Syracuse Poster Project
The Syracuse Poster Project brings together community poets and Syracuse University illustration students to create an annual series of posters for the city’s poster panels. The 16 posters feature an illustrated poem about downtown, the city, or surrounding countryside. The project enlivens downtown, strengthens the city’s sense of place, and reaches the larger community by selling small prints of the large posters. The Syracuse Poster Project was founded in 2001 by Jim Emmons and Roger DeMuth.
Roger DeMuth, a professor at SU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, makes the project a fall assignment for advanced illustration students. Each of some 30 students creates an illustrated poster, using a haiku of the student’s choice. By the September deadline, the project typically has 75 poems by more than 30 contributors.
From these posters, the best 16 are selected and are displayed for a year in downtown poster panels along Warren and Salina Streets.
The 2011 Syracuse Poster Project Selections are:
Ellen Agnew (poet) & Chelsea Fierst (artist)
Eric Darby (poet) & Sarah Hudkins (artist)
Audia Denton (poet) & Katherine Mills (artist)
Lori DiCaprio-Lee (poet) & Keisha Cedeno (artist)
Marsha Egan (poet) & Bernard Lee (artist)
Carrie Elliott (poet) & Patrick Davis (artist)
Michael Aaron Gallagher (poet) & Owen Ingraham (artist)
Nan Gartner (poet) & Jennifer Quach (artist)
Jennifer Groff (poet) & Michael R. Burns (artist)
Robin Gross (poet) & Rebekah Mackay (artist)
Jim Kenty (poet) & Maura McGonagle (artist)
Nancy Liccione (poet) & Kerff Petit-Frere (artist)
Megan Reed (poet) & Crystal Choi (artist)
Michele Reed (poet) & Jackie Evangelisti (artist)
Jennifer Sanford (poet) & Crystal White (artist)
Louis Wassel (poet) & Emily Watanabe (artist)
Images of the posters, as well as biographies of the poets and artists can be viewed here
11x17-inch prints of the posters can be purchased online or at the Downtown Copy Center at 131 South Salina Street. All proceeds help the project become self-sustaining.
Jim Emmons can be reached at (315)424-8099 or jim@posterproject.org. Roger DeMuth can be reached at (315)415-8599 or rdemuth@syr.edu.
Visit www.posterproject.org for more information on the Syracuse Poster Project.
2011 posters depicting scenes of downtown Syracuse
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