Poster House

Jewish Identity & Advertising: Posters in The Third Reich
2021-07-29 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
The rise of the Third Reich had an indelible impact on graphic design. Some poster artists chose to promote the Nazi cause, others fled persecution to find success in new countries, while others were murdered by the governments that once touted their work as “genius.” At the same time, prominent poster collections, like those of Julius Paul and Hans Sachs, were confiscated and dispersed, destroying some of the best archives ever created within the medium.
This conversation will explore the many paths poster designers and collectors were forced to take during and after World War II. Of particular interest will be the work of Walter Herz and other Jewish posterists who emigrated to the United Kingdom to forge new identities and further shape graphic design history, contrasted with the tragic story of Hans Sachs whose landmark archive of posters was only recently restituted to his heirs.
Independent scholar Eve M. Kahn is a regular contributor of features to The New York Times, where she served as weekly Antiques columnist from 2008 to 2016. Her 2019 book, Forever Seeing New Beauties: The Forgotten Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams, 1857-1907 (Wesleyan University Press), received the Sarton Women’s Book Award and prizes from the Connecticut League of History Organizations, among other groups. Her biography now in progress is tentatively titled To Fight for the Poor With My Pen: The Forgotten Journalist Zoe Anderson Norris, 1860-1914.
Kristina Parsons is the Leon Levy Curatorial Assistant at the Jewish Museum in New York. Her research centers around technology, dress, and migration in the twentieth century. Kristina has worked on exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. She has also contributed essays to publications including E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist in Advertising (2020).
Suzanne Glass studied at Cambridge University, UK and at the Interpreting School of Zurich, Switzerland. Suzanne was deeply involved in the retrieval of the world’s best known poster collection, stolen by the Nazis from her great grandfather Hans Sachs. She is currently working on a film script on the subject, entitled, ” Einstein’s Dentist and his Posters.” She is a widely published journalist and the author of three novels: The Interpreter and The Sculptors, both published by Random House, and The Milliner, recently completed. Her play The Hatmaker was produced Off Broadway and published by Samuel French. Suzanne lives in New York with her 2 boys, Zachary 10 and Gabriel 2.
This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. A recording will be provided to all registered attendees. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Posters & Cocktails: Off the Leash!
2021-07-28 19:00 - 21:00
Our Posters & Cocktails events continue to delight guests around the world! Tonight, grab your chew toys because we’re partnering with The Museum of the Dog for an evening of posters featuring everyone’s favorite furry four-legged friends!
Poster House’s Chief Curator will once again be hosting Nicholas Lowry of Swann Auction Galleries and Don Spiro of The Green Fairy Society over Zoom as they bark their way through these iconic dog posters!
After Don opens the show with our first cocktail, Nicholas will release the visual hounds. Afterwards, Don will continue to help us tastefully imbibe throughout the night while Nicho walks us through some of man’s best posters featuring man’s best friend.
Cocktail Ingredients:
SALTY DOG/GREYHOUND
Salt rim for “Salty Dog,” no salt for Greyhound
2 oz gin
4 oz grapefruit juice
Ice cubes
BLOODHOUND COCKTAIL
1 oz Gin
1 oz sweet vermouth
1 oz dry vermouth
2 or 3 muddled strawberries
Optional garnish with strawberry
GREAT DANE
2 oz gin
1 oz Cherry Heering
1/2 oz dry vermouth
1 tsp kirschwasser
lemon twist
HAIR OF THE DOG
2 oz blended scotch
1 oz honey
1 oz cream
PINK SQUIRREL
1 oz crème de noyaux
1 oz white crème de cacao
1 oz heavy cream (or ice cream)
Optional garnish: freshly grated nutmeg
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. A recording of the event will be made available for all registered attendees. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at salvador@posterhouse.org.
This event is presented in partnership with The Museum of the Dog.

Intern Instagram Takeover: Erin
2021-07-28 09:00 - 17:00
Poster House’s second season of summer internships is almost finished.
Four amazing people joined the museum’s ten-week, paid summer internship program this July through August. They were afforded remote access to all parts of running a cultural organization, from collections management to public outreach, educational development to corporate membership. Over the next few weeks, they will be sharing their final projects, writing for the museum Blog, and creating unique social media content.
This Monday, Design Intern Erin Moore will be taking over Instagram Stories for a full day, exploring the Medu Art Ensemble of Botswana and how the collective used silkscreen techniques to fight apartheid in Africa in the 1970s and 80s.
Erin is a rising senior at the Maryland Institute College of Art, majoring in Printmaking. She is interested in book arts, hand-lettering, and zines.

Lucian Bernhard & The Object Poster
2021-07-26 18:30 - 20:00
Poster House is thrilled to partner with design historian Steven Heller for an evening examining the iconic and impactful work of Lucian Bernhard.
Lucian Bernhard is the putative father of the modern advertising poster. He came to be best known for the Sachplakat—or object poster, a subset of the greater Plakatstil (poster style) genre. Unlike the Jewish, Vienna-based Julius Klinger, Bernhard left Germany before 1933 and became a more variegated commercial artist, producing type face families, children’s books, logos, and identity systems. This wide-ranging talk will examine Bernhard’s European and American accomplishments in the design field he helped to invent.
Steven Heller is the co-chair of SVA MFA Design / The Designer as Entrepreneur, and author or editor of 200 books on design, political art, and popular culture. He has written extensively about Weimar-era design. Heller is also the recipient of an NEA grant to study Lucian Bernhard’s life and work.

Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age comes to Poster House from The Wolfsonian–Florida International University in Miami Beach, FL.

This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. A recording of the event will be made available for all registered attendees. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Poster Kids: Poster Processes
2021-07-25 10:00 - 11:00
Join Poster House on the last Sunday morning of every month, from 10–11am for a family-friendly, interactive, virtual poster tour and a related art-making experience. Admission is free; advanced registration is required in order to receive link access and a list of suggested materials. See below for details.
Poster designers have the big job of visually communicating messages to the masses. Join us for an interactive virtual tour that explores famous posters and talks about what makes them so effective. After the tour, you can participate in a collage-making workshop where we’ll try out some of the fun poster styles discussed.
Materials:
magazine/newspaper
colorful paper
white paper
scissors
gluestick

Posters, Politics, and Satire: A Conversation
2021-07-22 13:00 - 14:00
Political satire is as old as civilization. As long as there have been different points of view, people have found a way to lambast their opponents.
Few modern satirists are as well-known as Hunter S. Thompson, whose biting points of view are beautifully expressed in the posters on view in Freak Power. But where is political satire in posters today? And how do contemporary designers use humor to challenge public perception? This afternoon, join poster makers Winston Tseng and Maia Lorian as they discuss how they’ve used posters to point out hypocrisy, corruption, and greed in the political system.
Winston Tseng is a graphic artist based in New York City. He graduated from UC Berkeley and his background is in the skateboard industry, where for over a decade he’s worked for brands including: Birdhouse, Emerica, Etnies, Jenkem, and Enjoi. At Enjoi, he was the art director until 2014 and created hundreds of skateboards, tshirts, and apparel graphics. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), Poster House Museum (New York, NY), and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York, NY).
Maia Lorian is an actor, creator, Native New Yorker, and artistic director of A Presidential Parody—a Guerrilla art ad takeover with live street art performances and interventions around NYC. As an artist, her work has been featured in Hyperallergic and The Nation, Street Art NYC, and many others. Lorian’s pieces are in the permanent collection of Poster House Museum and The 45 Library. Her work as an actor has influenced her work as an artist, credits include SNL (NBC), Flight of the Conchords (HBO), The Onion News Network (IFC), and many original works of theater.
This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. A recording of the event will be made available for all registered attendees. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Lippert & Lowry: Fireside Chats
2021-07-21 20:00 - 21:00
Join everyone’s favorite blazer-loving poster duo for a Fireside Chat on Instagram Live!
Angelina Lippert, Chief Curator at Poster House, and Nicholas Lowry, Director of Swann Auction Galleries, are two of the biggest personalities in the poster world. And they also happen to be best buddies! So why not spend your evening hanging out with them? There’ll even be a real fireplace!
Ask questions, chime in, make requests, play along—no poster is off limits for these two!
This week, prepare to take an idyllic trip with your favorite tour guides as they explore American travel posters!
Just follow @posterhousenyc and @swanngalleries and tune in at 8pm for the best poster entertainment on the internet!
*This event has passed. Watch archived Fireside Chats on the “Our Friends” Highlight on our Instagram page!

Intern Instagram Takeover: Ajula
2021-07-19 09:00 - 17:00
Poster House’s second season of summer internships is almost finished.
Four amazing people joined the museum’s ten-week, paid summer internship program this July through August. They were afforded remote access to all parts of running a cultural organization, from collections management to public outreach, educational development to corporate membership. Over the next few weeks, they will be sharing their final projects, writing for the museum Blog, and creating unique social media content.
This Monday, Teen Programs Intern Ajula Van Ness-Otunnu will be taking over Instagram Stories for a full day, exploring the history and evolution of Newport Jazz and Folk Festival posters.
Ajula is a rising sophomore at Sarah Lawrence College, currently studying Creative Writing and Film History with a focus on Africana Studies.

Hamilton Hang: Curatorial Tour with Angelina Lippert
2021-07-16 13:00 - 14:00
Poster House is thrilled to partner with Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum for a tour of our latest exhibition Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age with Chief Curator Angelina Lippert. Recognized as one of the leading graphic artists of the 20th century, Klinger brought a fresh voice to the world of advertising, blending humor with sexuality, quirkiness with technical precision.
Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum’s mission is to advance the understanding of our printing and design heritage by documenting, archiving and reproducing the history and images of American letterpress printing. Their premier collection of printing type, engravings, library, prints and equipment support scholarship and education at all levels by preserving through use, research and demonstration.

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Julius Klinger
2021-07-15 16:00 - 17:00
Every month, Poster House offers Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for community members who are blind or have low vision. Explore one of the museum’s shows with a museum educator trained in the art of verbal description and learn more about the history of printed posters.
In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we offer our description tours online through teleconference. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows.
This tour will focus on Julius Klinger: Posters For A Modern Age, an exhibition focusing on the designer’s life and outlandish Jugendstil designs.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by July 13 to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing the teleconference the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 70 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our Access Tours, click the Access 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.

Art Against Gentrification with Chinatown Art Brigade
2021-07-15 13:00 - 14:00
Gentrification was a hot-button issue at the center of Hunter S. Thomspon’s 1969 Freak Power campaign, and is still at the forefront of civic discourse today. Poster House is thrilled to partner with Chinatown Art Brigade (CAB) for a panel on the role of artists in the ongoing fight against gentrification. Explore the collective’s creative interventions against gentrification in Chinatown and the intersection of art, organizing, and politics on this crucial issue. Questions strongly encouraged!
Chinatown Art Brigade (CAB) is an intergenerational, womxn-led collective driven by the fundamental belief that our cultural, material, and aesthetic modes of production have the power to advance social change. Together, they make work that centers art and culture as a way to support community-led campaigns around issues of gentrification and displacement.
Betty Yu is a multimedia artist, photographer, filmmaker, and activist born and raised in NYC to Chinese immigrant parents. Ms. Yu integrates documentary film, new media platforms, and community-infused approaches into her practice, and she is a co-founder of Chinatown Art Brigade and has been awarded artist residencies and fellowships from the Laundromat Project, A Blade of Grass, International Studio & Curatorial Program, and many others.
Diane Wong is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, Newark. She writes at the intersections of American politics, Asian American studies, critical urban studies, cultural and media studies, and community rooted methodologies. Her work draws from a combination of methods including ethnography, participatory mapping, archival research, augmented reality, and oral history interviews.
Em He is a member of the Chinatown Art Brigade and a trans and queer Cantonese settler immigrant who grew up on unceded Coast Salish lands and is now living on stolen Lenape land. They are a housing justice and anti-displacement organizer building power with intergenerational and multilingual Asian immigrant communities as well as an activist and organizer in cultural orgnazing, queer justice, healing justice, leftist, decolonial, and prison abolition movements.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. A recording of the event will be made available for all registered attendees. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org
Photo Credit: Louis Chan

Fight the Man: Posters & Politics of the 1960s & ’70s
2021-07-13 13:00 - 14:00
The political posters of the 1960s and ‘70s defined a generation, helping shape contemporary politics.
Join Poster House Collections Manager Melissa Walker as she examines mid-century presidential election posters, including the Nixon, JFK, and Reagan campaigns. Explore how both mainstream and counterculture political posters spurred civic engagement, with special attention to posters currently featured in the Freak Power exhibition. Questions about political posters are strongly encouraged!
This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. A recording of the event will be made available for all registered attendees. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

In Person Tour of Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age
2021-07-10 15:00 - 16:00
Poster House is turning 2! To celebrate our second year of poster-filled exhibitions and programming, we will be open free of charge on July 10!
At 3pm, join Chief Curator Angelina Lippert for an entertaining tour of Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age, on loan to us from the Wolfsonian in Miami Beach, Florida. Get an in-depth look at the iconic, humorous, and quirky work of Julius Klinger, and learn how his posters shaped modern advertising.
Note: Covid safety protocols, including social distancing and masks, will be enforced throughout the day. Guided tours are offered free of charge but must be reserved in advance to ensure we comply with all safety regulations.

In Person Tour: Freak Power
2021-07-10 14:00 - 15:00
Poster House is turning 2! To celebrate our second year of poster-filled exhibitions and programming, we will be open free of charge on July 10!
At 2pm, Collections Manager Melissa Walker will take guests on a guided tour of our current exhibition Freak Power. Learn about Hunter S. Thompson’s bid to become sheriff of Aspen with Poster House’s resident political poster expert!
Note: Covid safety protocols, including social distancing and masks, will be enforced throughout the day. Guided tours are offered free of charge but must be reserved in advance to ensure we comply with all safety regulations.

In-Person Tour: Vera List & the Posters of Lincoln Center
2021-07-10 13:00 - 14:00
Poster House is turning 2! To celebrate our second year of poster-filled exhibitions and programming, we will be open free of charge on July 10!
at 1pm, Join Chief Curator Angelina Lippert for an in-depth look at our mini-exhibition Vera List & The Posters of Lincoln Center. Learn how Vera List’s generous donation to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts created an amazing archive of posters made by the hottest contemporary artists of the time.
Note: Covid safety protocols, including social distancing and masks, will be enforced throughout the day. Guided tours are offered free of charge but must be reserved in advance to ensure we comply with all safety regulations.

Poster House's Second Birthday!
2021-07-10 10:00 - 18:00
Poster House is turning 2! To celebrate our second year of poster-filled exhibitions and programming, we will be open free of charge on July 10!
Grab your friends and come see our current exhibitions and enjoy everything Poster House has to offer. Throughout the day, we’ll have guided tours, interactive activities, and sweet treats available in our Café. You can sign up for a free tour through the links below or reserve your free museum ticket here. We can’t wait to celebrate with you!
Note: Covid safety protocols, including social distancing and masks, will be enforced throughout the day. Guided tours are offered free of charge but must be reserved in advance to ensure we comply with all safety regulations.
Tours (Advanced Registration Required):
In Person Tour of Vera List & the Posters of Lincoln Center, 1pm
Join Chief Curator Angelina Lippert for an in-depth look at our mini-exhibition Vera List & The Posters of Lincoln Center. Learn how Vera List’s generous donation to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts created an amazing archive of posters made by the hottest contemporary artists of the time.
In Person Tour of Freak Power, 2pm
Collections Manager Melissa Walker will take guests on a guided tour of our current exhibition Freak Power. Learn about Hunter S. Thompson’s bid to become sheriff of Aspen with Poster House’s resident political poster expert!
In Person Tour of Julius Klinger: Posters For A Modern Age, 3pm
Join Chief Curator Angelina Lippert for an entertaining tour of Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age, on loan to us from the Wolfsonian in Miami Beach, Florida. Get an in-depth look at the iconic, humorous, and quirky work of Julius Klinger, and learn how his posters shaped modern advertising.
Drop in Activities (No Registration Required):
Button Making, 12–4pm
Stop by our Poster History Timeline and make your very own commemorative button! Select a design and watch it get made in real time by our lovely staff.
Live Screen Printing Demonstration with Mike King, 12–4pm
Print your very own limited-edition silkscreen poster with Mike King, the world’s most prolific gig poster artist! $10 includes the cost of materials and your commemorative poster.
Freak Power Poster Signing with Pablo Medina, 12–4pm
Love our Freak Power exhibition poster? Now’s your chance to meet the artist behind this incredible piece! Pablo Medina will be in our shop answering design questions and signing originals. Pablo is a graphic designer and artist who spends his time designing for cultural and NGO clients (including Taskforce/IntoAction, the MoMA, The New York Times, and Sneaker News) and making art in his studio at the Trestle Art Space in Brooklyn.

Poster Kids: Center Stage & Silhouettes
2021-06-27 10:00 - 11:00
Join Poster House on the last Sunday morning of every month, from 10–11am for a family-friendly, interactive, virtual poster tour and a related art-making experience. Admission is free; advanced registration is required in order to receive link access and a list of suggested materials. See below for details.
Drama! Music! Dance! You can experience all this and more at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Join Poster House for an interactive tour of our current exhibition Vera List & The Posters of Lincoln Center, and learn about Vera’s relationships with the many famous artists she commissioned to promote the new cultural venue. After the tour, a guided workshop will help you make set designs for your dream show accompanied by paper cut-out silhouette characters to bring it to life.
Materials:
thick paper
markers
black paper
scissors
dowels/chopsticks
heavy duty tape

Democracy on Paper
2021-06-23 12:00 - 13:30
The political posters of the 1960s and ‘70s defined a generation, helping shape contemporary politics. Join Poster House Collections Manager Melissa Walker as she examines mid-century presidential election posters, including the Nixon, JFK, and Reagan campaigns. Explore how both mainstream and counterculture political posters have spurred civic engagement throughout history!
This program is intended for teen and adult audiences. Closed captioning will be available.
This program will be streamed live on Zoom and recorded. You must register with your email address in order to receive the link to participate, which will be sent to your email the day of the event.
Culture Pass is a program for cardholding patrons of New York City’s public libraries, the Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library, and Queens Public Library. Support for Culture Pass is provided by The New York Community Trust, Charles H. Revson Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. To learn more, visit www.culturepass.nyc

Juneteenth-Free Museum Admission!
2021-06-19 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 Saturday, June 19 (discount applied at check-out).
This program is organized by CMYK Council, Poster House’s working advisory board of BIPOC creatives, designers, educators, and museum staff.

The Top-Heavy G: Julius Klinger's Lettering and Type Design with Paul Shaw
2021-06-18 13:00 - 14:00
Poster House is thrilled to partner once again with its favorite type historian, Paul Shaw, for an afternoon exploring the lettering and type design of renowned poster designer Julius Klinger. This event is co-presented by Typographics.
Spanning nearly four decades, Klinger’s posters and other designs showcase a wide range of lettering styles. Some of them were common in Austria and Germany in the period between the formation of the Vienna Secession and the outbreak of The Great War; and some reflected themes common to Art Deco after the war. But others are unique to Klinger. Shaw will lead us on a detailed (even nerdy) look at the evolution of Klinger’s lettering and type, placing him in context with Koloman Moser, Alfred Roller and other members of the Vienna Secession; and the German sachplakat artists, such as Lucian Bernhard, associated with the printers Hollerbaum & Schmidt. His presentation will draw primarily from Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age, on loan from the Wolfsonian in Miami Beach, is currently on view at Poster House in New York City.
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.
Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age comes to Poster House from The Wolfsonian–Florida International University in Miami Beach, FL.

Members-Only Viewing: Vera List & The Posters of Lincoln Center
2021-06-17 18:00 - 20:00
Forget about boring museum tours! Our Chief Curator Angelina Lippert is known for her relatable, funny anecdotes and casual style. This in-person presentation will explore the relationship between Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Vera List, and the early advertising posters she helped commission for the famed institution.
Questions and fabulous attire are encouraged!
Due to ongoing public health protocols, masks will be mandatory and proper social distancing will be encouraged at all times. The museum will not be serving food or drink, but attendees will receive a special gift bag to take home.
This viewing is free and for Members-only. Capacity is limited, advance registration is required.
Angelina Lippert Angelina Lippert is the Chief Curator of Poster House in New York City, the first museum in the United States dedicated to the impact and history of the poster. She holds an MA in the art of the Russian Avant-Garde from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and a BA in theology and art history from Smith College. She is the author of The Art Deco Poster, and has lectured at SVA, The Cooper Union, Columbia University, the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and the New York Public Library. She is a contributing writer to The Muse by Clio Entertainment, and is an editor for Vintage Poster magazine.

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Mistinguett, Parisian Cabaret Star
2021-06-17 16:00 - 17:30
Every month, Poster House offers Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for the low vision and blind community. Explore one of the museum’s shows with an experienced educator trained in the art of verbal description and learn more about the history of printed posters.
In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we offer our description tours online through teleconference. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows.
This tour will focus on Mistinguett, one of the most fascinating cabaret stars of the 20th century who had over 100 posters of her created during her length career. If you’ve attended a previous iteration of this tour, the images discussed in this session will be entirely new.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by June 15th to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing the teleconference the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 90 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our Access Tours, click the Access 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.

Fiona McDonnell: Virtual Studio Tour
2021-06-14 19:30 - 20:30
Poster House is dedicated to celebrating all voices within the poster community. In an effort to share with our audience the widest array of poster talent, we are partnering with numerous young designers around the world to create Instagram Live Studio Tours—hour-long sessions on our Instagram account in which up and coming graphic artists give us a personalized peek inside their poster-making world.
Tonight, we are featuring Fiona McDonnell (she/her). McDonnell is a freelance illustrator based in the North of Ireland. Using her distinct style of illustration, McDonnell has been commissioned by a variety of commercial clients including LUSH, Facebook, and Dazed, all while sustaining a personal practice. Poster design has been a driving force throughout McDonnell’s career, with the accessibility of posters as art for the masses being what initially drew her to the medium. Since then, she describes each poster project as, “a chance to challenge myself by exploring new ways of creating and combining illustration, typography, and visual communication.” The illustrations in these posters, along with McDonnell’s overall illustration practice, are often accompanied by commentary and self-reflection on social issues, politics, music, and film (or whatever else she may be interested in at the time.)
Instagram handle: @fionaamcd

Everyone Needs an Alibi
2021-06-10 19:00 - 21:00
In honor of Pride month, Poster House is thrilled to partner with Alibi Lounge in Harlem, one of the last Black-owned gay bars in NYC, for an evening of cocktails & design activities that are sure to delight!
First, Alexi Minko of Alibi Lounge will walk you through some delicious cocktail creations, and share the history of Alibi lounge and the importance of preserving Black LGBT spaces.
Then Master Educator Maya Varadaraj will lead us through an interactive design activity in MURAL where participants will get the chance to name a cocktail at Alibi Harlem!
All proceeds from this event will go to The Transgender Law Center.
Cocktail Ingredients:
Elegance is An Attitude
Champagne Glass
1 oz. Drambuie
½ oz. Cointreau
½ oz. Pineau des Charentes
Taittinger Champagne
Garnish: cherry
Vanité des Vanités, Tout est Vanité
Martini Glass
2 oz. Rittenhouse Rye whiskey
1 oz. ginger liqueur
¼ oz. lemon juice
Garnish: Sprig of mint
Everyone Needs An Alibi
Rocks Glass
1 oz. Bacardi Superior rum
1 oz. Pineau des Charentes
¼ oz. fresh lime juice
¼ oz. simple syrup
1 oz. Chambord
Alexi Minko opened the very first Black Gay owned LGBTQ+ Lounge in Harlem, NYC in 2013. Alexi grew up between Europe and Africa, and fifteen years ago, moved to NYC to start their career as a lawyer at the United Nations. Although not practising human rights law on a daily basis, Alexi found a new purpose in their new role as part of a shift in the LGBTQ+ culture in Harlem.
This program is organized by CMYK Council, Poster House’s working advisory board of BIPOC creatives, designers, educators, and museum staff.
This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. A recording will be provided to all registered attendees. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Lippert & Lowry: Fireside Chats
2021-06-09 20:00 - 21:00
Join everyone’s favorite blazer-loving poster duo for a Fireside Chat on Instagram Live!
Angelina Lippert, Chief Curator at Poster House, and Nicholas Lowry, Director of Swann Auction Galleries, are two of the biggest personalities in the poster world. And they also happen to be best buddies! So why not spend your evening hanging out with them? There’ll even be a real fireplace!
Ask questions, chime in, make requests, play along—no poster is off limits for these two!
This week, prepare to take an idyllic trip with your favorite conductors as they explore British Rail posters!
Just follow @posterhousenyc and @swanngalleries and tune in at 8pm for the best poster entertainment on the internet!
*This event has passed. Watch archived Fireside Chats on the “Our Friends” Highlight on our Instagram page!

Poster Kids: Activist Voices
2021-05-30 10:00 - 11:00
Join Poster House on the last Sunday morning of every month, from 10–11am for a family-friendly, interactive, virtual poster tour and a related art-making experience. Admission is free; advanced registration is required in order to receive link access and a list of suggested materials. See below for details.
Protests, marches, picketing, parades, and demonstrations – these are big experiences people of all ages are participating in right now. Join us for an interactive virtual tour of Poster House’s Women’s March posters promoting human rights. Afterwards, we’ll have the opportunity to create handmade posters to carry in our own Zoom rally during our workshop.
Materials:
white paper and pencil
large, heavy paper (ie: cardstock, railroad board, oaktag or cardboard)
thick black marker
thick colorful markers
ruler
masking or packing tape
scissors (optional)

Letterforms of the Viennese Secession with Letterform Archive
2021-05-27 15:00 - 16:30
Poster House is thrilled to partner once again with Letterform Archive for an exploration of the letterforms of the Viennese Secession.
At the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, Western design underwent a clash of ideas: those who sought a return to the handcrafts of the past, and those who wanted to create entirely new modes of making; those who found inspiration in the flowing forms of nature, and those who embraced the sleek geometry of the machine. These ideals are viscerally expressed in the type and typography of the time, especially within the Jugendstil and Viennese Secession movements which continue to influence design after 100 years. Stephen Coles will take us on a floral and florid tour of Letterform Archive’s extensive collection from this period, including advertising, fine printing, and typeface specimens.
Stephen Coles, Letterform Archive’s Associate Curator & Editorial Director, joined the staff after serving on our Board of Directors since its inception. Born in Salt Lake City, he moved to San Francisco in 2004 to serve as FontShop’s creative director. He later worked as an independent consultant, connecting font makers with font users, and wrote the book The Anatomy of Type. With his background in design and journalism, combined with an obsession for type history, Stephen is responsible for the online face and voice of the Archive, and helps to shape the future of the collection. He continues to publish the influential websites Typographica and Fonts In Use.
This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. A recording will be provided to all registered attendees. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Virtual Cooking Class With Grace Young
2021-05-25 18:00 - 19:30
In recognition of AAPI history month, Poster House is thrilled to once again partner with award-winning author Grace Young, dubbed the “Stir-Fry Guru” by The New York Times & recipient of the 2020 James Beard Digital Media Award, for a timely & tasty virtual cooking class. If you’re ready to master the wok, join the Wok Therapist as she demystifies the art of stir-frying and demonstrates how to prepare Spicy Cashew Chicken. The high heat and quick cooking uses minimal fat to caramelize the vegetables and sear the chicken, bringing out the best in both. She will cover the essentials for stir-fry success and how to choose a wok.
During this live event, Grace will also discuss the work that she’s been doing to support and preserve Manhattan’s Chinatown. Last March, Poster House partnered with Grace and videographer Dan Ahn to create Coronavirus: Chinatown Stories. The video series chronicles the impact of COVID-19 on Manhattan’s Chinatown and has been featured at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. She also created the #SaveChineseRestaurants campaign with the James Beard Foundation.
In light of the ongoing targeted violence against Asians and Asian Americans, all proceeds from this program will support Grace Young’s & Asian Americans For Equality’s “Safe with Sound” campaign. Please consider making an additional donation in support of this important campaign.
Prep your ingredients ahead of time and stir-fry along with Grace.
Manhattan Chinatown Resources
Grace recommends 14-inch flat-bottomed carbon-steel wok from KK Discount, 78 Mulberry Street
Asian produce & groceries
88 Natural Food, 88 Mulberry Street
Po Wing Hong Supermarket, 49 Elizabeth Street
Marks Wine & Spirits, 53 Mott Street
Teas
Grand Tea Imports, 298 Grand Street
Photo Credit: Christine Han/Kitchn

Literary Posters and Advertising
2021-05-24 19:00 - 20:00
Has an image ever inspired you to read? Join poster expert and Poster House Advisory Board member Nicholas Lowry of Swann Auction Galleries as he explores and celebrates how books, reading, booksellers, publishers, and literacy itself have been promoted graphically in posters since the late 1800s.

This program is intended for all ages, but especially adult audiences. Closed captioning will be available.
This program will be streamed live on Zoom and recorded. You must register with your email address in order to receive the link to participate, which will be sent to your email the day of the event.
Culture Pass is a program for cardholding patrons of New York City’s public libraries, the Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library, and Queens Public Library. Support for Culture Pass is provided by The New York Community Trust, Charles H. Revson Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. To learn more, visit www.culturepass.nyc

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Freak Power
2021-05-20 16:00 - 17:30
Every month, Poster House offers Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for the low vision and blind community. Explore one of the museum’s shows with an experienced educator trained in the art of verbal description and learn more about the history of printed posters.
In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we offer our description tours online through teleconference. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows.
This tour will focus on Freak Power, an exhibition of silkscreen posters and photographs documenting Hunter S. Thompson’s bid for sheriff of Aspen and the grassroots political movement that evolved out of those efforts.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by May 18th to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing the teleconference the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 90 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our Access Tours, click the Access 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.
