El Voto! La Diferencia..! The Vote! The Difference…! Artist Unknown Offset, 1982 El Salvador. Photo courtesy of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” ...

A temporary exhibition in the open food market, Mercado La Paloma, featuring protest posters relating to affordable housing, gentrification and resistance has been extended through July 16. The Center ...

Carol A. Wells is the founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles, the largest archive of post-World War II political posters in the U.S.

August 2018—New York, NY— In today’s political climate, using satire to record and respond to the current state of affairs is an act of survival. This is no more apparent than in “Art as Witness: ...

Political art from past decades shows how protesters have long used July 4th to demand civil rights, social change and economic justice—messages that still resonate today. "Sixth Annual Fourth of July ...

A poster included in the show ‘No Human Being is Illegal’ (Image courtesy the Center for the Study of Political Graphics) It often feels like the loudest voices in the immigration debate belong to the ...

In 1959, a Cuban artist, silkscreen printer, and journalist by the name of Eladio Rivadulla Martínez made the very first political poster in celebration of the Triumph of the Revolution. In Martínez’s ...

Many Angelenos grew up in homes with United Farm Workers (UFW) and Chicano justice posters made at Self-Help Graphics hanging on the walls. We boycotted non-union grapes, then lettuce, and the ...

Americans are so used to seeing thousands of advertisements on a daily basis that it is impossible not to recognize what a Nike swoosh looks like or to know what product is being advertised with a ...

August 2018, New York, NY—In today’s political climate, using satire to record and respond to the current state of affairs is an act of survival. This is no more apparent than in “Art as Witness: ...