The Rise of American Poster Art

"American Artifact: The Rise of American Rock Poster Art", is a documentary about the history and subculture of rock poster art in America, will be released on DVD on March 27th, 2010. The film has been touring around the country in the meantime and was recently added to the permanent collection at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.

It is playing tomorrow night at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland.
2522 SE Clinton St.
Portland, OR 97202

The DVD release party will be at the Wherehouse in Newburgh, NY. Director Merle Becker will be in attendance. Admission is free and seating is limited. (First come, first serve).

Details for the DVD release party are:
Saturday, March 27th 7:30p
The Wherehouse
119 Liberty Street
Newburgh, NY 12550
845.561.7240

More details, trailers and such on the American Artifact web site.

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Plazm posters join Swiss museum

Plakatsammlung Museum fur Gestaltung Zürich—the international poster museum based in Switzerland—has recently ascended over 90 Plazm posters into their permanent collection. A sampling of these posters created from 1992–2000, are shown here. Designers include Plazm folks as well as guests such as David Carson, Scott Clum, Pablo Medina, and many others. Pictured above, a call to sumbit. Designed by Niko Courtelis and Robert Rasmussen (pictured), Photographed in one shot with projection by Bob Waldman. Enjoy.

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Back in the Day, Plazm posters 1991-94

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Plazm magazine was founded in 1991 as an artist resource. In the early years we held live music events with bands like Crackerbash, Dead Moon, Hazel, Pond, and The Spinanes, raising funds for our fledgling magazine, and shipped magazines from a beat-up VW van. Here's a link to some of the old posters. Thank you to all the great artists that gave so much energy and contributed to these events.

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Psychedelia Hits Denver

Over 300 objects including Victor Moscoso's poster "Chambers Brothers, Matrix, San Francisco" (1967), pictured above, are on view in "The Psychedelic Experience." It opens Saturday at the Denver Art Museum and runs through July 21.

For more details: Denver Art Museum

A nice preview here in the Denver Post.

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Post-Graffiti Collage

Poster Boy cuts and pastes ads in the NYC subways. Recently nabbed by the NYPD, Henry Matyjewicz claims to be just one of the individuals involved in the Poster Boy movement. You too can be a Poster Boy. Mix it up. Nice interview at Gothamist.

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ACLU Cleaning Up After Bush

Sure W is gone, but he left behind quite a mess and there is some major cleaning up to do. The ACLU has extended the deadline for submissions to their "Actions For Restoring America" poster call for entries until Sunday March 1, 2009. 

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Signs of Change

Great poster show on political protest over the past 40 years or so put together by Josh McFee and Dara Greenwald at the Miller Gallery at Carnagie Melon.

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