2010.54.930

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Poster has a blue background with a black and white drawing of an eagle flying over a coniferous forest. There is a quote in black in the upper left. It reads, "Human of midnight destiny I watch myself bleed/ through the window of the rich/ (but the thunder of the blast furnaces is already/ brother to the human fuel)/ Human excluded from the festivals of sonlight/ where the Idea sleeps with Capital/ I assume vertebrally the prohibited/ millenniums of human rage/ man unknown to established languages/ I shall not stop scribbling the alphabet of revolution! - Gaston Miron, 1956-" The bottom right corner has white text with location information. It reads, "at: Metropolitan Community College/ 1501 Hennepin Av. (next to Loring Park) Minneapolis, Minnesota/ Saturday, April 7, 1979 9 a.m. - 10 p.m./ Registration: 8:30 a.m./ for information on workshops, speakers and pre-registration call:/ Densie Mayotte/ Benn Boardman/ Laurie Witzkowski." This conference spawned the Northland Poster Collective, one of the most vital radical graphics facilities to come out of the midwest. Among the eleven participants were Lisa Blackshear, Dean Conners, Marilyn Hall, Lee Hoover, Richard Kees, Ricardo Levins Morales, Janice Perry, Frank Sander, Carla Stetson, Mary Sutton, and Lee Wolfson. Also at this meeting was George Beyer, an artist who cut his teeth during the CIO organizing drive of the 1930s. Northland closed its doors in 2010. [LMC]