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being sent to 782 People on the Free Speech Movement Archives list per the
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Dear Free Speech
Movement Archives Community,
We have just learned the details of the upcoming exhibition
of Michael Rossman’s All Of Us Or None political poster
collection at the Oakland Museum, and for those of you
far from Oakland, online. We wrote you last July:
“The All Of Us Or None (AOUON) archive project
was started by Free Speech Movement activist Michael Rossman in 1977 to gather
and document the poster-work of modern progressive movements in the United
States. Though earlier work is included, its focus is on the domestic political
poster renaissance, which began in 1965 and continues to this day. The Archive
gathered posters from all streams of progressive activity — from movements of
protest, liberation, and affirmative action, trade union and community
struggles, to electoral and environmental organizing, community services, and
visionary manifestos. Though strongest in work from the San Francisco Bay Area,
its scope is national: one-quarter of its holdings come from out-of-state.
These are complemented by an archive of international work. The collection
consists of approximately 25,000 distinct titles. The collection is now part of
the Oakland Museum of California.”
We now add:
Presented as a companion exhibition to The 1968 Exhibit,
the exhibition features 68 original political posters framed and traditionally
hung, in addition to countless posters digitally printed and collaged on the
gallery walls, a method similar to the way they were originally displayed.
The exhibition is guest curated by collection archivist
and author Lincoln Cushing. Accompanying the
exhibition is a catalog published by Heyday Press.
The exhibition will run from March 31 through August 19,
2012.
The
"sneak preview" opening event will be Friday, March 30, 7-9 PM ($12
museum admission)
Published catalog about exhibition
https://heydaybooks.com/book/all-of-us-or-none-social-justice-posters-of-the-san-francisco-bay-area/
Online catalog of collection—now posted: 1341 items of
25,000