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The exhibition will feature a
collection of posters by premier women artists whose work has
been previously featured in the biennial Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibitions (CIIPE)
and who are represented in the International Poster
Collection, housed in the Colorado State University
Libraries Archives and Special Collections. Featured posters
will include work by artists Paula Scher, Rosemarie Tissi and Gitte Kath. The talk will focus on the role that
these posters have played in presenting issues especially
important to women around the globe. The talk will also
highlight Marta Granados' contributions to the graphic arts and
her role as a model for women across the
Created through the collaboration of the Colorado State University Libraries and the Department of Art, the International Poster Collection holds poster entries from the biennial Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition (CIIPE). Posters from around the world can be found on this Web site, which features a searchable database of posters from the seventh through thirteenth (1991-2003) shows, as well as an artist database containing biographical information. The collection is part of University Libraries' Archives and Special Collections. Phil Risbeck is a professor graphic design at Colorado State University. He is an active artist who worked with Herbert Bayer at Aspen, Colorado. Especially active in poster art, he is co-founder and co-director of the Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition. He has won medal awards in competition, and has had one-artist shows in Paris, Riga, Porto, Warsaw, Cerveira and Havana. His work is included in permanent collections of poster museums in Europe, Japan and the United States Marta Granados is a Colombian designer, and the honor laureate for the 14th CIIPE exhibition. Granados has carried out important projects for the Ministry of Culture, the Colombian Foreign Office, and the Museum of Modern Art in her native Colombia. Her professional work has been primarily related to the cultural and ecological activity of Colombia and promoting a positive visual identity for the people of her country. She is Professor of Graphic Design at the National University. CIIPE is a biennial event hosted on the Colorado State University that highlights excellence in poster design from around the world. The program strives to exhibit and interpret poster design in order to bring outstanding examples of visual communication to an American audience and to promote international understanding and tolerance through the graphic arts and artistic dialogue. Despite digital innovations in disseminating information, posters, first utilized in the 19th century remain a vital and viable communication tool, responsive to our changing world in the 21st century. Posters in the show have historically mirrored the issues of foremost public concern. Past exhibits have addressed a wide variety of public issues including global peace, environmentalism, human rights, public health, and social justice. The 14th Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition will be held this year on the Colorado State University campus. Posters from the artists invited to the international poster show will fill the Clara Hatton and Curfman Galleries on Colorado State's campus from Sept. 9 through Oct. 14. The only exhibition of its kind in the United States, this year's show will highlight work by 86 artists from 34 countries. This exhibition is supported by the Colorado Council on the Arts, the Fort Collin's Fort Fund and Citizen Printing. |
