Earth Day Poster Exhibition

Visit the Earth Day Poster exhibition on the 6th Floor of Pratt Manhattan Center on 14th St! From optimism to urgency, the Earth Day Poster exhibition traces how artists and designers have visualized our relationship to the planet, shifting from celebration to warning.

In Happy Earth Day, New York (1992), Paula Scher transforms the Empire State Building into a sunflower, an emblem of a time when environmentalism felt hopeful. By contrast, Countdown to Mass Extinction (2022) by Winston Tseng grabs familiar pop imagery to expose the accelerating realities of climate collapse. Milton Glaser’s Give Earth a Chance (1970), echoing the fragile beauty of Earth from space, Seymour Chwast’s A Cloudy Morning Earth Day ’95, where the gas mask becomes an unsettling everyday object, Amos Kennedy’s Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice (2018), centering environmental justice and inequality, Hans Erni’s Save Our Water (1961), an early, haunting vision of pollution’s consequences

Together, these works ask: What does Earth Day mean to you? ♻️

Organized by the School of Information Sustainability Committee.