Exhibitions mounted yearly

CSPG has curated over three dozen traveling exhibitions to broaden public understanding of diverse human-rights issues and social movements. CSPG does not have a gallery; rather CSPG partners with organizations who host exhibitions. Some partners include: Mercado la Paloma (downtown L.A.); Self Help Graphics (East L.A.); Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (Pasadena); Social and Public Art Resource Center (Venice-west side L.A.).

Poster Donors

CSPG's collection contains over 90,000 domestic and international political posters from the last century, reflecting historical and contemporary movements for social change. The majority of the posters have been donated by collectors, artists, supporters, and activists who save them from celebration and protest marches.

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WHO WE ARE

The Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) is an educational and research archive that collects, preserves, documents, and exhibits posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change. Using its more than 90,000 human rights and protest posters and prints, CSPG creates traveling and online thematic exhibitions, and publications. CSPG is advancing the power of art to educate and inspire people to action.

For three decades CSPG has been creating a special community of international artists, activists, donors, curators, students, and teachers who share a passion for the power of political art to educate and inspire people to action.

CSPG's posters are unique, primary, historical documents which reveal histories of struggles that are often hidden, and more often forgotten. Our growing collection is one of the most diverse visual resources in the world. This educational research archive, representing posters from the 19th Century to the present—includes the largest collection of post-World War II posters in the United States.

CSPG depends upon the donation of posters to make this resource as representative as possible of the many historical, and ongoing struggles that continue to happen around the globe. If you have posters you would like to donate, please contact us.

Thank you for visiting CSPG online and supporting the preservation and dissemination of powerful graphics for social change.

CSPG BLOG & UPDATES

Never Again Means Never Again - Poster of the Week

This Tuesday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The day marks the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. It is a time to reflect on the millions of Jewish, Roma, Catholic, queer, disabled, and other marginalized peoples who were dehumanized and murdered en masse by the Nazis during World War II.

U.S. Out of Greenland! - Poster of the Week

On Wednesday, January 21st, at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Donald Trump called for immediate negations with Denmark to discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States. He told reporters "you'll find out" how far he's willing to go to acquire Greenland. Later that day, Trump walked back his threats and announced that he had "formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland" with the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.