CalArts Poster Archive

"The CalArts Poster Archive was initiated in 1995 when faculty members Shelley Stepp and Kary Arimoto-Mercer began collecting posters from the CalArts hallways in order to preserve the designs. Shelley and Kary housed and began to catalogue the archive, which quickly grew in size with collections donated by Ed Fella and Michael Worthington. Stepp continued to collect posters from students and faculty over the following years, aided by a series of student assistants, and formalized a process for students to donate their posters to the archive as soon as the posters were printed.In Fall 2016 faculty member Michael Worthington took on the task of photographing and making public the archive in a digital and printed form. A dedicated group of student assistants photographed the posters, creating a digital catalogue, and designed this website to house the images. A publication is currently in production to show a curated selection of the posters, with a collection of essays from faculty and alumni, and an accompanying exhibition.The goal of the digital archive is to make the poster collection available to the public, and also to crowdsource missing information from alumni and faculty."— Calarts Poster Archive https://posters.calarts.edu/about/