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CSPG Traveling Exhibitions

MasterPeaces--High Art for Higher Purpose

• Da Vinci Gallery, LACC

Spring 2009

Reclaiming the F-Word--Posters on International Feminisms

• Art Galleries, California State University, Northridge
  June 4--July 3, 2008

Social and Political Awareness

• Windward Gallery, Windward School Art Department
  March 3, 2008--March 21, 2008

Subvertisements--Using Ads & Logos for Protest

• Art Galleries, California State University, Northridge
  March 19-April 21, 2007
• Wignall Museum/Gallery, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
  August 27- September 29, 2007

No Human Being is Illegal: Myths and Realities of the Immigrant Experience

• Senator Gil Cedillo's California Dream Act Strategy Conference, Los Angeles Trade Tech College
  May 3, 2008 (digital display)
• Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
  March 5-21, 2008
• Self-Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles,  CA;
  January 13-February 18, 2007
• American Immigration Law Foundation, Washington DC
  June 11-September 8, 2001
• A Shenere Velt Gallery, Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring, Los Angeles, CA
  June 28-September 12, 1999
• Edison Elementary School, Santa Monica, CA
  January 31, 1995 (as a work in progress)
• Concord High School, Santa Monica, CA
  November 22, 1994 (as a work in progress)
• YWCA, Santa Ana, CA
  February 17-24, 1989* (under the title: The Politics of Immigration)
• California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA
  March 18-May 13, 1988** (under the title: Reflections of Latin America -- Myths and Realities of the Refugee Experience)

*under the title: The Politics of Immigration
** under the title: Reflections of Latin America - Myths and Realities of the Refugee Experience

Prison Nation--Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex

• William Grant Still Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA;
  June 14- July 12, 2008
• Two day conference at All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena (digital display)
  February 23-24, 2007
• Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA,
  November 27-December 15, 2006
• Humbolt State University, Arcata, CA,
  November 1-9, 2006
• Watts Towers Arts Center, Los Angeles,
  March 19-June 4, 2006

Dead Wrong--International Posters Against the Death Penalty

• Otis College of Art and Design. Westchester, CA ;
  December 1, 2005-March 8, 2006
• Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), Venice, CA;
  November 2-14, 2005
• Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA;
  July 30-August 27, 2005

Made in L.A. --The Posters of Peace Press

• Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), Venice, CA;
  September 9-October 16, 2005
• Art Gallery, Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, CA;
  March 12- May 5, 2005

We Shall Not Be Moved -- Posters on Gentrification and Homelessness

• Venice Community Housing Corporation, Venice, CA
  May 22-June 8, 2008
• Chinese Progressive Association, Boston, MA,
  May 23- July 18, 2008
• Providence City Hall, Providence, RI,
  April 18- May 16, 2008
• University of California, Santa Barbara - Multi-Cultural Center at UCSB, Isla Vista, CA;
  October 30-December 7, 2007
• Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles, CA;
   May 23-September 15, 2006
• 33 1/3 Gallery & Collective, Echo Park, CA;
  January 22-February 26, 2005
• In These Times, Chicago, IL
  September 5-October 31, 2003
• Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness, Union Station, LA, CA
  January 30, 2003
• UCLA Downtown Labor Center, Los Angeles, CA
  October 12-November 12, 2002
• Watts Towers Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
  June 9-August 11, 2002 (under the title: No Place Like Home -- Graphics on the Crisis of Housing and Homelessness)

La Cubanidad! Kubanishe Plakate 1940-2004

• (inconjunction with Global Graphics and the center for Cuban studies) MAK, Vienna, Austria, April 6-July 10, 2005
  
  March 22-April 26, 2003

The Cuban Poster --A Retrospective

• (in conjunction with Global Graphics and the Center for Cuban Studies)Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA;
  July 10-August 7, 2004

Earth, Wind & Solar -- International Ecology Posters

• Annenberg Second Floor Gallery, USC Annenberg School for Communication
  August 27-December 21, 2007
• Art Galleries, California State University, Northridge
  March 22-April 26, 2003

The Anti-War Show -- US Interventions From Korea to Iraq

• FutureDesignDays EXPO 2004, Stockholm, Sweden,
  November 13-16, 2004
• Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  January 11-February 15, 2003

The Women of Juárez Demand Justice! (digital exhibition)

• The Grand, The International Caravan for Justice for the Women of Juárez,
  Mexico, Sacramento, CA;
  October 23, 2004
• TAFE College, Newcastle, NSW, Australia,
  April 6, 2004
• Loyola Marymount University,
  February 11, 2004
• Cal Poly Pomona,
  February 4, 2004
• UCLA,
  October 31, 2003

Reel to Real--Political Reflections of Hollywood Film Posters

• Art Galleries, California State University, Northridge;
  March 25-April 17, 2004

Solidarity Forever! – Graphics of the International Labor Movement

• In These Times, Chicago, IL;
  January 24-February 27, 2004
• Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH;
  May 2-August 1, 2003
• UCLA Downtown Labor Center, Los Angeles, CA
  November 17, 2002-January 24, 2003
• El Mercado La Paloma, Los Angeles, CA
  May 4, 2002
• George Meany Memorial Archives, Silver Spring, MD,
  July 17-September 6, 2002
• Lawrence Heritage State Park, Lawrence, MA,
  September 1-30, 2001
• Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Ca
  October 18-November 18, 2000

Courageous Voices - Posters on Racism, Sexism and Human Rights

• Boise State University, Student Union Gallery, Boise, Idaho; September—22 October 31, 2007 (Speak Out)
• Pomona College Museum of Art & Montgomery Art Center, Claremont, CA
  March 23- May 16, 2004
• Rutgers University, Student Center, New brunswick, NJ
  January 14-27, 2001
• 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, Ca;
  August 8 - September 28, 2000
• Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh, PA,
  March 13-29, 1998
• Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ,
  February 1 - 28, 1998
• Fine Art Gallery, University of Southern Colorado, CO,
  May 4 - 31, 1997
• Da Vinci Gallery, Los Angeles City College, Ca;
  January 27 - February 22, 1997
• California state University, Northridge, Ca;
  August 19 - 23, 1996
• Ken Edwards Center, Santa Monica, Ca;
  April 15 - June 30, 1996
• UCLA Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca;
  February 15 - March 15, 1996
• American Friends Service Committee, Pasadena, CA;
  October 9 - 31, 1992
• El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA;
  February 1 - 21, 1992
• Rancho Santiago College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA;
  September 14 - October 4, 1990

East-West Graphics of Resistance
--Posters of U.G. Sato (Japan) and Lex Drewinski (Germany)

• Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
  July 9-August 16, 2003
• Art Galleries, California State University, Northridge
  March 15-April 20, 2002

SHOW: The Flag

• Armory Northwest, Pasadena, CA
  May 11-June 16, 2002

Globalize This! International Posters of Celebration and Dissent

• Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
  September 3-October 20, 2002
• Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
  July 18-August 25, 2001
• El Rey Theater, Los Angeles, CA
  June 21, 2001

Just Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts in California
In collaboration with the University of California, Santa Barbara; California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, Department of Special Collections & the Davidson Library

• Crocker Art Museum & La Raza/Galeria Posada, Sacramento, CA,
  May-September 30, 2003
• Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
  March 14-May 31, 2003
• Merced Multicultural Arts Center, Merced, CA
  September 23, 2002-January 4, 2003
• Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  June 16, 2001-January 13, 2002
• University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
  January 13-March 4, 2001
• The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
  June 2, 2000-August 13, 2000

A Presidential Rogues Gallery

• In These Times, Chicago, IL;
  October 23-December 4, 2004
• Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA;
  July 6- September 5, 2004
• College of the Canyons, Valencia, CA
  November 28, 2000-February 6, 2001
• Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
  August 12-August 19, 2000
• El Rey Theater, Los Angeles, CA
  August 3, 2000
• Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA
  September 29, 1999 (as a work in progress)
• Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  November 2, 1992 (Under the title: Don't Vote for Them! -- An Irreverent View of U.S. Politicians in Domestic and International Political Posters)

Women Hold Up Half the Sky

• California State University, Fullerton, CA,
  March 4-10, 2005
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  February 15-March 15, 2002
• Truman State University, Kirksville, MO
  March 15-April 3, 2001
• Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
  March 1-March 31, 2001
• Washington University, St. Louis, MO
  March 20-April 10, 2000
• Brooklyn College, New York, NY
  March 1-March 31, 1999
• John Adams Middle School, Santa Monica, CA
  March 30, 1998***
• Canada College, Redwood City, CA
  March 4-March 22, 1996
• California State University Fullerton Library, Fullerton, CA
  February 29-April 8, 1992
• San Diego Repertory Theater, San Diego, CA
  March 5-30, 1992*
• Mount San Antonio College Art Gallery, Walnut, CA
  March 20-29, 1990*
• California State University, Long Beach; CA
  March 4-8, 1990 ***
• Santa Monica High School Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA
  December 8-9, 1989**
• The Music Machine, Los Angeles, CA
  July 7, 1989**
• Chapman College, Orange, CA
  March 5-10, 1989**
• California State University, Los Angeles, CA
  March 4, 1989**
• First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, CA
  March 4, 1989**
• Cerritos Community College, Norwalk, CA
  March 1-31, 1988
• South Gallery, California State University, Northridge, CA
  February 12-March 4, 1988****
• Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA
  October 1987 ****
• Robert Frost Auditorium, Culver City, CA
  May 23, 1986*****
• California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA
  March-April 1986*****

*Under the title: Courageous Voices -- Posters About Women
**Under the title: Making Choices -- An International Poster Exhibit About Women
***Under the title: Our Sisters' Voices -- International Poster Art Exhibition
****Under the title: Women Redefining Power
*****Under the title: A Celebration of Life in War and Peace -- a Poster Exhibit About Women

Our Sisters' Voices From Africa to the Americas
-- Posters About African and African American Women

• Corbett Center Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM; February 9-28, 2006
• Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Ca;
  Febuary 7-28, 2005
• Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN
  January 15-May 1, 2001
• 9th Annual African Marketplace, Los Angeles, CA
  August 20-September 5, 1994
• University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
  January 30-February 28, 1993
• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  February 12-27, 1990

Can't Jail the Spirit -- Political Prisoners in the United States

• Highways Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  August 11-August 27, 2000
• Robben Island, South Africa
  April-June 2000
• Watts Towers Art Center, Watts, CA
  March 5-April 11, 2000
• Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice, CA
  September 10-October 9, 1999 (as a work in progress)

¡Viva la Huelga! -- Graphic Heritage and Legacies of the United Farm Workers

• East Carolina University Student Center, Greenville, NC
  February 4-March 22, 2001
• Bates College, Lewiston, ME
  October 21-November 22, 1996
• Multi-Cultural Center, California State University, Sacramento, CA
  September 11-September 30, 1995
• Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles, CA
  May 5, 1995-August 29, 1995
• Art Gallery, California State University, Northridge, CA
  March 8, 1995-April 7, 1995

Government InAction - Political Posters in a Context

• Crossroads School Gallery, Santa Monica, CA;
  October 5 - November 2, 2000

The Empty Bowls 10th Anniversary National Exhibition

• Swords Into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery, Detroit, MI, September 8 -October 24, 2000

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised -- Tenth Anniversary Exhibition

• Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  June 11-19, 1999

Sex, Lies & Stereotypes -- Posters on Sexism and Homophobia

• Rasdall Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  September 8-October 8, 1999
• Midwest Lesbian Gay Bisexual College Conference 99, Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Madison, WI
  February 19-21, 1999
• The Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA
  July 10-19, 1998
• The Center for Performing Arts, California State University, Northridge, CA
  March 13-May 29, 1998
• Bates College, Lewiston, ME
  November 1-30, 1997 (work in progress)

Che Guevara: Icon, Myth, and Message

• Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  October 5, 1997-February 1, 1998

Race, Lies and Stereotypes -- Posters on Racism and Anti-Semitism

• A Shenere Velt Gallery, Workmen's Circle, Los Angeles, CA
  March 2-April 27, 1997

Los Angeles: At the Center and On the Edge -- Thirty Years of Protest Posters

• Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
  August 22-September 27, 1997
• Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
  June 13-August 16, 1997
• Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
  January 8-May 25, 1996 (work in progress)
• The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, CA
  June 16-July 7, 1995 (work in progress)

Decade of Protest: Political Posters from the United States, Viet Nam & Cuba 1965-1975

• Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  January 19-March 15, 1996

All Power to the People -- Graphics of the Black Panther Party

• Brooklyn College, New York, NY
  February 1-28, 1999
• Bates College, Lewiston, ME
  February 1-28, 1997
• Multi-Cultural Center, California State University, Sacramento, CA
  January 31-February 29, 1996
• Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles, CA
  October 22, 1994-April 30, 1995
• Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
  April 16, 1993 (work in progress)
• Sisterhood Bookstore, Los Angeles, CA
  February 1, 1993 (work in progress)
• Los Angeles Theater Center, Los Angeles, CA
  November 19, 1992 (work in progress)

Freedom of the Press -- Posters of Progressive Printshops, 1960s to the Present

• Heartland Cafe, Chicago, IL
  November 1997-May 1998
• Mother Fool's Cafe, Madison, WI
  October 1996
• Berkeley Store Gallery, Berkeley, CA
  July 5-August 1996
• Our Times Publishing, Toronto, ON, Canada
  April 1-May 15, 1996
• Delta Communications, Ft. Wayne, IN
  January 5-28, 1996
• Harbinger Press, Columbia, SC
  November 1-27, 1995
• Community Printers, Santa Cruz, CA
  July 29-August 28, 1995
• Adrian Dominican Campus, Adrian, MI
  June 1-9, 1995
• Holyoke Community College Art Gallery, Holyoke, MA
  March 6-April 14, 1995
• Harriet Tubman Settlement House, Boston, MA
  October 31-November 11, 1994

Throwing Away the Future -- The War Against Children

• Puffin Gallery, New York City, NY|
  September 21-October 18, 1996
• Ben & Jerry's Home Aid Festival, Warren, VT
  June 22, 1996
• Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles, CA
  May 7-June 9, 1993
• J.F.K. Library, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
  April 2-May 3, 1993

Posters from Central America

• Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
  September 9-20, 1996
• California State University, Fullerton, CA
  October 17-20, 1991
• Los Angeles Valley College, CA
  December 4, 1990

International Solidarity Posters from Cuba

• 10th Annual African Marketplace, Los Angeles, CA
  August 19-20, 1995
• Ivar Theater, Hollywood, CA
  November 19, 1993

Stand Up For Your Rights

• Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA
  October 22, 1994

Recapturing the Future -- Through the Eyes of Youth

• Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, CA
  June-October 1994

Courageous Voices -- Women Against Racism and Sexism

• Women's Center of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
  February 15, 1994-March 29, 1994

Voices of Protest: Underground Graphics since 1980

• Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
  January 23-February 27, 1994

"Victor Jara, Presente!" -- An Exhibition of Posters about Chile 1973-1993

• Unitarian Church, Los Angeles, CA
  November 6, 1993

Twenty Years of Peace and Justice Posters

• Shalan Foundation Conference, Oakland, CA
  November 4-7, 1993

20 Years, ¿y qué? 1973 - 1993 - An exhibition of photographs and graphic art depicting the struggle towards political change in Chile

• Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, Ca;
  September 11 - 26, 1993

Fight for the Living -- Poster Art Against AIDS

• West Hollywood City Hall, Los Angeles, CA
  December 1-15, 1999
• Pierce College
  March 15-April 8, 1993
• Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA
  December 1, 1992-January 8, 1993
• Benefit for ACT UP/LA legal defense fund, Venice, CA
  September 24, 1989
• Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, CA
  July-August 1993

500 Years Since Columbus: The Legacy Continues

• Arkansas State University Art Gallery, Jonesboro, AR
  March 2-23, 1993
• Library, California State University, Sacramento, CA
  November 16-December 19, 1992
• Library, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA
  November 9-December 11, 1992
• Lannon-Cole Gallery, Peace Museum, Chicago, IL
  October 9-November 6, 1992
• Queens College Art Gallery, New York, NY
  October 5-31, 1992
• Bookstore, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  March 21-April 15, 1992
• J.F.K. Library California State University, Los Angeles, CA
  February 15-March 20, 1992
• Art Gallery, California State University, Northridge, CA
  January 15-February 12, 1992

Posters of the Viet Nam War Era

• Grassy Knoll Coffeehouse, Los Angeles, CA
  March 6, 1993

Relocation Equals Genocide -- Posters of Native Americans

• Los Angeles High School for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
  January 15, 1993

Women's Bodies, Women's Lives
-- Posters on Reproductive Rights & Violence Against Women

• Immaculate Heart College Center, Los Angeles, CA
  November 18-December 22, 1992

Women and Development in Latin America

• UCLA Women Studies, Los Angeles, CA
  February 27-March 2, 1992

Southern Africa: The Struggle Continues

• Fullerton Museum Center, Fullerton, CA;
  August 30 - October 13, 1991

The Price of Intervention -- From Korea to the Persian Gulf

• Conference Center, Montegrotto Terme, Italy
  May 26-June 1, 1991
• Minus Zero Gallery, Torrance, CA
  March 2-March 30, 1991
• Installations One Gallery, Encino, CA
  January 22-February 16, 1991

Culture and the Struggle for Human Rights

• Robert Frost Auditorium, Culver City, CA
  July 13, 1990

Posters of Women and War in the Third World

• Part of Art and War -- 1939-1989 exhibition organized by Neue Gesellschaft fúr bildende Kunst, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, West Berlin, Germany
  June 12-July 29, 1990

Cuban Political Posters from the 1970's and 1980's

• Otis-Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  May 23-30, 1990

International Struggle for Civil Rights

• Southern California Americans for Democratic Action, 1990 Eleanor Roosevelt Awards Dinner, Santa Monica Sheraton Hotel, Santa Monica, CA
  April 22, 1990

Women Under Occupation

• University of California, Kerkhoff Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  October 29-November 10, 1989

Art Against Apartheid

• Pan African Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
  October 17, 1994
• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  November 7-December 8, 1989*
• Holman Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA
  May 16, 1986*
• Music Listening Room, California State University, Fullerton, CA
  March, 1986*
• Traveling Exhibit, Los Angeles High Schools' Anti-Apartheid Noon Assembly Programs, 1985-1986*

*under the title: Poster Art Against Apartheid

Posters of Justice and Solidarity for Guatemala

• St. Vincent's School, Los Angeles, CA
  October 14, 1989
• West Hollywood Park, West Hollywood, CA
  October 8, 1989
• Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, CA
  October 7, 1989

Juxtapositions: The Church in Social Action, Liberation Theology Posters

• Pasadena Presbyterian Church, SCITCA, Pasadena, CA
  March 4-6, 1992
• Los Angeles premiere of the film Romero, The New Directors Guild, W. Hollywood, CA September 7, 1989
• Church in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, CA
  August 1986
• California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA, April-June 1986

Political Woodcuts of Yun-Bok Yoo

• Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), Venice, CA
  August 5-7, 1989

Who is My Neighbor? -- Asian Pacific Peoples' Struggle for Justice

• Baptist Church, Los Angeles, CA
  April 1, 1989

Let My People Be -- International Human Rights Posters

• Peace and Justice Center of Southern California, Mayfield Senior School
  Pasadena, CA
  May 15-26, 1989

Ronald Reagan Retrospective -- 20 years of Political Posters

• First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
  January 20, 1989

Human Rights -- Government Wrongs

• Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA
  December 9, 1989
• Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA
  December 10, 1988

From Korea: Woodcuts of Liberation

• Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice, CA,
  October 21-December 3, 1988

Mexico's Politcal Renaissance - Election Posters from a People's Struggle for Justice

• Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, Ca;
  September 23 - October 16,(1998 Co-curated with Corrientes Mexicanas and Grupo de Artistas de Tijuana

The Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign

• Mission High School, Pacific Beach, CA;
  June - July 1987, for the Bilingual Teacher's Preparation of San Diego County
• Grass Roots Cultural Center, San Diego, CA;
  December, 1986 - April 1987

Literacy Campaigns: U.S. and Nicaragua (posters, photos, pamphlets)

• Library, California State University, Fullerton, CA;
  August - October 1986

Posters of Women from Central America

• “Mujer Arte”, La Casa de la Raza, Santa Barbara, CA;
  July 1985
• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;
  June 1985 for  “Conference on Women and Central America”
  

Posters and Murals from the Nicaraguan Revolution

• The Firehouse, Los Angeles, CA;
  July, 1990
• Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany,
  June 12 – July 29, 1990
• California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA;
  November 1989
• Santa Monica, High School Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA;
  October 29, 1989
• Culver City High School, Culver City, CA;
  July 15, 1989
• UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA;
  May 30, 1989
• Central Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA;
  December 2, 1988 – January 24, 1989
• East Los Angeles Immigration Project, Center for Law and Justice, Los Angeles, CA;
  July – August, 1988
• Fairfax High School, Los Angeles, CA;
  July 17, 1988
• Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles, CA;
  December 1985 – July 1986
• Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA;
  November 1985
• Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA;
  October 1985
• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;
  August 1985 for the National Assembly of Religious Women, 1985 National Convention, “The Politics of Struggle: Building a Community of Hope”
• Ackerman Union, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA;
  May 1985 part of the Nueva Cancion symposium
• Memorial Union Mini-Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, IA,
  November 1984
• Octagon Center for the Arts, Iowa State University, Ames, IA,
  November 1984
• Unitarian Fellowship of Ames, Iowa State University, Ames, IA,
  November 1984
• Self-Help Graphic's Galeria Otra Vez (Los Angeles Artists' Call), Los Angeles, CA;
  October 1984
• La Casa de la Raza, Santa Barbara, CA;
  July 1984
• Brattleboro Public Library, Brattleboro, VT,
  June 1984
• Afro-American Cultural Center, Yale Women's Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT,
  March – April 1984
• Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA,
  February 1984
• Massachusetts College of Art (Artists Call), Boston, MA,
  January 1984
• 911 - A Contemporary Arts and Resource Center, Seattle, WA,
  September 1983
• Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA;
  May 1983
• Center for Art Tapes, Halifax, NS, Canada,
  April 1983
• La Semilla Cultural Center, Sacramento, CA;
  November 1982
• La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA;
  July 1982
• Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO,
  April 1982
• Grass Roots Cultural Center, San Diego, CA;
  February 1982
• Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice, CA;
  January 1982
• Art Library, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA;
  November 1981

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CSPG Poster Loans to Other Institutions

Myth and Manpower—Graphics and the California Dream

• Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA,
  August 2009

The Graphic Imperative

• University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal Illinois
  September 23 – November 2, 2008
• Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois
  November 14 to December 12, 2008

Signs of Change

• Exit Art, New York, NY
  September 2 – November 2, 2008

La Tinta—The Ink Shouts:
The Art of Social Resistence in Oaxaca, Mexico

• Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles
  July 18 – December 19, 2008

Gouge:  The Modern Woodcut 1870 to Now

• Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  November 2, 2008 – February 8, 2008

LA vs WAR

• The Firehouse, Los Angeles, CA,
  April 10 – 13, 2008

Dissent!  1968 and Now

• Laband Art Gallery at Loyola Marymount University,
  February 10 – March 20, 2008.

Cowboys and Presidents

• Bob Bullock Texas State Museum,
  October 18, 2008 – January 4, 2009
• Museum of the American West, Autry National Center,
  April 11 – September 7, 2008

Make Art/Stop AIDS

• Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico, D. F.,
  August 1, 2008 – January 2009
• Fowler Museum at UCLA,
  February 17, 2008 – June 15, 2008

Vormen van Verzet—Forms of Resistance, [artists' positive engagement in situations of social and political conflict from the end of the nineteenth century up until now]  includes 14 CSPG Emory Douglas graphics from Black Panther Newspapers. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;
22 September 2007 - 6 January 2008

Black Panther—The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas

• Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), The Pacific Design Center
  October 21, 2007—February 24, 2008 (extended from January 20, 2008)

Pioneers (Featuring CSPG’s Emory Douglas Graphics)

• Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts; San Francisco, CA;
  September 4—November 10, 2007

MaquiL.A. — An Exhibition Celebrating International Women's Month
Imaging Consumption / Action / Production & Solutions / in the largest garment sweatshop in the United States: LOS ANGELES

• Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), Venice, CA;
  March 24-31, 2007

Facing Fascism:  New York and the Spanish Civil War

• Museum of the City of New York,
  March 23-August 30, 2007, New York, NY

Street Signs & Solar Ovens: Socialcraft in Los Angeles

• Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA,
  October 22 - December 31, 2006

The Graphic Imperative—International Posters for Peace,
Social Justice & the Environment 1965—2005

• Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University Chicago
  November 14–December 12, 2008
• Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
  September 1–November 30, 2009
• University Galleries, Illinois State University
  September 1–October 31, 2008
• Wilson Art Center Gallery, Ohio Northern University
  March 16, 2009–April 30, 2009
• McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University 
  February 22–March 28, 2008
• Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles, CA; 
  October 20—December 15, 2007
• University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
  September 10—October 10, 2007
• Garanti Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey (Satellite Exhibition - selections from exhibition)
  July 31—August 25, 2007
• The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
  March 2 - June 2, 2007
• Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton; November 14 - January 26, 2007
  Des Lee Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis;
  September 5 - October 27, 2006
• AIGA National Design Center, New York, NY;
  June 15 - August 18, 2006
• The Design Center at Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA
  April 3 - May 23, 2006
• Sandra & David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
  September 14 - November 11, 2005

MOVE! – Housing and the Struggle for a Livable L.A.*

• Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles, CA
  May 23 – September 15, 2006
• Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles, CA
  May 23 – September 15, 2006

At Work – The Art of California Labor

• Pico House Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  June 13 – August 14, 2006

Reverence—Exploring ideas underlying sustainable design, environmental issues, and attitudes towards human/earth interaction across the disciplines of art, design, and science.

• Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
  October 8 - December 21, 2005

DesigNation—Consumerism and Cultural Construction in 21st Century Sweden

• Regionmuset Kristianstad, Kristianstad, Sweden
  June 19 - October 15, 2005

The Asian Poster— Contemporary Posters from Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Malaysia

• Posters from the collections of Global Graphics and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
  June 18 - July 23, 2005.

Narrative of a Portrait: Korda’s Che

• El Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
  October 2007-January 2008
• La Triennale de Milano, Italy
  June 1 – August 31, 2007
• Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (KIT) Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
  [Royal Tropical Institute  (KIT) Museum]
  February 1 – May 6, 2007
• Sala de Arte Contemporaneo, Museo de Bellas Artes, Tenerife, Spain
  September 21 - November 5, 2006
• Victoria & Albert Museum, London
  June 7 - August 28, 2006
• International Center of Photography, New York, NY
  December 8, 2005 - February 26, 2006
• Centro de la Imagen /The Center for the Image, Mexico City
  March 15 – May 15, 2006
• California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA
  January 29 - May 28, 2005

Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon

• Victoria & Albert Museum, London
  June 7 – August 28, 2006

Propaganda, Patriotism and Protest:  Posters from the World War II and Vietnam Eras

• Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
  April 15– June 5, 2005

Not for Profit: Designing Across the Social Divide

• Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University
  March 19-April 17, 2005

Art As Politics & Propaganda

• The Winona Arts Center, Winona, MN
  October 13 – October 29, 2004

ELECT THIS! A Creative Response to the State of the Democracy

• Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice, CA
  September 8 – November 2, 2004

Art and Democracy

• Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
  June 27 – August 8, 2004

“Do You Like Yen?”

• Art & River Bank Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  July 24 – August 7, 2004

The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere

• Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA
  May 30, 2004 - March 20, 2005 (Selections from Murdered Women of Juarez poster series)
  

The Art of Rice: Spirit and Sustenance in Asia

• Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI,
  February 16, 2005 – April 22, 2005
• Copia:  The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, Napa, CA
  September 3—November 29, 2004
• UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, CA
  October 5, 2003-April 25, 2004

The Migrant Project-Contemporary California Farm Workers

• Museo de las Américas, Denver, CO
  March 25 – June 12, 2004
• Fullerton Museum Center; Fullerton, CA
  June 7-October 19, 2003

The Death of Che Guevara

• State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
  February 15-March 30, 2003
• Rethymnon Center for Contemporary Art, Greece
  December 14, 2002-February 2, 2003

In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

• Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
  January 3 – March 28, 2004
• Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
  August 30-November 9, 2003
• International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
  May 15-July 27, 2003
• Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN January 4-March 30, 2003
• Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
  September 7-December 1, 2002
• Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, M
  June 1, 2002-August 4, 2002

The World From Here -- Treasures from the Great Libraries of Los Angeles

• UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  October 17, 2001-January 13, 2002

Heroes, Traitors and Collaborators: The Netherlands Under Nazi Occupation

• UCLA, Melnitz Hall, Los Angeles, CA
  September 27-29, 2002

The Soviet Poster and Its Contemporary Legacy

• Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University,Orange, CA
  January 2-February 24, 2001

Artifacts of Vigilance: The Peace Museum

• Fullerton Museum Center, Fullerton, CA
  January 19-April 27, 2001

Made in California

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
  October 22, 2000-February 25, 2001

An American Hero: Cesar Chavez

• Latino Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  March 27-August 18, 2000

Justice Justice

• Mizel Family Cultural Arts Center, Denver, CO
  March 30-June 15, 2000

The Aura of the Cause:
A Photo Album for North American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

• The University of Judaism, Bel Air, CA
  January 9-March 12, 2000

Music In The Life Of Africa

• Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  November 7, 1999-July 16, 2000

Up Against the Wall, Mother Poster!

• University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  October 10-December 19, 1999

Three Decades of Cuban Posters

• Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
  August 28-December 10, 1999

Mumia 911 -- A National Day of Art to Stop the Execution of Mumia-Abu-Jamal

• Printed Matter Gallery, New York, NY
  September 11-26, 1999

Mapping Los Angeles

• J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  June 7-8, 1999

Illuminating Community Archives and Collections:
Central City Corridor in Los Angeles

• Watts Community Action Committee, Los Angeles, CA
  May 15-June 30, 1999

Banned, Censored & Suppressed

• The Singer Gallery-Mizel Family Cultural Arts, Denver, CO
  January 10-April 17, 1999
• Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, District of Columbia Jewish Community Center Washington, D.C.
  October 31, 1997-February 28, 1998

Faith at Work -- The Quest for Economic Justice in Los Angeles

• Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist Church, Los Angeles, CA
  (Photography exhibition by Linda Lotz)
  January-February 1999
• American Friends Service Committee, Pasadena, CA
  March-April 1999

On Politics

• Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, CA
  November 3-29, 1998

Paris 68 -- Posters from the Atelier D'Affiche Populaire

• Aronson Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
  August 31-October 1, 1998

Culture Y Cultura: How the U.S. Mexican War Shaped the West

• Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, CA
  May 2-September 7, 1998

Peace Not War: Tales of Human Relations

• The Museum of Cultural Diversity, Carson, CA
  November 29, 1997-February 28, 1998

The Greenhouse

• Lollapalooza's Concert Tour
  Summer 1997

Of The People: The African American Experience

• Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI, (Inaugural exhibition)
  February 1997-April 1999

Working Histories: Labor in Southern California

• Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA
  May 9-June 15, 1996

In the Eye of the Jaguar -- Human Rights and Politics in Guatemala

• Tufts University Gallery, Aldekman Arts Center, Medford, MA
  April 18-May 18, 1996

Collectism: A Look at Collectors and Their Magnificent Obsessions

• Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
  (Zapatista Posters)
  October 6-December 22, 1995

Art & Environment -- Mixed-Media Exhibition

• Coons Center, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
  January 20-March 17, 1995

Posters and Paintings of Cuban artist Rene Mederos

• Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles, CA
  July-September 1993

A Woman's Place: Images of Women in the Media

• California State University, Los Angeles University Student Center Exhibit Galler, Los Angeles, CA
  May 18-28, 1993

Malcolm X: History is a People's Memory

• Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), Venice, CA
  March 6-April 17, 1993

Just War

• B.C. Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
  March 27-June 15, 1991

Remembering the Hollywood Blacklist

• Santa Monica Miramar Hotel, Santa Monica, CA
  (sponsored by the Southern California Library, Los Angeles, CA, and The Nation)
  February 3, 1991

Art Against Intervention

• Kerkhoff Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
  February 1991

Stolen Smiles: Mona Lisa Kitsch

• Fullerton Museum Center, Fullerton, CA
  December 1, 1990-January 20, 1991

Kunst & Krieg (Art & War): 1939-1989

• Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
  (produced by Neuen Gesellschaft fúr Bildende Kunst)
  June 12-July 29, 1990

Against Great Odds: Posters of Nicaragua

• Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff, AB, Canada
  (exhibition traveled throughout Canada in 1985)
  December 1984

Artists look at U.S. politics in the 1980's

• Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
  October-November 1984

Anti-War Art Exhibition

• Venice Methodist Church, Cordell Hall, Venice, CA
  July-August 1984

Posters of Liberation Struggles

• Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
  January 1983

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Public Forums

Political Poster Workshop
Elections graphics poster workshop with at-risk youth. Led by artist Robbie Herbst. Los Angeles
Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles. November 15, 2004

Designs on Democracy – University of California, Berkeley, March 26-28, 2004
Screenprinting as a Design Medium – Presentations by Lincoln Cushing, Juan Fuentes, Jos Sances and Carol Wells. Facilitator:  Jesus Barraza – Friday, March 26, 2004
                       
Political Posters:  Can Design Stop a War? Presentations by Jesus Barraza, Juan Fuentes, Carol Wells. Facilitator, Favianna Rodriquez – Saturday, March 27, 2004

The 3rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Conference, The Power of Politics: How to Create Social Change
Visualizing Resistance: The Art of Protest Panel: Think Again & Carol Wells, California State University, Los Angeles, University-Student Union, Los Angeles. January 16, 2004

Treinta: 30 Years of Chicano Printmaking and Social Justice
Fernando Salicrup, Allen Edmunds, Favianna Rodriguez, Carolina Ponce de Leon, Nancy Hom & Carol Wells
Self-Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, CA
October 12, 2003

Public Dialogue: Free Speech & September 11
Carol Sobel & Carol Wells
Armory Center West, Pasadena, CA
June 15, 2002

Calling Communities Into Action
In conjunction with Just Another Poster?-Chicano Graphic Arts in California
Panel with George Lipsitz, José Montoya, Tomás Benitez, Carol Wells, moderated by Chon Noriega
UCSB, Santa Barbara, California. January 13, 2001
Art & Social Change, an illustrated lecture by Australian artist/activist Deborah Kelly, Hotel Employees
 & Restaurant Employees Union Local 814, Santa Monica, CA; August 5, 1998

Blood, Sweat and Tears
Artists panel discussion
Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
July 31, 1997

No Pasarán!, An Evening of Poetry and Art
August 8, 1997

Song of Napalm
A Literary Evening in conjunction with Decade of Protest: Political Posters from the United States, Viet Nam and Cuba 1965-1975
Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
March 15, 1996

Protest Posters as Counter Advertising
Presentations by Bay Area poster artists Doug Minkler and Jos Sances
March 20, 1994

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Television, Film & Theatrical Uses of CSPG's Archive

Museo de las Américas, Denver, CO
March 25 – June 12, 2004

"The Hours," Paramount Pictures, 2003

"Attikkka," Showtime/Paramount Studio feature, 2001

"Rebels With A Cause," Shire Films, 2001 release (documentary SDS )

"Hurricane," 16th Round Productions Corp, 1999

"Che Guevara," BBC documentary for Arena, January 2, 1999

"Dick," Phoenix Pictures, 1999

"Enemy of the State," No Such Productions, Walt Disney Productions, 1998

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," Fear and Loathing Productions, LLC Productions, 1998

"The Fight in the Fields," Paradigm Productions, 1997 (documentary on Cesar Chavez)

"Five Years After the L.A. Riots," KCET Life & Times, April 29, 1997

"Chicano!" Galan Productions, 1996

"Panther," Polygram Films, 1995, Mario Van Peebles, Director

"The Other Weapon," mixed media performance theater work, March 4-26, 1994 (four Los Angeles venues), Robbie McCauley, Director

"Race the Wild Wind," film, 1993

"Post No Bills," produced by Clay Walker and Marianne Dissard, 1992, documentary film on Robbie Conal

"And The Band Played On," Filmed November 1992, HBO film on AIDS

"The Wonder Years," television series, filmed October 1992

"Boyz in the Hood," July 1991, John Singleton, Director

"The Wonder Years'" television series, May 1991

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Publications Using CSPG Posters

(Listed chronologically, most recent first)

Bryan-Wilson, Julia, Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (University of California Press), edition of 2000, anticipated publication date:2009

Ortega, André, “Presidencia de Transición”, FP – Foreign Policy Edición española – No. 26 Abril/Mayo 2008 www.fp-es.org  pp 3, 114

Centre Pompidou, Paris exhibition catalogue on the Los Angeles art scene and artists anti-war protest in the 1960s, curated by Ms. Catherine Grenier and scheduled for March 8th - June 26, 2006.

Selz, Peter, Art of Engagement—Visual Politics in California and Beyond, University of California Press, 2005

Baseman, Frank; Maviyane-Davies, Chaz; Resnick, Elizabeth; The Graphic Imperative, Massachusetts College of Art, 2005

The Progressive Magazine, linocuts of Carlos Cortez, July 2005

May 2005 edition of Guam Federation of Teachers (GFT) Newsletter        

Free Venice Beachhead –Excerpts from “Presidential Rogues Gallery” October 2004

In These Times – Excerpts from “Presidential Rogues Gallery” - October 25 2004

FutureDesignDays – newsletter and magazine October and November 2004

Web site: http://www.prostitutions.info/actus_article.php3?id_article=134, 2004

Bert Dijkstra A.O., Memo, (Netherlands, Malmberg Publishers, 2005): pp. 2, 107

Event Listing: Openings, Reel to Real: A Political Reflection of Hollywood Film, L.A. Weekly Calendar Exhibition: The Valley; March 26-April 1, 2004

Event Listing: Art Openings, Reel to Real: A Political Reflection of Hollywood Film, City Beat, p.52 March 25-31, 2004

Carol Wells, “Compositions in Red—Propaganda Posters During the Time of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)”
Performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall - L.A. Philharmonic Magazine– March 2004

Eva Wisten. “Political Design – You Are Not Your Fucking Khakis”, Plaza Magazine International, Sweden, March 2004

Mann, James, ed., Peace Signs – The Anti-War Movement: Illustrated,  Zurich, Switzerland, 2004

Mann, James, ed., Carteles Contra Una Guerra – Signos por la paz, Barcelona, Spain, 2003

Carol Wells, “Solidarity Forever”, cover and featured article, In These Times, Chicago, IL, February 16, 2004

Carol Wells,  “Puede el diseno evitar una guerra?” (“Can design stop a war?)
ArtegrafiCA; Barcelona, Spain (February 2004)
Tipo Magazine, Dominican Republic, No 4 Dec. 03-Feb 04
TipoGráfiCA; Buenos Aires, Argentina, June-July 2003; pp 1-3, 8-15

"Political Graphics Center Schedules Annual Benefit" Santa Monica Mirror; Life and Arts; p.15

Lincoln Cushing, “¡Revolución! Cuban Poster Art”, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2003

Roy W. Hamilton, “The Art of Rice – Spirit and Sustenance in Asia”, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Exhibition catalogue, UCLA 2003

Carol Wells, “We Shall Not Be Moved”, In These Times, Chicago, IL, September 29, 2003

Carol Wells, “Can Good Art Stop a Bad War?”, International designers Network (IdN):2003:
TWO:Volume10:Number 2: Hong Kong: pp 66-68

Carol Wells, "The Fire Last Time: Paper Trail", L.A. Weekly, April 26-May 2, 2002: 27

Carol Wells, "PULPit", L.A. Weekly, April 26-May 2, 2002: 185

Chon Noriega, ed., “¿Just Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts in California,” University Art Museum exhibition catalogue, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001

Doug Harvey, "A Few of Our Favorite Things", L.A. Weekly, October 19-25, 2001: 37-38

Robin Rauzi, "Checking Out Libraries' Treasures", Los Angeles Times, October 18, 2001: 7,8,11,13

Judith Lewis, "Operation Enduring Dissent", L.A. Weekly, October 5-11, 2001

The World From Here, Treasures of the Great Libraries of Los Angeles, 2001

Patt Morrison, "Is There A Worse Voter Phobia Than Fear of Fliers?", Los Angeles Times/Metro (March 23, 2001)

Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 26, 2000, pg 2

Christopher Miles, "Pictures of Matchstick Men", Flaunt, November 2000: 76-81

Monthly Review, October 2000 cover (with citings on inside front cover and page 64)

Blu Magazine, Fall 2000

Event Listing: [Un]Convention 2000 Los Angeles Times Calendar Weekend, "6pm Benefit" August 3, 2000

d'ART (July-August 2000)

"Dish: Pasta and Presidents", New Times Los Angeles, July 27-August 2, 2000: 42

"People's Election Party", Inside Events: Advertising Supplement to the New York Times (Summer 2000)

Laura Morgan, "Retro-Activism", Raygun #73 November 1999 p.24

Political Posters of the 20th Century -- a perpetual calendar by Syracuse Cultural Workers and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, 1999 (reprinted 2000)

Serge Guilbaut L'Encage Catalogue for "Up Against the Wall Motherposter!" at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999)

Bruno Margadant, Hoffnung und Widerstand : das 20. Jahrhundert im Plakat der internationalen Arbeiter- und Friedensbewegung, Museum fúr Gestaltung Zurich, (Zurich: Hans Rudolf Lutz, 1998)

Al Boime, The Unveiling of the National Icon, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

Katherine Kinney, Friendly Fire: American images of the Vietnam War, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)

Shifra M. Goldman, "A Public Voice: Fifteen Years of Chicano Posters," in Dimensions of the Americas: Art and Social Change in Latin America and the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994)

Arte della Solidariet, TRIcontinental, Italy, 1997

David Kunzle, Che Guevara: Icon, Myth, & Message, (Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1997)

Carol Wells, Los Angeles: At the Center and On the Edge -- Thirty Years of Protest Posters (Los Angeles: Smart Art Press, 1997)

Liz McQuiston, Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women's Liberation and Beyond (London: Phaidon Press, 1997)

Los Angeles Magazine (June 1997): 94

Esquire Magazine (January 1996): 24

Susan Martin (ed) Decade of Protest - Political Posters from the United States, Viet Nam and Cuba 1965-1975 Exhibition catalogue, (Los Angeles: Smart Art Press, 1996)

Carol Wells, "Images of Women in War," Iris, A Journal About Women, No. 33, Summer 1995; pp 34-38.

NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. XXVIII, No 5 (March/April 1995)

Liz McQuiston, Graphic Agitation: Social and Political Graphics Since the Sixties (London: Phaidon Press, 1993)

Steven Heller & Karrie Jacobs, Angry Graphics - Protest Posters of the Reagan/Bush Era (Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1992)

Reinhard Schultz (ed.), exhibition catalogue Kunst & Krieg, 1939-1989: Eine Ausstellung der Neuen Gesellschaft fúr Bildende Kunst im Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 12 Juni-29 Juli, 1990 (Berlin: Die Gesellschaft, 1990)

Paul Von Blum "The Political Poster", Z Magazine (January 1990): 59-70

Courageous Voices, exhibition catalog, Rancho Santiago College Art Gallery, September 1990

Catalog: University of Southern California South Africa Semester, (Describing multi-disciplinary exploration of Southern Africa, which took place in 1989). (Los Angeles: USC Press, September, 1990)

"Liberty Hill Annual Report," 1990

Barricada U.S.A. 10th Anniversary Celebration Calendar, date-book commemorating the Nicaraguan Revolution. 1989

Carol A. Wells, "Sandinista Poster Art", Third Rail, # 6, (1984)

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Articles, Interviews & Reviews

The Cuban Poster: A Retrospective

• O'Conner, Anne-Marie. "Color it Cuban." Los Angeles Times (July 20, 2004): E1, E11.

East-West Graphics of Resistance -- Posters of U.G. Sato (Japan) and Lex Drewinski (Germany)

• "Calendar/Politics", L.A.Weekly (July 25-31, 2003): 161
• Rebecca Epstein, "Artists Get Even!" Los Angeles City Beat, (July 24-30, 2003): 34
• Louise Roug, "The talking pictures," Los Angeles Times, (July 10, 2003): E16-E17

Earth, Wind, & Solar

• Beirut Times, (May 1-8, 2003): 22

The Anti-War Show -- U.S. Interventions from Korea to Iraq

• Wells, Carol. "Anti-War Show." Critica Sociale 1-2 (2003): 2.
• Carol Wells, "¿Puede el diseño evitar una guerra?" ("Can Design Stop a War?"), Tipográfía (June-July 2003), Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp 1-3, 8-15
• Carol Wells, "Can Good Art Stop a Bad War?", International designers Network (IdN):2003: TWO:Volume10:Number 2: Hong Kong: pp 66-68
• James Scarborough, "The Anti-War Show: The Price of Intervention from Korea to Iraq", NY Arts Magazine (February 26,2003);
• "Cento Anni Di Immagini" (One Hundred Years of Images), Critica Sociale, Milan, Italy, 2003
• Beirut Times (February 13-20, 2003): 23
• Christopher Knight, "In graphic protest", Los Angeles Times (January 15, 2003): E1, 8
• Hilary E. MacGregor, "Show draws from all walks", Los Angeles Times (January 15, 2003): E1, 9
• "Calendar/Politics", L.A.Weekly (January 10-16, 2003): 130
• "Fifty years of protest", Los Angeles Times (January 9, 2003): E2
• "The Guide: Galleries, Openings", Los Angeles Times (January 5, 2003): E50
• Mark Vallen, "CRITICAL VISIONS", Change-Links (January 2003): 2

Show: The Flag

• "Art Pick of The Week: Art At The Armory", LA Weekly (June14-20,2002)
• "Best Bets," Los Angeles Times Calendar (May 9, 2002)
• Annual Event 2002, "What's Black and White and Red All Over?" (BWR)
• "Best Bets", Los Angeles Times (May 30, 2002): 2
• "Calendar", L.A. Weekly (May 24-30, 2002): 154
• Advertisement L.A. Weekly (May 24-30, 2002): 155
• Gabrielle Ballard, "Art Is A Hammer for Social Activist, Artist Wendell Collins", Los Angeles Sentinel (May 23-29, 2002): A22

Globalize This!: Track 16 and Annual Event 2001

• "Best Bets", Los Angeles Times (July 19, 2001): 2
• Robert Scheer, Westside Weekly (July 15, 2001): 3
• " Calendar," New Times Los Angeles (June 21-27, 2001): 22
• "Around the Westside," "Best Bet," Westside Weekly (June 17, 2001): 5
• "Attractions: Outings and Amusements," Rave! (June 15, 2001): K23

SAHMAT

• Nitish S. Rele, "Vandalised in India, posters get new lease of life in LA", Indya.com (June 8, 2001)
• Bob Pool, "Protest Posters Find Asylum With Activist", Los Angeles Times (June 5, 2001): B5
• Just Another Poster?: Chicano Graphic Arts in California
• David Pagel, "'Poster' Flexes Political Muscle," Los Angeles Times (February 9, 2001)
• Joan Crowder, "Not just another poster show", Santa Barbara News-Press/Scene (January 26, 2001): 8-10
• D.J. Palladino, "La Pura Verdad", The Independent (January 25, 2001):31

Just Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts in California

• Stacey Redd, "Up Against the Wall" Artsweek, (January 18, 2001) 4A
  David Pagel, "'Poster' Flexes Political Muscle," Los Angeles Times (February 9, 2001)
• Joan Crowder, "Not just another poster show", Santa Barbara News-Press/Scene (January 26, 2001): 8-10
  D.J. Palladino, "La Pura Verdad", The Independent (January 25, 2001):31

Solidarity Forever! Graphics of the International Labor Movement

• Carol A. Wells, "Solidarity Forever! Graphics of the International Labor Movement", Labor History (Volume 41, Number 4, November 2000): 507-11
• "Laband Exhibit 'Solidarity Forever' Surveys 50 Years of Labor Posters," LMU (October 2000): 6
• "72 Hours", Westside Weekly (October 20, 2000)
• Betsy Goldman, "What Are You Doing; Visual History Through Poster Art", Venice Vanguard (September 2000)

A Presidential Rogues Gallery, CSPG Annual Event 2000 and Frumkin/Duval Gallery

• Celeste Dooley, "Perfect Timing: Exhibit Features Political Satire", (College of the Canyons student newspaper), (December 5, 2000): 5
• Shana Nys Dambrot, "The Mad Season Diaries," Coagula Art Journal (November 2000) issue #48
• Christopher Miles, "Politics in Ink on Paper", d'ART International (Fall 2000) volume 3, number 2: 17-18
• Marianne Mommsen, "Art On The Walls," Blu (Issue #10 2000): 31
• Victoria Infante, "Trabajar con temas politicos reduce la posibilidad de un artista", La Opinion (August 13, 2000): 4F
• James Allardice, "Frumkin/Duval Gallery: Art and Politics," Santa Monica Mirror (August 16-22, 2000)
• Molly Selvin, "Chief Executives, Well Roasted," Los Angeles Times (August 10, 2000): E1,5
• Booth Moore, "When Art and Politics Meet in Los Angeles", Los Angeles Times, (August 7, 2000): E2
• "Best Bets," Los Angeles Times Calendar (August 3, 2000)
• "Party Politics," New Times Los Angeles (August 3-9, 2000): 21
• "Join The Party", Daily Breeze (July 28-August 3, 2000)
• Robert Scheer, Los Angeles Times, (July 30, 2000): Westside Weekly 1, 8
• Belissa Cohen, "Political Picks Of The Week," LA Weekly (July 28-August 3, 2000): 159
• "People's Election Party," Inside Events (Summer 2000)

Can't Jail the Spirit! Political Prisoners in the U.S.

• Jeff Adler, "Medium is message in political poster show," Our Times (August 2000)
• "Dancing for the DNC," LA Weekly (August 11-17, 2000): 34
• "Off The Wall Calendar", The Big Issue (August 2000)

Sex, Lies and Stereotypes-Posters on Sexism and Homophobia

• Alan Frutkin, The Advocate (May 26 1998)

Courageous Voices

• Norman Peterson, "Arts Challenge Against Racism," Pittsburgh Courier (March 21, 1998)

Che Guevara: Icon, Myth, & Message

• "LAC & The Arts," Intercom, International Studies and Overseas Programs, UCLA, vol. 22, no.5 (Spring 2000): 3
• Christopher Knight, "CHE as Icon," The Los Angeles Times (October 18, 1997)
• Los Angeles: At the Center and On the Edge
• Kim Kabar, "Tarnishing Tinseltown's Image," Los Angeles Times Westside Weekly (September 7, 1997)
• Marlena Donohue, "Rabble Rousers," The Outlook/RAVE! (September 5, 1997)
• Kristine McKenna, "Fit to Print," Los Angeles Times/Calendar (July 20, 1997)
• "LA's Top 10 List", The Los Angeles Magazine (June, 1997)

Decade of Protest

• Anne-Marie O'Connor, "Where Convention Jumps the Tracks", Los Angeles Times/Calendar (June 22, 2001)
• David E. James, "Decade of Protest: Political Posters from the U.S., Viet Nam and Cuba 1965-1975," Art Issues (Summer 1996)
• Susan Kandel, The Los Angeles Times (February 8, 1996)
• Juan Rodriguez Flores, "Testimonios de una Època histórica," La Opinión (February 18, 1996)
• Robbie Conal, "Vietnam 101," L.A. Weekly (February 16-22, 1996)
• Kristine McKenna, "The Art of War," photo essay, Los Angeles Times (February 4, 1996)
• Peter Frank, "Up Against the Walls," Pick of the Week, L.A. Weekly (January 19-25, 1996)
• Elana Roston, "Up Against the Wall," Los Angeles Reader (January 26, 1996)
• "Up Against the Wall," Esquire Magazine (January 1996)
• Rodney Tanaka, "Voicing the other side of history," review of Courageous Voices, UCLA Daily Bruin, (February 27, 1996)
• Roy Chung, "Preserving Dissension," Los Angeles Times Westside Weekly, October 15, 1995
• Janice Arkatov, /;Exhibit Paints Posters as Powerful, Historic, Artistic," Los Angeles Times Westside, (June 29, 1995)
• Jorge Casuso, "A Legacy of Loss," The Daily Breeze (April 30, 1995)
• Jorge Casuso, "The Protesters," The Daily Breeze (April 30, 1995)

¡Viva La Huelga!

• "The Art of Protest," Los Angeles Times City Times (May 14, 1995)
• Nancy Kapitanoff, "Images of the Fields," Los Angeles Times Valley Life (March 9, 1995): 15
• Nancy Kapitanoff, "Images of the Fields," Los Angeles Times Valley Life (March 17, 1995): 11
• Lisa Mascaro, "Liberal Arts - Westside collection of 15,000 posters marks political milestones" Daily Breeze (January 8, 1995): B1, 1
• Enrique Lavin, "Posters and Documents Trace History of Black Panthers," Los Angeles Times Westside (December 8, 1994)
• Enrique Lavin, "Posters and Documents Trace History of Black Panthers," Los Angeles Times City Times (December 4, 1994): 6
• Linda Feldman, "Political Statements," Los Angeles Times Westside (June 23, 1994): J6
• Valerie Orleans, "The Art of Politics: With Her Collection of Posters, Carol Wells Sets the Historical Record Straight," Los Angeles Reader (February 4, 1994): 7

Voices of Protest: Underground Graphics Since 1980

• John Farrell, "Poster Power at Art Center Gallery," Cheers!, San Gabriel Valley Newspapers
  (January 21, 1994)
• Valerie Orleans, "The Art of Politics: With Her Collection of Posters, Carol Wells Sets the Historical Record Straight," Los Angeles Reader
  (February 4, 1994): 7

Throwing Away the Future - The War Against Children:

• Lucia Hodgson, "Throwing Away The Future", Next Generation, L.A. Village View (April 30 - May 6, 1993): 6
• Rob Hooper, "Political poster art focuses on the child", University Times CSLA vol. 136, no.7 (April 22, 1993): 2
• Carol Wells, "An Alternative Archive", American Institute of Graphic Arts Journal of Graphic Design, vol. 10, no. 2 (1992)
• Carol Wells, "Courageous Voices", The California Printmaker, quarterly journal of the California Society of Printmakers, no. 3 (summer 1992): 3-5
• David Wharton, "Political Recycling," Los Angeles Times Sunday Calendar (March 15, 1992 )

500 Years Since Columbus: the Legacy Continues

• Nancy Kapitanoff, "Art Notebook," Los Angeles Times Sunday Calendar (February 2, 1992)
• Colin Biroc, "Art depicts New World legacies," Daily Sundial (January 20, 1992)
• David Wharton, "Art: Gallery to Close; Others Offer Diversity," Los Angeles Times (January 17, 1992)
• Meg Sullivan, "Poster show offers new angle on Columbus debate", Daily News (January 10, 1992): 43

Southern Africa: The Struggle Continues

• Littlefield, Kinney; "Art, politics fuse in show in Fullerton", The Orange County Register (September 6, 1991): 22
• Johanna Butler, "Posters Document Issues of Struggle", New Directions for Women (July/August 1991)
• David Battenberg, "BC Space Gallery's 'Just War' Exhibit Drops Some Smart Bombs - and a Few Dumb Ones - on American Complacency", Review of Just War exhibit in Laguna Beach singles out the CSPG posters as, "The quixotic and clearest voice in the show", The Coastline News (April 5, 1991): 16
• Cathy Curtis, "Exhibit Shows That a Gulf Exists on the Concept of a 'Just War'", review of "Just War" exhibit in Laguna Beach, states that the posters loaned by CSPG "... offer the one-two punch of a good advertisement." Los Angeles Times (March 25, 1991)

The Price of Intervention - From Korea to Saudi Arabia

• Stacie Stukin, "Art of Darkness", Village View (March 22-28, 1991)
• Gina Steimle; "Intervention Art Exhibit Packs Wallop", Palos Verdes Peninsula News (March 14, 1991)
• Peter Frank; "Political Pick of the Week: The Price of Intervention: From Korea to Saudi Arabia", L.A. Weekly (February 8-14, 1991)
• Laura Accinelli; "The Art of War", Daily Breeze (January 27, 199): D1-2
• Shauna Snow, "Gulf War Ignites Exhibition of Quickly Assembled Works", Los Angeles Times Calendar (January 26, 1991)
• Meg Sullivan, "Protest-poster show is remindful of past", Daily News, (January 25, 1991)
• Reprinted "Poster exhibit recalls war protests" Standard-Times, New Bedford, MA, (January 27, 1991)
• Michelle Isenberg, "Guest Commentary", The Daniel Saxon Art Report, vol.2, no. 2 (November 1990)

Courageous Voices

• Cathy Curtis, "Hall of Frame - Recounting the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Scenes in and Out of the Museums of Orange County in 1990." CSPG's Courageous Voices was rated "one of the best exhibits at a nonprofit gallery in 1990", Los Angeles Times (December 24, 1990): F2
• Cathy Curtis, "Mass Appeals - Human Rights Posters Make Some Timely Pleas in Santa Ana", review of Courageous Voices, Los Angeles Times (September 27, 1990)
• Anne Valdespino, "Pathos and poster art", review of Courageous Voices, The Orange County Register, (September 18, 1990)
• Paul Von Blum, "The Political Poster", article mentions CSPG, Zeta Magazine (January 1990): 67,69

Making Choices -- Posters About Women

• Chris Voss, "Political Posters on Display," Chapman College, Panther (March 17, 1989)
• Gloria Ohland, "Poli-Graphics", ("Local Heroes") L.A.. Weekly (December 21, 1989)

Woodcuts of Liberation

• Laurie Ochoa; "Exhibit Looks at Oppression in South Korea", (Calendar Section), Los Angeles Times (November 27, 1988)

Women Redefining Power

• Laurie Ochoa, "Preview: She Saves Posters for Sake of History, Art", Los Angeles Times, (February 25, 1988)
• Rhonda Alberty, "Illustrations, prints, posters shown in new CSUN Art Gallery Exhibits", California State University, Northridge, Daily Sundial, (February 18, 1988)

A Celebration of Life in War and Peace

• Sharon Calver, "Exhibit evokes variety of responses", California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA, Echo (April 16, 1986) (photos of exhibition also featured in Echo April 4, 1986)

The Role of Culture in the New Nicaragua

• Robert Masullo, "La Semilla Offers a Look at the Spirited Art of Politics", The Sacramento Bee (November 15, 1982)

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Radio and Television Coverage

Made in L.A. – The Posters of Peace Press

• “Dateline USA”, Duncan Elkinson host, Comcast Cable, with Henry Klein and Carol Wells,
  April 22, 2005

The Anti-War Show: U.S. Interventions from Korea to Iraq

• KUCI 88.9 FM-Subversity,-Daniel C. Tsang, February 11, 2003 interviewing Carol Wells and Robbie Conal

SHOW: The Flag

• KCET -- Life and Times, host Jess Marlow, May 27, 2002 (taped May 23)
• KPCC -- Talk of the City, host Steve Hartman, May 22, 2002
• KCRW -- Which Way L.A., host Warren Olney, May 15, 2002

Arts & Activism

• KPFK – National Lawyer’s Guild, Jim Lafferty

The Morning Show

• KPFK - Sonali Kolhatkar with Robbie Conal

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

• Morning Magazine, host Marcos Frommer, June 9, 1999 interview with Robbie Conal

Sex, Lies and Stereotypes -- Posters on Sexism and Homophobia

• KPFK -- Feminist Magazine, April 8, 1998

Che Guevara: Icon, Myth and Message

• Life and Times, December 1997 with Jorge Castenada

Los Angeles: At the Center and On the Edge -- Thirty Years of Protest Posters

• KPCC -- Air Time, host Larry Mantle,
  September 4, 1997 interview with Gordon Fuglie and Carol Wells

Decade of Protest

• National Public Radio -- Morning Edition, host Celeste Wesson, March 13, 1996
• KPFK -- Morning Magazine, hosts Marcos Frommer & Ariana Manov, March 14, 1996
• KCET -- Life and Times, January 25 and 28, 1996
• KPFK -- Censorship and the Arts, host James Lafferty, December 14, 1995 Robbie Conal, Greg Victoroff & Carol Wells

All Power to the People -- Graphics of the Black Panther Party

• KTYM -- Black History Month feature, host Bobby Howe, February 9, 1995

Throwing Away the Future -- The War Against Children

• KPFK -- Morning Magazine, host Ariana Manov, May 6, 1993

Price of Intervention: From Korea to Saudi Arabia

• Peacemakers, Continental Cable Public Access Channel, taped
  February 15, 1991 (for national syndication)
• KSCI (Korean Munhwa Broadcasting Company, Inc.)
  February 10, 1991
• KCBS (Channel 2),
  January 31, 1991
• KTTV (Channel 11),
  January 29, 1991
• KPFK -- Morning Magazine, host Ariana Manov,
  January 29, 1991
• KPFK -- Just a Minute, host Nancy Hollander,
  January 18, 1991
• Peacemakers, Continental Cable Public Access Channel host Madeleine Schwab.Interview with Rhoda Shapiro and Carol Wells (emphasis was posters from recent show Racism, Sexism and Human Rights)
• Censorship of the Arts and the Current National Endowment of the Arts Controversy, host Donna Wilkinson, September 7, 1990 Panel: Robbie Conal, Carol Wells
• Artists and Social Change, Progressive Media Workshop, host Carol Wells, May 31, 1987, panel: Charlene Hassencahl and Mark Valen (aka Shock Battalion)

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