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Community Center for the Performing Arts
1981

Poster with abstract artwork with lines radiating from a circle, over a background that is blue at top, purple at center, and red at bottom. Text in red on silver background/border. White border...

Margaret Randall
1989

Poster advertising an appearance of author Margaret Randall as a benefit for the Break the Silence Mural Project. Poster has a photographic portrait of Randall from the waist up, with arms in...

Eat the Rich!
Circa 1980

Poster for an art exhibition of the work of Ellen Turner. Image has a man in a suit sitting at the end of a dining table. Large glass windows behind figure. In foreground, a gold tape with black...

Chris Themptander Photo-Montage
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster with a pink animal backside in between columns of a stone building. Border is black with text in white, except for title "Photo-Montage," which is in red.

Ideological Coverup
Circa 1974

Poster with artwork by Bruce Kaiper titled "Ideological Coverup." Art includes "LOVE" across top two-thirds in red lettering on blue and green background. At bottom right is a figure lifting up...

Untitled
1981

Poster for an art exhibition with artworks by Graciela Carrillo and Juan R. Fuentes. Poster is white with black text and black and white prints. Top half is a print with prickley pear cactuses and...

From Madmen Only
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster on cream colored paper with black linework. Image has animal and mythological figures (elephants, alligators, satyrs, etc.) holding scrolls, climging ladders, handing from large cylinders...

Winning Arts & Minds: The Cognitive Appreach to Arts Education
1985

Poster advertising an arts education conference at San Francisco State University. Poster has a white border and bands of black, yellow, and green. At center is an illustration of a person drawing...

Culture Under Fire
1990

Two-sided poster for the San Francisco Art Institute with a list of programs about censorship and arts activism. Front has headline in red superimposed over print showing a building on fire with...

CAAP OFF!
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster advertising a multimedia presentation with art by young Oakland artists. Poster is white with black text and linework. Cartoon images at center.

Society Technology and the Arts Today July 19 1986
1986

Poster with an artist carrying a paintbrush and paint tube, weather a chicken costume. Background is blue with green ground. Behind the figure are miniature items--small figure, broken egg, and...

Sailing Along with Flying Colors
1984

Poster with artwork on gray background. Art has a green area across top half, divided into three segments. At left is a pink house shape with yellow and black area in front; at center it reads "...

Artworks Foundry Opening
1990

Poster for a foundry opening at Artworks in Berkeley, California. Poster has a image of figures pouring hot metals in a foundry. Image is on a dark blue background. Text is silver.

Tenderloin Arts Festival
1991

Poster advertising the Tenderloin Arts Festival in San Francisco, California. Image is a street corner, with a painting palette, a musical note, shoe, theater masks, brick wall.

Mt. Tamalpais: The Sleeping Lady
1988

Poster reproducing a serigraph titled "Mt. Tamalpais: The Sleeping Lady" by Kathleen Lipinkski. Image is low mountains and a lake with marshy area in foreground, done in grays and pinks. Thin...

Nicaragua Tagesanbruch El Salvador
1984

Poster for an art exhibition in Berlin, Germany. Poster is black with white text. Image at top left is a woman and child sitting in front of a basket lined with newspapers, filled with bread. At...

Opening An Outsider Door
1994

Poster for an art exhibition at Creative Growth Gallery in Oakland, California, of Russian outsider artists. Poster has a painting with a man with a large right ear, Russian buildings in the...

Monetarism
1987

Poster for a Sue Coe exhibition titled "Monetarism" at Gallery Paule Anglim in 1987. Poster has a painting with a red bulls-eye at bottom right, a shark at top left, a figure at bottom left with a...

Keith Haring in the Pop Shop
Circa 1987

Poster with a photograph of artist Keith Haring sitting in an open wall space, surrounded by black painted lines of his figures on white walls. Left edge of front side has a red border with text....

Untitled
Circa 2000

Poster advertising a book titled "Surrealist Subversions: Rants, Writings & Images by the Surrealist Movement in the United States." Poster has a black text and a photograph of a collage from...

Art From Jail
1986

Exhibition poster for a 1986 art exhibition titled "Art from Jail." Poster has illustration of a red rose on view through a window of a rectangular structure. Top left edge of poster has been cut...

Response
1983

Poster for an art exhibition titled "Response" held in 1983 in Mill Valley, California. Poster is gray with white and red text and a black, white and gray illustration across the top half....

The Blimp
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster with purple text and illustrations on pink paper. Front has an illustration of a female (justice) who is blindfolded, holding scales in one hand, and strapped to a chair. Above is text...

October 77 Community Calendar
1977

Poster with political and cultural events for October 1977 in the East Bay. Produced by Inkworks Press. Front has a gray and red illustration with four blindfolding figures and text reading "Bakke...

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