Exhibition brochure for Art as Witness: Political Graphics
date: label: Date
content: 2016
name: label: Designed by
content: Gail Anderson, American, born 1962
label: Published by
content: School of Visual Arts, American, founded 1947
notes: label: Caption
content: Gail Anderson is a New York based designer and partner at Anderson Newton Design. Since 1987, Anderson has worked in the field of design at design firms, advertising agencies, and publications. Her work has received awards from major design organizations, including the Society of Publication Designers and the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). In 2008 she received a Lifetime Achievement Medal from the AIGA. Anderson currently works as Creative Director at the School of Visual Arts Press and is on the Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee for the US Post Office. In 2013, the US Postal Service commissioned Anderson to design the commemorative stamp for the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Anderson was only the second African American designer tapped to design a commemorative stamp, the first being Georg Olden who designed the Proclamation’s 100th anniversary stamp in 1963.
label: Description
content: This is an exhibition brochure for the exhibition “Art as Witness: Political Graphics.” The front cover features a print designed by Gail Anderson. It has a white background with small, dense black text as a backdrop to large red text that reads “Art / as / Wit / ness / Political / Graphics / 2016-2018.” In the top right corner is a small red circle with petal-lobed edges. Within it is white text that reads “SVA / NYC.” As the bottom left corner in small red text are the words “Curated by: / Steve Brodner and Francis Di Tommaso.” The back cover features a political cartoon of Donald Trump on the upper half of the page. The lower half of the page has a memorial tribute to the artist, Robert Grossman. It includes a black and white photograph of him on the left margin and two paragraphs of small dense black text of his legacy as a cartoonist and the dedication of the exhibition to him. Within the brochure is a page that features another of Gail Anderson’s works. The upper half of the page depicts her print “THINK” while the bottom half of the page has a quote from the artist in black and red text that reads “”Artists are creating / an international/ rallying cry/ that/ cannot be ignored.” / Gail Anderson.”
place: label: Place depicted
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Graphic design
label: Topic
content: Politics
label: Topic
content: Social reform
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
label: Classification
content: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Political and Activist Ephemera
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Gail Anderson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2020.11.15
objectType: label: Type
content: brochures
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © School of Visual Arts
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 16 1/2 × 11 1/2 in. (41.9 × 29.2 cm)