In 2024, The Judith Center launched its first major initiative, The Judith Center Poster Project, occurring over five years in partnership with numerous university art museums across the U.S. The project features new works made by 50 American artists, reflecting contemporary concerns about equality, and is accompanied by educational programs.

The first phase of the project, Freedom in the Automation Age, is now on view at The Judith Center (following its debut at MSU Broad Art Museum). The series consists of newly commissioned posters by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Warren Neidich, abbi page, Martine Syms, and Linda Vallejo. The artists’ works speak to intersections of gender and how the commercialization/weaponization of new technology (such as AI) is resulting in an increasingly restricted space for individual freedoms, both in democratic processes and beyond.

In October, The Judith Center launched its first major initiative, The Judith Center Poster Project, occurring over five years in partnership with numerous university art museums across the U.S. The project features new works made by 50 American artists, reflecting contemporary concerns about equality, and is accompanied by educational programs.

The first phase of the project, Freedom in the Automation Age, debuted at MSU Broad Art Museum and featured newly commissioned posters by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Warren Neidich, abbi page, Martine Syms, and Linda Vallejo. The artists’ works speak to intersections of gender and how the commercialization/weaponization of new technology (such as AI) is resulting in an increasingly restricted space for individual freedoms, both in democratic processes and beyond.

As a lead-up to our future programming that will center on posters, we hosted a tour of the Poster House exhibition, The Anatomy of a Movie Poster: The Work of Dawn Baillie, led by curator and art historian, Angelina Lippert. Baillie has been a pathbreaker for women in Hollywood graphic design, becoming one of the most influential designers of contemporary movie posters. She is also the first woman to co-found her own print agency, BLT Communications, focusing on entertainment design. Our event examined her impact and gender's role in historic film advertising.

At Felix Art Fair, we presented our first curatorial project, Women in Print: Expanding the LA Canon, with The Center for the Study of Political Graphics. We displayed historical posters made by women artists in the LA area from the 1970s-90s, including Favianna Rodriguez, Sister Corita Kent, the Guerrilla Girls, Barbara Carrasco and many more.

We were honored to work with nine contemporary artists, who we commissioned to make new response posters that address the ongoing presence of sexism, including Sandrine Abessera, Eve Fowler, Mariah Garnett, Raul Guerrero, Muna Malik, Nicole Miller, Erika Rothenberg, Kang Seung Lee, and Linda Vallejo.