Poster House

A Conversation With Amos Kennedy
2020-12-01 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Join Poster House‘s Chief Curator in conversation with letterpress printer Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.
As the subject of the museum’s first mini-exhibition in its new entrance display space, Amos’s work has become a favorite of visitors of the past few months. His posters exemplify a modern approach to letterpress printing, combining sharp wit with layers of brilliant color. No two posters are ever exactly alike, underscoring their utilitarian purpose of communicating to the viewer information about an event or idea.
Tonight, Amos will speak about the letterpress process, his approach to design, and how he became involved in the wonderful world of posters.
Questions from the audience are strongly encouraged.

Lippert & Lowry: Fireside Chats
2020-12-02 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, they will be looking at their favorite 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!

Collecting Swiss Posters: An Evening With Tom Strong
2020-12-03 18:30 - 20:00
No one knows a poster niche as well as its most passionate collectors. When creating The Swiss Grid, Poster House worked closely with Swiss poster collector Tom Strong, crafting a narrative based on his extraordinary posters.
Tonight, join Tom Strong in conversation with Chief Curator Angelina Lippert as he gives you unfettered access to his collecting journey, from when he first fell in love with Swiss design to how he chooses new Swiss posters being made today.
Tickets:
General Registration: $3
Members & Students: Free!
This program is in partnership with Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.

Summer 2021 Internship Info Session
2020-12-03 18:30 - 20:00
Calling NYC-based undergraduate and graduate students!
Join Poster House for an information session about our upcoming Summer 2021 Internship opportunities. Our internship mentors will be on hand to share insights into the positions available this summer and answer any outstanding questions.
Will you be our next Teen Program Intern? Can you see yourself spinning corporate membership gold as our Corporate Membership Intern? Plan on making our collections more accessible as our Collections Intern? Or will you be pitching your very own design project for our Pitch Your Own Design Internship? For more information, please visit our Summer 2021 Internship page.
Registration is free, questions are encouraged, and all are welcome! There will be a raffle of goodies from the Shop for participants.

Instagram Takeover: Molly Crabapple
2020-12-07 09:00 - 17:00
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 Takeovers—full days on our Instagram account in which up and coming graphic artists give us a personalized peek inside their poster-making world.
Once a month, head to our Instagram to see these amazing contemporary designers. Get special access inside their studios, hear their philosophy on how posters work, peek at their latest poster creations, and ask them questions!
This Monday, we are featuring the incomparable Molly Crabapple! Molly is an artist and writer in New York. She is the author of two books, Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun, (with Marwan Hisham), which was long-listed for a National Book Award in 2018. Her reportage has been published in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art. She is currently a 2020 New America Fellow and a 2020 Bard Fellow at the Brooklyn Public Library.
Instagram handle: @mollycrabapple

Winter Break: Ski Posters & Après Ski Cocktails
2020-12-09 19:00 - 21:00
Our Posters & Cocktails parties keep getting rave reviews, so we’re rounding out the year with one more night of great design and mixology!
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 take us on a much-needed winter holiday full of ski posters and après ski drinks.
After Don warms us up with our first cocktail, Nicholas will jetset around the world, introducing us to all the major winter ski resort posters in history. As our glasses empty, Don will help us create the perfect ski chalet atmosphere with four more amazing beverages to warm our spirits against the winter chill.
Tickets:
Early Bird (purchased before Nov 1): Free!
General Registration: $3
Ingredients:
STINGER
Brandy
Crème de menthe
Ice
Rocks glass
Barspoon
OLD PAL
Rye
Campari
Dry vermouth
Ice
Rocks glass
Barspoon
EGG NOG
1 egg
Brown sugar or demerara syrup
Heavy cream
Whole milk
Jamaican Rum (or other, aged, rich rum)
Bourbon
Optional Apple brandy
Ice
Shaker and strainer
Optional ground nutmeg
Wine glass
HOT BUTTERED RUM
5oz unsalted butter
2 ounces dark or aged rum
Honey or brown sugar
Boiling water
A heat proof glass mug
Barspoon
Optional: ground cinnamon, ground cloves, ground nutmeg, ground allspice, salt, pepper, star anise, vanilla syrup, or other spice of your choice.
HOT TODDY
A brown spirit of your choice: rum, bourbon, Scotch, etc…
Fresh lemon juice
Honey, simple syrup, or sugar
Cinnamon stick
Orange
Boiling water
A heat proof glass mug
Optional: Ginger, bitters, or other spice of your choice.

Virtual Archives Tour
2020-12-10 18:30 - 19:30
Join Poster House’s Collections Manager, Melissa Walker, for a look behind the scenes at the museum’s archives!
This freewheeling glimpse into the museum’s permanent collection will cover everything from our Living Archive project to vintage posters; contemporary advertising campaigns to recent acquisitions. Come learn about the museum’s collecting mission and ask Melissa about all things collections-related!
Tickets: $3
Members & Students: Free!
Every Archives Tour will be different, focusing on new or unexplored parts of our permanent collection.

Virtual Talk with Bowne & Co: Letterpress in New York City
2020-12-14 18:30 - 20:00
Poster House is thrilled to partner with Robert Wilson, Art Director at Bowne & Co., of the South Street Seaport Museum, for an evening dedicated to the early history of letterpress printing in New York City. In this presentation, he will explore a number of production processes that built the visual landscape of New York, with special attention paid to the typographic trends of broadsides and handbills from the 19th century. At Bowne & Co., artifacts from the museum’s working collection are used in a contemporary practice, preserving the skills and traditions of 19th-century letterpress printing. Join us on a journey of lessons learned at the press, questions warmly welcomed!
Rob Wilson is a designer, educator, and letterpress printer. As Art Director of Bowne & Co., he is responsible for the general operations of custom printing, education, public programming, as well as the overall maintenance and management of the printing history collection of 34 printing presses and over 2,000 cases of moveable type. He teaches graphic design and typography at Pace University and Pratt Institute.
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
2020-12-16 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 they will be going over their favorite cabaret and showgirl 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!

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: The Sleeping Giant
2020-12-17 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.
Due to the current public health crisis surrounding COVID-19, we’re bringing 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 The Sleeping Giant: Posters & The Chinese Economy, an exhibition currently on display at the museum which covers approximately 100 years of Chinese graphic design.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by December 15 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.
