let's design protest posters! w/ tyler galloway

Mission Statement:Charlotte Street centers Kansas City’s most forward-thinking visual artists, writers, and performers— acting as the primary incubator, provocateur, and connector for the region’s contemporary arts community, and its leading advocate on the national stage. Since 1997, Charlotte Street has distributed over $1.85 million in awards and grants to artists and their innovative projects, and connected individual artists to each other and to the greater Kansas City community. For more information about Charlotte Street, its awards, programs, and initiatives, visitwww.charlottestreet.org.

Charlotte Street

Design as protest. Learn what makes a powerful protest poster, and make your own using simple, accessible materials.

Charlotte Street Foundation

from workshop facilitator tyler galloway:graphic design can be a powerful tool for social change, whether on a national or individual level. in this brief workshop, i’ll share all of the basic things i know, as both an activist designer and a design educator, about what makes an effective protest poster. we’ll talk briefly about messaging, ideas, images, text, context, materials, and more. as we talk, we’ll quickly put those ideas into practice using a range of readily-available materials so you can try your hand at making your own posters for public use. This workshop is presented as programming for the exhibition <a href="https://charlottestreet.org/exhibition/stand-up-fight-back/" title="https://charlottestreet.org/exhibition/stand-up-fight-back/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stand Up, Fight Back: Designing an Anti-Racist Movement for Worker Power </a>on view in the Charlotte Street Gallery (3333 Wyoming St. KCMO) from January 17–February 28, 2026. About tyler galloway: tyler galloway is a graphic designer, professor, and Joyce C. Hall Chair of the Graphic Design department at Kansas City Art Institute. His primary research and practice interests focus on design for community-based social change through both client-initiated and designer-initiated work, which he pursues under his studio moniker, the new programme, alongside student collaborators. he brings 30 years of professional design experience and 20 years of teaching experience to his endeavors.tyler holds a BFA in graphic design from Missouri State University and an MGD from North Carolina State University. His work has appeared in several national and international political/social poster and art exhibitions and been published in the books “The Design of Dissent”, “Posters for the Planet”, “Graphis Poster Annual”, “Reproduce and Revolt”, in Communication Arts, and the Turkish socio-political design magazine “No Tasarim”. Coursework and student projects have been published in the book “Designing for Social Change” and the website “Design Ignites Change”, having won multiple grants through the latter. He has spoken locally and regionally on design for social change and was an invited participant in the LEAP symposium at Art Center College of Design. Design pedagogy papers have been presented at multiple AIGA national design education conferences, Typecon and the international MODE summit on motion graphics. But perhaps just as important, tyler loves riding bikes, punk rock, vegan cookies and being a husband and dad. <a href="http://thenewprogramme.net/" title="http://thenewprogramme.net/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">thenewprogramme.net</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thenewprogramme/" title="https://www.instagram.com/thenewprogramme/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@thenewprogramme</a>

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