11/2022- The Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City, CA has acquired the AIGA/Miriello Soviet Poster Show and will become it’s new permanent home. The unique collection of over 100 posters of Glasnost and Perestroika becomes part of their vast archive of art , design and memorabilia. The acquisition was a unique opportunity to exposed the posters to a wide audience. AIGA San Diego is proud to have assembled the collection in 1988 and has now positioned the collection in a new permanent home at The Wende.

With the violent attack on Ukraine by Vladimir Putin, the Soviet Poster Show collection takes on a new significance. Much like the posters of Woodstock encapsulate a different social consciousness, the Soviet Poster Show collection marks a period when Russia was extending an open hand to the west and the future appeared one of collaboration and detente. Stunning to witness the Russia of 2022 against the backdrop of these posters of possibility, innocence and all the potential of the coming future. The future has come and it looks sadly unrecognizable.

Interesting article from Atlas Obscura on the Soviet space program and symbolism.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-space-graphics?utm_source=share_by_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mailto_share

Returning as an alumni to Colorado State, with the Soviet Poster Show, created a series of new connections. And a great celebration of the retirement of design professor Phil Risbeck, the CSU professor responsible for negotiating the release of the posters to the AIGA/San Diego in 1989.

Find the full story here:

https://alumline.source.colostate.edu/creating-community-by-design/

The Soviet Poster Show travels to my alma mater in Ft Collins, Colorado in October to celebrate the retirement of my design professor Phil Risbeck and the opening of a new arts complex on Colorado State campus. Honored to speak and to thank Phil for shaping so many lives.

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A fast-paced look at how AIGA/San Diego and Ron Miriello worked with Moscow in 1989 to collect a historic time-capsule of over 100 original Soviet posters marking Glasnost and Perestroika.

The Soviet Poster Show has agreed to lend a selection of posters for a 2019 Cold War exhibition being organized at the newly opened Wende Museum of The Cold War, in Culver City California. Named Wende (pronounced “venda”), a German word meaning “turning point” or “change” that has come to describe the transformative period leading up to and following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Wende Museum collects and preserves artwork, artifacts, archives, films, and personal histories from Cold War–era Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union relating to the period 1945–1991. 

The museum recently relocated to its new home at the historic former National Guard Armory Building on Culver Blvd where it can house and display a rotation of over 100,000 objects related to the cold war era.

The Wende Museum is located at 5741 Buckingham Parkway in Culver City, California. The Museum is open to the public every Friday from 10am to 5pm or by appointment. Admission is free.  For more information, call 310-216-1600 or go to www.wendemuseum.org.

Further details on this 2019 exhibition will be announced in the coming months. 

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