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Untitled
1994

Poster printed with green, yellow, and blue ink on cream-colored paper. A large rectangle that transitions from blue at top to green at bottom fills the center of the page and is surrounded by a...

Agricultural Roots Fair
2004

Poster printed on white paper, feathered purple at the bottom. At the top is "Agricultural Roots Fair / cFree Community Festival" in orange and purple. At the center is a grid of 16 photos (4x4)...

Jackson Browne/Graham Nash
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has brown and yellow ink printed on white paper. At the top is "Pacific Alliance Presents / Jackson / Browne / Graham / Nash". At the bottom of the poster are the details for the January...

Mercy Mild
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster advertising the spiritual resources found at The Center in Oakland, California for persons with AIDS/ARC. Poster is white with a black and white photograph of two men, one wrapped around...

Get An Early Start!
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster for the AIDS Project of the East Bay, providing contact information for the organization. Poster has illustration with colorful, simplified figures running, cycling, walking a dog, playing...

AIDS Benefit Concert Violence
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster advertising a benefit concert in Oakland with acts such as Voilence and Forbidden. Poster has black text on white background. Omni logo at top left.

Before You Stick It In Be Sure Your Rig is Clean!
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster telling people who use hypodermic needles to use clean needles. Black and white photograph with a closeup for fingers using a needle. Text at bottom right lists needle exhange locations in...

Bay Area Socialist School
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster with a map of the San Francisco Bay area. Over the center is a sun shape with yellow rays and a photograph in center in purple with a crowd of people. Text is in purple. Verso is the same...

Parade to Stop Prop. 9 & 10
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster advertising a parade in Oakland to stop Propositions 9 and 10. Poster is dark orange with a lighter orange border. Below text about the parade and rally is an illustration of people...

The Revolutionary Nutcracker Sweetie
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster advertising dance performances of The Revolutionary Nutcracker Sweetie in Oakland, California. Poster has a colorized photograph of a woman with arms and legs extended (in a split in the...

Preaching to the Converted
1994

Poster advertising a benefit performance by Dance Brigade. Poster is a colorized reproduction of the painting "Gabrielle d''Estr_es et une de ses soeurs," which has two nude women from the waist...

Crowsfeet Dance Collective
Circa 1985

Poster for Crowsfeet Dance Collective. Poster is white with a colorful illustration of people dancing. Text about a performance and tickets below illustration.

The Sounds We Make
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster printed on brown craft paper for The Sounds We Make music festival in Oakland, California. Poster has a blue bird with long tail feathers balancing on the back of a purple deer, which is on...

Macolm X Jazz Arts Festival
2003

Multicolor poster is an advertisement for a music festival. At the top left is "imperialism" with a phonetic spelling and two definitions. Across the top is "Eastside Arts Alliance presents the...

Arts Explosion
1989

Poster has a neon green printed background. At the top is "Oakland Festival Of The Arts Presents" in black and "Arts Explosion" in pink, green and orange. Below the text are two stylized figures,...

Oakland's Portrait
1981

Poster has a gray printed background. At the top is "Oakland''s Portrait" in black and a color photo of three men standing in front of a painted mural showing four people. At the bottom of the...

Calvin Simmons Ancient Hip Hop Symphony
Circa 1997

Poster supporting the East Bay Institute for Urban Arts, with a large color photograph of a mural on the side of Calvin Simmons Middle School in Oakland, California. The mural includes images of...

After School Art Program
1985

Poster has white unprinted edges enclosing a multicolor, stylized image of children standing a kneeling on a road. At the top left is "After School / Art Program / 8200 East 14th St. / Oakland"....

Alice Walker
2006

This horizontally-oriented poster advertises "Alice / Walker / In Conversation With Democracy Now! Host / Amy / Goodman." Both names are in large, yellow text. There is a photograph of Walker with...

Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival
2005

Poster has a multicolor background image of a green building with "eastside community cultural center" across the top. In the blue sky above the building is an image of a man playing a saxophone....

East Bay Bazaar
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Background of poster has a photograph of two female hands decorated in henna tattoos holding a small box giftwrapped with gold colored paper and red ribbon, against a black backdrop. The top edge...

People's Convention
1984

Poster has a brown printed background. At the top is "Make Our Voices Heard!" in white followed by a white oval with green stylized figures inside. At the bottom of the poster is "People''s...

High Crimes
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster advertising the premier of the film High Crimes, with a viewing and panel discussion at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California. Poster has black text on golden orange paper. At top...

Untitled
2007

Poster has a gray background and an unprinted white border overall. The top edge of the poster has a rectangular, red field with text in tan: " ''Parenti is a towering prophetic voice

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