Poster House

Members-Only Opening Night
2021-04-15 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Kindly Note: In order to offer this in-person experience to as many members as possible, this event will be repeated over two nights on Thursday, April 15th and Friday, April 16th. Please only RSVP for one night, not both.
Join Poster House for a unique and exclusive look at our latest shows. First, Chief Curator Angelina Lippert will take guests on an entertaining tour of Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age. Then, Director of Design and Exhibitions Ola Baldych will give guests an insider’s perspective on the exhibition design of Freak Power.
These masked, private events will be in-person at limited capacity. Masks and social distancing will be required throughout the event. In order to ensure proper social distancing, we will also be providing headsets with disposable earbuds.
Bookings are limited to one Member and a guest. Please choose only one night for your tour. As we are expecting demand to exceed availability, kindly let us know if you are unable to honor your reservation. To be placed on our waitlist or for any inquiries, email membership@posterhouse.org.
We look forward to welcoming you to our latest round of shows!

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Julius Klinger
2021-04-15 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 Julius Klinger: Posters For A Modern World, an exhibition focusing on the designer’s life and outlandish Jugendstil designs.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by April 13th 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.

A Tale of Three Cities: Youth Style in Berlin, Munich, & Vienna
2021-04-14 18:30 - 20:00
Poster House is thrilled to partner with the Kallir Research Institute. Directed by Jane Kallir, the KRI is devoted to the study of Austrian and German art of the early 20th century – work championed by the Galerie St. Etienne since 1939.
Tonight, Jane Kallir will be speaking about the important roles Berlin, Munich, and Vienna played in the shaping of the art and culture of Julius Klinger‘s period. This talk will feature numerous works from the Galerie St. Etienne’s recent exhibition Youth Style, posters from the Merrill C. Berman Collection, as well as posters from the exhibition Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age currently on view at Poster House.
Jane Kallir is the author of the catalogue raisonné Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, as well as over 20 books on such subjects as Gustav Klimt, the Wiener Werkstätte, and the paintings of Arnold Schoenberg. She has curated exhibitions for numerous museums worldwide, including the National Gallery in Washington and the Belvedere in Vienna.
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
Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age comes to Poster House from The Wolfsonian–Florida International University in Miami Beach, FL.

Gonzo Artivism: The Art & Activism of the Freak Power Movement
2021-04-13 18:30 - 20:00
Poster House is excited to be joined by Yuri Zupancic, co-curator of Freak Power, in exploring the intersections of art and activism. In this wide-ranging talk, Yuri will explore how the Freak Power movement blurred the lines between politics and art to inspire change by any medium necessary.
Hunter Thompson once said, “Politics is the art of controlling your environment.” He invented Gonzo Journalism by mixing fact and fantasy to paint a vivid picture of reality. Satire and political theater were hallmarks of his campaign for sheriff. Thomas W. Benton, Ralph Steadman, and other Freak Power artists took wildly creative approaches in addressing civic concerns. Zupancic will highlight some poignant —and hilarious— examples of artistic activism in the posters, advertisements and antics of Freak Power politicians and supporters beginning in 1969 and continuing to this day.
Yuri Zupancic is an independent curator and artist based in Paris. His work has been published internationally and he’s held curatorial and organizational roles in over 50 museum and gallery exhibitions in the USA, EU and UK.

This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Viennese Lettering: A Virtual Night With Paul Shaw
2021-04-08 18:30 - 20:00
Poster House is thrilled to partner once again with our favorite type historian, Paul Shaw, for an evening exploring lettering and the Vienna Secession.
From Koloman Moser and Alfred Roller to Lucian Bernhard and Ludwig Hohlwein to Peter Behrens and Otto Eckmann, lettering of this period was varied, innovative, and of a consistently high quality. It was an integral part of countless posters, advertising displays, and fine books, and in the 1960s and 1980s exerted an influence on American designers. Viennese lettering—through fonts such as Shaw’s Kolo—continues to fascinate and inspire designers today.
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.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Conversations on Design & Race: Getting Back to Our Roots
2021-04-07 18:30 - 20:00
Join designers Kelly Walters, Jason Alejandro, Anne H. Berry, and David Jon Walker for a panel discussion on how the influence of family, cultural origins, and ancestral heritage takes form in design practice. The designers will look reflectively at their upbringing, present objects that maintain cultural significance, and share their experiences as design students, educators, and practitioners, as discussed inBlack, Brown + Latinx Design Educators: Conversations on Design and Race by Kelly Walters. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of the panelists and to order copies of Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators. All attendees will receive a 10% Discount on the book in our Shop!
About the book: In Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators, Kelly Walters collects twelve deeply personal interviews with graphic design educators of color who teach at colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. The book centers the unique narratives of Black, Brown, and Latinx design educators, from their childhood experiences to their navigation of undergraduate and graduate studies and their career paths in academia and practice. The interviewees represent a cross-section of ethnic and multiracial backgrounds–African American, Jamaican, Indian, Pakistani, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican, and Brazilian. Their impactful stories offer invaluable perspectives for students and emerging designers of color, creating an entry point to address the complexities of race in design.
Jason Alejandro is a Puerto Rican graphic designer and educator. He is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the College of New Jersey. His work examines, addresses, and questions aspects of cultural identity, professional practice and critical pedagogy through research, making, and writing. He previously taught at Rutgers University, Lehigh University, Kean University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Jason received his MFA in Graphic Design from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Anne H. Berry is a writer, designer, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Cleveland State University. Her research focuses on design education and ethnic and racial representation within the field of graphic design. She is a 2018 Design Incubation Fellow,
and she recently published an essay titled “The Black Designer’s Identity” for Recognize, an online design anthology presented by InVision that features essays from Indigenous people and people of color.
David Jon Walker is a Graphic Designer and Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. He is also principal of Rhealistic Design, a design consultancy that is active locally and nationally. As a sought-after Black creative, Walker works with national political candidates, PACs, large non-profits, governmental entities, and varying businesses lending his talents to their marketing efforts to increase awareness and further campaigns. He examines social cues and the historical past to shape the aesthetic of his visual voice for personal lettering projects.
Kelly Walters is an Assistant Professor and the Associate Director of the BFA Communication Design program in Parsons School of Design at The New School. In her independent design studio Bright Polka Dot, she works across platforms to create publications, exhibitions, and digital experiences for educational and cultural institutions. Her ongoing design research interrogates the complexities of identity, systems of value, and shared vernacular in and around Black visual culture.

College Night: Museum Ed 101
2021-04-06 18:30 - 20:00
What is museum education? Have you ever considered a career as a museum educator? This Museum Ed 101 panel will provide you with information about the vast opportunities that the museum education field has to offer! Join Imani Parkinson, Samantha Hirsch, and Sierra Van Ryck deGroot as they discuss how they got into museum education and learn about the skills, practices, and passions that inspire museum educators across the country. This event, moderated by Lucy Duda, will take place on Tuesday, April 6, from 7–8:30pm over Zoom.

For the Many: The Public Art of Lincoln Center
2021-03-31 18:30 - 20:00
In honor of their partnership on the exhibition Vera List & The Posters Of Lincoln Center, Poster House and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts are teaming up on an incredible lecture chronicling the organization’s commitment to art for all.
The discussion will start with an introduction to Lincoln Center’s poster project and the critical role Vera List played in getting this landmark series off the ground. Then, we will explore the institution’s remarkably diverse history with public art, from its print project to large scale installations of works by some of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
Kristina Huntington serves as Art Advisor for the Visual Arts Program at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She is also Founder of KH Fine Art Projects, an art consultancy for private clients, corporations, and cultural institutions. She is committed to promoting the value of art in the public and private sectors.
Bonnie Marie Sauer is the Director of Archives and Records Management at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She is committed to promoting access to information and responsible transparency in organizations.
Image Caption
Dorothy Gillespie
Lincoln Center Information Center, 1989
Screen print
40 x 32 inches
This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

The Swiss Grid: An Introduction
2021-03-30 19:00 - 20:00
Join the Society of Design Arts, AIGA Baltimore, and Stevenson University for this online talk by Angelina Lippert.
The Swiss Grid explores the development and impact of the International Typographic Style, considered one of the most important movements in graphic design history, through a selection of posters and ephemera. Influenced by the Concrete art of the Bauhaus and Jan Tschichold’s The New Typography, the practitioners of this style streamlined compositions through an adherence to geometric grid structures. The results were pared down, harmonious, instantly comprehensible designs—masterpieces of communication—that have stood the test of time. To complete the story of Swiss poster history, companion exhibitions in adjoining galleries will celebrate over 100 years of Swiss design, from illustrational posters of the prewar period up through the “Swiss punk” movement of the 1970s and beyond.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Angelina Lippert 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. Prior to working at Poster House, Angelina served ten years as a poster specialist at a leading New York City leading auction house. She has produced dozens of auction catalogs and articles, as well as The Art Deco Poster, and has lectured at SVA and The Cooper Union. She is a member of AAM, AAMC, AIGA, and is on the Board of Directors for The Ephemera Society of America. Her research interests include German Expressionism, Soviet film posters, and the history of food and wine in advertising.

College Night: Speed Mentorship
2021-03-29 08:00 - 17:00
Are you a student who is looking to pursue a career in design, museum education, art administration, art and design history, and/or collections management? Then this weeklong event is for you! College Night is pleased to offer Speed Mentorship, an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as recent graduates, to gain insight and insider tips on searching for roles in museums, design, and other related careers. Mentorship sessions will take place over Zoom between Monday, March 29, and Friday, April 2.
All registrants will receive two slots. Student Members will have priority booking as well as an additional speed mentorship slot (for a total of three slots).
All interested participants must be currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program—or be a recent grad (Spring and Fall 2020 grads are welcome!)—at an accredited university in the United States. If you have deferred your schooling due to COVID, you are also eligible to participate.
Please make sure to RSVP before Wednesday, March 17, to secure your spot. Registrants will receive a follow-up email with a list of this year’s speed mentors and instructions on how to book their preferred choices. Spots are limited to the first 30 registrants and are on a first-come, first-served basis.
Our mentors for 2021 are:

Angelina Lippert
Antonio Acalá
Bader AlAwadhi
Cassandra Cavness
Harry DeBauche
Kyle Leacock
Michele Washington
Salvador Muñoz
Sierra Van Ryck deGroot
Zipeng Zhu

To learn more about our speed mentors this year, click here.

Poster Kids: Stamp Out Hate!
2021-03-28 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.
Save the earth! Live in peace! Create art! These are just some of the very important themes in our show Freak Power. After an interactive virtual tour of the exhibition, we’ll participate in a workshop on creating stampable symbols that represent our own hopes and dreams for the world.
Materials:
-cardboard squares 2×2 inches (four for each family member who is participating)
-scissors
-gluestick
-paper
-stamp-pad

The Evolution of PSAs with Poster House
2021-03-25 18:30 - 20:00
Dating back to the 1870s, Public Service Announcements (PSAs) have been used to communicate messages to the public on a variety of topics. Over the past 150 years, PSAs have ranged from calls to action to unite the public on war efforts, to messages conveying safety concerns when riding public transportation. Many factors are considered when creating PSAs, including design and placement, for efficient and effective dissemination of information.
Join us after-hours with the New York Transit Museum Associate Curator Jodi Shapiro and Chief Curator of Poster House Angelina Lippert as they explore a general history of PSA posters. Learn more about how PSA messaging has evolved since the late 1800s, how New York City’s buses and subways have functioned as places where PSAs communicate to straphangers, and what the future looks like for the medium.

Lippert & Lowry: Fireside Chats
2021-03-24 20:00 - 21:00
Join everyone’s favorite blazer-loving poster duo for a Fireside Chat on Instagram Live!
Angelina Lippert, our Chief Curator, 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!
Keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle, because tonight they’ll be going over work incentive and work safety 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!

Behind the Scenes with Melissa Walker
2021-03-23 18:30 - 19:30
Did you know that Poster House has over 10,000 posters in its permanent collection? Join Collections Manager Melissa Walker as she takes us on a behind-the-scenes look at posters from around the world! Take a glimpse of our Living Archive, see live unboxings of recent acquisitions, and get a sneak peek of posters for upcoming exhibitions. From vintage posters to contemporary advertising and everything in-between, you don’t want to miss this rare opportunity for unbridled access to Poster House’s expansive collection!
This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided.
Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Interwar Neon: Commercial Illumination in Weimar-Era Germany
2021-03-22 18:30 - 20:00
Historic photographs of the nocturnal landscape in Berlin and other cities are all that survive to hint at the uniquely inventive work of electric sign makers in Germany in the years before the country’s descent into authoritarianism, ethnic cleansing, and war. In this program, design historian Thomas Rinaldi will explore these images and what they tell us about the sophisticated approach to electric signs that coincided with Germany’s brief period of free artistic expression in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Thomas Rinaldi is the co-author of the book Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape, published by the University Press of New England in 2006, and the author of New York Neon, published by W.W. Norton in 2012. His photographs have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The New York Observer, Westchester Magazine, CNN Online, and elsewhere, and have been exhibited at the Municipal Art Society of New York and at the New York State Museum in Albany.

This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Vera List & The Posters of Lincoln Center
2021-03-18 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 Vera List & The Posters of Lincoln Center, an exhibition which features the early artist-designed posters commissioned by Lincoln Center at the time of its opening.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by March 16 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.

Effortless & Balanced: Julius Klinger & The Art of Humor
2021-03-17 18:30 - 19:30
Poster House is delighted to partner with Karen Etingin, author of The Life and Art of Julius Klinger, for an evening of merriment and posters! Join us as Karen explores the role of humor in European advertising in the early 20th century, with particular emphasis on Klinger’s magnificent oeuvre.

Karen Etingin is the owner of the iconic Montreal vintage poster gallery L’Affichiste. Karen has been collecting posters for over thirty years, has taught university-level courses about posters, and works with public and private institutions, as well as with individual collectors around the world. She was also consulted during the creation Julius Klinger: Posters For A Modern Age.

College Night: Behind the Scenes Exhibition Walkthrough
2021-03-16 18:30 - 20:00
We’re taking you behind the scenes of Poster House through a virtual tour of the installation process for our two newest exhibits: Freak Power and Julius Klinger: Posters For A Modern Age! Join us over Zoom on Tuesday, March 16, at 6:30pm to hear from our Exhibitions and Operations teams as they show us how both exhibitions come to life through vinyl installations, white-glove art hanging, wall text screenprinting, casework layout, mural touch-ups, lighting, and more! Student Outreach Intern, Yeji Kim, will also be onsite to virtually walk us through the finished shows and take questions!

The Political Posters of Thomas W. Benton
2021-03-16 18:30 - 20:00
Poster House is thrilled to welcome Daniel Joseph Watkins for a discussion on the powerful anti-war and pro-environment beliefs of the artist Thomas W. Benton.
Watkins’s talk will highlight Benton’s collaborations with Gonzo Journalist Hunter S. Thompson as well as the larger body of political posters Benton created in the 1960s and 70s. Watkins’s first book, Thomas W. Benton: Artist/Activist, illuminated the breadth of Benton’s artistic output with a focus on powerful graphic posters created by the talented silkscreen printmaker. From protests against the Vietnam War to the celebration of the first Earth Day in 1970, Benton catalogued important movements during this pivotal period in America’s history.

Daniel Joseph Watkins is a writer, producer, and director based in Aspen, Colorado. Watkins runs the publishing company Meat Possum Press and serves as director of the Gonzo Gallery where he has curated over fifty shows and manages traveling museum exhibitions.

This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Grolier Club Online Lecture with Nicholas Lowry and Angelina Lippert
2021-03-15 18:00 - 19:30
Expand your literary poster horizons on a wild ride through advertising history, with poster experts Nicholas Lowry from Swann Galleries and Angelina Lippert, chief curator at New York’s Poster House, opened in 2019 as the nation’s first museum devoted to the poster. They will explore how books have been advertised in posters since the late 1800s. The dazzling compositions promoted literacy as well as little-known literary gems.
This will be a live online event, via Zoom, and attendees will receive an email with the Zoom link prior to the event. For those unable to join us for the session, the lecture will be recorded and made available a few weeks after the event on the Grolier Club’s Vimeo page.

Lippert & Lowry: Fireside Chats
2021-03-10 20:00 - 21:00
Join everyone’s favorite blazer-loving poster duo for a Fireside Chat on Instagram Live!
Angelina Lippert, our Chief Curator, 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, they will be highlighting masterpieces in cinematic history with the best of film 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!

Posters & Cocktails Takes To The Skies
2021-03-09 19:00 - 21:00
Our Posters & Cocktails parties have amassed a huge following, so we are keeping the momentum going by bringing this edition to new heights! That’s right: it’s a night of aviation posters and mile-high drinks!
Our 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 soar through all things aviation-related.
After Don gets us off the ground with our first cocktail, Nicholas will soar through posters for air shows, air meets, and even a few races! As our glasses empty, Don will pilot us through a few more beverages to keep us well-lubricated for the graphic design journeys ahead in the second-half of Nicho’s talk.
Tickets:
Early Bird (purchased before February 17): Free!
General Registration: $3
Members: Free!
If you would like to drink along with us, please see an ingredients list below:
Aviation Cocktail
Maraschino Liqueur
Crème de violette
Fresh Lemon Juice
Lemon Peel (garnish)
Cocktail Glass
Flying Tiger Cocktail
Bacardi Gold
Grenadine
Angostura Bitters
Sugar
Cocktail Glass
Airmail
Lime Juice
Honey Syrup
Gold Rum
Dry Champagne
Highball Glass
Pan-American Clipper
Rye Whiskey
Lemon (muddled)
Simple Syrup
Jet Pilot from The Luau (c. 1958)
Fresh Lime Juice
Fresh Grapefruit Juice
Sark Jamaican Rum
Gold Puerto Rican Rum
151-proof Demerara Rum
Angostura Bitters
Absinthe or Pernod
Cinnamon Syrup
Falernum (a hard to find spicy ginger, lime, almond liqueur)
Crushed ice or Blender w/ Ice

College Night: MURALs and Mocktails
2021-03-02 18:30 - 20:00
Designing digital art and sipping a custom-crafted beverage is a great way to kick off our Spring 2021 College Night season! We’ll spend the evening with Maya Varadaraj, Master Educator, and Yosmerilyn Rodriguez, Gallery Assistant and Access Coordinator, exploring three product posters and the designers who made them. Taking inspiration from these images, we will create a product poster for our fancy drinks using the digital whiteboard software, MURAL! Not familiar with MURAL? No worries—we will teach you!
This event will take place on Tuesday, March 2, at 6:30pm over Zoom. Participants will have a chance to win one of our exciting raffle prizes—we’re giving away a student membership, a Poster House tote bag, and your choice of an exhibition poster from our shows opening in March: Freak Power and Julius Klinger: Posters For A Modern Age!
Blackberry Basil Mocktail with Blood Orange & Vanilla
Ingredients:
8 blackberries
8 fresh basil leaves
1 blood orange juice, freshly squeezed (or citrus of your choice)
½ tsp vanilla
16 oz Sparkling Water
1 tbsp granulated sugar (or substitute)
1 tbsp ginger basil simple syrup (or sweetener of your choice)

To Make Ahead of Time (Can substitute honey or maple syrup)
Basil Ginger Simple Syrup
1 cup water
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed basil leaves
2-3 ounces fresh ginger (approx 8 inches)

Peel the ginger root with a vegetable peeler, and chop.
Bring the sugar and water to a boil over medium high heat.
Add the chopped ginger and basil, bring the mixture to a simmer.
Remove from heat and allow to steep for at least 30 minutes (covered).
Strain syrup through fine mesh. Discard ginger.
Keep the syrup for up to two weeks refrigerated in an airtight container.

Poster Kids: Posters and Performances
2021-02-28 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.
Do you love movies, plays, and concerts? Then this is the program for you! Posters advertising entertainment are some of the most fun in history, and during this program we’ll be exploring the very best in the genre! In our interactive virtual tour, we’ll listen to tunes, watch video clips, and explore iconic posters. In our workshop, we’ll design sculptural characters to be the stars of our very own performances.
Materials:
Cereal box, pasta box, or other small cardboard box
Glue stick
Scissors
Colorful paper such as construction paper
Magazine

Mucha at Poster House: Designs That Dazzled a New Age
2021-02-26 12:00 - 13:00
Join Angelina Lippert, chief curator at Poster House, for a virtual look at the work of one of the most significant artists in the form, as seen in the recent exhibition Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau / Nouvelle Femme.
Mucha arrived in Paris in 1887, living in relative poverty as an obscure illustrator. That changed in late 1894, when he created his first poster for a play featuring the world’s most famous actress, Sarah Bernhardt. The work captivated Paris, launched his design career, began a friendship and professional collaboration with Bernhardt, and helped him become one of the most celebrated graphic designers of the Art Nouveau era.
Lippert covers Alphonse Mucha’s rise to fame, his career as a commercial designer, his unique artistic style, and his profound influence on future poster designers. She also examines how his designs helped elevate women as they joined the budding 20th-century world with a new independence and social agency.

Genius on Display: Tré Seals
2021-02-25 18:30 - 20:00
Poster House is excited to partner with Tré Seals of Vocal Type Co for the second event in our Genius on Display series, a platform for spotlighting the expertise of BIPOC artists and designers within the context of Poster House’s exhibitions and permanent collection. Tonight, Tré will share timely and thought-provoking work in typeface design in relation to our recent exhibition The Swiss Grid.
Tré Seals is the founder and type director of Vocal Type, the preeminent type foundry inspired by the lack of diversity in the graphic design industry. Each typeface highlights a piece of history from a different underrepresented race, ethnicity, or gender—from the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Argentina to the Civil Rights Movement in America and beyond.
Since its founding in 2016, VTC fonts have traveled around the world: from street murals and protest signs to census, voting, and brand campaigns for companies large and small.
This program series is sponsored 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. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Lippert & Lowry: Fireside Chats
2021-02-24 20:00 - 21:00
Join everyone’s favorite blazer-loving poster duo for a Fireside Chat on Instagram Live!
Angelina Lippert, our Chief Curator, 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!
Tonight will be extra special for this sartorial duo since they’ll be focusing on their favorite fashion 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!

Genius on Display: Rush Jackson
2021-02-23 18:30 - 20:00
Poster House is thrilled to partner with Rush Jackson of Onyx Self-Imaging Labs for the inaugural event in our Genius on Display series. Genius on Display is a platform for spotlighting the expertise of BIPOC artists and designers within the context of Poster House’s exhibitions and permanent collection. Tonight, Rush will share their innovative work in publication and brand identity design in relation to our recent exhibition The Swiss Grid.
Rush Jackson (they/them) is an artist and independent graphic designer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Moving fluidly between art and design-oriented practices, Jackson is invested in expanding the Black cultural lexicon through collaborative methods of production, such as graphic design and publishing, while maintaining an independent studio practice consisting of printed matter, painting, video, and installation.
In 2020, Jackson created Onyx Self-Imaging Labs, a full service, independent graphic design and art direction studio working with clients/collaborators in the arts and culture spheres, as well as prioritizing design for grassroots organizing and advocacy contexts. Recent and notable design projects include publication design for The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art & Fashion, To The Front: Black Women & The Vote, and The PhotoBook Review Issue 18, published by Aperture Foundation.
This program series is sponsored 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. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Amos Kennedy
2021-02-18 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.
These virtual tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our collection.
This tour will focus on Amos Kennedy, a Black letterpress printer based in Detroit who was recently given a solo exhibition at Poster House.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by February 16 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.

Black Label: A Very Black Posters & Cocktails
2021-02-17 19:30 - 21:00
Join Poster House for this extra-special Black History Month edition of our Posters & Cocktails series led by DC-based restaurateur Andra ‘AJ’ Johnson! Explore the true history of Black drinking culture in contrast with popular representations of Blackness in alcohol posters over the past 120 years. Throughout the evening, AJ will mix up some of her favorite cocktails featuring Black-owned alcohol and spirits.
Andra ‘AJ’ Johnson is a 19-year restaurant industry veteran who has worked every position from dishwasher to managing partner. Whether fast casual or fine dining, AJ has found her place and enriched her journey through this industry at some of DC’s mainstays such as Open City & The Diner, Le Diplomate, and Mussel Bar by Robert Weidmaier. She continues to renew her commitment to providing exemplary service and thoughtful cocktails each day at Serenata/Zumo in La Cosecha Latin Market in Northeast, Washington, DC. The need for diversity and representation in the Washington, DC restaurant scene has inspired her forthcoming book “White Plates, Black Faces” that continues her work of telling the stories of people of color in the restaurant industry. She is also a co-founder of DMV Black Restaurant Week, established in 2018, and Back to Black Cocktail Pop Up that uplifts restaurant industry professionals to use their skills to raise awareness and support for charities in the Washington, DC area.
If you would like to drink along with us, please see the ingredients list below. Even better, consider purchasing your ingredients from a Black-owned liquor store on our list or in your neighborhood!
Tools Needed: Shaker Tin, Strainer, Ice, Mixing Glass, Bar Spoon, Peeler, Paring Knife, Cutting Board, Lighter
Something Worth Fighting For
1.5 oz Dusse Cognac
.75 oz St. Germain
.5 oz Lemon Juice
.5 oz Simple Syrup
.5 oz Egg White
Edible Flowers
Glassware: Martini or Coupe Glass
Paradise Lost…& Found
1.5 oz Ten to One Dark Rum
.75 oz Raspberry Liqueur
.75 oz Lime Juice
.5 oz Coconut Water
.5 oz Velvet Falernum
Shredded Coconut
Glassware: Rocks Glass
Behind Every Story
1.5 oz Uncle Nearest 1856
.75 oz Averna Amaro
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
2 dashes Orange Bitters
.75 oz Apricot Liqueuer
Whole Orange
Glassware: Martini or Coupe Glass
This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided.
Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org
