The Lecture
New England Creatives take up the challenge and muse on the subject
of ?Graphic
Advocacy' in the form of a Pecha Kucha* presentation, delivered
in under 7 minutes each. Confirmed speakers include: Alisa Aronson,
Matthew Budelman, Kristen Coogan, Michael Hendrix, Fritz Klaetke,
Denise Korn, Natacha Poggio, Heather Shaw, Thomas Starr, Jason
Stevens and Clif Stoltze. Elizabeth Resnick will introduce the
presenters. Be sure to visit the exhibition before the event, the
gallery will be open from 12noon-6pm that day.
* Pecha Kucha 20x20 is a simple presentation format where you
show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance
automatically and you talk along to the images. Pecha Kucha nights
are fun, informative and entertaining!
The Exhibition
The third exhibition in a trilogy focusing on socially conscious
posters*, this time with a concentrated look at how new
technologies have influenced posters agitating for peace, social
justice, environmental defense, and liberation from oppression for
our increasingly wired world. Graphic Advocacy features 122 poster
works from 32 countries.
Ready access to broadband and mobile communications and to
digital production technologies has expanded the poster's role well
beyond the limitations of the printed surface, and in its wake has
created a modern tool for support and protest. With its mix of both
low-tech and high-tech, of old and new, the poster, in all its
forms, is still a core component of 21st century advocacy.
The exhibition was curated and organized by Elizabeth Resnick,
Professor, Chair, Graphic Design, Massachusetts College of Art and
Design. The exhibition will be on display in the Stephen D. Paine
Gallery, South Hall at MassArt until March 2.
* Graphic
Imperative: International Posters of Peace, Social Justice and The
Environment 1965-2005; Graphic Intervention:
International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985-2010
Posters for the Digital Age, by Elizabeth Resnick, will be
published by Vivays Publishing Company, Ltd. London in Fall
2013
Free to Mass Art's community (with ID)
$5 to Student Members
$10 to AIGA Members
$20 Non-Members