Political Posters

The “All Of Us Or None” (AOUON) archive project was started by Free Speech Movement activist Michael Rossman in 1977 to gather and document posters of modern progressive movements in the United States. Though some early works are included, its focus is on the domestic political poster renaissance that began in 1965 and continues to this day. When Rossman died May 12, 2008 his family donated the collection to the Oakland Museum of California. More …

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. It is strongest in work from the San Francisco Bay Area, but its scope is national: approximately one-quarter of its holdings come from out of state, primarily New York City, Boston, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. These are complemented by a representation of international work. The collection consists of approximately 24,500 distinct titles.

The collection includes examples from well-known graphic artists including Malaquías Montoya, Emory Douglas, Rachael Romero, Rupert Garcia, Yolanda Lopez, Favianna Rodriguez, Carlos Cortez, Nancy Hom, Juan Fuentes, and Jos Sances, as well as material from seminal collective workshops such as La Raza Silkscreen, the Royal Chicano Air Force, Japantown Art and Media, Kearny Street Workshop, and Inkworks Press. Perhaps more important, the depth and breadth of the collection reveals the contribution of numerous lesser known or even anonymous artists whose cumulative impact on this democratic public art form has yet to be properly understood.

The cataloging of the AOUON Archive was made possible by a generous grant from the Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation.

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Peyote Prayer Canyon Records, publisher, D Standing Rock, artist 1978 Poster with .5 inch white border and painting of a Native American with head facing up. Two coyotes howl. A tipi is in the background with night sky. \|	Draw Columbus Doug Minkler, artist 1991 Silkscreened poster with illustration of Christopher Columbus with a knife in proper left hand and chaines in proper right hand, a dismemembered hand below, and his three ships at top left. Text...
Resist with Us! Late 20th Early 21st Century Black poster with red foil type emanating in a cylindrical below a red circle with crosshairs. \|	The California Indian Conference 1991 Kathleen Smith, artist 1991 Conference poster with white border and watercolor illustration of a Toto dancer, wearing feather clothing, with pipe in mouth and holding stick/pipe in proper right hand. Background is purple and...
Columbusters Doug Minkler, artist 1992 Silkscreen poster with 1.5 inche white border with a game board for "Columbusters" game. Game board has maniacal looking man with sword in hand in center, with chains, Columbus''s ships, palm...	500 Years of Indian Resistance \| 500 A Ruben Dario Penaranda, artist 1992 Poster with .5 in white border, with illustration of a dove with a rainbow-color flag flying up toward the sun and out of barbed wire fence. Sun has a native god icon superimposed. \|
El 19 de Noviembre 1493 Amigos del Museum del Barrio Inc., Vega, artist 1973 Poster on parchment-like paper with a line drawing of the Taino people meeting Christopher Columbus and the Spanish, with boats and harbor in the background and Taino warriors in foreground. Text...	Surviving Columbus: The Story of the Pueblo People Cradoc Bagshaw, photographer, Helen Hardin, artist 1992 Poster with 2-inch beige border surrounding reproduction of Helen Hardin etching titled "Listening Woman." Image is a femaile head and shoulders made of geometric shapes in orange, brown, red,...
Honoring the Oglala Lakota Veterans of Word War II 2001 Poster has a blue printed background. Across the top is "Honoring the Oglala Lakota Veterans of WWII" in yellow. Below the text is a stylized image of a group of North American Indians riding...	28th Annual Oglala Lakota College Graduation/Wacipi 2001 Top of poster has a red background with an explosion graphic and two stylized blue horses at the center, all bordered in blue. Across the top in the blue is "28th annual Oglala Lakota college...
Sealaska Corporation 1991 Top of poster has a color photo of a black textile with red borders and a stylized white Native American bird design draped over what appears to be the shape of a human figure. The belly of the...	Oglala Lakota College 1999 Left side of poster has a stylized color image of a male North American Indian playing a woodwind instrument in front of a tipi beneath a moonlit sky. Over the shoulder of the man is a bird shield...
Oglala Lakota College 2001 Poster has a pink printed background. At the center is a stylized image of North American Indians interacting in a tipi settlement. Across the top of the poster is "30 Years - Rebuilding the...	The White House Conference on Indian Education 1992 Top of poster has four stylized images stacked on top of each other showing the torsos of 12 human figures (three per image) halding hands and walking. Below the images is "Honoring Tradition......
An Inner Voice 1998 Poster has pink printed edges and a blue and green border. At the top is a stylized image of a female North American Indian in traditional clothing walking along a body of water holding her...	Americans Living with HIV Rie Munoz Late 20th Early 21st Century Top of poster has a stylized image of human figures at the bottom and birds at the top, with hybrid creatures in the middle. Centered below the image in blue is "Guillemot Legend". At the bottom...
Autumn Equinox Celebration - Welcome Traditional American Indians 1967 Poster has orange and black ink printed on white paper. Across the top is "Autumn Equinox Celebration - Welcome Traditional American Indians" in orange. At the center are two cirlces. The left has...	1992: Year of the American Indian 1992 Top of poster has a stylized color image showing a North American Indian male dressed in traditional feathered attire and dancing. At the top left is "The Spirit Lives". At the bottom of the...
76th Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial 1997 Top of poster has a stylized color image of a North American Indian male in traditional clothing holding a spear/staff and pipe leading his painted horse. To the bottom left of the image is "There...	Medicine Talk for Mother Earth and All Earth People 1981 Poster printed on white paper. At the top is a red border creating a box, enclosing a central circle with North American Indian imagery, including a bird, bear, plants, etc. The corners of the box...
A Gathering of Our Relations Mission Grafica 1991 Poster has white unprinted edges enclosing a blue printed background. At the four corners of the blue are images of flowers and a horned animal. Across the top is "A GAthering Of / Our Relations...	3rd Annual U.C. Berkeley Pow Wow Inkworks Press, printer 1987 Poster has blue ink printed on white paper. At the top of the poster is an illustration of a collage of images - at the bottom is a man in traditional North American Indian clothing and a fly...
The Great 500 Mile American Indian Marathon Sharon Skolnick, designer, Tea Lautrec Litho 1979 Poster has pink and blue ink printed on white paper. Up the left and right sides are pole-like bars with geometric designs, topped with stylized eagles facing away from each other. At the top...	The Long Walk for Survival 1980 1980 Poster pritned on white paper. Poster has a stylized red and black image showing a line of people walking, with the front figure carrying a pole with feathers at the end. At the left is "the /...