Poster House

Poster Kids: 100 Years of Film Posters
2022-05-15 10:30 - 12:15 (America/New_York) | Poster House, 119 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Everyone loves movie posters! This month, join us in exploring works from each of our current exhibitions to learn about more than 100 years of film poster history. Then, we will create film reel style artwork inspired by movies we know and love.
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: Women in Early Hollywood
2022-05-19 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 lobbycards featured in the exhibition Experimental Marriage: Women in Early Hollywood.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by May 17 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 917.722.2439 x413, or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Members-only Tour of Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property
2022-05-19 18:00 - 20:00
Poster House is delighted to invite you and a guest to a private, Members-only tour of the museum’s current exhibition Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property, led by Chief Curator Angelina Lippert. Learn about this pioneering graphic designer, one of a handful of American women to make a name for herself in the field at the turn of the 19th century, and explore the dark and oftentimes defiant thread that runs through her work and life. Reservations are required.

Fashioning The Self: I Am My Own Property
2022-05-26 18:00 - 20:00
The exhibition Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property highlights the artist’s masterful use of fashion and her appearance to control her own narrative and that of her work. Of course, Reed wasn’t the only person of her time to leverage fashion to her advantage. How were Black people—whether free, freed, or enslaved—leveraging sartorial freedoms to construct and project new narratives? Join fashion historians Jonathan Michal Square and Elizabeth Way for an evening exploring the turn-of-the-century fashions of African Americans. Questions strongly encouraged!
Jonathan Michael Square is the Assistant Professor of Black Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design. He is also currently a fellow in the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He founded and runs the digital humanities project Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom, which explores the intersection between histories of enslavement and the fashion system.
Elizabeth Way is an Associate Curator at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her exhibitions include Global Fashion Capitals (2015), Black Fashion Designers (2016), Fabric In Fashion (2018), and Head to Toe (on view now). Way’s personal research focuses on the intersection of African American culture and fashion, and she edited the book Black Designers in American Fashion (2021).

Stick More Bills: An Analysis of Indian Posters in Film, Politics, & Beyond
2022-05-31 18:30 - 19:30
Poster House is pleased to partner with Shiva Nallaperumal, Priya Prabhakar, and Somnath Bhatt for a wide-ranging panel discussion on regional posters from India. This conversation will explore the graphic elements within Indian posters, drawing from the museum’s permanent collection and the larger history of the genre. Particular attention will be paid to the typographic elements of these designs, as well as the cultural and sociopolitical contexts that inform these images, highlighting the regional and the plural. Questions are strongly encouraged!
Shiva Nallaperumal is a graphic designer, art director, and typeface designer and 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, NBA, etc. 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 inducted into the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).
Priya Prabhakar is a tenant organizer, researcher, and filmmaker based in Oakland and originally from Chennai, India. Her undergraduate thesis focused on the perils of biometric surveillance in India and ways to counter techno-fascism. She has previously done curation for South Asia Art, highlighting poster design and visual insignia of radical street theatre in Delhi. She loves textiles, chess, and archives.
Somnath Bhatt is a designer, artist, and writer who lives between Ahmedabad and New York City. His work has been shown at MoMA PS1, Art Week Dubai, India Art Fair, ICA London, and Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète, among other venues. Selected clients include Instagram, the New York Times, Reebok, HYEIN SEO, and the musicians Nicolás Jaar and Mitski. Currently he is an independent Art Director at Bloomberg. He also works as a contributing editor at MOLD Magazine and AIGA Eye on Design. Somnath believes in the power of the unseen, the chaos of myth, and that labor has the right to all it creates.

This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. ASL interpretation is available upon request. 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 Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at salvador@posterhouse.org.

First Friday
2022-06-03 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, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection.
1pm Ethel Reed Artist’s Tour
Join Samanta Batra Mehta for an artist’ tour of Poster House’s acclaimed exhibition Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property. Explore the exhibition through her eyes and learn how the floral imagery in the exhibition resonates with her contemporary practice. Samanta’s unique perspective offers a fresh take on the exhibition that’s not to be missed. Questions strongly encouraged!
4pm In-person Archives Tour $25
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 a sneak preview 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!
5pm Utopian Collage Workshop $15
Join Isometric Studio, designers of two exhibitions on view, for this hands-on poster making workshop inspired by the exhibition The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s. Participants will make their own posters based on the innovative techniques featured in the show, including collage and hand illustration. Materials will be provided and no preparation is necessary. People of all ages and abilities are welcome.
7pm Poetry Reading with viento & Ms. Boogie
Poster House is pleased to welcome viento and Ms. Boogie for an evening of poetry. These talented, multi-hyphenate artists are sure to impress guests with their moving and insightful approach to verse. Ms.Boogie is an Afro-Latina Brooklyn-based MC and activist. Sex appeal, independence, and the power of femininity are at the top of her agenda as an artist—all topics readily discussed in the exhibition Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property. Meanwhile, viento izquierdo ugaz is a multidisciplinary artist who considers the effect of migration on the visual language of their lineage, topics close to the many displaced artists featured in The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s.

First Friday: Ethel Reed Artist's Tour with Samanta Batra Mehta
2022-06-03 13:00 - 14:00
Join Samanta Batra Mehta for an artist’ tour of Poster House’s acclaimed exhibition Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property. Explore the exhibition through her eyes and learn how the floral imagery in the exhibition resonates with her contemporary practice. Samanta’s unique perspective offers a fresh take on the exhibition that’s not to be missed. Questions strongly encouraged!

First Friday: In-Person Archives Tour
2022-06-03 16:00 - 17:00
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 a sneak preview 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!

First Friday: Utopian Collage Workshop
2022-06-03 17:00 - 18:30
Join Isometric Studio, designers of two exhibitions on view, for this hands-on poster making workshop inspired by the exhibition The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s. Participants will make their own posters based on the innovative techniques featured in the show, including collage and hand illustration. Materials will be provided and no preparation is necessary. People of all ages and abilities are welcome.

First Friday: Poetry Reading with Viento & Ms. Boogie
2022-06-03 19:00 - 20:00
Poster House is pleased to welcome viento and Ms. Boogie for an evening of poetry. These talented, multi-hyphenate artists are sure to impress guests with their moving and insightful approach to verse. Ms.Boogie is an Afro-Latina Brooklyn-based MC and activist. Sex appeal, independence, and the power of femininity are at the top of her agenda as an artist—all topics readily discussed in the exhibition Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property. Meanwhile, viento izquierdo ugaz is a multidisciplinary artist who considers the effect of migration on the visual language of their lineage, topics close to the many displaced artists featured in The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s.

Ms.Boogie is a Afro-Latina Brooklyn based MC and activist. Sex appeal, independence and the power of femininity are at the top of her agenda as an artist. She stands tall at the intersections of underground and Mainstream Media as a Black Trans Woman in the genre of Hip Hop. She has dedicated her artistry to building a bridge between the avant-garde and conventional gaze of Rap & Hip Hop. Her music is rooted in amplifying the narratives of Black Trans Woman, a narrative which is often erased in Black Pop Culture. With Records like ‘Fem Queen’ and ‘Dickscipline’ she manages to not only represent her existence but also heal Black Trans Women by simply making them feel seen while simultaneously educating her audience who may not be privy to the realities she faces within her experience. In December of 2021 Ms.Boogie was featured in print for Vogue Mexico as well as being listed as a Emerging Talent in Peoples Magazine.

viento izquierdo ugaz is a multidisciplinary artist, cultural organizer, art director & language justice worker based between Lima & New York. Through poetry, photography, thread and moving image they consider the effect of migration on the visual language of their lineage, and how this lexicon permeates their queer & trans chosen family archive.
They are founder of Peru-based, Cabritas Resistiendo, a mutable platform which creates spaces for trans folks to resist together through learning and joy virtually and IRL. They are also co-organizer of BODYHACK, a NY/global mutual aid happy hour for trans & non-binary people, and co-founder of rogueTHEIF, an upcycled denim brand/performative gesture seeking to poke holes in capitalist modes of exchange.
viento is a consultant with Transgender Equity Consulting and a current Leslie Lohman Museum and EMERGENYC Fellow whose work has appeared in El Museo del Barrio, A.I.R, The Poetry Project, Brooklyn Academy of Music, & Lambda Literary; their first chapbook is Estoy Tristeza (No Dear, 2018).

Photo credit: right-Andre Uncut; left- Joshua Allen.

Genius On Display: Johanna Toruño of The Unapologetic Street Series
2022-06-08 18:00 - 19:00
Genius on Display continues at Poster House, featuring Johanna Toruño of The Unapologetic Street Series. 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. Join us as Johana shares their beautiful and impactful posters and compares their use of floral imagery to that of Ethel Reed: I am My Own Property.
Johanna Toruno is a Salvadoran-born migrant artist and creator of The Unapologetic Street Series focusing on the importance of storytelling through accessible art in a public spaces and the importance of queer folks in the arts.
This program series is presented by CMYK Council, Poster House’s working advisory board of BIPOC creatives, designers, educators, and museum staff.

Poster Kids: Poster Shapes & Colors
2022-06-12 09:15 - 10:15
This month, join us for a deep dive into our current exhibition The Utopian Avant-Garde, and explore the common shapes and colors found in Soviet film posters of the 1920s. Then, we’ll create compositions of our own inspired by the movements that influenced the young, talented artists of the golden age of Soviet graphic design.
Materials:

Colorful construction paper (black, yellow, blue, red, green)
Scissors
Gluestick
Pencil and scrap 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 Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at salvador@posterhouse.org.

Poster Kids: Poster Shapes & Colors
2022-06-12 10:30 - 12:15 | Poster House, 119 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
This month, join us for a deep dive into our current exhibition The Utopian Avant-Garde, and explore the common shapes and colors found in Soviet film posters of the 1920s. Then, we’ll create compositions of our own inspired by the movements that influenced the young, talented artists of the golden age of Soviet graphic design.
Join Poster House on the select Sunday mornings from 10:30am–12:15pm for a family-friendly, interactive poster tour and a related art-making experience at Poster House. 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: The Tokyo Olympiad
2022-06-14 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 posters featured in the exhibition Tokyo Olympiad: A Global Film
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call ‪(914) 295-2387 by June 10 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 917.722.2439 x413, or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Members-Only Tour: The Utopian Avant-Garde
2022-06-16 18:00 - 20:00
Members are invited to private, after-hours tour of The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s led by Chief Curator Angelina Lippert. This exhibition explores the golden age of Soviet graphic design, showcasing the work of Alexander Rodchenko, the Stenberg brothers, Semyon Semyonov, and many more. Reservations are required and limited to Members and their guests. Not a Member? Join today.

Juneteenth-Free Museum Admission!
2022-06-19 10:00 - 18:00
In celebration of Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States on June 19, 1865, Poster House is pleased to offer free admission to the museum on Sunday, June 19 (discount applied at check-out).

Queer History is Poster History
2022-06-20 18:00 - 19:00
From posters celebrating pride to promoting nightlife events to even combatting the AIDS crisis, queer culture is deeply embedded in poster history. Poster House is pleased to partner with Silas Munro and Brian Johnson of Polymode for a deep dive into queer touchpoints within the medium. Explore the iconic contributions the queer community has made to the graphic design cannon and how they continue to shape poster history today. Whether advocating for queer rights or advertising the right to have a good time, posters and queer history go hand in hand.
Silas Munro is a partner of Polymode and is particularly interested in the often unaddressed postcolonial relationship between design and marginalized communities. His writing appears in the book, W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America published by Princeton Architectural Press. Munro has been a visiting critic at MICA, RISD, and Yale, and is a Founding Faculty and CoChair at the MFA Program in Design at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He holds an MFA from CalArts and a BFA from RISD, where he met Brian Johnson and began collaborating.
Brian Johnson is a partner of Polymode where he focuses on creative direction, design production, writing, and teaching. Born into a family of printers, he is deeply invested in the production of good design without sacrificing our humanity or environment. He is a member of the Monacan Nation and holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His most recent publication, Queering the Grid: Reading Codes in Dan Friedman’s Teachings (with Silas Munro) has led him to his current design writing research on Friedman’s 1994 Radical Manifesto, which will be approaching its thirty year anniversary.
This program 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 — 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 Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at salvador@posterhouse.org.

The Letterforms of The Golden Age of Soviet Graphic Design
2022-06-21 18:30 - 20:00
Join Alexander Tochilovsky, Curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, for an exploration of the Cyrillic hand-lettering in The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s. Learn how these varied letterforms were incorporated into the dynamic posters, helping these compositions captivate audiences over 100 years later.
Originally from Odesa, Ukraine, Alexander Tochilovsky is a graphic designer, curator, researcher, and teacher. He is the Curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center at The Cooper Union and is the co-founder of both the Type@Cooper program and the Typographics conference. Alexander has taught design and typography for over 15 years and holds a BFA from The Cooper Union, and an MFA in graphic design from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
This program is presented in partnership with the Typographics conference.

First Friday
2022-07-01 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.

1pm Peace Poster Workshop
Join artist and printmaker Todd Drake for this hands-on workshop centered on the theme of peace. Inspired by the work of designer and artist Peter Paul Piech, participants will learn basic linoleum printmaking techniques while creating their very own peace posters.
5:30pm Ethel Reed Docent Tour
Get an inside look at the exhibition Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property during this informative docent tour. Learn about this pioneering graphic designer—one of a handful of American women to make a name for herself in the field at the turn of the 19th century—and explore the dark and oftentimes defiant thread that ran just beneath the surface of her otherwise cheerful compositions.
6:00pm Fabulous Florals Workshop
Just in time for spring, join artist and designer M for an interactive, flower-based design activity. Participants in this hands-on workshop will learn to incorporate floral motifs into their analog designs. Guests will leave with a personal design inspired by the exhibition Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property.
NOTE: All workshop participants must show proof that they have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
7pm Battleship Potemkin Movie Screening
Enjoy a screening of the renowned 1925 silent film Battleship Potemkin in the museum’s main gallery. Widely considered to be a technical masterpiece and one of the greatest movies of all time, Battleship Potemkin continues to influence and inspire filmmakers. This unique experience offers attendees the opportunity to enjoy the acclaimed film among the film posters featured in The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s, on view through August 21.

First Friday-Peace Poster Worshop
2022-07-01 13:00 - 14:30
Join artist and printmaker Todd Drake for this hands-on workshop centered on the theme of peace. Inspired by the work of designer and artist Peter Paul Piech, participants will learn basic linoleum printmaking techniques while creating their very own peace posters.

First Friday: Ethel Reed Docent Tour
2022-07-01 17:30 - 18:30
Get an inside look at the exhibition Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property during this informative docent tour. Learn about this pioneering graphic designer—one of a handful of American women to make a name for herself in the field at the turn of the 19th century—and explore the dark and oftentimes defiant thread that ran just beneath the surface of her otherwise cheerful compositions.

First Friday: Fabulous Florals Workshop
2022-07-01 18:00 - 19:00
Just in time for spring, join artist and designer M for an interactive, flower-based design activity. Participants in this hands-on workshop will learn to incorporate floral motifs into their analog designs. Guests will leave with a personal design inspired by the exhibition Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property.
All workshop participants must show proof that they have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccination records and IDs will be checked upon entry. Proof of vaccination may include:

NYC COVID Safe app: Android | iOS

Excelsior Pass

CDC Vaccination Card (or photo of card)

NYC Vaccination Record

An official immunization record from outside New York City or the United States.

Valid ID includes your name accompanied by a photograph such as:

Driver’s license

Government ID card

IDNYC card

Passport

School ID card

First Friday: Battleship Potemkin Movie Screening
2022-07-01 19:00 - 20:30
Enjoy a screening of the renowned 1925 silent film Battleship Potemkin in the museum’s main gallery. Widely considered to be a technical masterpiece and one of the greatest movies of all time, Battleship Potemkin continues to influence and inspire filmmakers. This unique experience offers attendees the opportunity to enjoy the acclaimed film among the film posters featured in The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s, on view through August 21.

Experimental Marriage Curatorial Tour
2022-07-13 12:00 - 13:00
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!

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.

Poster Kids: Animals in Posters
2022-07-17 09:15 - 10:15
Everyone has a favorite animal–we bet yours might even have appeared in a vintage poster. During this program, we’ll use gallery activities and storytelling to explore animal themed posters from the early 1900s and then we’ll create our very own animal puppets.
MATERIALS:

pencil and scrap paper
markers or other drawing materials
lightweight cardboard (e.g. cereal box)
scissors
collage materials (e.g. construction paper + beads, sequins, buttons)
glue and tape
stick (e.g. twig, popsicle stick, or dowel)
fasteners and hole puncher (optional)

Poster Kids: Animals in Posters
2022-07-17 10:30 - 12:15
Everyone has a favorite animal–we bet yours might even have appeared in a vintage poster. During this program, we’ll use gallery activities and storytelling to explore animal themed posters from the early 1900s and then we’ll create our very own animal puppets.
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.

Brighton Beach Walking Tour
2022-07-23 14:00 - 15:30
Join curator and typography expert Alexander Tochilovsky for a fun and informative walking tour of Brighton Beach! Explore the cultural legacy of this historic neighborhood through the Cyrillic typefaces that fill its signage, and learn about the evolution of its lettering as the area grew into a thriving ethnic enclave. Questions (and comfortable footwear) strongly encouraged!
Originally from Odesa, Ukraine, Alexander Tochilovsky is a graphic designer, curator, researcher, and teacher. He is the Curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center at The Cooper Union and is the co-founder of both the Type@Cooper program and the Typographics conference. Alexander has taught design and typography for over 15 years and holds a BFA from The Cooper Union, and an MFA in graphic design from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Summer Vacation
2022-07-26 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 travel posters featuring favorite summer vacation destinations.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call (914) 295-23873 by July 22 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.

Posters of Protest: Women’s Rights Movements
2022-07-27 09:30 - 12:30
Join Poster House and New-York Historical Society for an on-site workshop at Poster House for Educators exploring the role of posters in historic and contemporary gender equity movements. Examining primary materials spanning a century of women’s rights activism, this workshop facilitates past-present connections and deepens understanding of historical contexts, using classroom-ready resources. Participants will end the session by creating their own poster, drawing inspiration from New-York Historical Society’s and Poster House’s collections. This activity can be widely adapted to add experiential learning to the classroom.
Poster House and New-York Historical Society are both NYSED-approved CTLE sponsors. Participants will receive 3 CTLE hours.

Members-Only Tour: Swann Auction Galleries
2022-08-01 16:30 - 18:00
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.
