping pong back and forth across the country until we are not safe to drive—but luckily, as armchair travelers, all of this is happening from the comfort of your home.
Cocktail list:
BLUE HAWAII
vodka
light rum
blue curaçao
pineapple juice (fresh)
Lemon Juice
Lime Juice
Simple syrup (1 part sugar 1 part water)
Hurricane Glass
BOOTHBY
Rye
Sweet vermouth
Orange bitters
Angostura bitters
Champagne
Coupe glass
WARD VIII
rye whiskey
lemon juice, freshly squeezed
orange juice, freshly squeezed
grenadine (Pomegranate syrup)
Garnish: 2 or 3 speared cherries
Coupe glass
MOSCOW MULE
Vodka
Ginger Beer
Fresh Lime Juice
Copper mug
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: From Depero to Rotella
2023-05-26 18:00 - 19:30
Poster House members are invited to a private tour of From Depero to Rotella: Italian Commercial Posters Between Advertising and Art on view at the Center for Italian Modern Art.
This exquisite exhibition examines the cross-pollination between avant-garde art and commercial posters in Italy, with particular focus on the interwar years and the early post-World War II era during the country’s economic boom.
This tour will take place at the Center for Italian Modern Art. Space is limited.

Chanoyu Tea Ceremony with Yoshitsugu Nagano
2023-05-26 18:30 - 19:30
Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art features vivid colors and bold compositions representative of 20th-century Japanese design trends. This style is in sharp contrast to the traditional wabi aesthetic, characterized by a natural forms and simple shapes. The wabi aesthetic can be observed in chanoyu, a tea ceremony that developed from the spirituality of Zen. Through the act of making and drinking powdered green tea, it aims to unite the minds of those gathered in the tea room, to calm the thoughts and to look deeply into oneself and each other in silence.
This 800+ year-old practice traditionally takes place in a dimly lit tea room with utensils based on subdued colors and a respect for natural textures. Four hundred years ago, however, the warrior tea master Furuta Oribe revolutionized the monochrome world of the tea ceremony by bringing in color and light. Opening up the tea room with windows, utensils took on a more elevated role, embracing green and other hues that introduced the colorful world of chanoyu.
Poster House is pleased to welcome New York-based tea master Yoshitsugu Nagano for a tea ceremony situated within the world of chanoy that has been handed down from Oribe. This special tea room space will be designed by actively incorporating the colors and composition of 20th-century Japanese posters featured in Made in Japan.
Participants will get to enjoy a cup of powdered green tea prepared exclusively for this special experience of Japanese culture.
Yoshitsugu Nagano is the youngest person to be certified in the highest rank of the Ueda Soko school of samurai tea ceremony (USRJWT), which has been practiced in Hiroshima for 400 years, and serves as a regular professor of the school. In 2019, he relocated to New York City, where he energetically promotes the spirituality and aesthetics of chanoyu through hosting tea rituals both for public audience and by special arrangement, presenting workshops, and teaching his students. He establishes styles of modern tea, incorporating new expressions into this tradition rooted in Zen.

First Friday
2023-06-02 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. This June, celebrate Pride at Poster House with any of our LGBTQIA+ themed offerings!
2pm Made in Japan Curatorial Tour
Join Poster House guest curator Erin Schoneveld for an in-person tour of the acclaimed exhibition Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art. Explore the cultural and political shifts within modern Japan that influenced the functions and messaging of its posters and the public’s response to them. Questions strongly encouraged!
4pm Origami Workshop-$10
Origami is Japan’s most globally recognized papercraft. Poster House is pleased to partner with Taro’s Origami Studio for this hands-on workshop. Learn basic origami techniques and create your very own Pride-themed paper sculpture.
5:30pm Pride Poster Drop-in Workshop with Acacia Rodriguez
Join artist and designer Acacia Rodriguez for this drop-in Pride poster workshop. Materials will be provided; just bring your ideas and creativity! Participants will leave with a poster of their own making for all of their Pride festivities.
7pm Drag Performance featuring Dev Doee & Shia Ho
It wouldn’t be Pride without drag! Poster House is pleased to welcome Dev Doee and Shia Ho for a very special evening of performances in response to our two exhibitions Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party and Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art. Bring your tips and your enthusiasm!

Members-Only Tour: Made in Japan
2023-06-06 18:00 - 19:30
Members are invited to a private, after hours tour of Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art with guest curator Erin Schoneveld. This acclaimed exhibition explores the cultural and political shifts within modern Japan that influenced the functions and messaging of its advertising posters, and how those posters were subsequently received by the public. Questions strongly encouraged.

Chancellor’s Day Educator Professional Development
2023-06-08 09:30 - 14:00
Join Poster House for its first June Chancellor’s Day! Engage in a guided tour and Q&A session with Es-pranza Humphrey, curator of the exhibition Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party. Participate in a hands-on artmaking workshop inspired by the work of Black Panther Minister of Culture, Emory Douglas, and learn more about protest posters from Black-led civil rights movements before and after the heydey of the Black Panther Party. Educators will leave with new ideas and strategies for integrating posters into their curricula, along with classroom-ready materials from our Posters in Protest Educator Guide.
This professional development workshop is geared towards K-12 teachers. Advanced registration is required and Educator Member discounts apply. Participants will receive 4 CTLE hours. Coffee and light breakfast will be provided.

Poster Kids: You Animal, You!
2023-06-11 10:30 - 12:00
The panther is a majestic and rare animal that was used as the symbol of the Black Panther Party. It was used to reflect the strength and uniqueness of Black people, and was an important icon for the community. Together, we will learn about this historic organization and create crests inspired by animals with which we identify. What animal do you feel best represents your strengths?
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.

New Voices: On Transformation Members-Only Tour
2023-06-13 18:00 - 19:30
Our friends at Print Center New York are inviting Poster House Members to a conversational walkthrough of New Voices: On Transformation led by curator Carmen Hermo.
The exhibition explores how artists engage themes of identity, history, and transformation. Through a selection of highlights, Members will take an up-close look at objects, discuss their contexts, and explore how artists use materials.
Print Center New York is the leading non-profit exhibition space in New York dedicated to exploring the dynamic and accessible medium of print within broader artistic and cultural discourses.
