Poster House

Members–Only Tour: Society of Illustrators
2024-01-12 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Poster House Members are invited to a tour of the Society of Illustrators, with special attention paid to its annual Original Art Exhibition of the best artwork from award-winning children’s books. Held since 1980, this showcase highlights up-and-coming as well as established talent in the world of book illustration. Afterward, guests will also explore other exhibitions within this storied institution’s galleries.

Members–Only Tour: Open Call at The Shed
2024-01-10 16:00 - 17:00
Poster House Members are invited to a private tour of The Shed’s 2023 Open Call. This large-scale commissioning program is now in its third year and focuses on early-career, New York City-based artists and collectives tapped to create new work. This is a terrific opportunity to witness cutting-edge artistic expression through a host of creative disciplines in a group show.

Rediscovering New York’s Art Deco Architecture
2024-01-09 13:00 - 14:00
On January 11, 1982, a dozen admirers of Art Deco gathered in the Murray Hill apartment of interior designer Henriette Nathan to hold the first official meeting of the newly incorporated Art Deco Society of New York. Interest in the modernistic styles of the 1920s and ‘30s had been growing worldwide since a seminal Paris retrospective exhibition of 1966, and a number of New York’s Deco superstars––Radio City Music Hall, the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building––had found shelter under the city’s 1965 Landmarks Law. The revival of interest in Art Deco, however, was still in its early days. Forty years later, Art Deco may be the single most recognizable architectural style in New York City, where more than 80 individual Deco buildings have won Landmarks protection, along with dozens more in historic districts, including a stretch of the Grand Concourse.
In this lecture, Anthony W. Robins––who joined ADSNY while the Society was still getting organized and currently serves as its Vice President––will trace the extraordinary growth of New York’s fascination with Art Deco architecture and its rocky road to acceptance in historic preservation circles. Robins witnessed much of that story while on staff at the Landmarks Preservation Commission, where he wrote the designation reports of half-a-dozen Deco landmarks. He will revisit resounding victories, from rescuing Radio City in the late 1970s to the interiors of the Waldorf-Astoria in 2017. He will also highlight major restorations, from the Empire State Building’s lobby to the Orchard Beach Bathhouse, and recount some of the lamentable losses––from Bonwit Teller, demolished in 1980, to the McGraw Hill Building lobby, stripped to the walls in 2021––serving as a reminder that there is still work to be done.
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

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: We Tried to Warn You!
2023-12-12 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 or Educators, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows and permanent collection.
This month’s tour will focus on the new exhibition, We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020.
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.

Poster Kids: Indian Film Posters
2023-12-10 10:30 - 12:00
Do you want to learn about how posters are printed? This month, Poster Kids focuses on all things printing by looking at the posters from Advertising India’s Sandalwood Film Industry. We’ll discuss how these beautiful posters were made. Afterward, we’ll try printing our own images using foam plates.
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.

Fused Plastic Collage Workshop
2023-12-09 13:30 - 15:00
Have you ever wondered what you can create with discarded plastics? Presented in conjunction with the exhibition We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1920-2020, this hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the technique of fusing or layering plastics using an iron. Participants will explore the material affordances of various types of biodegradable, recyclable, and single-use plastics in order to create fused plastic collages inspired by posters on environmental activism. Join us in this imaginative intervention into the life cycle of plastics!
We encourage attendees to bring a piece of plastic to this workshop (flexible ones such as bags, mailers, or food packaging work best; they can be biodegradable, recyclable, or single-use). All materials and tools provided; no previous experience necessary.
Fan Kong (she/her) is a researcher and teaching artist rooted in Queens, New York City. Born in China but raised in Hong Kong, Fan works to build safe and inclusive spaces where youth and families can practice social change-making through the arts, especially across languages and generations. She is the founder of Craft Services (follow her on Instagram @fakefankong), creating educational products inspired by everyday art, science, and technology. Kong received her B.A. in Art History from Columbia University and M.Ed. in Learning Sciences and Human Development from the University of Washington.
Accessibility Note: This program is presented in person at Poster House. 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

PH x Teens: Seasons Greetings Holiday Card Creation
2023-12-08 15:30 - 17:00
Celebrate the season by creating your own holiday card with Poster House! A handmade card is the perfect gift for family and friends that truly captures your creative holiday spirit.
PH x Teens: Seasons Greetings 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.
Accessibility Note: Masks and clear masks are available free of charge at the museum. Assistive listening devices and stools are available. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is available upon request.
Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs.
For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org

Members-Only Tour: The End of Fossil Fuel
2023-12-07 18:00 - 19:00
In honor of our celebrated exhibition We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020, Poster House Members are invited to an after-hours, private tour of the Climate Museum’s latest show, The End of Fossil Fuel. This new exhibition explores the fossil fuel industry’s history of racism and deception, and spotlights the success of the environmental and climate justice movement in resisting and reversing the industry’s harms. It includes a 45-foot-long mural by the award-winning artist and illustrator R. Gregory Christie envisioning the struggle for a climate-safe and just world, as well as multiple opportunities for visitors to take action in community.
This tour takes place at the Climate Museum, located at 105 Wooster Street, New York, NY, 10012.

Members-Only Tour: Art for the Millions
2023-12-01 17:00 - 18:00
Poster House is thrilled to offer its Members a curatorial tour of the celebrated exhibition Art for the Millions: American Culture & Politics in the 1930s. Currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this exhibition uses over 100 posters, prints, paintings, textiles, sculpture, and other objects and ephemera to tell the complex story of the United States during this tumultuous time. Americans searched for their cultural identity during the Great Depression, a period marked by divisive politics, threats to democracy, and intensified social activism, including a powerful labor movement. This is a not-to-be-missed event!
This tour will be held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, located at 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028.

First Friday
2023-12-01 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, performance, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection.

3pm Billion Oyster Project Presentation
Learn about Billion Oyster Project‘s vision of a future in which New York Harbor is the center of a rich, diverse, and abundant estuary from Public Outreach Manager Agata Poniatowski. The communities that surround this complex ecosystem have helped construct it, and in return benefit from it, with endless opportunities for work, education, and recreation. The harbor is a world-class public space, well used and well cared for—our Commons. Billion Oyster Project hopes to restore one billion oysters by the year 2035 through public education initiatives working to involve one million people! Learn about our work and how to get involved.
4pm We Tried to Warn You Curatorial Tour
Join Poster House Guest Curator Tim Medland for a drop-in tour of We Tried to Warn You: Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020. Explore the global history of environmental activism through graphic design. Questions are strongly encouraged!
5pm Alt Text as Poetry Workshop
Posters are a visual medium. How can they be made more accessible to the blind and low vision community? Poster House is thrilled to welcome Finnegan Shannon (they/them) and Bojana Coklyat (she/her) as they lead visitors through a workshop on how to reframe alt text (short, written descriptions of images) as a type of poetry. Inspired by posters from the museum’s collection, visitors will practice writing, discussing, and reframing this type of accessible writing. To learn more about this larger project, visit the Alt Text as Poetry website.

Accessibility Notes:
An ASL interpreter and assistive listening devices will be provided. Seating will include stools and chairs. Tactile posters and fidget tools will also be available.
To view the social narrative for the event, click here: Alt Text as Poetry Social Narrative.
Poster House is wheelchair accessible, with an automatic front door, accessible restrooms, and elevator access.
Please note that while the museum is mask optional, masking for this event is mandatory. Clear masks and N95 masks will be provided.
We always appreciate visitors reaching out to discuss further accessibility needs or questions. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or 914.295.2387.

6:30pm Non-traditional Collage Workshop $15
Poster House is pleased to welcome artist Max Colby for a nontraditional collage workshop. Inspired by We Tried to Warn You: Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020, guests will use recycled supplies from Materials For The Arts to create experimental textural collages. No previous experience required.
7pm Gatsby Entertainment Dance Performance
Celebrate Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde with a performance by Gatsby Entertainment, New York’s premiere Jazz-Age dance troupe. Enjoy the hottest dances of the 1920s performed by expert dancers in full period costume.

Art Deco Metropolis
2023-11-29 12:00 - 13:00
The Chrysler Building, the Waldorf-Astoria, Rockefeller Center—these are among the hundreds of Art Deco monuments that during the 1920s and ‘30s helped create the image of New York City as the world’s modern metropolis. In New York, Art Deco evolved through a series of Manhattan skyscrapers into the city’s chief architectural language. Following a massive reawakening of interest in them during the 1970s, New York’s Deco buildings survive today as prized remnants of a distant yet modern past that still help define the city’s visual identity.
This lecture is presented by Anthony W. Robins, Vice-President of the Art Deco Society of New York and author of New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture and will cover the great skyscrapers of architects Raymond Hood, William Van Alen, Ely Jacques Kahn, and Ralph Walker, including the Daily News, Empire State, Irving Trust, General Electric, American Radiator, Barclay-Vesey, and RCA Buildings. It will trace the adaptation of this “skyscraper style” through apartment buildings on the Bronx’s Grand Concourse, airport terminals at LaGuardia, the Central Park West residential skyline, automated midtown parking garages, diners, night-clubs, hotels, department stores, banks, and Radio City Music Hall.
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

Poster Kids: From Trash to Treasure
2023-11-19 10:30 - 12:00
This month, Poster Kids will explore the exhibition We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020. In the gallery, we’ll learn about environmental issues and the posters that have attempted to encourage people to save our planet. Afterward, in the spirit of environmental consciousness, we’ll make artwork from recycled materials.
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, Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde
2023-11-16 18:00 - 20:00
Poster House invites you to a special curator-led tour of Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde.
This exhibition chronicles the rise and fall of what would come to be known as Art Deco, starting with the 1925 Paris Exhibition where various factions of the European avant-garde were distilled through commercial endeavors to become the visual language of capitalism, and ending as Deco graphics became more nationalistic in the lead up to World War II.

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Global Deco
2023-11-14 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 or Educators, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows and permanent collection.
This month’s tour will focus on Global Art Deco.
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.

Worm Book Release with Edel Rodriguez & Chip Kidd
2023-11-10 18:30 - 20:00
Poster House is pleased to host “America’s illustrator-in-chief,” Edel Rodriguez, in conversation with graphic designer and writer, Chip Kidd, for a wide-ranging conversation on Rodriguez’s new graphic memoir Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey. Worm is available for purchase at the Poster House Shop; book signing to follow.
Through vivid, stirring art, Worm tells the story of a boyhood in the midst of the Cold War, a family’s displacement in exile, and their tenacious longing for those they left behind. It also recounts the coming-of-age of an artist and activist, who, witnessing America’s turn from democracy to extremism, struggles to differentiate his adoptive country from the dictatorship he fled. Confronting questions of patriotism and the liminal nature of belonging, Edel Rodriguez ultimately celebrates the immigrants, maligned and overlooked, who guard and invigorate American freedom.
Edel Rodriguez is a Cuban American artist who has exhibited internationally with shows in Los Angeles, New York, London, Prague, Berlin, La Paz and Spain. Inspired by personal history, religious rituals, politics, memory, and nostalgia, his bold, figurative works are an examination of identity, cultural displacement, and mortality.
Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and writer in New York City. As editor-at-large for graphic novels for Pantheon books, he has worked with some of the best artists in the business, including Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Alex Ross, Michael Cho, Charles Burns, Anita Kunz, and Neil Gaiman, among many others. He is presently writing an Avengers graphic novel for the Abrams Marvel Arts book imprint.
This program is presented in person at Poster House. 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

Art Deco Type Tour with Paul Shaw
2023-11-09 18:30 - 20:00
Join type historian Paul Shaw for an in-depth tour exploring the typefaces in Poster House’s exhibition Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde. This wide-ranging talk will investigate the bold, geometric letterforms that are a hallmark of the Art Deco graphic style. Type enthusiasts and casual fans alike will enjoy this comprehensive look at Deco lettering. Questions strongly encouraged!
Paul Shaw is a designer and design historian with a specialty in letterforms and type. He is the author of Revival Type, Helvetica and the New York City Subway System; co-author of Blackletter and National Identity; and editor of The Eternal Letter. He teaches at Parsons School of Design and The School of Visual Arts. He has previously done presentations for Poster House on the lettering of Alfons Mucha and the typography of post-World War II posters.
This program is presented in person at Poster House. 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

Indigenous History is Poster History
2023-11-08 12:30 - 14:00
Poster House is pleased to welcome graphic designer and scholar Sadie Redwing for a wide-ranging conversation on Indigenous poster history and graphic communication. Describing the perspective of Indigenous ideology in visual communication is very challenging—especially to an audience who does not understand the harm of cultural appropriation. Indigenous sensitivity to appropriation is not taken into consideration when designing for representational material or identifying a traditional presence in the common world. Native Americans rely on stereotypes to distinguish themselves from other cultures. The struggle to display an accurate tribal identity derives from oppression and historical trauma through Western education. American Indian boarding schools erased the traditional image of a Native American that left tribal students uncertain of who they were as people.
As Indigenous peoples progress from the American Indian Boarding School era, the urge to distinct tribes from Pan-Indianism forces a greater responsibility from Indigenous designers to visually communicate sovereignty. The role of an Indigenous visual communicator requires the practice of visual sovereignty, or decolonizing the stereotypical representation into a traditional image for cultural education. Indigenous visual communicators have the power to give Native Americans a respected-face in the world by revealing tribal visual languages in visual communication. The rising movement of visual sovereignty in Indigenous visual communication has revolutionized a new fight against stereotypes and continues to revitalize an honorable image away from the subordinate portrayal of indigenous peoples.
Sadie Red Wing is a Lakota/Dakota graphic designer and advocate from the Spirit Lake Nation. Red Wing earned her BFA in New Media Arts and Interactive Design at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She received her Master of Graphic Design from North Carolina State University. Her research on cultural revitalization through design tools and strategies created a new demand for tribal competence in graphic design research. Red Wing urges Native American graphic designers to express visual sovereignty in their design work, as well as, encourages academia to include an indigenous perspective in design curriculum. Currently, Red Wing serves as an Assistant Professor at OCAD University (Toronto, ONT).
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: My Neighbor's Garden
2023-11-08 12:00 - 13:00
You are invited to a lunchtime tour of Madison Square Park’s current art exhibition, My Neighbor’s Garden.
Led by the Conservancy’s Senior Curatorial Manager Truth Murray-Cole, discover how artist Sheila Pepe brings color, unexpected materials, and optimism to Madison Square Park. Pepe, a feminist and queer artist whose elaborate web-like structures summon and critique conventional women’s craft practice, uses crochet to transform contemporary sculpture.
This tour will be held at Madison Square Park, located at 11 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10010.

Election Day Educator Professional Development: We Tried to Warn You!
2023-11-07 09:30 - 14:30
Join Poster House for its first Election Day, with special guest Materials for the Arts (MFTA)! This teacher professional development will focus on Poster House’s new exhibition, We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020. Participate in a guided tour of the show, and learn more about bringing environmental justice posters back into the classroom with our Posters in Protest Educator Guide. Guests will then participate in a hands-on artmaking workshop with MFTA Master Teaching Artist Joy Suarez, focusing on sustainability, creative reuse, and activism. Educators will leave with classroom-ready materials and new ideas and strategies for integrating posters and sustainable artmaking into their curricula. Participants will also learn more about educational programming and warehouse shopping at Materials for the Arts.
This professional development workshop is geared towards K-12 teachers. Advanced registration is required and the program costs $25 (Educator Member discounts apply).
Participants will receive 4 CTLE hours. Coffee and a light breakfast will be provided.

First Friday
2023-11-03 10:00 - 21:00
Join Poster House on the First Friday of every month for free admission and extended hours! Explore the museum’s latest exhibitions and get in on the fun by attending a tour, workshop, performance, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection. This month, our education team is taking over First Friday to highlight the museum’s education offerings.

10:30am–12:30pm: Pint-Sized Posters Family Program
This drop-in program for toddlers and children of all ages (accompanied by their adults) focuses on the posters in our new exhibitions Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde and We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020. Explore the galleries guided by Poster House’s Kids Cards, then stop by our workshop space to create colorful prints of your own.
1pm: We Tried to Warn You Tour
Join Poster House Educator Maya Varadaraj for a drop-in tour of We Tried to Warn You: Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020. Explore the global history of environmental activism through graphic design. Questions are strongly encouraged!
3pm: Art Deco Tour
Join Poster House Educator Maya Varadaraj for a drop-in tour of Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde. Learn about the rise and fall of what we now know as Art Deco through this in-depth exhibition exploring the global phenomenon of avant-garde commercial advertising. Questions are strongly encouraged!
3:30–5pm: PH x Teens – Vintage Playlist with the Young Lordes Collective
Join the Young Lordes Collective (YLC) for a special edition of PH x Teens at Poster House and make vinyl record covers that promote environmental activism.
Inspired by albums of the 1970s that used natural elements to spread messages of environmental awareness, this activity will allow you to design your own record cover using watercolor paint, collage, and/or letterpress techniques. Don’t forget to include your environmental activism playlist on the back! —
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 required; participants are not expected to stay the entire time. Guests should plan to spend about an hour on this interactive, self-guided activity.
6–7pm: PH x College – We Are The Future! Youth Movements and Environmental Justice
Today’s students have come of age during a time of environmental crises. In this special tour and talkback of We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020, college students are invited to come together and discuss the role of youth in environmental justice movements—past, present, and future.
Poster House Educator, Rayyan Mikati, will guide this conversation toward historical inquiry and speculative imagination. Questions and comments are strongly encouraged!
6:30-8pm Loving with Three Hearts Sins Invalid Film Screening & Discussion
Poster House is thrilled to welcome Lorenzo Van Ness (they/them/elle) from Sins Invalid for a screening and discussion of Loving with Three Hearts. After the viewing, there will be a discussion on the intersection of climate justice and disability justice. Special attention will be paid to how Sins Invalid utilizes performance to explore these connections.
Please note that while Poster House is mask-optional, this event is mask-mandatory. Masks and clear masks will be provided.
Accessibility notes: This film will have an audio description and captions. There will be an ASL interpreter and assistive listening devices provided. Fidget tools will be available.
To view the social narrative for the event, click here: Loving with Three Hearts Film and Talkback Social Narrative.
To address further access needs, please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387.
Lorenzo Van Ness is a queer, trans, Dominican lifelong New Yorker. They have worked in the legal field as a non-attorney as well as an organizer. They’re passionate about building access for people pushed to the margins, supporting community, and continuously growing their knowledge.

Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: French Deco
2023-10-31 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 French Art Deco.
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.

Climate Change is Scary with Saad Amer
2023-10-27 17:30 - 18:30
What’s scarier than Halloween? Climate change, of course! But don’t let the fear of the climate crisis prevent you from taking action! Poster House is pleased to welcome internationally renowned climate activist Saad Amer for a wide-ranging conversation on the role of posters and visual communication in combating the environmental crisis. He will share his global perspective on climate activism and the role posters and graphic design play in tackling climate change. Costumes are encouraged, and best costume will receive a free 1-year membership to Poster House! Questions are strongly encouraged!
Saad Amer is an environmentalist, climate justice activist and the Founder of Justice Environment, a social impact consultancy helping businesses, nonprofits and governments navigate climate change and the just transition. He is a consultant to the United Nations and served as an Expert Reviewer for a recent IPCC report. As one of the country’s most prolific voting rights organizers, he has reached millions and created campaigns featuring the likes of Vice President Al Gore, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Taylor Swift. He has researched the impacts of climate change on the ground in the Indian Himalayas funded by USAID, co-created Harvard University’s inaugural Sustainability Plan, and discovered a new hybrid species in French Polynesia. He has written for National Geographic, PBS and the World Bank, and has spoken at the United Nations, US Department of State and TEDx. He went to Harvard University where he studied Environmental Science and Public Policy with a minor in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. He was a Fellow at Yale University’s Public Voices on the Climate Crisis with The OpEd Project.

In-Person Vibrant Verbal Description Tour
2023-10-26 18:00 - 20:00
Members of the low-vision and blind community are invited to an exciting, in-person Vibrant Verbal Description Tour at Poster House. This after-hours event will provide exclusive access to the museum’s exhibition, Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde.
The tour will be led by our museum educator, Maya Varadaraj. This intimate experience will allow guests to get up close with all the posters described, as well as provide additional tactile objects to help illuminate the art. Light refreshments will be provided.
While everyone is welcome, Poster House offers Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for community members who are blind, have low vision, or who benefit from verbal descriptions.
To RSVP or if you have any further accessibility needs, please contact Poster House’s Accessibility Coordinator at at access@posterhouse.org or at ‪914.295.2387‬.
Masks are encouraged during this event and are available free of charge at the museum. Clear masks are also available. Assistive listening devices, stools, and some tactile posters will be provided. Navigational guides are available upon request.
For other event-related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org.
Poster House would like to thank the New York State Council on the Arts for its support of this event.

Posters & Cocktails LIVE!
2023-10-23 18:00 - 20:00
Poster House is thrilled to turn its hit virtual program into a rollicking in-person event! That’s right, Posters & Cocktails is coming at you live from the museum! Join Nicholas Lowry of Swann Auctions Galleries, Don Spiro of the Green Fairy Society, and our very own Chief Curator & Director of Content, Angelina Lippert, for a night of high-proof entertainment.
The evening will toggle between specialty Art Deco-themed cocktails in our Café and witty reparté between Nicho and Angelina as they tour around Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde. Prepare for the wildest night at a museum you’ll ever have, with louche laughs and art historical amusements.
Ticket prices include three custom-made cocktails from the roaring ‘20s.
This series is generously supported by Don Lebowitz and Claudia Wagner.
This program is presented in person at Poster House. 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: Pattern Makers
2023-10-22 10:00 - 12:00
The Art Deco period was full of stylish and bold posters. Artists who worked during this time created images, patterns, and compositions inspired by mechanization and industry. This month, Poster Kids will explore the vivid patterns and images in our new exhibition Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde. Afterward, participants will create their own patterns inspired by what they saw.
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.

Open House New York: Poster House Architectural Tour
2023-10-21 14:00 - 15:00
Join lead architect Marc Tsurumaki of LTL Architects on a tour of the design, development, and construction history of Poster House, the only museum in the United States dedicated to posters. Opened in 2019 and occupying the space that once housed Tekserve, the museum design considers that posters are intended for the street and uses the length of the space to evoke a sidewalk, playing with industrial materials.

Genius on Display: Julian Alexander
2023-10-20 18:30 - 19:30
Poster House is pleased to welcome award-winning art director Julian Alexander in conversation with CMYK member Sharif Tassy for a Genius on Display artist talk. In this wide-ranging conversation, Julian will discuss his groundbreaking design practice as well as his advocacy work on behalf of racialized communities. Questions strongly encouraged!
Julian Alexander is a visual artist, GRAMMY-award winning art director, and founder of Brooklyn-based design studio Slang Inc. His iconic album artwork can be seen on packages that have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. In 2020, Julian started the Supremacy Project that addresses the systematic oppression and violence BIPOC communities are fighting to end through art.
This program is presented by Poster House’s CMYK Council, the museum’s BIPOC advisory board that works to ensure the museum is accessible to communities of color.

This program is presented in person at Poster House. 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

Genius on Display with DearStephan
2023-10-16 12:00 - 13:00
Poster House’s Genius on Display is excited to present illustrator Stephen Minyi, a.k.a. DearStephan, in conversation with 72andSunny’s Group Creative Director, Sherina Florence. Get an in-depth understanding of this incredible artist’s process and the inspiration behind his unique illustrations.
Known professionally as DearStephan, Stephen Minyi is a South African illustrator based in Cape Town, South Africa. His characters speak from the perspective of a Black artist inspired by streetwear and the never-ending consumption of fashion and hip-hop culture. Influenced by artists such as Norman Rockwell, John Hassall, and Zapiro, Minyi captures the distinct, unique characteristics of his subjects. He primarily designs for editorials, garments, and prints.
This program is presented by Poster House’s CMYK Council, the museum’s BIPOC advisory board that works to ensure the museum is accessible to communities of color.

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

New York's Great Art Deco Corridor: Architectural Walking Tour
2023-10-15 12:00 - 14:00
Art Deco architecture can be found in all five boroughs, but the largest single concentration of major Deco monuments runs along 42nd Street from 1st to 9th Avenues. The star architect of this walk is crusty modernist Raymond Hood. Participants will visit three of his four New York skyscrapers: the red-and-white-striped Daily News, the black-and-gold American Radiator, and the blue-green terra-cotta clad McGraw-Hill.
Along the way, guests will also visit the Chanin Building with its Rene Chambellan-designed abstract ornamentation, and the peerless Chrysler Building, the city’s (and the world’s) most famous Art Deco skyscraper. Additional stops will be made at lesser-known delights, including the little-visited cluster of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design and the Beaux-Arts Apartments on East 44th Street, which are Art Deco in style despite their names.
This program is presented in person. 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

Genius on Display: Victor Newman
2023-10-13 18:30 - 20:00
Genius on Display invites you to an unforgettable evening with two award-winning design experts. Join Creative Director of at Sesame Workshop, Victor Newman, and strategist, author, and professor, Douglas Davis, as they discuss their exciting and illustrious careers. The event will include an opportunity for Q&As!
Victor M. Newman is an New York-based, award-winning creative director recognized for his work in the entertainment, advertising, and film industries. Collaborations include Ogilvy & Mather, Saatchi & Saatchi, Cartoon Network, the Syfy Channel, Nickelodeon, MTV, USA Network, ESPN, TCM, and HGTV. Victor’s work has been honored with three Emmy Awards, a BDA World Class Award, BDA Gold Awards, an Art Directors Club Award, and numerous Telly Awards. His work has also been featured in many design publications and short film festivals.
Brooklyn-based Douglas Davis is an Emmy Award-winning strategist who serves on the advisory boards of Poster House’s CMYK Council, the Type Directors Club, the University of Oregon’s Masters in Advertising and Brand Responsibility, and City College’s Masters in Branding and Integrated Communications. He has found an international audience interested in his approach to blurring the lines between advertising, design, and business education. In 2016, Douglas wrote Creative Strategy and the Business of Design, a title translated into Mandarin and released in 2020 by Beijing Normal University.
This program is presented by Poster House’s CMYK Council, the museum’s BIPOC advisory board that works to ensure the museum is accessible to communities of color.
This program is presented in person at Poster House. 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
