Saturday, 08 December 2007 | 5-7 PM

Luckman Gallery

Saturday 08 DEC 2007 | 5 to 7pm

Luckman Gallery, Luckman Fine Arts Complex

California State University, Los Angeles

5151 State University Drive

Los Angeles, CA 90032

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Be a change agent for Los Angeles design at The Graphic Imperative Closing Reception. While perusing the exhibition, meet and mingle with board members, speak your mind and contribute to design and programming initiatives for AIGA/LA.

Enjoy The Graphic Imperative, a nationally traveling exhibition surveying forty years of international socio-political posters that focus on the issues of our turbulent times. Comprising of 111 works, this exhibition attempts to portray the social, political and aesthetic concerns of a variety of cultures by delineating themes and contrasting political realities such as dissent, liberation, and tolerance, collectively providing a window to an age of great change.

Posters make ideas for social change accessible by recording struggles for peace, justice and liberation from oppression for all peoples and the environment. Posters can celebrate acts of resistance, providing alternative explanations, interpretations, narratives and myths through creativity. Posters are telling indications of the artists’ social commitment. Whether they communicate, exhort, persuade, instruct, celebrate, or warn, graphic posters still jar us to action through bold messages and striking iconography. Posters can become visible dissent.

These messages of anger, determination, courage and hope cross borders of time and place. They become crucial weapons in humanity’s struggle and have helped empower and propel important movements for social change.

Impunidad, 2004, Lewis Andrew

The Graphic Imperative curator and 2007 AIGA Boston Fellow receipient, Elizabeth Resnick, will be leading a short walk-through tour of the show.

Elizabeth Resnick is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Communication Design Department at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts. She holds both a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. Elizabeth served on the Board of Directors of the AIGA Boston chapter from 1989-2005. During that time, she organized numerous graphic design lectures and events. She has published two books: Design for Communication: Conceptual Graphic Design Basics, Graphic Design: A Problem-Solving Approach to Visual Communication, and has written for EYE (UK), AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (U.S.), Graphics International (UK), tipoGrafica (Argentina) and IDEA (Japan).

We’ll have holiday grub and brew ready to help close out the year with a bang. The more, the merrier, so bring a friend. Pre-register and you will be entered in a raffle to win the exhibition catalog. This will be a great event, so don't miss out.

FREE for all members but registration is required.

Parking
Parking is available in Lot 5 at the meter for 50 cents an hour. This lot may be accessed via Landsdowne Avenue off of Paseo Rancho Castilla. For a map see www.calstatela.edu [maps] or http://www.calstatela.edu/univ/maps/cslamapp.htm

Once you park, pay box, and put ticket on dashboard, walk south through Structure C and up the steps; then cross Circle Drive, walk through the Luckman Street of the Arts and up the steps to the Luckman Gallery on left.

Go Metro to the Luckman Gallery at Cal State LA.
Take Metro lines 70, 256, 485, 484, 487, 490 or 665; Foothill Transit's Silver Streak, line 481; or Metrolink's San Bernardino Line to the event. To plan the route that's best for you, visit the Metro Trip Planner at metro.net.