Join us this Thursday, January 16, 4–6pm for the opening reception of the Celebrate People's History poster pop-up, on view at the Taft Research Center through March 14, 2025. Josh MacPhee will speak about the project and offer a hands-on-workshop the next morning. Register below!
"Rooted in the do-it-yourself tradition of mass-produced and distributed political propaganda, but detourned to embody principles of democracy, inclusion, and group participation in the writing and interpretation of history," the Celebrate People’s History posters have been organized and curated by designer, artist, and archivist Josh MacPhee since 1998.
ACT UP Philadelphia, #44, Courtney Dailey & Act Up Philadelphia, 2007; We’re Still Here: The People of Egypt, #100, Ganzeer, 2015; Sister Corita Kent, #115, Shannon Gerard & Mary Tremonte, 2017; Octavia E. Butler, #127, Susie Wilson, 2019
"The goal of this project is not to tell a definitive history, but to suggest a new relationship to the past."
Building Counter-Institutions through Material Culture
Josh will discuss the evolution of the Celebrate People's History poster project and his work as a founding member of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn, NY.
A Crash Course in Political Poster History and Making
Collage materials from the history of political graphics and posters to create new posters relevant to issues of concern on UC's campus
Josh MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn, NY. MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now and Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. He has organized the Celebrate People's History poster series since 1998 and has been designing book covers for many publishers for the past decade . His most recent book is An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels (Common Notions, 2019), a compendium of information about political music and radical cultural production.
Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati | 47 Corry Blvd Edwards 1, Suite 1110 | Cincinnati, OH 45221 US
