El Voto! La Diferencia..! The Vote! The Difference…! Artist Unknown Offset, 1982 El Salvador. Photo courtesy of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” ...
Hendrix College’s Dr. Jay Barth will give a talk and sax player Dr. Barry McVinney and pianist Mark Binns will provide the music at tonight’s opening of “The Sign of the Times: The Great American ...
Let’s explore a selection of powerful, vintage political art. These posters, often using simple visuals and stark typography, deliver a message that is both inspirational and a little terrifying. A ...
A new exhibition of political posters in Hollywood showcases more than a hundred artist-activists who wield the graphic as a weapon. With bold colors, stark images and strong words, the artists take ...
Political art from past decades shows how protesters have long used July 4th to demand civil rights, social change and economic justice—messages that still resonate today. "Sixth Annual Fourth of July ...
In May 1970, students at the University of California, Berkeley, came together to form the Berkeley Political Poster Workshop, which produced hundreds of silkscreen designs. In May 1970, students at ...
A poster included in the show ‘No Human Being is Illegal’ (Image courtesy the Center for the Study of Political Graphics) It often feels like the loudest voices in the immigration debate belong to the ...
Before political memes ruled supreme in our current age of social media slacktivism, political posters offered artists a tangible expression of empathy or outrage. It’s true that political graphics ...
Historically, the ephemeral hardworking American political poster has been hiding in plain sight, attempting to catch our eye and capture our vote through the use of visual language. In a survey that ...
LYNN, Mass. (AP) - Stephen Lewis collects posters. Progressive political posters and labor posters. He has more than 8,600 of them in his attic. “They’re starting to expand into the basement,” the ...
Americans are so used to seeing thousands of advertisements on a daily basis that it is impossible not to recognize what a Nike swoosh looks like or to know what product is being advertised with a ...